The Nonprofit Power Podcast

The Nonprofit Power Podcast

The podcast for progressive nonprofit leaders who want to build powerful influence with the money and policy decisionmakers in their world.


Recent Episodes

March 21, 2025

How the Power of Community Building Can Help You Fight Back Against Attacks on Your Program and Your Funding

We all know how valuable community building is, but we often don't understand just how powerful it is. And right now it might just be that nonprofit leaders' superpower as community builders could be one of the keys to making...
March 14, 2025

The Best Way to Help Your Supporters Become Valuable Advocates for Your Work and Funding

This is a time when we need all hands on deck. There's so much need for nonprofits to advocate aggressively for the work that we do, and specifically for the government funding that supports our work. And nowhere is that more...
March 7, 2025

The Essential 5-Point Messaging Framework for Your Advocacy with Congress

Nonprofit leaders have a lot going on in terms of advocacy we need to be doing with Congress. And I’m hearing from a lot of my clients and the folks in my coaching programs, saying “Just strip it down for me. What's the messa...
March 1, 2025

Where to Focus Your Federal Advocacy Efforts Right Now to Have the Greatest Impact

It can be really hard right now as a Nonprofit leader to know where to focus your attention, what to be spending your advocacy energy on and what's going to have the biggest impact. For the vast majority of direct service non...
Feb. 21, 2025

How to Deal with the Right Wing's "Waste, Fraud & Abuse" Propaganda

The right wing's "waste, fraud, and abuse" propaganda is being used to justify massive and indiscriminate slashing of federal funding for anything and everything. That propaganda is hurting nearly every nonprofit in this coun...
Feb. 15, 2025

How to Defend Against Attacks on Your Federal Funding – Part 2

There is so much more still to discuss about how we can defend against ongoing attacks on your federal funding. In this week’s episode, we're focusing on the second key piece of the strategy, which is shaping public opinion ...