The Nonprofit Show

Send us Fan Mail This Independent Sector National Summit recap brings you inside the Phoenix gathering through the experiences of Tiffani R. Brown and Nancy Bacon. Discover the conversations, connections, and unexpected moments they brought home and what those experiences could mean for your nonprofit’s leadership, operations, and workforce! Tiffani R. Brown of Monroe Impact Advisors and Nancy Bac...

Send us Fan Mail Wondering how to get board approval for a nonprofit CRM when “too expensive” ends the conversation? Tony Beall and Julia C. Patrick explore the business case for donor management software, then tackle board reporting, outside board service, and the work-from-home debate. It’s Fundraisers Friday, and the questions have arrived with their sleeves rolled up! First up: a board that se...

Send us Fan Mail You’ve crafted the appeal, told the story, and inspired someone to give. Victory lap? Almost. Your donation form still has a job to do, and one extra field, confusing message, or inconvenient payment process can blow-up that moment of generosity!  Learn how to improve nonprofit donation forms so a donor’s “yes” becomes a completed gift. Bloomerang’s Evan DaSilva shares how simpler...

Send us Fan Mail AI recruiting for nonprofits can help teams manage a mountain of applications, but a polished résumé still leaves one big question: can this person do the work? Dana Scurlock, Managing Director of Staffing Boutique , explores smarter screening, candidate transparency, and hiring practices that keep human judgment in the process. Joining Julia C. Patrick and Sherry Quam Taylor, Dan...

Send us Fan Mail Nonprofit leadership equity strategies come to life when they shape hiring, board decisions, and everyday operations. Dr. Orletta Caldwell and Erick Seelbach explore how to close the gap between stated values and organizational behavior . . . . .especially during leadership transitions! Your nonprofit has a values statement. Wonderful. But does it show up when the board chooses it...

Send us Fan Mail Nonprofit revenue operations strategy starts with helping fundraisers succeed.  Your operations team clears the report queue. Your fundraisers get their spreadsheets. Everybody’s busy . . . .but is the work helping fundraising move forward? Thomas Turner of charity: water reveals how a customer success approach can sharpen priorities, simplify data access, and strengthen donor rel...

Send us Fan Mail Nonprofit budgeting beyond the annual budget starts with a surprising shift: stop treating the numbers as a deadline and start using them to guide decisions! Peyton Burch of Martus Solutions and John Tiso of JMT Consulting explore how shared ownership, stronger revenue assumptions, and ongoing forecasting can turn budget season into a leadership advantage. “We don’t have the budge...

Send us Fan Mail A donor offers land. Wonderful! Then comes a condition: your nonprofit must farm it for the next 50 years! Suddenly, “thank you” needs a little company . . . Planned giving legal support for nonprofits can help turn complex donations into gifts your team is prepared to accept. Jamie Holzer White joined us to explore noncash gifts, donor confidence, and why bringing an attorney in...

Send us Fan Mail Managing multigenerational nonprofit teams takes more than a shared mission. Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z bring different experiences to nonprofit leadership, fundraising, and daily operations. But assuming someone’s age tells you how they communicate (or whether they embrace technology) can send your management strategy sideways before the meeting even starts! Our...

Send us Fan Mail Funding women of color-led nonprofits in the South means looking closely at who receives philanthropic investment, and who keeps being overlooked. Carmen James Randolph of the Women’s Foundation of the South shares how funding, leadership support, and regional collaboration can build health, wealth, and power for women, girls, and gender-expansive people of color. These leaders ar...

Send us Fan Mail How can you improve the year-end donor experience before the giving rush begins? Bloomerang Chief Marketing Officer Ann Fellman showed us where a donor’s path to giving can get difficult and what to do after the gift arrives! This Nonprofit Power Week finale follows the donor journey from campaign message to donation page to the first welcome. Ann asks teams to walk through their...

Send us Fan Mail How do you retain first-time donors after their first gift? An event can take months to produce. The room responds, new supporters give, and the team celebrates. That moment deserves celebration, but the donor journey has barely begun!  . . . . “It’s just starting.” During Day 4 of Nonprofit Power Week with Bloomerang, James Goalder examines the follow-up, engagement, and measurem...

Send us Fan Mail How can nonprofits improve donation conversion without losing sight of the donor relationship? During Day 3 of Nonprofit Power Week with Bloomerang, Kirsten Wantland examined what happens when someone is ready to give . . and what can still get in the way! Kirsten starts with a deceptively simple move: record how each donation came in. A supporter who has given digitally seven tim...

Send us Fan Mail How do you build donor trust online when supporters can research your nonprofit through websites, rating platforms, social media, and AI?  On Day Two of Nonprofit Power Week , Katie Gaston, Director of Product Marketing at Bloomerang, explains how credibility, emotion, and evidence can turn donor consideration into confident action.  Katie identifies two very different donor minds...

Send us Fan Mail How do nonprofits attract and retain donors before the first gift is ever made?  This is the first of a five-day Nonprofit Power Week journey with Bloomerang, moving from donor discovery and awareness into consideration, decision-making, retention, and the upcoming giving season. Day One starts at the beginning of the donor journey . . .Discovery, Awareness, First Impressions, and...

Send us Fan Mail Donor relationships when a fundraiser leaves can expose serious gaps in nonprofit ethics, succession planning, data security, and donor communication. When the development professional changes (but the donor’s trust remains) who is responsible for what happens next? On this Fundraisers Friday conversation, Julia Patrick and Tony Beall confront one of fundraising’s most uncomfortab...

Send us Fan Mail How to record in-kind donations for nonprofits is more than an accounting question . . .it reveals what programs truly cost and how much support the community contributes! Justine Townsend, Manager at Your Part-Time Controller (YPTC), explains how to value, document, report, and steward noncash gifts without distorting the books. Donated office space, food, equipment, vehicles, pr...

Send us Fan Mail AI governance for nonprofits is quickly becoming a management, finance, data security and leadership responsibility . . .not simply an IT conversation!  Dr. Stephanie Rose-Belcher of JMT Consulting explains how nonprofit organizations can gain enormous efficiencies of AI without surrendering human judgment, accountability or control of sensitive organizational data.  AI can accele...

Send us Fan Mail What should a nonprofit do after receiving a massive unrestricted gift? This is a rare look at what happens after the transformational check arrives.   JobsFirstNYC President and CEO Marjorie Parker shares what happened after a surprise $4 million investment connected to MacKenzie Scott.  Learn why receiving transformational money can create as many strategic decisions as opportun...

Send us Fan Mail Nonprofit success planning may be a better fit for today’s volatile operating environment than the traditional three-year strategic plan . Jeffrey Wilcox, President and Chief Learning Curator at Third Sector Company , challenges nonprofit leaders and boards to stop treating planning as an event and start treating it as an ongoing organizational process. “Strategic planning is an a...

Send us Fan Mail A strong year-end fundraising strategy for nonprofits starts long before December—and before you write the first appeal. Melaina Chromy, Sr. Brand Marketing Manager at Bloomerang, explains how nonprofit teams can improve the donor journey, reduce giving friction, coordinate campaign channels, and prepare now for stronger year-end results. One of the first assignments is surprising...

Send us Fan Mail Nonprofit leadership stress can quickly become a business problem, affecting staffing, communication, decision-making and a leader’s ability to keep performing. We had a candid conversation about managing stress when seemingly everyone needs something from you, with Katie Warnock, President of Staffing Boutique. Katie knows the “always on” environment firsthand. Staffing Boutique...

Send us Fan Mail Year-end fundraising strategy for nonprofits starts long before December. Ben Cooley, CEO of Maxwell & Marie , joins this Global Edition to explain how nonprofits can turn the holiday giving season into a carefully planned revenue opportunity, not a last-minute fundraising scramble. Ben's message is wonderfully direct: “Your resources are in your relationships.” That mean...

Send us Fan Mail Nonprofit leadership decision making can suffer when speed, productivity, email, technology, and constant activity leave little room for strategic thought. Evermay founding CEO Kate Goodall joins us to explore a counterintuitive leadership idea: sometimes the smartest way forward is to slow down. Evermay is creating what Goodall calls an “embassy for the future” in historic George...

Send us Fan Mail What if the best nonprofit association growth strategy is to stop obsessing over growth? Lorri Unumb, CEO of the Council of Autism Service Providers (CASP), explains how concentrating on member value, organizational standards, advocacy, and shared infrastructure helped an association that began with roughly a dozen executives grow to about 500 member organizations. CASP began as a...