The Official Do Good Better Podcast

For a special 200th episode, Patrick shares another great nonprofit story, Landon's Light, with Executive Director Mary Ellen Rolfson and Board Member Andrea Solberg.  Landon's Light directly supports children battling a medical condition such as cancer and provide financial assistance to organizations benefiting children in similar situations. We also inspire children to grow academical...

Today Patrick is joined by Jodi Plecity, who has founded four businesses and serves as Executive Director of People's Rising Academy.   People’s Rising Academy utilizes a research-based, multifaceted approach to healthcare by integrating Chiropractic, Functional Neurology, and Dynamic Neuromuscular Reeducation along with Functional Medicine and Nutrition to assess, diagnose, and treat the ind...

It's time to get serious about your website traffic and your digital marketing.  Farzad Rashidi is the lead innovator at Respona, the all-in-one digital PR and link-building software that combines personalization with productivity. He also runs the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 14 million active users and pass 3M monthly organic traffic. More About Respona:...

Patrick is joined today by Everybody Wins Iowa Executive Director Karen Ligas. Everybody Wins Iowa's mission is to increase children’s success in school and life through one-to-one reading and mentoring experiences with caring volunteers. More About Everybody Wins Iowa & To Donate: https://everybodywinsiowa.org/powerread/ Contact Karen: https://everybodywinsiowa.org/our-staff/ Support Thi...

Patrick is joined today by Jason Taylor, Executive Director of Bur Oak Land Trust.  Bur Oak Land Trust is a conservation nonprofit advancing biodiversity in Eastern Iowa by protecting resilient landscapes and connecting people to nature. More About   Bur Oak Land Trust: https://buroaklandtrust.org/ Donate to Bur Oak Land Trust:  https://buroaklandtrust.salsalabs.org/CleanFundraisingform/index.html...

Your fundraising needs a legacy giving strategy.  Today's globetrotting guest will show you the way. A multilingual professional specializing in legacies (planned giving), fundraising strategy, donor engagement, and communications. Ligia has worked with a variety of non-profit organizations such as in the health, education, humanitarian, human rights, community, environment, arts, internation...

Kristie Wolff is the Executive Director of the ND Women's Network. Kristie has an extensive background in marketing, grassroots education, advocacy, and coalition work. Kristie found her true passion when she began working in the nonprofit sector, where she has spent over half of her career. Prior to working a the ND Women's Network, she managed a tobacco prevention program at a statewid...

Today Patrick welcomes Austin Atteberry, Executive Director & Co-Founder of Sing Me A Story.   Austin hails from the great city of Chicago where he was raised and where he attended school at Northwestern University (06'). After completing his degree, he released a record as a singer-songwriter and was persuaded to move to Music City - Nashville, TN in 2008.  A few years into his time in N...

Today Patrick welcomes Brian Moran and Michael Lennington, authors of the New York Times Bestseller, The 12 Week Year , the guide to shortening your execution cycle down from one year to twelve weeks. Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a twelve-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thin...

Today Patrick welcomes Kristen Sanders, Executive Director of Third Street Clinic. Third Street Clinic seeks to improve the health and well-being of underserved residents by partnering with the greater Grand Forks community as a resource for timely access to healthcare, medicine and other vital services. Learn More About Third Street Clinic:  https://www.thirdstreetclinic.org/ Donate to Third Stre...

Today Patrick welcomes Chrystal Smith, Founder & CEO of Foster Village in Austin, Texas. As a licensed foster parent, adoptive parent, and survivor of child abuse, Chrystal Smith saw the gaps in the system and the needs that were not being met, both for caregivers and for children intersecting with the child welfare system. It also helped her see how the families and children with consistent a...

All of your nonprofit content is going to be forever better in about an hour...thanks to Ashley Thornberg.  Ashley Thornberg is a producer and host for Prairie Public TV's Main Street . Ashley will interview anyone with a passion. She’s been strapped into a jet-powered U-haul, co-piloted a stunt plane, and had a tarantula make a nest in her hair, all in the name of a good story. She started h...

Today Patrick welcomes Amanda Davison from A Wife Like Me, a nonprofit that provides support for wives looking to strengthen their marriage.  Amanda Davison is the wife to a Minnesota farmer, mother of three, and President of the nonprofit, A Wife Like Me. She is the co-author of Dear Wife: 10 Minute Invitations to Practice Connection with Your Husband, speaker, and teaches at her local church, wh...

Patrick welcomes Roxanna McKenna, Executive Director of Safety Village of South Dakota. The Safety Village of South Dakota is a 501(c)(3) organization committed to reducing accidents involving children and adults by helping them understand and identify safety issues, and to make healthy injury prevention choices. They partner with community safety organizations to coordinate comprehensive safety p...

He's started two nonprofits from scratch and has a great way of making the complex easier to understand...Aaron Hilman joins Patrick to share insight and discuss just how political your nonprofit should be. Aaron is the executive director of The Center for Election Science as well as a co-founder. He’s been featured as an electoral systems expert on MSNBC.com, NPR, Free Speech TV, Inside Phil...

Patrick is joined today by Becky Broadwell & Amanda Rengstorf, sharing the story of the Grand Forks Senior Center.  What is the "Brighter Side of Sixty?" At the Grand Forks Senior Center, it is living life to the fullest. It is meeting new people. It is going to new places. It is trying new things. It is helping others. And, sometimes, it is receiving services that help you remain in...

Mary Epps of Families Working Together joins Patrick today to share their mission & challenges. Families Working Together (FWT) is a non-profit organization that is focused on promoting improvements for the Oglala Sioux People on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. FWT helps through the improvement of housing, providing food, clothing, furniture and household items, and providin...

In 2022, Workforce Development is more important than ever. Kate Markin Coleman joins Patrick to tell us all why and where nonprofits go from here. Kate Markin Coleman has spent decades leading organizational and large-scale change in the private and social sectors. She began her career in business, transitioning to the social sector when she and her colleagues sold the fintech company they led. I...

Today Patrick welcomes Chrissy Hollermann, Helpline Director at FirstLink in Fargo, North Dakota. FirstLink is a free, confidential service available to anyone 24/7/365 for listening and support, referrals to resources/help and crisis intervention. FirstLink answers the 211 help line, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and communicates via Text line 898-211. FirstLink provides these services...

"The better we all know each other, the better we work together." Today Patrick is joined by Executive Director Jason Varga of Cause Collective. Cause Collective facilitates partnerships, collaborates with its members and is a central information sharing center for nonprofits in Lincoln, Nebraska. Learn More About Cause Collective:  https://causecollectivelincoln.socs.net/ Donate to Caus...

Crosshosting. If it's not a real thing, it should be. Today Patrick has the honor of hosting the very popular "Nonprofit Lowdown" podcast and interviewing its host and creator, Rhea Wong. Rhea is a fundraising expert and the author of a new book, "Get That Money, Honey" which shares her secrets for fundraising. Learn More About Rhea:   https://www.rheawong.com/ Follow &amp...

Boys and Girls Club of the Red River Valley CEO Robin Nelson shares their great mission with Patrick today. Boys & Girls Clubs of the Red River Valley is celebrating 50 years offering youth development programs for before school, after school, and school-out days at 13 Fargo locations for youth ages 5 to 17 years old, in grades K through 12.  The CLUB Teen Center provides after school and summ...

Fargo Director Katie Dukart joins Patrick to share the unique mission of Box of Balloons. Box of Balloons is a non-profit organization on a mission to make each birthday happy and every child celebrated. Every child deserves to feel special, be celebrated and have a memorable party.  Unfortunately that is not possible for many families. In America 18% of children live below the poverty level.  The...

What's your fundraising superpower? Or what do you WISH it was?   Jess Campbell might just help you find it. Her company, Out In The Boons, is your stop on the road to your fundraising adventure. They offer nonprofit coaching, trainings, workshops, consulting, freebies and templates to make your journey to raising money for your nonprofit organization more effective. Learn More About Out In T...

Today Patrick hears the story of the Fargo Memorial Honor Guard from Commander Jason Hicks. Fargo Memorial Honor Guard is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit that is comprised of local Veterans organizations through out Cass and Clay Counties. The provide salutes and honor those military veterans being buried at local cemeteries.  Learn More About Fargo Memorial Honor Guard: https://fargomemorialhon...