If you’ve been struggling to keep your advocacy efforts focused and on track long enough to produce the significant results you want, it’s time to take a look at your advocacy plan. Or to create one. Creating an advocacy pl...
If you don’t have the advocacy results you want, and you don’t have an advocacy team, there may be a cause and effect relationship there. Strategic relationship building touches everything you do, and without a well-function...
We all know the importance of building strategic relationships with money and policy decisionmakers. But there’s one set of relationships that stands out as essential. These relationships can yield huge benefits, now and fo...
How would it feel to be in a conversation with money and policy decisionmakers, where they’re fully engaged and excited to be talking with you? What would change if you could make that happen on a regular basis? If that sou...
If you’ve ever felt like money and policy decisionmakers weren’t really listening to you, and fully understanding the value of what you do, you may have a messaging problem. What you may not realize, is that there are some ...
If you’ve ever wanted to change any aspect of public policy, whether it’s a big ambitious change or a small but critical tweak, you may have been unsure of just where to start. The fact is, there’s some very specific groundw...
I had the opportunity to interview Maine Senate Majority Leader Eloise Vitelli. Her journey from nonprofit leader to legislative leader is both inspiring and exciting for what it tells us about the power of nonprofit advocacy...
If you’ve ever had the problem of a money decisionmaker not grasping the full value of your organization’s services – and resisting paying a reasonable price for them – you’re not alone. In this episode we uncover the hidden...
I hear from so many nonprofit leaders who struggle to get their board fully on board with their advocacy work. In that situation, the best case scenario is you’re missing out on a ton of potential. The worst case is you hav...
Aleta McLean has grown the contracting side of her organization’s revenue strategy to where she is now negotiating and landing 7-figure contracts with major partners. Part of what’s so inspiring about her journey is that she...
Wherever you are on your advocacy journey, there's always a next level of results that you're working toward. To get to your next level, there's an internal foundation that's as essential as all the technical advocacy tactics...
If you're already stressing out at the mention of pressure, you’ll want to lean into this episode. You’ll discover how it can be one of the most important items in your advocacy toolkit, and how it can help you work more ef...
When you look at who's regularly successful in having big influence with decision makers, what you'll notice is that they almost always have a strong relationship with that decision maker. You probably know from personal exp...
If you’re not crystal clear on the specific result you want, how can you ask a decisionmaker for it? And how will you know whether you’ve gotten it? In this episode I’ll show you how to drill down to the details of exactly ...
If you don’t know exactly who is in charge of the thing you want, how can you influence the decisions being made? But knowing who’s in charge is only half the battle. You also have to know what’s going on in their head and ...
It’s time for a new conversation about non-profit advocacy. For a bigger, bolder vision of what progressive, direct-service nonprofit leaders can achieve, and the kind of transformative results you can get when you become a ...
