Nonprofit Jenni Show

Learn what it's like to work with AmeriCorps as an individual or as an organization. Three AmeriCorps alumni share their unique experiences, each serving under a different branch of the AmeriCorps organization. Our guests this episode include: --Michelle Gustafson with Caritas of Austin --Joseph Gutierrez with Maddox Charitable Fund --Savannah Buttery, most recently with a volunteer program called...

If you're thinking about starting a social enterprise, you'll need lots of support! In this episode, we'll talk about two resources to help you get started, grow, and develop professionally to strengthen your impact. Our guests this episode include: --Rachel Schaffer Lawson from Schaffer Law Firm --Kila Englebrook from Social Enterprise Alliance Nonprofit Jenni provides consulting services and coa...

Learn how forming a social enterprise can provide your nonprofit with an additional stream of revenue, support your mission, and tie into your existing programs. Our guests this episode include: --Brad Kimbler from Staff360 (owned by Safe Haven Family Shelter) --Daniel Furbish from Oasis Bike Workshop (owned by Oasis Center) Nonprofit Jenni provides consulting services and coaching calls for nonpr...

When resources are scarce, you may feel like it's impossible to build a healthy culture and climate for your team. Unfortunately, a toxic workplace leads to even more financial difficulties due to high turnover and burnout, recruiting and training expenses, and interrupted relationships with your constituents. How can you honor your team, your mission, and your budget all at the same time? Our gue...

Young Professionals (YP) Groups can help your nonprofits spread awareness of its mission to new generations, increase your donor base, and plan for successions. Engaging young professionals is becoming ever more vital as Baby Boomers start to retire from their long-held leadership positions! Learn how to create an effective YP Group, YP Committee, or Junior Board at your nonprofit. Our guests this...

Hear from two Development Directors who recently completed capital campaigns. each fundraising millions of dollars. One campaign involved major renovations for a historic theatre, and the other built a brand new facility, including a commercial kitchen and revenue generating meeting space. Our guests this episode include: --Brooke Bernard with Belcourt Theatre --Teri Sloan with Nashville Food Proj...

The public can have trouble understanding why a social issue is so difficult to solve, and it's up to you to explain all the layers that cause the problem. How do you explain why it's so difficult to end addiction, sex trafficking, and other mammoth issues? Our guests this episode include: --Pamela Sessions and Savak Millis from Renewal House --Emily Willmore from End Slavery Tennessee Nonprofit J...

Learn how to make your organization resilient to change with a technology infrastructure you actually understand how to use. Even if you have all the right technology systems in place, they won't do any good if you don't know how to use them or if they all operate in silos! Our guests this episode include: --Blake Stockard from Kumwe Systems --Alicia Bell from Graceworks Ministries --Nick Bicknell...

In our first episode of Season 4, Jenni talks about how nonprofits can partner with companies beyond the standard event sponsorships and corporate grants. If your organization hasn't considered how to involve businesses in your programming, client services, volunteer groups, and other creative approaches, get some inspiration from this episode. Our guests this episode include: --Melissa McWilliams...

Before Season 4 of the Nonprofit Jenni Show is released May, I'm releasing two bonus episodes about The Big Payback! The Big Payback is Middle Tennessee's annual "day of giving," hosted by The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. In these bonus episodes, I'm interviewing nonprofits which have been hugely successful with their online giving day campaigns. Whether you live in Middle Tennessee o...

Before Season 4 of the Nonprofit Jenni Show is released May, I'm releasing two bonus episodes about The Big Payback! The Big Payback is Middle Tennessee's annual "day of giving," hosted by The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. In these bonus episodes, I'm interviewing nonprofits which have been hugely successful with their online giving day campaigns. Whether you live in Middle Tennessee o...

Nonprofit organizations help make the world go round, but so do social enterprises...and sometimes they do it even better! In this episode, we'll hear from social enterprise founders who help strengthen the social sector. This is a great episode for nonprofits who want to learn how to collaborate with social enterprises, and for aspiring nonprofit founders who may not have considered the option of...

Maybe you've heard of Foundation Center before, but you're not quite sure how they can help your nonprofit. Or maybe you know they host networking events, or they offer workshops, but you don't know if you're missing out on one of their many other services. That's why this week, we're talking with Alexis Flannagan, the Community Outreach Manager at Foundation Center South, to learn all about their...

Every nonprofit has "pie in the sky" goals for growth, but it's important to make sure you're prepared to scale up in a healthy way before you jump in. In this episode, we'll ask questions like, Do you have the infrastructure needed to scale your operations? Do you have plenty of support from your board, staff, and volunteers? How can you achieve a major organizational shift without letting your s...

Before you take off for Christmas next week, make sure you have these 3 things ready to go! In this bonus Christmas episode, Jenni outlines her 3 biggest recommendations to make sure your nonprofit doesn't miss an opportunity to engage with your supporters over one of the biggest holidays in the world. These recommendations apply to your organization even if your supporters don't celebrate Christm...

Many nonprofit organizations I speak with have tried social media fundraising before with less-than-stellar results. However, I always preach about the benefits of social media, so I'm devoting this whole episode to the best practices for these online fundraisers! This week, we'll talk about the importance of consistency in your social media strategy, how to add an online fundraising component to...

Whether your nonprofit organization is looking to expand to a new area of town or an entirely new city across the country, you're sure to face unexpected challenges. This week, we're addressing some of the most common challenges I hear about, including the question about how to raise awareness about your cause in a new geographic area, the struggle to find new donors to support another branch, and...

Lately Ive received lots of Anonymous Questions about the role of a board of directors in relationship with the Executive Director. There are many legal grey areas associated with this relationship, so I asked my favorite nonprofit attorney Rachel Schaffer Lawson to come back to the show and answer all the questions you have submitted. Please keep in mind her answers to my questions do not constit...

Grantwriting involves a lot more than simply filling out an application asking for money. The infrastructure and operations of your organization play a big role in determining which types of grants and how much funding you qualify to receive, so it's important to make sure every part of your organization is working together as you enter your next grant application process. In this episode, we'll t...

You've probably heard a dozen and half times that nonprofits need to stop duplicating services...but that's a lot easier said than done. There's also a lot more that goes into successful nonprofit work than just trying to be different for the sake of being different. We need to shift our focus back to our mission. When we do that, we realize we really need to work together to create lasting change...

Giving Tuesday is coming up fast on November 27! If you haven't made a fundraising or marketing plan yet, our guests have some suggestions for putting together a great campaign in just a couple days. Plus, most Giving Tuesday campaigns are extremely inexpensive to set up, so any nonprofit can participate. Our guests today include: --Hayley Levy from Gilda's Club --Jon Fraser from DipJar Support th...

If you're struggling to find new sources for volunteers, or suffer from frequent volunteer turnover, you need to start looking at these two types of nontraditional volunteers. Learn from nonprofit leaders who regularly recruit and retain volunteers with special needs, and volunteers under the age of 18. Our guests today include: --Sharie Loik from Meals on Wheels --Sabrina Schoenborn from The Girl...

Learn how to set up your first planned giving campaign, or improve the one you already have in place. While most nonprofit professionals know what planned giving is, and some may even have an initiative started at their organization, many nonprofits fail to make strategic asks for planned gifts and lose out on gifts 200-300 times the size of their normal donations. Our guests today include: --Meag...

This is the last episode of Season 2! A strategic plan guides your nonprofit through the next stage of growth, or can help you through a transition, such as a leadership change or a shift in your mission. But most nonprofit professionals and board members will only go through the strategic planning process a couple of times in their lives...if at all. This episode will talk you through the strateg...

The Google Ad Grant isn't a normal grant, because you don't get any actual money from it--but it offers amazing benefits for your organization by giving you $10,000 of free search engine advertisements every single month, for the rest of time. In this episode, a Google Ad Grant manager answers all kinds of questions about how you can use Google ads to grow your volunteer, client, and donor lists,...