Episodios

  • Passion, Purpose, Profits: Reach for Your Dreams

    Passion, Purpose, Profits: Reach for Your Dreams
    Aug 13 2024
    Passion, Purpose, Profits: Reach for Your Dreams Diane Strand is a serial entrepreneur, best-selling author, speaker, and nonprofit founder. With a steadfast mission of providing access and career pathways for all in the arts, Diane leads her business with passion and purpose to help make this possible. She sets out to provide H.O.P.E. which Diane defines as; Helping One Person Everyday! She is the majority owner of the multi-award-winning JDS Video & Media Productions, Inc. The Producer at JDS Actors Studio where she has launched over 100 careers into the mainstream entertainment industry, and Founder of the nonprofit 501c3 JDS Creative Academy, where she works with youth, teens, and adults mainstream through special needs, at-risk and foster youth. Diane is the Creator and Executive Producer of the broadcasted and live-streamed TV Show Spirit of Innovation now in its sixth season delivering news and information for Riverside County and created the award-winning international event DigiFest Temecula. More at - https://jdscreativeacademy.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Effective Brand Strategies for Nonprofits

    Effective Brand Strategies for Nonprofits
    Aug 6 2024
    Effective Brand Strategies for Nonprofits It’s more important than ever to be able to stand out from the crowd, distinguish your organization, and be meaningful to your audiences. Understanding the relevance of your brand and how your organization meshes with people’s values and world perspective and meets people’s needs is crucial in today’s world. Howard Levy is a brand strategist, award-winning creative director, marketing, and fundraising expert with a 30-year track record of helping organizations revitalize their brands, engage their audiences, and raise more money. Notes: Nonprofit branding expert Howard Levy has helped hundreds of organizations overcome their inertia, wake up their brands, and reach a higher level of success. Recognizing the need for nonprofits to tell their stories more effectively to drive awareness, he founded one of the first marketing agencies focused specifically on the needs of the nonprofit sector 30 years ago. As President of Red Rooster Group, he’s partnered with organizations across a range of causes, revitalizing their brands to remain relevant. He has helped nonprofits to update their missions to meet the moment, change their names without losing their history, reframe their stories to expand nationally or internationally, and create cohesive visual identities to connect fractured chapters. More at - https://redroostergroup.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Navigating the Generosity Crisis: Post-COVID Funding Surge - What's Next?

    Navigating the Generosity Crisis: Post-COVID Funding Surge - What's Next?
    Jul 30 2024
    Navigating the Generosity Crisis: Post-COVID Funding Surge - What's Next? Jason Kruger is kind of a badass when it comes to accounting. Don’t be fooled by his impressive resume and professional demeanor, he’s shaking up the way business owners think about running their organizations. Gone are the days of the traditional office model with an accounting team that stays with a company for 35 years and then retires with a pension. Today’s business owners have to make strategic decisions to optimize profitability. The only way to do that is with good data from their accounting teams. Jason’s 20+ years of accounting and business advisory experience puts him in a prime position to help guide business owners to make smarter business decisions. Often, that means choosing outsourced solutions to provide next-level expertise at a fraction of an in-house cost. Founded in 2008, Signature Analytics brings the expertise and benefits of large company financial and accounting tools and processes to small and medium-sized businesses and larger non-profit organizations. Since that time under Kruger's leadership, Signature Analytics was recognized as an Inc. 5000 company for FIVE straight years for growth and as a “Best Place to Work”. Signature Analytics still has a headquarters in Southern CA while delivering exceptional service to clients across the US. Before founding Signature Analytics, Kruger spent 10 years in public accounting, finishing as a Senior Audit Manager at Deloitte. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Arizona. With Kruger's expertise and Signature Analytics' commitment to delivering reliable financial insights, businesses and nonprofits can make smart decisions based on real numbers. More at - https://signatureanalytics.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Write Like a Thought Leader - Now with AI

    Write Like a Thought Leader - Now with AI
    Jul 23 2024
    Write Like a Thought Leader - Now with AI You can become a thought leader by finding a framing your best ideas. The key is defining a very narrow niche, having an opinion and writing in a journalistic style. Rhea Wessel is an American writer who helps companies grow their business by enabling their subject-matter experts with journalistic thinking and writing skills. As a journalist, she wrote thousands of stories for magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and BBC. As a writer for companies, she has penned and edited thousands more stories across 30 industries. Rhea is the founder and head of The Institute for Thought Leadership. Her book, Write Like a Thought Leader, was published in 2022. She is at work on version 2, which is focused on using AI to boost your thought leadership. Website - https://www.instituteforthoughtleadership.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Moving from Conversation to Action: Funding Solutions to Empower Teens in the Digital Age

    Moving from Conversation to Action: Funding Solutions to Empower Teens in the Digital Age
    Jul 16 2024
    Moving from Conversation to Action: Funding Solutions to Empower Teens in the Digital Age Message from Katya Hancock: First of all, it’s hard to be a nonprofit leader and I’m cheering you on. I encourage you to: 1. Take care of yourself as much as you can. Take weekends off, take vacations/staycations, and take time to celebrate your wins. It can be so easy to stay in the day-to-day blocking and tackling of issues that pop up and move right past the moments that deserve recognition by you and your team. 2. Culture matters. Take the time to develop a culture guide, including your core values, what you stand for, who you want to emulate, and how you work. Share this openly with your team for feedback and make sure they’re bought in. 3. Borrow some best practices from the startup world. For example, funders want to hear about quarterly and annual goals as well as projections. It can be tough to make projections when you’re in a constant fundraising hustle, but this practice will ultimately help fundraising. Reassess annual and quarterly goals every 90 days with your leadership team. Lastly, if you’re an org working to help teens and preteens navigate tech, we’d love to meet you! Please reach out. Katya Hancock is a mission-driven executive, entrepreneur, and public health champion with more than two decades of impact leadership across healthcare, technology, and philanthropic ventures. Katya is the founding Executive Director of Young Futures, a nonprofit on a mission to make it easier to grow up in the digital world. Young Futures was founded to help young people and their families to not just survive, but flourish as a team when meeting the uncertainties of this digital wilderness. Prior to Young Futures, Katya spent a decade as a founding team member and Chief Impact Officer of StartUp Health, an organization dedicated to achieving health moonshots: the world’s most pressing health challenges, including mental health, health equity, access to care, children’s health, and women's health. During Katya’s tenure, StartUp Health’s portfolio grew to 500 companies in 30 countries. Katya has also worked as an operator across multiple startups, including helping to build two successful fintech startups from the seed stage to acquisition by Fortune 500 companies. For Katya the Young Futures mission is personal. She lives in Berkeley, CA with her husband and two young children, Oz (9) and Coco (7). More information at https://www.youngfutures.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Collaborate to Innovate: Unlocking Success in Nonprofit Partnerships

    Collaborate to Innovate: Unlocking Success in Nonprofit Partnerships
    Jul 2 2024
    Collaborate to Innovate: Unlocking Success in Nonprofit Partnerships Michelle Shumate is the founder and owner of Social Impact Network Consulting (SINC). Through SINC, she helps social impact leaders find nuanced solutions through coaching and consulting. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Networks for Social Impact (Oxford University Press). Her work has been featured in Stanford Social Innovation Review, Nonprofit Quarterly, and Youth Today. Michelle is the founding director of Network for Nonprofit and Social Impact (NNSI), the Delaney Family University Research Professor, and Associate Faculty at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. She is also spouse to Michael, mom to Oliver and Alex, and an avid backyard birdwatcher. Sustained Collaboration is a powerful strategic tool for nonprofit leaders to build resilience and increase their social impact. I'd like nonprofit leaders and clergy to: 1. Learn about the types of sustained collaboration available, including mergers, asset transfers, shared service arrangements, shared projects, and alliances. 2. Consider these types of collaborations as strategic tools to (a) embark on a strategic transformation, (b) establish new programs or improve and expand existing programs, (c) develop new efficiencies through shared assets, (d) create policy wins, (e) encourage innovation, and (f) produce better quality outcomes for clients and the community. More information at the following sites: https://sustainedcollab.org https://michelleshumate.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Mission Driven, Not Superhuman

    Mission Driven, Not Superhuman
    Jun 25 2024
    Mission Driven, Not Superhuman If you choose a life in service of others it doesn't have to come at a cost to your own health and well-being. Leaders and organizations have an obligation to provide a holistic, human-centered duty of care for their staff that protects the whole human being. Dimple Dhabalia is a writer, podcaster, facilitator, and coach with over twenty years of experience working at the intersection of leadership, mindful awareness, and storytelling. In 2021 Dimple founded Roots in the Clouds, a boutique consulting firm specializing in using the power of story to heal organizational trauma and moral injury. Dimple is the best-selling author of Tell Me My Story—Challenging the Narrative of Service Before Self and the creator and host of two podcasts, Service Without Sacrifice and What Would Ted Lasso Do? Follow her @dimpstory across all social media platforms and on Substack at dear humanitarian. More at - https://www.rootsintheclouds.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Unveiling the Veil: Debunking Myths and Uncovering Truths in Nonprofit HR Practice

    Unveiling the Veil: Debunking Myths and Uncovering Truths in Nonprofit HR Practice
    Jun 18 2024
    Unveiling the Veil: Debunking Myths and Uncovering Truths in Nonprofit HR Practice Shelley Majors is an accomplished HR consultant with over 25 years of experience, including five years specializing in the nonprofit sector. As the founder of Boardwalk Human Resources Consulting, she strategically aligns human resources with corporate objectives to boost employee engagement and efficiency. Notably, Shelley developed a talent acquisition strategy that improved employee retention by 40% for a leading nonprofit, demonstrating her ability to translate strategic visions into tangible results. HR is crucial for the success of any nonprofit, extending beyond recruitment to strategic partnership in achieving organizational goals. To nonprofit leaders and clergy, remember that HR professionals are pivotal in developing leadership, nurturing talent, and enhancing organizational culture. They align HR strategies with your objectives, fostering a productive work environment and driving initiatives that boost morale, efficiency, and retention. Investing in strong HR practices is investing in the foundation of your organization's success, ensuring the right people are in place to effectively carry out your mission. More information at - https://www.boardwalkhr.com/home Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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