We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits

Meet Chris. This former major gift officer turned leader of data integrity at the OSU Foundation is talking through the org's CRM Implementation and what a project of this scale entails. This Project Director for the successful implementation of a comprehensive advancement CRM went live in January, and we're chatting preparations, team involvement, and why communication is the bedrock of a successful launch. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTSChris’s story and journey to where he is today (4:30)Overview of CRMs (9:45)Beginning to find the right platform + technology for your organization (12:00)Get to know the market, and get to know yourself as an organization (16:00)The process of migrating donor data (21:00)4 tracks of data migration and implementation of a new CRM (23:00)Maximizing the data that is already in your CRM (25:00)A powerful moment of philanthropy in Chris’s life (28:00)Chris’s One Good Thing: Every business is a people business. (31:00)For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/276About Our Sponsor VirtuousYou know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/About Our Sponsor FeathrAre you ready to take your digital engagement to the next level but feel stuck about where to start? Feathr is focused on making nonprofit outreach more impactful by connecting you to yoAbout our Sponsor Givebutter 💛Nonprofits use Givebutter to bring together multiple categories of tools, including mobile-friendly donation forms, fundraising campaigns, events, auctions, email marketing, a built-in CRM, and so much more. Head to givebutter.com/weareforgood to sign up for your free account today and get started in minutes. Thank you to our partners 🩵Big gratitude to Givebutter, RKD Group, DonorDock, Feathr, Whiteboard and Sowen for their partnership in growing the Impact Uprising. If you’re searching for a new CRM, tech tool, brand partner, direct mail partner, or impact strategist— we’d love for you to start with our trusted recs. We’ve vetted them so you don’t have to. Head to weareforgood.com/recs to learn more.Support the showBecome a Member and Get All-Access to Everything We Are For Good!Experience the Impact Uprising Membership by We Are For Good: an ecosystem to learn, connect + grow in the power of a value-aligned community. Members gather monthly with Jon + Becky at exclusive members-only meetups + get video access to all new podcast episodes in an ad-free experience + so much more! Learn more + join us at weareforgood.com.Say hi👇LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter

Meet Carolina. She's the founding CEO of The Elevate Prize Foundation, a global purpose-driven nonprofit that serves to amplify social impact and empower passionate problem solvers, leaders, and innovators. Latinos hold just 1% of foundation and not-for-profit CEO positions and less than 10% of program officer positions, yet Hispanics represent 20% of the U.S. population. Join us to make good famous🎧EPISODE HIGHLIGHTSCarolina’s story and journey to where she is today (3:50)Overview of The Elevate Prize Foundation (5:00)How the Elevate Prize Foundation is leveraging Giving Circles to create a deeper impact (7:30)Making Good Famous: using fame to power impact (11:00)Why Latinx representation must increase in philanthropy (16:00)Championing young Latinx nonprofit leaders (21:00)Latinx thought leaders to follow (26:00)Investing in nonprofit leaders and the power of professional development (29:00)How people can get involved with The Elevate Prize Foundation (35:00)A powerful moment of philanthropy in Carolina’s life (39:00)Carolina’s One Good Thing: Have an abundance mindset. (41:00)For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/275About Our Sponsor VirtuousYou know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/About Our Sponsor Slingshot GroupOur friends over at SAbout our Sponsor Givebutter 💛Nonprofits use Givebutter to bring together multiple categories of tools, including mobile-friendly donation forms, fundraising campaigns, events, auctions, email marketing, a built-in CRM, and so much more. Head to givebutter.com/weareforgood to sign up for your free account today and get started in minutes. Thank you to our partners 🩵Big gratitude to Givebutter, RKD Group, DonorDock, Feathr, Whiteboard and Sowen for their partnership in growing the Impact Uprising. If you’re searching for a new CRM, tech tool, brand partner, direct mail partner, or impact strategist— we’d love for you to start with our trusted recs. We’ve vetted them so you don’t have to. Head to weareforgood.com/recs to learn more.Support the showBecome a Member and Get All-Access to Everything We Are For Good!Experience the Impact Uprising Membership by We Are For Good: an ecosystem to learn, connect + grow in the power of a value-aligned community. Members gather monthly with Jon + Becky at exclusive members-only meetups + get video access to all new podcast episodes in an ad-free experience + so much more! Learn more + join us at weareforgood.com.Say hi👇LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter

Meet Iara. This powerhouse founder and world-changer is taking on power dynamics found in grantmaking with a novel solution allowing funders to move money more quickly to grantees. [insert heel kick] She’s addressing why we should be shifting power to the frontlines, why trust-based philanthropy IS the future, and how the sector is shifting toward centering equity in our practice. Orgs serving marginalized or populations of color - you don’t want to miss this episode (potential funding available!💰). EPISODE HIGHLIGHTSIara’s story and journey to where she is today (4:00)Founding story of Young People For, a national progressive leadership development program that has identified and trained thousands of leaders across the country (6:00)Founding story of JustFund (10:00)The future of philanthropy from Iara’s perspective and JustFund’s Common Application (13:00)How philanthropy is shifting + how funders and nonprofits are starting to center equity in their practice and in their work (19:00)Building trust with funders (22:00)Advice for nonprofits to begin conversations and education to funders (25:00)Getting philanthropy shifted to the frontlines where they can really activate  (31:00)A powerful story of philanthropy in Iara’s life (42:00)Iara’s One Good Thing: It's not the challenges that define us, but how we respond to the challenges. (45:00)For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/274The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! About our Sponsor Givebutter 💛Nonprofits use Givebutter to bring together multiple categories of tools, including mobile-friendly donation forms, fundraising campaigns, events, auctions, email marketing, a built-in CRM, and so much more. Head to givebutter.com/weareforgood to sign up for your free account today and get started in minutes. Thank you to our partners 🩵Big gratitude to Givebutter, RKD Group, DonorDock, Feathr, Whiteboard and Sowen for their partnership in growing the Impact Uprising. If you’re searching for a new CRM, tech tool, brand partner, direct mail partner, or impact strategist— we’d love for you to start with our trusted recs. We’ve vetted them so you don’t have to. Head to weareforgood.com/recs to learn more.Support the showBecome a Member and Get All-Access to Everything We Are For Good!Experience the Impact Uprising Membership by We Are For Good: an ecosystem to learn, connect + grow in the power of a value-aligned community. Members gather monthly with Jon + Becky at exclusive members-only meetups + get video access to all new podcast episodes in an ad-free experience + so much more! Learn more + join us at weareforgood.com.Say hi👇LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter

Meet Maria. This CEO and Founder is passionate about uniting technology, philanthropy and social good to solve critical issues. She’s unapologetically talking to us about the negative impact that power dynamics have on major gifts, paid leave, cultures and benefits while sharing a reimagined strategy to shift philanthropic power dynamics. You know we’re here for this 🙌 EPISODE HIGHLIGHTSMaria’s story and journey to where she is today (2:00)Shift in power dynamics Maria is seeing because leaders of color are often in the driver's seat of social and economic change, yet they're entirely underestimated and underfunded. (3:00)Trust based philanthropy and trust based partnerships (4:30)Holistic inequitable lending practices in the sector (6:50)Changing our mindset around major gift funding and foundation funding (8:00)How Maria doesn’t see the walls in the philanthropy space (13:00)Raise For Good’s founding story and their core scope of work (16:00)Moving towards sustainability within our organizations (19:00)The narrative surrounding overhead within our sector and how it is holding us back (20:00)How Maria advises people to not just weather but thrive in the midst of challenging times and seasons within their growing organizations (26:00)Maria’s advice to leaders looking to build more equity within their organizations - where do we start? (29:00)A powerful moment of philanthropy in Maria’s life (33:00)Maria’s One Good Thing: Change can be joyful. (35:00)For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/273The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free!About our Sponsor Givebutter 💛Nonprofits use Givebutter to bring together multiple categories of tools, including mobile-friendly donation forms, fundraising campaigns, events, auctions, email marketing, a built-in CRM, and so much more. Head to givebutter.com/weareforgood to sign up for your free account today and get started in minutes. Thank you to our partners 🩵Big gratitude to Givebutter, RKD Group, DonorDock, Feathr, Whiteboard and Sowen for their partnership in growing the Impact Uprising. If you’re searching for a new CRM, tech tool, brand partner, direct mail partner, or impact strategist— we’d love for you to start with our trusted recs. We’ve vetted them so you don’t have to. Head to weareforgood.com/recs to learn more.Support the showBecome a Member and Get All-Access to Everything We Are For Good!Experience the Impact Uprising Membership by We Are For Good: an ecosystem to learn, connect + grow in the power of a value-aligned community. Members gather monthly with Jon + Becky at exclusive members-only meetups + get video access to all new podcast episodes in an ad-free experience + so much more! Learn more + join us at weareforgood.com.Say hi👇LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter

Meet Jodi. Not only is she the Senior VP of Brand Marketing and Communication at theSkimm [insert swoon], she’s also a passionate advocate of building the movement powering paid leave reform in the U.S. She’s diving into the viral phenomenon of theSkimm’s #ShowUsYourLeave Campaign, and what nonprofits can do to pour into the moment. She’s also sharing how to build a massive global-movement-for-good with rabid fans and corporations alike. “Paid leave is not a benefit - it’s a human right.” [Hard Stop]  EPISODE HIGHLIGHTSJodi’s story and journey to where she is today (3:30)The story of the #ShowUsYourLeave campaign (8:00)Galvanizing and activating support to grow a movement (18:00)theSkimm’s #ShowUsYourLeave database (21:00)How nonprofits can get activated and join this movement (28:00)Paid Parental Leave Proposal DeckAccess the databaseSign the petitionA powerful moment of philanthropy in Jodi’s life (32:00)Jodi’s One Good Thing: You can make a difference. and Rely on community and others. (34:00)For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episodeAbout our Sponsor Givebutter 💛Nonprofits use Givebutter to bring together multiple categories of tools, including mobile-friendly donation forms, fundraising campaigns, events, auctions, email marketing, a built-in CRM, and so much more. Head to givebutter.com/weareforgood to sign up for your free account today and get started in minutes. Thank you to our partners 🩵Big gratitude to Givebutter, RKD Group, DonorDock, Feathr, Whiteboard and Sowen for their partnership in growing the Impact Uprising. If you’re searching for a new CRM, tech tool, brand partner, direct mail partner, or impact strategist— we’d love for you to start with our trusted recs. We’ve vetted them so you don’t have to. Head to weareforgood.com/recs to learn more.Support the showBecome a Member and Get All-Access to Everything We Are For Good!Experience the Impact Uprising Membership by We Are For Good: an ecosystem to learn, connect + grow in the power of a value-aligned community. Members gather monthly with Jon + Becky at exclusive members-only meetups + get video access to all new podcast episodes in an ad-free experience + so much more! Learn more + join us at weareforgood.com.Say hi👇LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter

Meet Orli. She’s a founding leader of Paid Leave for the U.S. (PLUS), a nonprofit focused on winning paid family and medical leave. PLUS has helped win paid leave for more than 8M people, and Oril is bringing her knowledge, tools, case studies and adapting it all to the nonprofit sector.  She’s also sharing how to create a work environment that promotes work-life balance for employees as we build a movement where personal life comes first.EPISODE HIGHLIGHTSOrli’s story and journey to where she is today (3:00)Overview of the paid leave landscape in the United States (7:00)Where to start with this topic and get the right conversations started (13:00)Getting involved with legislation (21:00)Examples of best in class paid leave policies (27:00)Cost Benefit Analysis Resources from PL + USToolkit and Template Proposal from PL + US You're never going to be the kind of visionary organization to the world if you can't be that kind of visionary organization to your own team: moving away from scarcity mindset in the sector (37:00)A powerful moment of philanthropy in Orli’s life (39:00)Orli’s One Good Thing: Low ego high impact. (42:00)For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/271The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/helloAbout our Sponsor Givebutter 💛Nonprofits use Givebutter to bring together multiple categories of tools, including mobile-friendly donation forms, fundraising campaigns, events, auctions, email marketing, a built-in CRM, and so much more. Head to givebutter.com/weareforgood to sign up for your free account today and get started in minutes. Thank you to our partners 🩵Big gratitude to Givebutter, RKD Group, DonorDock, Feathr, Whiteboard and Sowen for their partnership in growing the Impact Uprising. If you’re searching for a new CRM, tech tool, brand partner, direct mail partner, or impact strategist— we’d love for you to start with our trusted recs. We’ve vetted them so you don’t have to. Head to weareforgood.com/recs to learn more.Support the showBecome a Member and Get All-Access to Everything We Are For Good!Experience the Impact Uprising Membership by We Are For Good: an ecosystem to learn, connect + grow in the power of a value-aligned community. Members gather monthly with Jon + Becky at exclusive members-only meetups + get video access to all new podcast episodes in an ad-free experience + so much more! Learn more + join us at weareforgood.com.Say hi👇LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter

Meet Evan. As the Stand Together Foundation Executive Director, he leads the charge on building replicable frameworks that disrupt, empower and accelerate doing good in the world. And he’s brought an entirely new playbook to the convo of compensating nonprofits - and compensating them big-time - and we want you to have it. We’ve all heard the phrase “I won’t make a lot in nonprofit, but I love having a career with meaning.” NO MORE. Tune in to get the frameworks, negotiation tips and script to help you build a strong case for better pay. Those who pour into others should be incentivized for their work - not handed scraps. Let’s elevate and equalize!EPISODE HIGHLIGHTSEvan’s story and journey to where he is today (2:45)The equity problem in the sector and what Evan is seeing (6:00)Historical and current narratives about the nonprofit sector (9:00)How we pay people as individuals and incentivize around top performance (17:00)Advice for fundraisers: negotiating salaries and benefits (29:00)Evan’s advice for small organizations (39:00) Evan’s One Good Thing: Think of the empowerment movement. (42:00)For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/270About our Sponsor Givebutter 💛Nonprofits use Givebutter to bring together multiple categories of tools, including mobile-friendly donation forms, fundraising campaigns, events, auctions, email marketing, a built-in CRM, and so much more. Head to givebutter.com/weareforgood to sign up for your free account today and get started in minutes. Thank you to our partners 🩵Big gratitude to Givebutter, RKD Group, DonorDock, Feathr, Whiteboard and Sowen for their partnership in growing the Impact Uprising. If you’re searching for a new CRM, tech tool, brand partner, direct mail partner, or impact strategist— we’d love for you to start with our trusted recs. We’ve vetted them so you don’t have to. Head to weareforgood.com/recs to learn more.Support the showBecome a Member and Get All-Access to Everything We Are For Good!Experience the Impact Uprising Membership by We Are For Good: an ecosystem to learn, connect + grow in the power of a value-aligned community. Members gather monthly with Jon + Becky at exclusive members-only meetups + get video access to all new podcast episodes in an ad-free experience + so much more! Learn more + join us at weareforgood.com.Say hi👇LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter

Join Jon + Becky for this Friday's episode alongside a panel of legit experts on Building Better Boards. We talk about creating active boards comprised of diverse voices, lived experiences, and representing the population of people served by the mission. Special thanks to Virtuous for convening this discussion with our panel experts: Skyler Badenoch (Hope for Haiti), Sabrina Walker Hernandez (Saving World Hope), Jazmin Chavez (Hispanics in Philanthropy) and Tammy Tibbetts (She's the First) 👊 About our Sponsor Givebutter 💛Nonprofits use Givebutter to bring together multiple categories of tools, including mobile-friendly donation forms, fundraising campaigns, events, auctions, email marketing, a built-in CRM, and so much more. Head to givebutter.com/weareforgood to sign up for your free account today and get started in minutes. Thank you to our partners 🩵Big gratitude to Givebutter, RKD Group, DonorDock, Feathr, Whiteboard and Sowen for their partnership in growing the Impact Uprising. If you’re searching for a new CRM, tech tool, brand partner, direct mail partner, or impact strategist— we’d love for you to start with our trusted recs. We’ve vetted them so you don’t have to. Head to weareforgood.com/recs to learn more.Support the showBecome a Member and Get All-Access to Everything We Are For Good!Experience the Impact Uprising Membership by We Are For Good: an ecosystem to learn, connect + grow in the power of a value-aligned community. Members gather monthly with Jon + Becky at exclusive members-only meetups + get video access to all new podcast episodes in an ad-free experience + so much more! Learn more + join us at weareforgood.com.Say hi👇LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter

Meet Maggie. After spending her childhood serving in soup kitchens, she felt an awakening to bring more than a meal to those who were hungry - she wanted to bring dignity, civility and friendship too. Thus, A Place at the Table was born - Raleigh's first pay-what-you-can nonprofit cafe. She's reimagining a way to feed those in need and baking equity and community into the equation. Swoon🥰👏 EPISODE HIGHLIGHTSMaggie’s story and journey to where she is today (4:00)Meet the mission: A Place at the Table (11:00)A Place at the Table’s unique “pay what you can” model and why it is working (19:00)What Maggie has learned along the way of starting a nonprofit and about dignity (20:00)A powerful story of when she witnessed community at this organization (23:00)Funding this dream and partnering with the community (27:00)Dreams for A Place at the Table (29:00)A powerful moment of philanthropy in Maggie’s life (31:00)Maggie’s One Good Thing: Ask for help and celebrate everything. (33:00)For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/268About Our Sponsor VirtuousYou know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/About Our Sponsor FeathrAre you ready to take your digital engagement to the next level but feel stuck about where to start? Feathr is focused on makiAbout our Sponsor Givebutter 💛Nonprofits use Givebutter to bring together multiple categories of tools, including mobile-friendly donation forms, fundraising campaigns, events, auctions, email marketing, a built-in CRM, and so much more. Head to givebutter.com/weareforgood to sign up for your free account today and get started in minutes. Thank you to our partners 🩵Big gratitude to Givebutter, RKD Group, DonorDock, Feathr, Whiteboard and Sowen for their partnership in growing the Impact Uprising. If you’re searching for a new CRM, tech tool, brand partner, direct mail partner, or impact strategist— we’d love for you to start with our trusted recs. We’ve vetted them so you don’t have to. Head to weareforgood.com/recs to learn more.Support the showBecome a Member and Get All-Access to Everything We Are For Good!Experience the Impact Uprising Membership by We Are For Good: an ecosystem to learn, connect + grow in the power of a value-aligned community. Members gather monthly with Jon + Becky at exclusive members-only meetups + get video access to all new podcast episodes in an ad-free experience + so much more! Learn more + join us at weareforgood.com.Say hi👇LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter

Meet Olivia. She's been on a lifelong quest to create community-based workplace cultures that fuel good while helping the bottom line. And now that company PagerDuty, a real-time impact response platform, is driving the effort of societal benefits through business and its employees. As social impact and philanthropy are becoming more important in attracting top talent, Olivia explains how connecting social impact to success is game-changing.💡Learn:Shifting & redistributing power: centering partnership models and programs around equity and trust-based/participatory philanthropy practicesPagerDuty's approach to social impactCurrent landscape of social impact right now + how can people formulate that business caseEPISODE HIGHLIGHTSOlivia’s story and journey to where she is today (3:30)Overview of PagerDuty and their social impact initiatives (13:00)Shifting our mindset around social impact (15:00)Key indicators of when a company is ready to implement a social impact program (21:00)The current landscape of social impact + how can people formulate that business case (26:00)Focusing on deeper partnerships and unrestricted capital vs. transactional gifts and event sponsorships (31:00)What an ideal partnership looks like (39:00)A powerful moment of philanthropy in Olivia’s life (43:00)Olivia’s One Good Thing: Lead with your full selves, your voice, your values, and lift up others. (46:00)For more information and episode details visit: weareforgood.com/episode/267About Our Sponsor VirtuousYou know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagAbout our Sponsor Givebutter 💛Nonprofits use Givebutter to bring together multiple categories of tools, including mobile-friendly donation forms, fundraising campaigns, events, auctions, email marketing, a built-in CRM, and so much more. Head to givebutter.com/weareforgood to sign up for your free account today and get started in minutes. Thank you to our partners 🩵Big gratitude to Givebutter, RKD Group, DonorDock, Feathr, Whiteboard and Sowen for their partnership in growing the Impact Uprising. If you’re searching for a new CRM, tech tool, brand partner, direct mail partner, or impact strategist— we’d love for you to start with our trusted recs. We’ve vetted them so you don’t have to. Head to weareforgood.com/recs to learn more.Support the showBecome a Member and Get All-Access to Everything We Are For Good!Experience the Impact Uprising Membership by We Are For Good: an ecosystem to learn, connect + grow in the power of a value-aligned community. Members gather monthly with Jon + Becky at exclusive members-only meetups + get video access to all new podcast episodes in an ad-free experience + so much more! Learn more + join us at weareforgood.com.Say hi👇LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter