Seeding Social Good

In this episode, Katrina has a Jerry McGuire moment. She covers how a person’s identity is strengthened by community embedment through the self-validation feedback loop, how social good organizations currently invest heavily in nonproductive activities, and how you—yes, you—will save the world from societal fracture. 

Successfully navigating a difficult conversation is as important a skill as keyboarding. It is your route to moving your ideas and your mission forward. So, why do important conversations so often go off the rails?   During important conversations, your bodily responses get involved. Facts fade away and the goal changes from moving the mission forward to “winning” the conversation.   But we have c...

The Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation (PBTF) uncovered a crazy truth recently: if we don’t focus on revenue, the revenue shows up. If we focus on providing constituents with connection and service INSIDE our revenue products, revenue shows up. If we focus on the top of the funnel, the bottom of the funnel takes care of itself. Hear how PBTF transformed a Facebook Challenge Group into a community hu...

Our pipeline is emptying. The small donor is in decline. Katrina moderates the conversation between Nathan Chappell (author of The Generosity Crisis), Jill Davis (now at PanCan and loaded for bear from other experience), Maria Clark (Chief Evangelist at GoodUnited and "has-seen-under-a-lot-of-blankets" at large nonprofits), and Otis Fulton, PhD (social psychologist who will help us understand what...