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

Nov. 3, 2024

How to Stay Grounded in Your Messaging in Stressful Encounters with Decisionmakers

In this week’s episode we're taking a look at two of the most common decisionmaker behaviors that frequently throw advocates off their game. It definitely doesn't have to be that way, but I see it all the time. So I want to …
Oct. 25, 2024

How to Cope with Election Anxiety

The 2024 elections are less than two weeks away. And if your world is anything like mine, you and just about everybody in it are stressing out right now. There's a lot of anxiety. There's a lot of worry. There's a lot of fea…
Oct. 19, 2024

Three Keys to Finding the Right Decisionmaker in any System

As an advocate, one of your main goals is to get to the money and policy decision makers that have the power to make decisions that are going to affect your organization and the people you serve. And one of the things I hear…
Oct. 12, 2024

How to Help Your Clients Make Sure Their Vote Counts

We're less than 30 days out from the 2024 elections. And I don't have to tell you there's a lot at stake up and down the ballot. From the presidential race to congressional and Senate races, to state legislatures. And on dow…
Oct. 5, 2024

Two Secrets to Successful Negotiation

Today we're talking about something that I hear so often from nonprofit leaders just freaks them the heck out, and that's negotiating. The truth is, nonprofit leaders are negotiating all the time. But many leaders tell me it…
Sept. 28, 2024

The Number One Block Most Decisionmakers Have that Keeps Them from Fully Valuing Your Services - Episode 64

The frustration I hear most often from the nonprofit leaders I work with, is that the money and policy decision makers in their world don't seem to get the value of what they do. And that comes In a lot of forms and flavors.…