Nonprofit Power Podcast

Five Traits of a Coachable Leader

In the many years I've been coaching Nonprofit leaders, I've learned a lot of things. One of the things that really interests me is how some leaders are super c

How Your Champions May Be Screwing Up Your Messaging and What To Do About It

It's time we talk about a really common problem that actually has a simple solution, but that Nonprofit leaders are often very nervous about trying to address. And t

How to Help Your Clients Make Sure Their Vote Counts

We're a little more than 30 days out from the 2026 elections, and I don't have to tell you there's a lot at stake up and down the ballot. From Congressiona

Five Things You Need to Know About Funding for Advocacy Work

If you’ve ever said to yourself, “If only I had a paid advocacy person/team, everything would be great,” you’re in good company.  But you might be surprised by the path y

The Biggest Mistakes that Keep Decisionmakers from Valuing Your Expertise

I had a conversation with a client recently that surprised me. Then I thought about it some more and I realized it was something that a lot of nonprofit leaders struggle

How to get Decisionmakers to Buy in to Your Biggest Vision

If you’re like many Nonprofit leaders, you already have a big vision that you want to make happen.    Taking that big, amazing vision and bringing it into being require

How the Hidden Power of Your Voice can Make or Break Your Biggest Deals

It's time we looked at a piece of your messaging that I haven't talked about enough. Our voice is our most powerful tool, quite honestly. If we are able to use

The Easiest Ways to Help Your Clients Register to Vote

Whether you’re focused on it or not, the 2026 elections are just around the corner. This is a moment of golden opportunity to help make sure that every one of our clients

Self Care in Times of Total Insanity

How do we all be okay when so much is not okay in the world?   There's so much bad, scary, overwhelming stuff going on constantly that it’s really hard sometimes t

The Huge Hidden Obstacle to Reaching Your Biggest Vision and Goals, and How to Get Past It

If you're like so many Nonprofit leaders that I work with, you have a big vision, or maybe a big new ambitious goal. And you know it has the potential to make a huge

The Big Hole in Your Messaging that You Can't See and that's Costing You Money

There is a huge messaging problem that happens all the time with Nonprofit leaders that is virtually invisible to us, and yet can be incredibly costly. And I don't w

A Fresh Danger to Nonprofits’ Federal Funding that Needs Your Action NOW

We've got ourselves a five alarm fire here, and not a lot of time to do something about it. If you currently have or are thinking of applying for any sort of federal

How to Negotiate Successfully with Any Decisionmaker

Whether you love it or hate it, negotiating with decisionmakers is part of the job of a nonprofit leader.  You have to negotiate with funders, contracting partners, polic

The One Person You Absolutely Need When You Want to Change a Piece of Public Policy

I hear from so many nonprofit leaders that they struggle to figure out how to go after a particular policy goal, even when they're really clear about what they want.

The Four Essential Sales Skills Every Nonprofit Leader Needs

Nonprofit leaders spend a lot of time selling to one kind of funder or decisionmaker or another just about every day of the week. We spend a lot of time selling, but we d

How to Establish Yourself as a Thought Leader

I hear from so many nonprofit leaders who want to establish themselves as thought leaders in their niche.  But the whole process around how you do that tends to be shroud

How the Identity You Choose to Operate from Determines Your Advocacy Results

Identity is one of those things that we really tend to take for granted. We often don't recognize just how much of an impact it's having on how we show up in al

Why Your Clients are Most Likely to be Harmed by Attacks on Voting Rights, and What to do About it

There is no question that voting rights are under extraordinary attack right now in this country. And the people being targeted are pretty much one and the same as the pe

How to Fix it when Funders Say They Love You, but Still Under-invest in Your Work - Part 2

Last week, I tackled how to diagnose exactly what's going on when funders say they love you, but they're still not investing at the correct level. In that conve

What to do When Funders Say They Love You, but Still Under-invest in Your Work

I want to talk about a problem that is way more common than you might think. The one where funders say they love you, but still under-invest in your work.   Chances are