This Week: 

Savvy CSR Seeking
Kimberly O’Donnell delivers strategies and tactics for your corporate social responsibility fundraising. She advises you to build relationships and avoid transactions; lead with mission and your compelling story; include volunteering; tap your community to avoid cold outreach; leverage your own data; and, a lot more. Kimberly is with Bonterra.

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Systems & Processes So Your People Thrive
Dylan Bassett helps you create your invisible infrastructure, so you can quietly reduce burnout, increase efficiency and make it easier for your nonprofit to grow. He shares the signs that your internal systems are weak, explains how to pick the right tools to complement your work reality and helps you design workflows and templates that ease your team’s cognitive load. Dylan leads Dept. 1 Solutions. 

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Grow Your Personal Brand & Your Nonprofit
As a nonprofit leader, you can build your personal brand and watch benefits accrue to both you and your organization. With the right messaging, strategy, consistency, and authentic connection, your individual and nonprofit brands coexist, and each sees increased visibility and impact. Emmy Award winner Bofta Yimam, founder of StoryLede, explains it all. 

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Bring Fun To Evaluation & Impact Data
Kayla Meyers reveals the fun in what may sound dull, through braids, data galleries and data escape rooms. She distinguishes between outputs, outcomes and impact, and explains the disconnect between traditional evaluation and the impact measurement we need in today’s environment. She helps you recognize common evaluation challenges and sets you up to overcome them. Kayla is the founder of Bridgepoint Evaluation.

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This Week: 

Monthly Giving Matters 
First, Dana Snyder shares info on the Global Monthly Giving Summit later this month. Then, she shares what she knows about how to launch or grow your monthly sustainer fundraising. How to convert one-time donors to recurring donors. What to name your program. When to ask your sustainers to upgrade. What to give your sustainers. Storytelling. The importance of consistency. And more. Dana is the founder of Positive Equation.

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This Week: 

Put Passion & Fun Into Your Fundraising 
Ben Cooley brings his energy and warmth as he shares his thinking on intimate donor events; savvy stewardship (Thanking is banking!); your major donor conversations; the critical role of leadership in fundraising; and, a lot more. He’s founder and CEO of Maxwell & Marie. 

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Thrive Amid The Digital Transformation
The digital marketing we grew up with is no more, mostly due to Google AI Overview and all the other Artificial Intelligence surrounding us. We’ve talked about this and Lou Kotsinis brings his perspective. What is zero-click marketing and how can your nonprofit exploit it? What new role does your website play and what are best practices now? Plus much more. Lou is CEO and co-founder of BCS Interactive.

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Be Human & Be Yourself, For Best Fundraising 
Messy and authentic. That’s how Brad Ton wants you to come to your fundraising relationships, for best outcomes. Be genuinely curious about people, with a dose of strategy, and you’ve got his formula for success. A retired hip-hop recording artist, he has great storytelling advice. He also shares how LinkedIn is vastly underutilized by nonprofits as a relationship builder, and what you can do to excel there. This is an especially fun and spirited conversation. Brad is an account executive in nonprofit technology at Instil. 

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This Week: 

771: 2026 Outlook 
Our Esteemed Contributors kick off 2026 to share what they’re looking out for in the New Year. We talk about increased hesitation around AI adoption; mitigating the risks of political, legal and PR attacks; your board’s role in protecting your nonprofit; increased collaborations between nonprofits; data protection; overcoming fears; and, a lot more. They’re Amy Sample Ward, our tech contributor and CEO of NTEN, and Gene Takagi, our legal contributor and principal attorney at NEO, the Nonprofit and Exempt Organizations Law Group. 

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This Week: 

Decolonizing Wealth
This first aired in 2018, yet it feels more relevant right now, as we witness gross acts of separation and exploitation of non-white people, and the wealth divide has become larger and more consequential. Edgar Villanueva’s book, “Decolonizing Wealth,” takes an innovative look at the purpose of wealth. His thesis is that the solutions to the damage and trauma caused by American capitalism, including philanthropy—can be gleaned from the values and wisdom of our nation’s original people. Edgar is a Native American working in philanthropy. (Originally aired 11/30/18)

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This Week: 

Overlooked Consequences Of A.I. & How To Preserve Your Humanity
There’s a broad temptation we each face, to enlist Artificial Intelligence tools in all nonprofit and personal decisions. Some people have intimate relationships with A.I. bots. At what cost? Jacob Ward has spoken to psychologists, mediators, venture capitalists, and others on this question. He shares his research learnings to help you and your nonprofit determine A.I.’s boundaries. Jacob is a veteran journalist formerly with NBC News, reporting for Nightly News, The TODAY Show and MSNBC.

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