The Nonprofit Lab

My guest today is Lucia Kanter St. Amour is the VP for UN Women USA, attorney of 25 years, international negotiation superhero, and bestselling author of For the Forces of Good: The Superpower of Everyday Negotiation. In this episode we go to a lot of places. We’ll learn about Lucia’s journey into the nonprofit sector as a founder, explore the inspiration and lessons learned in her grassroots nonp...

Allison Cousins is an educator and entrepreneur living in St. Louis, Missouri. Recognizing a gap in the availability and access to sports and extracurriculars in her school, Allison dedicated to take action and launched St. Louis City League, a nonprofit on a mission to develop  the  next  generation  of  youth  through engagement in school sports. Founded in 2021, City League  partners  with  mid...

Aliza Shatzman is the President and Co-Founder of ⁠The Legal Accountability Project⁠ , a nonprofit aimed at ensuring that law clerks have positive clerkship experiences, while extending support and resources to those who do not. This episode provides a first-person roadmap through the seat of Aliza to the creation of a new nonprofit mission, a go-to-market strategy for nonprofits, sustainable fund...

We actually weren't planning for our conversation to be an episode for The Nonprofit Lab. Laura is one of our key advisors for MatchNice, and I was recording this call to share with my co-founders, but as you’ll hear at the end of the episode I thought her feedback was too good not to share. We run through a variety of status quo practices in the nonprofit sector we’ve uncovered get Laura’s fe...

Why shift from seeing a website as an investment instead of an expense? What about goals? What’s a good website strategy? How can you get your board to buy into digital success? How do you create an emotional connection with your audience? Is it easy to navigate? Easy to donate? How do you measure the success? We ask and answer these questions and more in our latest episode of “The Nonprofit Lab”...

Simply put, Rhea Wong helps nonprofits raise more money. Though she has deep experience with institutional, corporate and event fund-raising, she is passionate about major individual donors and helping organizations to establish individual giving programs. She has raised millions of dollars in private philanthropy and is passionate about building the next generation of fundraising leaders.

FinAbility is a survivor-founded nonprofit that financially empowers survivors of domestic abuse. Using her background in tech and finance, Stacy Sawin is building digital tools that make financial education and resources accessible to survivors through a trauma-informed lens. Survivor voices inform everything they do, and FinAbility is working towards a future in which everyone has the financial...

Vivienne Hsu is the founder and CEO of LENDonate, a unique marketplace lending and donation sourcing platform where nonprofits and supporters leverage their collective power for the greater good. We talk about her history in the philanthropic space, how she came to launch LENDonate, how her unique marketplace lending solution works, her journey as a social entrepreneur, the importance of impact, w...

On this episode we interview Dominic Kalms, Founder and CEO of B Generous, a first of it's kind “Donate Now, Pay Later” solution for donors and nonprofits. We speak about how B Generous is changing the donation landscape, the biggest challenges and lessons learned along his entrepreneurial journey, discuss win-win equations for nonprofits and donors, the competitive landscape of philanthropic...

Let’s “Ask a Fundraiser” in Episode 7 of The Nonprofit Lab, now live! Featuring Anna Barber and Rashida Peterson who have both served and helped countless nonprofits of all shapes and sizes create and execute holistic fundraising strategies to help raise millions of dollars. In this episode we ask Rashida and Anna what it takes to be a successful fundraiser, the foundational work every nonprofit n...

On this episode we speak with Briana (aka Bri) Franklin about her journey with The Prosp(a)rity Project, a nonprofit with a mission to improve the financial and economic mobility of college-educated black women. We chat about how Bri’s nonprofit supports and financially empowers black girls and women dealing with student loans, the importance of being clear on your mission and who you serve, attra...

Organic leadership is all about leading naturally right where you are. On this episode I talk to Alex Mays about her family history and how she’s grown up with nonprofits, and ended up helping to launch her own nonprofit, Lesson-Check-in. The conversation is also a unique perspective of the nonprofit space from a nonprofit leader who’s also an angel investor in the startup world. We talk about wha...

Tiffany Yau, Founder & CEO of Fulphil, a nonprofit that empowers youth to build a social entrepreneurial mindset to make an impact and excel in their future careers. We discuss what it looks like to start a nonprofit from the perspective of our next generation of nonprofit leaders, how nonprofits are entrepreneurial, scrappy, and run like businesses, the effects of the pandemic on nonprofit pr...

Ben Reiter is the Executive Director of Beat The Streets National, a youth sports development nonprofit dedicated to enriching lives through the sport of wrestling. We cover his incredible journey through mixed martial arts and learn about how he’s always used his platform to advocate for others and become a leader in nonprofit sector, his mission, impact, success, the changes they've had to m...

On this episode we ask the big landscape level questions with Dr. Laura Otten who brings over 50 years of experience in the nonprofit sector. What's going on, where'd we come from, where are we now, and where  we need to go to in order to maximize social impact. We cover topics like the professionalization of the nonprofit sector, the importance of impact measurement, and the different lev...