Best Nonprofit Hub Radio Podcasts (2024)

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Community is the New Commodity 29:14

12h ago29:14

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Send us a Text Message. Starting a nonprofit organization is a daunting task, and it can be easy to feel stuck when all the obstacles in the way of turning your passion into an organization lie before you. How can you transform a vision into a real nonprofit? How can you make a difference in your community without the funding that bigger organizati…

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Making the Most of Google Grants 29:18

4d ago29:18

29:18

Send us a Text Message. Everyone in the nonprofit space is talking about Google Grants and how to get one for your nonprofit organization. But how do you use a Google Grant to its fullest potential once you’ve been approved for the grant? How can you build an effective search campaign to bring people to your website? How can you convert clicks to d…

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Graduating from All-in-One Solutions 23:34

11d ago23:34

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Send us a Text Message. As your organization grows, all-in-one solutions may not be offering everything that your organization needs. How can you determine when it’s time to drop the all-in-one solutions and search for more fitting single point solutions? How can you motivate a shift from an all-in-one solution that your organization has been using…

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Creating Change: Being Proactive Instead of Reactive 27:50

18d ago27:50

27:50

Send us a Text Message. It’s time to stop being satisfied with “well, that’s how it’s always been.” How can you help move an organization forward that seems to be stuck in place as a leader in the organization or as just a member of the team? How can you create proactive strategies that allow for necessary change in a world that is always changing?…

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Becoming a Responsive Nonprofit 28:23

25d ago28:23

28:23

Send us a Text Message. How can you mold your leadership strategies to create a culture of generosity in your nonprofit organization that allows for strong relationships with donors and with every member of your team? How can you implement important principles into the day-to-day operations of your organization that creates a culture for growth, au…

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Defining Success for You and Your Team 35:22

1M ago35:22

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Send us a Text Message. How can you ensure that you are dedicating the most time to the aspects of your life and work that you care about the most? How can you create an environment that allows your team to prioritize what they care about most while also maintaining productivity? Learn how to effectively prioritize your goals and encourage your tea…

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It’s an Election Year: Now What? 30:51

1M ago30:51

30:51

Send us a Text Message. As presidential elections grow nearer, how much should your organization change your marketing strategy and how much should you keep the same? How can you make your attempts to connect with new and old donors stand out among the rush of emails, text messages, and direct mail that comes with election season? Learn about how t…

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4 Practices to Improve Your Storytelling 28:47

2M ago28:47

28:47

Send us a Text Message. Whether it’s an interview about the life of one of the people your organization is helping or a discussion with your donors about the motivations behind their support for your cause, the ability to capture and communicate a story is crucial to the success of your organization. So how do you enhance your storytelling abilitie…

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Finances Don’t Have To Be a Burden 36:19

2M ago36:19

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Send us a Text Message. How much time do you spend on your organization’s finances? Are you confident that you have the correct processes in place to manage your finances as efficiently and effectively as possible? Finances should be a path towards your mission, not an obstacle in front of it. Learn about all the benefits of developing your finance…

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Humanizing Your Message with Influencer Marketing 28:57

2M ago28:57

28:57

Send us a Text Message. Has your social media content felt repetitive and robotic lately? Are you and your organization looking for a way to refresh your social media content and maximize your social media presence? Influencer marketing may be the refreshment that your social media pages need. Learn how to humanize your message by tapping into the …

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Avoiding Random Acts of Marketing 31:18

2M ago31:18

31:18

Send us a Text Message. Are all of your marketing efforts worth the time and money you pour into them? How do you get the best results from your marketing campaigns and optimize the use of your resources? Learn how to break through the dead-ends of ineffective and unproductive marketing that does not benefit your organization and saps you of time a…

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The Power of Stories: Motivating and Retaining Donors - Matt Hussey 28:12

3M ago28:12

28:12

Send us a Text Message. What is the best way to convince someone to donate to your organization? How can you maintain relationships with donors to bring in more donations from them in the future? These questions are crucial to the success and long-term growth of organizations, and the answers are not always simple! On this episode, host Meghan Spee…

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Managing Multigenerational Teams - Kate Viana 28:05

3M ago28:05

28:05

Send us a Text Message. One of the biggest challenges a nonprofit leader can face is managing their team. When you have a diverse group of people from multiple generations who all come with their own unique communication styles, motivations, and life experiences, it can be tough to bridge those gaps. On today's episode, host Meghan Speer sits down …

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A Mission Statement Isn't Marketing - Wes Gay 30:36

3M ago30:36

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Send us a Text Message. Can your leadership, board, and key audiences rattle off your organization's mission statement? Maybe, but not likely. Can they each tell you what your organization is about? Probably, but based on their perspective you can get a wide variety of answers. This is why clarity and simplicity is so key when it comes to nonprofit…

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What Makes Donors Tick, Click, and Give? - Moshe Hecht 28:06

3M ago28:06

28:06

Send us a Text Message. What would happen to your fundraising strategy if you knew your donors beyond their names and addresses? What would happen if you could understand their passions, connections, and social circles? For many organizations, this would be a game changer in influencing how marketing dollars are spent and how messages are crafted. …

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Subscription Model Philanthropy - Dave Raley 31:10

4M ago31:10

31:10

Send us a Text Message. If the average person looked at their bank statement for the month, how many subscriptions do you think they would find? Between streaming services, delivery services, and apps, it's probably more than we realize! The subscription mindset has taken over our society and in today's episode host Meghan Speer sits down with Dave…

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Cultivating Donors by Adding Value 32:30

4M ago32:30

32:30

Send us a Text Message. Anyone who works in fundraising dreams of a world where everyone automatically cares about and supports their mission without even having to be asked, but that is just not our reality. In our actual world, donors are people who have lives and jobs and responsibilities and even if they do want to support the mission, they don…

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The Importance of Knowing Your Team - Jon Sarles 30:26

4M ago30:26

30:26

Send us a Text Message. There are plenty of personality profile tests out there. From Meyers Briggs to the Enneagram to Strengths Finders to DISC, the list can go on and on. These tools can be a great way to get to know yourself better and a great tool for team building... if you actually use and learn from them! On today's episode, Meghan sits dow…

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Finding the Right CRM - Christine Robertson 28:25

4M ago28:25

28:25

Send us a Text Message. When it comes to choosing a system to manage donors, relationships, and donations effectively, and the results can be overwhelming! A quick Google search of "nonprofit CRM systems" will give you more options that you could have imagined, and each one sounds like it could be the answer to all of your development woes. It can …

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Building Better Board Relationships - Tim Kachuriak 26:30

5M ago26:30

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Send us a Text Message. The relationship between a CEO or ED at a nonprofit and the folks on their Board of Directors can be one of the most critical for any organization’s success, but that also means it can be a tough one to manage well. On today’s episode, Meghan sits down with Tim Kachuriak to talk about what it looks like to serve well on the …

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Every Day AI - Nils Smith 29:27

5M ago29:27

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Send us a Text Message. It’s easy to get caught up in thinking we’re headed for a Jetson’s-like reality when someone starts talking about AI and how it can help us in our work and daily lives. In this case though, we’re not talking about robots who will do you house chores, but more about the productivity AI can bring. On today’s episode, Meghan si…

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Collaboration Isn’t a Dirty Word! - Maggie Richardson 26:20

5M ago26:20

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Send us a Text Message. Sometimes in the nonprofit space it can tend to feel like a competition where your organization is fighting against all the others for those donation dollars and grant money or to provide the services better than the organization down the street. But it doesn’t have to be like that! This week, Meghan sits down with Maggie Jo…

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Megan Donahue - Simple Nonprofit Messaging 31:22

5M ago31:22

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Meghan Speer, host of the Nonprofit Hub Radio podcast, interviews another Megan! Our guest, Megan Donahue shares her wisdom about tweaks and simple things that nonprofits can do to improve messaging. Megan talks about her ideas on improving letters and email acknowledgments, how to sound personable in commun…

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Trent Dunham - Cultivating Leadership Characteristics for the Nonprofit Sector 29:43

6M ago29:43

29:43

Send us a Text Message. Nonprofit Leadership Under the Microscope What traits do you associate with strong nonprofit leadership? Confidence? Persistence? Assertiveness? In speaking with our latest guest, Trent Dunham, the president and CEO of Dunham+Company, we learned that essential nonprofit leadership traits are often much more humbling. Trent u…

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Derek Scott -- Creating Direct Mail Campaigns That Get Results 27:41

6M ago27:41

27:41

Send us a Text Message. How do Plato's models of persuasion hold up with respect to direct email marketing over 2,400 years later? According to our guest Derek Scott, pretty reliably! People who see poor results with their direct email marketing campaigns usually make at least one of the following mistakes. 1) They fail to segment their donors when…

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Bethany Cranfield - Keeping All Bars on Green: Self-Care in the Professional Space 36:53

6M ago36:53

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Send us a Text Message. How can we be more engaged and authentic in our professional lives? Amidst a slew of excellent advice our Guest Bethany Cranfield shares in this latest episode, two mantras stand out. First, we must keep "All bars on green" meaning we optimize our professional practices so that they don't evaporate our energy by day's end. W…

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Ben Smithee - Making Meaningful Marketing Through Creativity 31:02

7M ago31:02

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Send us a Text Message. "There's no excuse for not knowing a little bit more than you do right now about your audiences." (Ben Smithee) In 2024, transparency and adaptability are more essential than ever for the survival of your brand. Transparency, because stakeholders have so many options to pick from that if your marketing material fails to clea…

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Nathan Hill - Growing Generosity Through Experimentation and Outside-the-Box Thinking 29:36

7M ago29:36

29:36

Send us a Text Message. Having a podcast series and consistent rollout of webinars seems like the price of admission for any nonprofit trying to scale in the digital age. The problem -- these offerings have become so ubiquitous that it's hard to stand out from the noise -- to convince listeners that your content offers value and is not merely anoth…

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Erik Tomalis - Make Donor Personalization A Priority 28:44

7M ago28:44

28:44

Send us a Text Message. If you have been to a nonprofit event or conference in the last few years, chances are you've run into Erik Tomalis from Virtuous. Maybe you've even been in one of his famous LinkedIn selfies. His passion for helping grow generosity is unmatched, and he speaks and shares across the country to help industry professionals do t…

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Meghan Speer & Cara Godlesky - Nonprofit Hub Radio Season 5 Kickoff 26:19

7M ago26:19

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Send us a Text Message. It's a new year and a new chapter for the Nonprofit Hub Podcast! We are excited to kick off the new podcast season by introducing you to your new hosts, Meghan Speer and Cara Godlesky. Both of these ladies share a passion for supporting the nonprofit community and are looking forward to a season of great interviews full of h…

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James Thorne - Find Lasting New Donors 29:24

8M ago29:24

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James Thorne is a passionate creator dedicated to empowering individuals, families, and communities through entrepreneurial opportunities. In a career that has spanned a range of industries—from hospitality to ministry, from filmmaking to marketing and business coaching—James has managed teams, led departments, and built several businesses from the…

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Animals Today December 16, 2023: Lori gets real (mad) about the American Kennel Club. The Whale Sanctuary Project. 43:12

8M ago43:12

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Lori leads off this episode exploring the issue of genetic defects in purebred dogs. There are over 500 known genetic defects in purebred dogs, causing health problems, many severe, at a much greater rate than in mixed breed dogs. These genetic defects go along with selective breeding to a “standard” and these standards are established and judged b…

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Cyrus Kazi - Get Organized to Get Funded 27:09

8M ago27:09

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Don’t lose funding because you can’t report on your impact. Cyrus Z. Kazi has been working for over 20 years with tech companies to drive social impact and is here to share more about all the functions of a nonprofit that provides valuable data for moving your supporters to action. Check out Quanitbly for more information and tools for impact repor…

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Animals Today November 18, 2023. Hot news! The miraculous microchip. The Mexican rescue, Isla Animals is building a new home and you can help! Helping community cats in the cold weather. 43:14

9M ago43:14

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Peter begins with hot news items including a mass bird killing at Chicago’s McCormick Place, Gavin Newsom signs a fur sale ban in California, a 17’ 2” Burmese python was captured and killed in the Everglades, hero dog in Lebanon saves dumped newborn human, and we say farewell to friend of animals Bob Barker. Lori then talks about the amazing techno…

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Sarah B. Lange - Cause Camp Recap 22:20

9M ago22:20

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In this episode of Nonprofit Hub Radio, host Delaney Mullennix interviews Sarah B. Lange, a nonprofit fundraising consultant. Sarah and Delaney discuss their experiences after attending Cause Camp 2023. Sarah shares that this conference was one of her favorites due to the intimate feel, networking opportunities, and timely topics.Over the past thre…

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Rev. Bethany Johnson-Javois - How Nonprofits Can Help to Heal Internalized Racism 28:08

10M ago28:08

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Send us a Text Message. This year, the Deaconess Foundation launched the Institute for Black Liberation, a novel approach to developing liberatory consciousness through healing the pains of internalized racism. The leadership development program provides Black Diaspora people in the Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois region with a space to name…

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Animals Today October 28, 2023. Captain Paul Watson and the book, Hitman for the Kindness Club. Adventures in cat shaving. Memorable dogs of the big and small screen. 43:26

10M ago43:26

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Peter begins with the iconic Paul Watson, who continues to fight for animals and the seas. Now leading the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, his new book is titled, Hitman for the Kindness Club – High Seas Escapades and Heroic Adventures of an Eco-Activist. Paul discusses the roots of his activism, his role in virtually crushing the seal pelt market,…

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Kristin Surkaw - The #1 Handbook for Impactful Storytelling 27:45

10M ago27:45

27:45

Send us a Text Message. How do you raise awareness & boost fundraising efforts for your nonprofit’s mission & important work? You engage in impactful storytelling. Kristin Sukraw is a professional storyteller, executive producer at StoryFind Films, licensed mental health practitioner, and national speaker. She has worked with large international no…

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Rebecca Rodriguez - Start a Nonprofit that Actually Survives 26:41

10M ago26:41

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Send us a Text Message. Immerse yourself in tips that separate a successful nonprofit start up and those who can't move past phase 1. Rebecca Rodriguez is the author of The Nonprofit Workbook: Tips & Best Practices for Start-Ups Serving The Greater Common Good. In this episode, Delaney and Rebecca discuss the steps a nonprofit leader should take be…

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Diz Petit - From Vision to Action: Transforming Nonprofits with Sustainable Social Impact Solutions 42:34

10M ago42:34

42:34

Send us a Text Message. Diz Petit is the Founder and CEO of LiquiDonate, a sustainable social impact solution for businesses and nonprofits. The technology tool lets retailers divert excess and returned inventory to nonprofits who need it. In this episode, Delaney speaks with Diz about her impressive background in the technology space and her abili…

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Manda Kalimian - Born To Be Nonprofit : Creating Real Environmental Change 40:25

11M ago40:25

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Send us a Text Message. Manda Kalimian shares memories of her 15-year journey of creating The Cana Foundation with Delaney Mullennix, host of the Nonprofit Hub Radio Podcast, on this episode. Her stories include insight on being a female founder while navigating the nonprofit space and also spending time in Washington learning how to spearhead init…

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Animals Today September 24, 2023. Captive orca Lolita (Tokitae) has died. Is a pet pig a good idea? PETA undercover work nets animal cruelty convictions. 43:10

11M ago43:10

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Lori begins with the sad news of the death of Lolita (also known as Tokitae and Toki), an orca who has lived nearly her entire life in the small tank at the Miami Seaquarium. Even though there were discussions and reports about plans to transport her to a seaside sanctuary, Lori was skeptical that was in the cards when she discussed the situation i…

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Julie Boll - Courage to Lead in the Nonprofit Sector 32:41

11M ago32:41

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode of Nonprofit Hub Radio, host Delaney Mullennix interviews leadership coach Julie Boll regarding courageous leadership in the nonprofit sector. This episode examines how nonprofit sector leaders can cultivate the courage to build trust, drive change, and increase social impact. Get free nonprofit professional …

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Animals Today September 16, 2023. Does the American Kennel Club help or hurt dogs? The Book Beloved Beasts, by Michelle Nijhuis 43:03

11M ago43:03

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Lori leads off this episode exploring the issue of genetic defects in purebred dogs. There are over 500 known genetic defects in purebred dogs, causing health problems, many severe, at a much greater rate than in mixed breed dogs. These genetic defects go along with selective breeding to a “standard” and these standards are established and judged b…

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