We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits

743. Unlock the Full Potential of Your Peer-to-Peer Program - Victoria Vighetto, ZERO Prostate Cancer

When ZERO Prostate Cancer's peer-to-peer program started slipping, Victoria Vighetto didn't tell her field staff to make more calls. She walked the constituent

742. Money Is Medicine: Decolonizing Wealth and the Future of Philanthropy - Edgar Villanueva

An elder told Edgar Villanueva that the medicine that had chosen him was money. One sentence — and it turned an angry, burned-out program officer into the person rewritin

741. Fundraising Problem or Distance Problem? The Reframe That Raised $1M - Connie Lewin

Connie Lewin found the funders. She wrote the emails. She sent the proposals. The response was silence. With a $1 million goal for a small nonprofit in Rwanda and no est

740. Start Before You're Ready: How Creative Futures Collective Grew from 10 to 3,500 Without a Roadmap - Jai Al-Attas

Jai Al-Attas started a record label at 16, sold it to Virgin Records at 24, and never went to college. So when he moved to LA and tried to get people from a reentry progr

739. The Simple Gratitude System That Doubled Donor Retention (From 33% to 66%) - April Thompson

April Thompson took a grassroots foster care nonprofit from 33% donor retention to 66% — and grew the donor file from about 100 to over 400 along the way. The system beh

738. The Storytelling Strategy That Turns Donors into Believers (And How to Build It) - Annie Wood and Max Kringen

The film ended and the room went silent. Then it roared. Over the next three years, hundreds of donors gave more than $300,000 to build one young woman a home of her own.

737. How to Find and Activate the Right Influencers for Your Mission - Trevor Boffone

The right influencer for your mission probably isn't the biggest account in your city. It's more likely someone already following you, already talking about you

736. Meet the Nonprofit Building a Brand + Movement Around Unity - Adam Mizel, Us United

"There's so many brands for division in this country. Where's the brand for unity?" That question is why Us United exists. Adam Mizel spent more than 30 years

735. Case Study: How a Grant Rejection Turned Into a $223,000 Yes - Katie Hannah, Momentum Leaders

Katie Hannah printed out the rejection email and brought it to the interview. "After careful consideration, our board of reviewers has determined that your application do

734. The Planned Giving Multiplier: Why Your Most Loyal Donors Are Your Biggest Opportunity - Tony Martignetti

$1,500 in lifetime giving. A million-dollar gift in the will. Tony Martignetti calls it the planned giving multiplier — the gap between what a donor gives you while they

733. The Creator Partnership Playbook Every Nonprofit Leader Needs - Patricia McLoughlin, The Anthem Awards

One in five adults now get their news from TikTok. Over 40% of adults under 30 do. That same feed is where younger donors are finding the causes they'll give to. Tru

732. Measuring What Matters: The 3-Step System for Measuring Your Impact - Ginneh Baugh, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America

Big Brothers Big Sisters has been collecting data for 120 years. When an economist finally studied it, the case for support changed completely: young people who were ment

731. What the World's Most Effective Nonprofits Have in Common (And You Already Have It Too) - Scott Curran

Scott Curran has helped former presidents, Fortune 500 companies, and street-corner nonprofits turn good intentions into real impact. After a decade as general counsel of

730. Capacity Is the Strategy: How to Make Your Org More Sustainable - Brooke Richie-Babbage, Chidi Asoluka, and Casey Lardner

Most nonprofit leaders treat capacity like a fuel tank — something you deplete and refill. Brooke Richie-Babbage makes the case that capacity is something you design, and

729. The 4-Step Formula to Get Your Mission Seen by Media, Partners, and Donors - Jenn DeBarge Goonan

Jenn DeBarge Goonan has sent thousands of pitch emails to editors, producers, and partners. She's distilled what works into four steps — and they work whether you&ap

728. How to Tell Stories That Fill the Hope Gap: 3 Lessons from 8 World-Changing Leaders - Jon and Becky

The gap between hope and despair has grown from 4% in 2010 to 27% today. That's the "hope gap" — and it's the reason Jon and Becky spent 10 episodes sitting wit

727. Working Session: The Automation Playbook That Added $200K at Year End - Rachel Bearbower

One client reclaimed 15% of their lapsing donors and added $200,000 by year-end. No new campaigns. No bigger team. Just a stewardship system running quietly in the backgr

726. Stories to Fill the Hope Gap: Turning County-Level Wins Into National Change - Hannah Fried, All Voting Is Local

Most of us picture democracy being decided on Election Day. Hannah Fried spends her life on the part nobody watches — the quiet, local decisions made months and years bef

725. How to Fund, Storytell, and Scale What Feels Unsolvable - Sam Teicher, Coral Vita

Half the world's coral reefs have died since the 1970s. That's the kind of number that makes a person feel too small to matter. Sam Teicher has built his whole

724. Stories to Fill the Hope Gap: The Fight to Hold Big Tech Accountable - Imran Ahmed, Center for Countering Digital Hate

A 52-year-old man who'd spent too long online reading conspiracy theories walked up to Imran Ahmed's colleague — a member of parliament and mother of two — and