Nonprofit Hub Radio

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 down with Jon Sarles to talk about the importance of emo

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 be a dauting task to find the right one, but tod

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 board and how key leaders can manage those relationsh

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 sits down with Nils Smith to talk about AI, Chat G

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 Johnson Richardson to talk about how organizations can col

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 communication, and how to move away from organization-centric me

Nonprofit Leadership Under the MicroscopeWhat 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 upens up about how his leadership grew as a result of acceptin

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 they should be rewarding the most consistent ones and

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. We can do this by prioritizing self-care,

"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 clearly outline what you are offering and what t