Future Nonprofit

Oct 29 2024 26 ep. 29 mins
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Explore all things innovation to amplify the future of nonprofit impact. Discover best practices from top nonprofits and social-impact businesses. Learn new strategies and explore daring ways to think about and solve your organization's big problems. Ted Vaughn, award-winning author and social entrepreneur, invites guests to share their personal narratives, experiences, and hot takes on what is needed to create an innovative organization. Ted illustrates how they can be put into practice on a journey to discover the future of nonprofits. Watch full raw interviews on the Future Nonprofit Youtube channel.

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The Generosity Playbook: Gabe Cooper - How to help your donors get their hearts all in

Oct 29 2024 40 mins  
“As an employee of a nonprofit, you're maybe blessed to get paid for the work you do every day, but it doesn't mean you care about it any more or less than the people that are giving you money. And so, by drawing them in, you build an army of committed advocates and activists for your cause. You're having an impact on the hearts of your donors by drawing them in. You're making th

Burning the Boats: Suzy Gray - Applying Big Data Tactics to a Faith-Based Nonprofit

Sep 20 2024 33 mins  
"You really have to be committed to your mission because if you are committed to your model and you just do things that serve the model because the model doesn't look broken, but it no longer serves your mission - you lose. And so having the courage to burn the ships and say, even though the ships could probably still sail, in order to really take hold of what I know we need to be

Leading with Courage: Rev. Dr. Alvin Sanders - Building Healthier Churches for Urban Flourishing

Aug 27 2024 37 mins  
"95% of the world's pastors have no formal ministry training. And the best thing that we had done in all those years was training pastors and communities of poverty. So we said, “If it's not training urban ministers, it goes.” We got down to the nitty-gritty of one focus, which is training urban pastors and church leaders, because we believe that that will lead to healthier chu

Formula X: Jurriaan Kamer - Unlocking Speed Through Organizational Design

Aug 13 2024 40 mins  
“We want to create an environment where people want to show up with all of their energy and enthusiasm to really do their best work. And at the same time, for that to be aligned with the organization's purpose and goals and values. That ultimately creates better organizational outcomes for customers, for donors, because they get someone on the phone that is engaged, or they look

Tapping Change: Matt Hangen - Transforming Water Access Through a Community-Driven Model

Jul 09 2024 35 mins  
“As CEO of Water4, every trip I take, I go out to communities, I spend the night and go house to house and see if the taps are working, talk to customers, see what's going on, see what life's really like. And then my job is to thank them for being a customer, not for them to thank me for being a benefactor.” - Matt HangenIn a sector filled with beneficiaries and benefactors, on

Adversity to Advocacy: Rachel Miller - Pivoting Purpose to Amplify Impact

Jun 25 2024 36 mins  
“At that time, I really thought that money was the biggest issue. What I soon realized was that actually, not having money was not the biggest issue. The biggest issue was that the adults in my life were struggling so deeply, and there were severe mental health issues taking place. And so it was this shift from trying to eliminate adversity, to trying to pull a lever that actuall

Cure International: Justin Narducci - Building Culture and Bridging the Healthcare Gap

Jun 11 2024 41 mins  
"Imagine a hospital environment and having a million different pieces of equipment from a million different manufacturers and trying to maintain that or to repair it would be really difficult. And so we standardized our equipment, we're standardizing our services and we're standardizing our practices and our policies and even the way that we manage people. I think now we've gone to

A Taste for Change: Ben Collier - Transforming the Food Donation Infrastructure

May 21 2024 35 mins  
"We have every intention of being as additive as possible to this space. I think change in general is uncomfortable, and I think in nonprofit work there can be an aversion to change and aversion to risk. And as much as possible, it's our job to show why we are not something to be afraid of." – Ben CollierMany nonprofits are launched in response to a pressing problem. Yet so many

Empowerment in Action: Nash Sheard - Building a Strong Bond for Change and Collaboration

May 07 2024 30 mins  
"It's always so important to me that there has to be a thing to do, right? It has to be empowering. Folks are more aware, but there's a level of fatigue, and there's also a level of disempowerment in that knowledge. So that’s the challenge: Making sure that folks aren't just aware, but that they feel like there's something they can do." - Nash SheardIn nonprofit work, raising awa

International Justice Mission: Thaddaeus Nichols - Building Partnerships to Drive Impact

Apr 23 2024 31 mins  
"As nonprofits, we are often our own worst enemies because we live in these echo chambers. I think so often where we just talk the way we talk to the people that already talk the same way as us. And we miss making the biggest difference and tackling the biggest problems because we only want to talk to the people that want to talk just like us." - Thaddaeus NicholsWhen it comes to t