All Episodes
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#38 | Start a Nonprofit? Don’t.
#38 | Start a Nonprofit? Don’t. From the threat of duplicating services to delivering services that will not sustain, Brittny and Nia tackle an unpopular opinion they share: Don’t start a nonprofit.
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#37 | So You Want to Join a Board
#37 | So You Want to Join a Board So you’re interested in joining your first board. It’s important to learn about the sector as a whole, properly understand the organization you’re looking to join and ask some key questions. For instance, do they have a give/get requirement? What steps have they taken to improve…
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#36 | Disaster Relief And Donor Psychology
#35 | Disaster Relief And Donor Psychology When a natural disaster hits, what makes us want to give? How can we harness that into mitigating the negative impacts of those disasters or even preventing them altogether? Resources From NPR: In Search of the Red Cross’ $500m in Haiti Relief From Center for Disaster Philanthropy: US Household Disaster…
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#35 | Vulnerability: Positive “spins” hurt the sector
#35 | Vulnerability: Positive “spins” hurt the sectorhe rigin Story: Where it All Startebility: Positive “spins” hurt the sector As nonprofit professionals, there’s this constant pressure to be positive, to spin every struggle in a refreshed light or to omit it entirely. We need to shift that. Nonprofits and their staff need to ask for…
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#34 | The Origin Story: Where it All Started
#34 | The Origin Story: Where it All Started This week’s episode covers where Brittny and Nia started, how they grew in the sector, and what drives them to continue.
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#33 | Fundraiser Turnover: Make it Stop!
#33 | Fundraiser Turnover: Make it Stop! Brittny and Nia have danced around this topic before, but are finally devoting an entire episode to discussing the fundraiser turnover problem in nonprofits. Resources As Nonprofits Shed Jobs, Some Fundraisers Are Getting Pink Slips from the Chronicle on Philanthropy