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

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 cou…
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…
Feb. 8, 2025

How to Defend Against Attacks on Your Federal Funding - Part 1

We have a lot to talk about with all of the threats that are aimed at federal funding for a critical array of safety net programs. We've had quite a rollercoaster ride in the last couple of weeks, but I believe that there ar…
Jan. 31, 2025

The Top Three Things to Focus on First When Crisis Strikes

It feels like we're having a crisis about every 20 seconds, and this week is no exception. Just at the beginning of the week we had another sudden, chaos-inducing announcement from the new administration that they were going…
Jan. 24, 2025

How to Combat the Right Wing Messaging that Could be About to Endanger Your Program's Funding

If it wasn’t clear before this week, we now know that the entire suite of government-funded safety net programs is in the right wing’s cross hairs. The ambition to dismantle these programs isn't new. What is new is the level…
Jan. 18, 2025

How to Access Confidence Even When You’re Way Outside Your Comfort Zone

Confidence is one of those things that so many people struggle with, and others seem to have no problem with. And neither group understands the other one very well. So I want to get into where does confidence come from, and …