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

Dec. 22, 2024

How to Capture Your Most Valuable Lessons from 2024

Between the waning light and the kind of tucking in that happens around the solstice, and the anticipation of closing one year and opening a new one. It's the perfect time to do some reflection on how the year has gone for u…
Dec. 15, 2024

When Professionalism Can Become a Liability

One of the most problematic tropes that gets emphasized over and over again for nonprofit leaders can wind up absolutely wrecking your ability to really connect with decision makers. That’s the belief that you must be ultra-…
Dec. 7, 2024

Two Marketing Secrets that will Help You Engage Decisionmakers More Deeply, and Get to Yes Faster

As nonprofit leaders, one of the many roles we have is that we are marketers. And if that's not part of the way you think about your role, or if that creates a little resistance for you, hang in there for a minute. Because t…
Nov. 29, 2024

What I'm Most Thankful for, and Why I'm Leaning into a Daily Practice of Gratitude

It's Thanksgiving time and we're all reflecting on things that we're thankful for. I think that can be particularly challenging at this moment in time when we're dealing with a lot of challenges in terms of the political env…
Nov. 23, 2024

The Most Undervalued Skill that Could be Your Key to Engaging Decisionmakers

Let me ask you this: When you’re in meetings with decisionmakers, what are you most focused on? If you’re like most advocates, you got a lot going on in your head. You’re thinking about your framing, and making sure it reso…
Nov. 16, 2024

Building Strategies for a New Threat Environment

We have a lot to talk about in this time following the elections. I understand that everyone is still processing, myself included. And yet, it is time to begin turning our attention to: What do we do now? There is some clari…