We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits

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91. The Impact of Self Doubt: How Discovering Your True Value Changes Everything - Eryn Eddy Mar 17, 2021

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Meet Eryn. This social entrepreneur and creativity director is powering through some seriously awesome coaching on empathy, entrepreneurship, the power of honest conversations and the impact of self-doubt. Want to change the world? Start with valuing yourself, she says. It's an honest conversation with the woman who literally built a brand telling you you're So Worth Loving.
Episode Highlights

Eryn’s Career Journey - 2:54
Valuing oneself - 15:30
The “accidental” CEO - 20:13
Seeking inspiration & lighting the fire - 27:40
Advice for young professionals - 30:50
Eryn’s book, “So Worth Loving” - 34:00
Eryn’s One Philanthropic Moment - 39:20
Eryn’s One Good Thing: your rest is important.- 44:30

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/91

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!
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90. Stronger Than Stigma: Mental Health in the Workplace - Ian Adair Mar 15, 2021

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Meet Ian. This three-time nonprofit Executive Director is taking his two favorite topics - leadership and mental health - and he's putting together and facing its stigma right in the eye. You know we're crazily clapping for the front row. He's talking about why leaders must be culture caretakers of their organizations. Tune in if you want to help your leader get there, or just tune in if you'd like to be an incredible leader in the future. We need more Culture Caretakers in our sector!
Episode Highlights

Ian’s background and journey to where he is today (2:00)
Ian’s mental health journey and story (5:32)
The landscape of mental health today (8:42)
How COVID has shaped these conversations around mental health (13:14)
Training to show empathy and concern (18:30)
Tips for individuals feeling stressed and how we can best check in on each other (23:19)
Mental illness is the number one reason for loss productivity and absenteeism (31:55)
Ian’s Book - Stronger Than Stigma: A Call To Action: Stories of Grief, Loss, and Inspiration (34:00)
Ian’s One Good Thing: In everything you do, provide value. (43:05)

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89. Grow Your List + Build an Email Welcome Series with Firepower! - Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE Mar 12, 2021

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We finished unpacking 10 steps to make your website irresistible to donors in last Friday's episode, and there were some serious questions and interest around creating a freebie and welcome series from our attendees. So we decided to break it down for those who might be stuck. You might be asking, "Well, I got their email address. Now what?" No worries, friends. We got you👊 Join us as we outline how to create an irresistible freebie then breakdown how to employ a drip email welcome series to engage your donors from the beginning. And do it genuinely and with heart. Let's do this!
Episode Overview

What happens when you get that email address? The steps after are crucial (2:20)
Start with a goal. One of the greatest goals you can have is to grow your email list (3:40)
The importance of a welcome email: they are 4x more likely to be opened and 5x more likely to get click throughs (4:30)
Hack: utilize freebies! Provide value add for your community (6:00)
Examples of freebies you could implement today (6:20)
Utilize automation: in today’s world, there are lots of different ways to automate this (8:30)
Work on your tone: get rid of the robotic corporate voice. Talk to them like they are humans (9:40)
Humanize the organization (10:20)
Think of the welcome series as a journey. Create multiple connection points over the days, months, and years (11:00)
Don’t know where to start? Try this 3 part cadence (13:20)
Be strategic about your schedule: turn someone into a donor in 3 weeks (20:00)
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For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/89

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88. Major Gifts: Finding the Courage to Ask For More - Julie Ordoñez Mar 10, 2021

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Meet Julie. She's a change agent, a challenger, a bonafide fundraiser and risk taker. aka: she's clearly our people. The former top 1% performer of the United Way of Greater Los Angeles is now a nonprofit coach, and she's here to talk about the grit and courage needed to ask for major gifts. We're talking how to Change What You Believe, Change How You Fundraise, and Change the Size of Your Impact. Our minds were blown. Tune in!
Episode Highlights

Julie’s Journey to the non-profit sector - 3:38
Coaching Clients - 7:53
3 change habits to implement today - 11:00
What happens in the courage lab? - 24:20
Julie’s powerful philanthropic moment - 30:23
Julie’s One Good Thing: Ask yourself a lot of questions - 36:20

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/88

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87. Doing Business Better: The Founding and Mission of Simple Modern - Mike Beckham Mar 08, 2021

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Meet Mike. You're about to meet one of the world's most kind, giving CEOs. When your company's mission statement is "we exist to give generously," you know everything that comes afterward is going to come from a pure place. We're sitting down for a founder's story about a socially good company that's turning the water bottle industry on its head, and each measure of success is getting poured back into incredible philanthropic missions. It's a thought-provoking discussion about doing business differently.
Episode Highlights

Mike’s entrepreneurial journey (5:18)
Simple Modern’s not so simple start (11:04)
The Core Values and Work Culture of Simple Modern(11:52)
Simple Modern’s Good Mission and commitment to giving back (17:28)
Getting through the pandemic while simultaneously growing your company (25:10)
Negotiation Tips (28:27)
Partnership opportunities and Fundraising (34:31)
Mike’s One Good Philanthropic Moment (43:22)
Mike’s One Good Thing: Focus on multiplication. (46:55)

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/87

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86. Making Your Website Irresistible to Donors and Raise More Money (Pt. 2) - Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE Mar 05, 2021

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We're completing the final five quick steps to take your website through a super fast refresher to seriously boost your traffic and online donations. Join us as we talk about selecting the right visuals, creating a welcome series and explore how to gather feedback. Even better, we’re going to unpack this course alongside our buddy Dana Snyder at Positive Equation in a FREE online challenge that starts this week, so tune in!
Episode Overview

This topic of optimizing websites will never get old (2:00)
The last 5 tips to better optimize your website (3:00)
Join the March Challenge with Positive Equation, Fundraise Up, and our team!
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85. Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Fundraising - Nathan Chappell, MBA, MNA, CFRE Mar 03, 2021

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Meet Nathan. As one of the world's foremost experts on the intersection between Artificial Intelligence and philanthropy, we're diving into the future of fundraising and how A.I. is less scary than we think. In fact, it could be simply brilliant. Join us as we visit with this expert who's leveraging A.I. already to help inspire a worldwide increase in generosity.
Episode Highlights

Nathan’s story and journey to where he is today (2:19)
The future of philanthropic giving and trends Nathan is paying attention to (7:22)
Utilizing artificial intelligence in our sector today (13:08)
Examples of life-saving AI in action (15:33)
How you can implement AI today (25:06)
Favorite philanthropic moment (31:29)
Nathan’s One Good Thing: Work with people that you love (34:30)

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/85

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84. How to Leverage Venture Philanthropy to Grow Your Impact - Dr. Angela Jackson Mar 01, 2021

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Meet Angela. When you meet someone with a Harvard PhD in Education Leadership, you settle in because you know innovation and genius are going to collide. And yes it did! We're talking to Dr. Jackson about venture philanthropy (what is it?) and exploring how we can leverage our missions to breakthrough to social entrepreneurs. It's a fascinating discussion about developing innovative technical solutions to help missions partner with big dreamers.
Episode Highlights

Dr. Jackson’s story and journey to where she is today at New Profit (3:30)
The mission of Global Language Project: An organization founded by Dr. Jackson that supports the expansion of K-12 world language programs in public schools
An overview of venture philanthropy and the mission of New Profit (7:50)
New Profit’s the Future of Work Grand Challenge, powered by New Profit, JFF, XPRIZE, and MIT Solve (10:20)
It is all about the power of big thinking, connectivity, and pulling sectors together (18:15)
Leveraging storytelling to take this to a global scale (19:30)
Dr. Jackson’s Medium blog, and the power of storytelling (22:00)
You have to be in the mindset to up-skill. There are many contributing factors to the larger systemic issue (24:00)
140,000 women, majority of which were women of color, left the work force last month (24:00)
A powerful moment of philanthropy for Dr. Jackson (25:00)
Unrestricted funding and the power of the greater good (28:00)
Dr. Jackson’s One Good Thing: Utilize Systems Thinking. What players need to be at the table? Don’t try to do it all.

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/84

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83. Making Your Website Irresistible to Donors and Raise More Money (Pt. 1) - Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE Feb 26, 2021

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Our websites are the front door of our organizations, but how much effort and time are we spending optimizing them for our donors to fall more in love with our mission and make a gift? In today's world - you can't afford not to make your website irresistible to your donors.
Over the next two weeks we are walking you through 10 quick steps to take your website from 'wah-wah-wah' to 'WOW!' and set you up to raise more money online. Spoiler: it’s not rocket science. But little shifts can make a big difference. Even better, we’re going to unpack this course alongside our buddy Dana Snyder at Positive Equation in a FREE online challenge next month, so tune in for details and scroll down to the Freebies section for all the links!
Episode Overview

Your website is the heart of your organization and center of your digital brand (2:00)
Get laser clear with what you’re asking people to do on your website (3:00)
5 tips to begin optimizing your website (5:30)
Join the March Challenge with Positive Equation, Fundraise Up, and our team!
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82. The Power of a Thank You - JD Beebe Feb 24, 2021

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Meet JD. This serial entrepreneur and big-hearted founder stumbled into founding his company, ThankView, during an attempt to make writing his wedding thank you notes more enjoyable. Today, the sincere personalized video company helps 1,500 nonprofits say thank you through the creative use of video. And as you can imagine, the stories that come with them are incredible. We're talking the power of thank you, and you'll come to see how big JD's heart is and why he's one of our favorite people.
Episode Highlights

JD’s story and journey to disrupting the nonprofit sector through video (2:00)
ThankView and what they provide (3:20)
The power of a thank you (4:30)
Our “Kindness Week” and ThankView’s involvement in helping us make it happen (8:00)
ThankView’s passion to give-back and how it has affected their organization culturally (9:00)
Donor Engagement trends the ThankView team is seeing that individuals and organizations should leverage (14:00)
Embrace adaptation and being unafraid of failing (19:30)
The founding of Odder and utilizing electronic endowment reports (21:00)
What you can employ now to up your stewardship game (25:00)
The moments of philanthropy that move JD’s heart (27:30)
JD’s One Good Thing: Enact Random Acts of Kindness. Live in the moment and enjoy the moments we have. You can have that impact on anyone. The culmination of little moments add up to a happy life.

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/82

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