Inspired Nonprofit Leadership

454: Planned Giving Made Simple with Tony Martignetti

Show Notes Planned giving often lands on the someday list right beside the wealth screen a nonprofit can't yet afford. Tony Martignetti says you can launch it this week w

453: Are You Playing Leadership Whack-A-Mole with Sarah Olivieri

Episode Description Many nonprofit leaders treat strategy, operations, and team as three separate pillars in their organization, but in fact, they are part of one integra

452: Why Your Former Employees Still Matter with Steve Cadigan

Episode Description Many nonprofit leaders treat turnover as a problem to solve after someone resigns. The organizations that handle it well plan for it before the hire,

451: How to Build a Simple Nonprofit Marketing Strategy with Sarah Olivieri

Episode Description Many nonprofit leaders pick a marketing tactic first- a gala, a Facebook fundraiser, a social media takeover, and then hope it works. The organization

450: Hiring Is Your Culture with Crystal FitzSimons

Show Notes: Most nonprofit leaders treat retention as a problem to fix after the hire. The organizations that keep people for decades treat it as something they build int

449: Let Them Go Well with Sarah Olivieri

Let Them Go Well with Sarah Olivieri The thought shows up quietly and then keeps coming back. Maybe this person is not right for us. Then it sits there for months while y

448: Distributed Leadership That Actually Works with Jocelyn Wyatt

Show Notes Most nonprofit leaders already know they can't make every decision themselves. They've said it out loud in meetings and retreats. They want more decisions happ

447: Take The Full Hour with Sarah Olivieri

Lunch Is Leadership with Sarah Olivieri Lunch is the first thing to go. The calendar fills up, something has to give, and the hour in the middle of the day is the one tha

446: Build Fundraising That Compounds with Bill Crouch

Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... Is Your Budget Killing Your Major Gifts Program? Many nonprofit leaders I talk to about major gifts describe some version of th

445: Ride the Wave Already Moving with Sarah Olivieri

Ride the Wave Already Moving with Sarah Olivieri Strategic planning gets treated like a decision you make in a quiet room, then hand down to the team. So leaders sit down

444: Top Five Episodes, Ranked with Sarah Olivieri

Top 5 Episodes Countdown Five episodes rose to the top over the last two years of this show. Trauma. Cash flow. Starting a nonprofit from scratch. Health equity. Organi

Build Programs That Stick with Sarah Olivieri [Episode 443]

Build Programs That Stick with Sarah Olivieri Most programs are built middle-out. Someone has an idea for a workshop, a curriculum, a service, and the design starts with

442: Name Your Product, Fund Your Mission with Barb Clapp

Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... "Run It Like A Business" There is a quiet belief inside a lot of nonprofits that running things like a business would somehow c

441: The Budget Layout Trap with Sarah Olivieri

The Budget Layout Trap with Sarah Olivieri Money gets tight. The bank balance looks thin, or the bottom line slips into the red, and the first move almost everyone reache

440: Know Enough To Be Dangerous with Janelle Miller Moravek

Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... The Trap of Being the Most Capable Person in the Room There is a particular kind of nonprofit leader who is very good at almost

439: Structure Holds the Vision with Sarah Olivieri

Episode Description Most leadership books focus on the individual, their style, their skills, their presence. What rarely gets named is the leadership structure itself, t

438: The Power Of Shared Infrastructure with Bob Burbridge

Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... The Power Of Shared Infrastructure There is a quiet assumption baked into how most nonprofits operate. If you need something, y

437: Stop Using To-Do Lists with Sarah Olivieri

Stop Using To-Do Lists Every time you look at your to-do list and ask "what should I do next," your brain drops into a small version of strategic planning. That mode burn

435: You Get One Priority with Sarah Olivieri

Episode Description Imagine a burning building with three people trapped in three rooms. You run to the first and free them halfway, then the second, then the third, then

436: Mentorship Rebrands Who You Are with Dr. Stanley Andrisse

Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... $20 Million in Grants, Suddenly Gone: How One Nonprofit Survived A year ago, a single nonprofit had $20 million in federal gran