The Influential Nonprofit

Mar 06 2025 191 ep. 31 mins 16

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You want your nonprofit to make the biggest impact possible on those you serve and to do that you need a community of support. Each week, join Maryanne Dersch, nonprofit revolutionary, as she interviews nonprofit leaders who are growing their influence to raise more money and do more good. If you want to fundraise with ease, build better relationships with board and staff, or just need a shot of fresh ideas and inspiration, this show is for you.

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ClaReplay: How to Finally Get Your Board to Fundraise

Mar 06 2025 21 mins

Key Takeaways: Engaging board members in fundraising can be a chronic challenge for nonprofits, often due to resistance and discomfort. To enroll the board, it's crucial to make fundraising tasks feel good, easy, and fun. You set the emotional temperature for board fundraising. Your comfort level and excitement will influence the board's engagement. That’s why it’s important

How to Build Long Term Loyal Support

Feb 27 2025 29 mins

Key Takeaways: Build long-term loyal communities of support by focusing on relationships, not transactions. Stop pitching, pushing, and trying to convince people to care about your cause. Instead, find like-minded people who share your values and vision. Adopt the "philanthropic heart" model, which is based on a person's lived experience, focus on future gains, and acceptance of p

Release Resistance and Raise More Money

Feb 20 2025 28 mins

Key Takeaways: Identify and acknowledge your resistance, such as being overly attached to outcomes or trying to fix others. Understand that fear has a role but should not drive your actions. Reframe negative mindsets and stories into more positive, empowering narratives. Make the unconscious conscious to change unhelpful thought patterns. Practice surrender, trust, and gratitude t

Stephen Newland: Money Mindset and Fundraising

Feb 13 2025 44 mins

Stephen has 15+ years of experience in finance, spanning nonprofits, startups, and Fortune 500 companies. He’s worked across diverse industries, including foster care, financial literacy, housing, software, professional services, and more. He believes nance and accounting should be simple and practical. Key Takeaways: Nonprofit organizations often have a scarcity mindset around

What's Better Than Influence

Feb 06 2025 32 mins

Key Takeaways: Inspiration is more powerful than manipulation or influence. Inspiration involves being a model for the change you seek, without trying to change others. It releases resentment and doesn't require others' approval. Avoid the compulsion to change people's minds. Instead, focus on sharing your authentic perspective and experiences. People are more likely to be influen

How to Achieve Your BIG Goals

Jan 30 2025 28 mins

Key Takeaways: Focus on high reward, high urgency, and high reward, low urgency tasks first each day to make progress on your important goals. Don't let low-reward, high-urgency tasks consume your time. Celebrate your wins, no matter how big or small. Taking time to acknowledge your achievements will motivate you to keep working towards your goals. Be open to delegating or outsour

5 Big Lies of Strategic Planning

Jan 23 2025 28 mins

Key Takeaways: It's not the strategy that's the problem, it's your feelings about the actions required to execute the strategy. Maryanne emphasizes that understanding your thoughts and feelings is more important than the strategic plan itself. Embrace uncertainty rather than seeking certainty. Maryanne explains that the more you need certainty and control, the more opportunities t

Laura Bonnell: Authentic Storytelling Fuels Nonprofit Success

Jan 16 2025 39 mins

Laura Bonnell, a seasoned journalist with 25 years of experience in Detroit, founded The Bonnell Foundation in 2010 after her daughters, Molly and Emily, were born with cystic fibrosis (CF). Despite having ten siblings between them, Laura and her husband, Joe, had no idea they were carriers of the disease, as no one else in either family had been diagnosed with CF. Driven by her pe

Replay: Fundraising Training Versus Fundraising Coaching

Jan 09 2025 22 mins

Key Takeaways: Mindset shifts cannot be achieved through strategy or training alone; coaching is necessary to remove barriers, create self-awareness, and build empathy. Staying sovereign means being in control of your own thoughts and actions, regardless of the outcome of your fundraising efforts. Coaching can help in these three ways: First, it will help you get out of your own w

Replay: Better Donor Conversations

Jan 02 2025 25 mins

Key Takeaways: Pitching, pushing, convincing, or trying to get someone to see things a certain way doesn’t work. When pressure is applied, people tend to push back. Instead of pushing ideas onto others, focus on drawing out their thoughts and feelings. Release attachment to the outcome. The more you are able to avoid fixating on the outcome, the more likely you can achieve it.