We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits

Overview Meet Rob . He’s a rock-climber and the Colorado Program Manager of The Phoenix, a national sober active community, where he first joined as a participant in 2008. The Phoenix has experienced explosive growth with programming across the U.S. reaching 159,000 participants (Rob was the 159th member🤩) Join us for a conversation about what goes into creating a safe, inclusive, welcoming space...

Welcome back to our Friday Series: The Habits of an Impactful Fundraiser. This week we’re talking about all things events and experiences with founding member of The DRG Group Matthew Helmer who has decades of experience creating meaningful donor events. He’s bringing his expertise about creating donor events and experiences that serve a true purpose while being data-informed. Tune in for Matthew’...

Meet Racheli . This nonprofit marketer has the grassroots playbook to transform your nonprofit marketing. She left her dream job to work with Friendship Circle, a nonprofit creating friendship and inclusion for individuals with special needs. There, she noticed how too often marketers are looking backward or side-to-side to other orgs instead of looking within. Now she supports nonprofits as they...

Meet Afam . This nonprofit founder turned down multiple law firm offers to serve Nigerians. He’s built GEANCO Foundation from the ground up by cultivating authentic relationships - one person at a time. In addition to surgical missions and other medical care, GEANCO provides tuition and support to young female victims of terrorism and gender inequality. With no previous fundraising experience, Afa...

Welcome back to our Friday Series: The Habits of an Impactful Fundraiser . This week we’re chatting about the ins and outs of digital marketing and user experience with Marketer on a Mission Caroline Griffin who’s breaking down the Habits of an Impactful Digital Strategist . We're bringing tips, case studies and the Do's/Dont's for a modern fundraiser. Caroline’s tips are 🔥+ they’r...

Meet Richie . He's the co-founder & chief experience officer at Goodworld — a next-gen social impact platform. And Whoa Nelly! - does he believe in democratizing smart philanthropy to benefit all 🙌 His team is building an ecosystem powered by generosity, collaboration & compassion where CSR, influencer impact & web3 philanthropy collide. We're chatting through inclusive phil...

Meet Ty . This expert storyteller is a connector of people and transformation. She believes storytelling done right can change incorrect narratives, stereotypes, and has the power to shape the future👏 We’re talking about how social impact storytelling should not only move your audience’s hearts, but also move them to take action. Tune in for a convo highlighting what happens when you stop using y...

Sometimes it's just helpful to have a framework, right? Tune in this Friday and listen as Jon and Becky breakdown how to build a Giving Tuesday plan that sticks, stands out and builds long after the campaign is over. We'll tackle 1) the bigger question (why do we do even do this anyway?), 2) How to build a campaign (using the Impact Arc framework), 3) branding + storytelling, 4) using mo...

Meet Hannah . She’s a warrior mama to Austin, a two-year-old, who has a fatal, muscle-wasting disease called LMNA-related congenital muscular dystrophy (L-CMD). She founded the L-CMD Research Foundation to save Austin and other children whose lives depend on the development of rare disease treatments like gene therapy. They’re 76% of the way to a $2M goal funding this project through GiveButter, a...

Meet Floyd . This brand-new New Yorker believes deeply in the power of community. His excitement for Giving Tuesday started with a campaign of childhood sports photos that spread across social media. He’s teaching how to coalesce your community, how to plan your campaign, and making it more than just a day. He's sharing his years of learning and adding in some awesome resources from our GiveB...

Welcome back to our Friday Series The Habits of an Impactful Fundraiser . This week we're taking on the discussion about the base with Do-Gooder M ike Duerksen , founder of BuildGood who's breaking down Habits of an Impactful Annual Giving Officer . We're bringing tips, case studies and the Do's/Dont's for a modern fundraiser. Tune in✌️ Special Guest Mike Duerksen, CEO + F...

Overview Meet Kelly . She's the Founder and CEO of Unshattered , a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to end the addiction relapse cycle through ethical, sustainable fashion. The org provides job skills training and employment for women in recovery to help them build a path toward economic stability and sustained sobriety. Kelly's education is in Engineering Physics, her title...

Meet Amy . She's a lawyer and art historian who uses works of art to sharpen observation, analysis, and communication skills. By showing people how to look closely at art, she helps them hone their visual intelligence to recognize the most pertinent and useful information as well as recognize biases that impede decision-making. She's not here to change your biases; she's here to mak...

Meet DJ . He’s sharing the gift of rest and rejuvenation. In 2019, he founded The Sabbatical Project to define, explore, and research sabbaticals following a 900-mile pilgrimage in Shi-Ko-Ku, Japan. He knows nonprofits doubt their ability to implement a sabbatical-focused work experience, but keep an open mind! He’s bringing the playbook (and data!) to show how it’s good for business. We’re workin...

Meet Bekah . She’s a self-proclaimed nonprofit dropout and founder of the Interdependence Incubator, a community for white women who crave healing and a space to practice freedom. She’s made us a believer in the power of leaning into healing and making a collective change. She courageously shares her mental health journey in nonprofit and the change it awakened in personal, interpersonal and syste...

Meet Kirk . He believes managing mental health should be done in community - and he’s got plenty of lived experience & stories to prove it. This executive director and mental health leader has spent 20 years working with economically disadvantaged families and actively recruited rabid fans to become activists in educating, empowering & embracing communities in need. And his org, HANDY Inc...

Meet Dr. Taryn Marie. This resiliency expert believes there’s a lot of info on building resilient mindset, but that the world knows very little about resilient doing . This convo is about how vulnerability enhances and creates resiliency. Tune in and discover tools/resources that promote resilience when we inevitably face challenges, change and complexity. 💡 Learn The practice of vulnerability 5️...

Meet Lindsay and Chad. They want you to know that you are not a burden. These two heart-wired humans are leading conversation and community at To Write Love on Her Arms - a nonprofit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. We’re talking self-love, self-care in community and the importance of being connected....

We're warming up for Mental Health Week next week, and we wanted to set the tone with a powerful mental health conversation we powered at the Virtuous Summit. Join Nneka Allen, Eleanor Wells, Aila Malik and Jean Pierre-Louis for a robust discussion about Why it’s time to Prioritize Mental Health & Well-Being in the Nonprofit Sector .You’re not alone. Join us in community and feel seen, in...

Meet N ick . This childhood cancer survivor and nonprofit advocate is passionate about measuring impact - for good. He's combined his savvy tech background with social media analytics and measurement software allowing global causes, influencers, and organizations to collaborate and measure their cumulative influence and impact. Plus, he's giving us a crash course in NFTs 🤔 💡Learn: Meas...

Meet B oi . This senior development VP at Johns Hopkins University is on a mission to get nonprofits focused more squarely on the horizon - not just on what's in front of them. She believes signals exist and that our top talent is noticing what is happening on the fringes of our work. And all of it can inform future thinking. Join us for this chat that puts Jon and Becky in the hot seat on th...

Welcome back to our Friday Series The Habits of an Impactful Fundraiser . This week we're taking on that top role with Do-Gooder (and attorney!) Brooke Richie-Babbage , founder of Bending Arc and former ED is breaking down Habits of an Impactful Executive Director . We're bringing tips, case studies and the Do's/Dont's for a modern fundraiser. Tune in ✌️ Special Guest Brooke Ri...

Meet Adam . He believes everyone can be a philanthropist, and he’s on a mission to reenvision donor-advised families to be a tool for everyone. After launching some seriously impressive tech innovations in top leadership positions at Dropbox, LinkedIn and eBay, he turned his sights toward the nonprofit sector. This isn’t your grandma’s donor-advised fund. Daffy is changing the landscape of giving...

Meet Tim . He believes digital transformation is affordable and scalable for nonprofits of all sizes. That’s why he’s leaving the tech stack behind in favor of The Human Stack - a way to make your technology more human and usable. Not only is this solution brilliant, it helps you understand how to actually operate your tech simply and efficiently (Eureka!💡😜). Tune in for this convo we believe ma...

Welcome back to our Friday Series The Habits of an Impactful Fundraiser . This week we're taking on major gifts, and you better hold onto your britches for this conversation with one of our experts, J ulie Ordo ñ ez , founder of Courage Lab and Nonprofit Courage Lab podcast as we breakdown Habits of an Impactful Major Gift Officer . Prepare for everything you've learned about raising inv...