We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits

Ever wanted to have a cup of coffee with Jon and Becky so you could lift the veil on those same questions we volley to our guests? Welcome to week two of our Get to Know Us Series. This week Jon interviews Becky. We're talking all things philanthropy, business, family, failure, hilarious moments and irreverent facts. We don't know each other's questions, so all the reactions you hear are live and sincere. Oh, and be prepared to laugh. A lot.

Episode Overview

• How Becky grew her heart for other people (5:30)
• Becoming a collector of people (10:00)
• Becky’s college experience and how she got to where she is today (12:00)
• Meet Kyle, Becky’s husband (16:30)
• Becky’s family and how philanthropy is threaded into their story (19:00)
• The transition from marketing to becoming a major gift officer (25:00)
• Take a leap of faith into something that is new and different (29:00)
• Becky’s passion for mental health (32:00)
• What Becky would say to 10 year old Becky: Be you and be patient. (36:00)
• Becky’s journey to We Are For Good (37:00)
• Rapid Fire Questions with Becky (39:00)
• Becky’s big dream for We Are For Good (43:00)
• Becky’s One Good Thing: Look around you and learn someone’s name. Do what you can in the space of the world you are in right now. (46:00)

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/120

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Ana Marie. The CEO of Hispanics in Philanthropy is mobilizing her community to combat that 1% of U.S. philanthropic dollars currently go to Latinx organizations, a margin so far from the need reflected in our communities. She's also talking through the moment she learned of their organization's selection as a beneficiary of MacKenzie Scott's donation and how the unrestricted gift was groundbreaking to organizational growth.

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/119

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Vik. The charity: water co-creator may be the queen of branding, but her other superpower may just be found in galvanizing community for good. And she's going to change everything about the way you think about monthly donors. And when you’ve built a movement of rabid fans who collectively infuse more than $20 million a year via this methodology, you’ve got the chops to preach. We're talking about the starving mindset so many are employing in the nonprofit sector and how to break out of it with this awesome mama, creative genius and simply a really good human.

Episode Highlights

• Vik’s story and journey to where she is today - 3:22
• All things monthly giving- 7:53
• Key principles and core beliefs of monthly giving- 12:41
• Naming charities - 15:16
• charity: water’s monthly giving program: The Spring - 17:58
• Storytelling - 24:47
• Monthly Giving Guide - 27:37
• The intersection of her work and family - 32:10
• A powerful moment of philanthropy in Vik’s life - 34:22
• Vik’s One Good Thing: Jump and you will grow wings on the way down. - 41:02

For the full episode transcript, sharable graphics and links mentioned in this episode visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/118

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Ever wanted to have a cup of coffee with Jon and Becky so you could lift the veil on those same questions we volley to our guests? Then you're going to love our next series: Get To Know Us. Coffee Talk with We Are For Good. For the next two weeks, we're going to be interviewing each other on all things philanthropy, business, family, failure, hilarious moments and irreverent facts. We don't know each other's questions, so all the reactions you hear are live and sincere. Oh, and be prepared to laugh. A lot.

Episode Overview

• Jon’s story and journey to where he is today (3:00)
• Jon’s deep love for entrepreneurship (9:00)
• Jon’s family and IVF journey (11:00)
• The story of Love Well (14:00)
• Meet Jon’s wife Candice (19:00)
• The Manford Story (22:00)
• Rapid Fire Questions with Jon (29:00)
• Things you should know about Jon (32:20)
• Jon’s ultimate dream for this company (35:50)
• Jon’s One Good Thing: Play the long game and be consistent. (39:20)

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/117

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Skyler & Christina. He's the donor-turned-CEO of this incredible nonprofit serving thousands in southern Haiti through education, healthcare, water/sanitation and economic development. She's the Haitian-American sociologist who's collaborating with numerous entrepreneurs to obtain grants/loans and technical support to help them grow their business. Together, alongside a powerful team of Do Gooders, they're infusing their time-honored values into a culture that's thriving and valuing all people equitably. Only tune in if you want to be ridiculously inspired.

Episode Highlights

• Skyler’s Story - 3:25
• Christina’s Story - 7:34
• The mission of Hope for Haiti - 9:52
• The values of Hope for Haiti and an example of discovering your organizational values and living them out - 16:12
• The next 10 years: strategic planning and casting vision - 24:57
• What is the state of Haiti right now? - 32:03
• Fundraising from miles away - 36:51
• Fundraising in the digital age, and innovative approaches Hope for Haiti has implemented this year - 43:53
• Skyler’s One Good Thing: “Intelligence and ability are equally distributed throughout the world, but opportunity is not.” - 51:01
• Christina’s One Good Thing: Always learn about people’s stories. - 52:59

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/116

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Dan. His TED Talk "The Way We Think About Charity is Dead Wrong," went viral less than a decade ago and was viewed by millions of starry-eyed dreamers who were intent on using their creativity and innovation to do good. [insert image of us frantically waving as some of these believers👋] We're talking nonprofit disruption, marketing, involving your kids in philanthropy and also working hard not to fangirl over him too much (or fanboy, if you're Jon). Join us for the convo we've been waiting to have since the first time we hit play.

Episode Highlights

• Dan’s story and journey to where he is today - 2:47
• The difference between the non-profit and for-profit sector - 6:47
• Combating the overhead crisis - 13:11
• What is holding people back? - 17:24
• If you aren’t being laughed at, you aren’t dreaming big enough - 17:30
• Leaning into disruption - 23:46
• Dan’s advice for young professionals - 24:00
• Explore the full potential of your humanity and inspire your donors to join you - 27:00
• Background of the Charity Defense Council - 32:32
• A powerful moment of philanthropy in Dan’s life - 35:36
• Infusing philanthropy into raising kids - 38:37
• Dan’s One Good Thing: Life is happening right now. - 40:29

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/115

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Jon, Becky and Julie are taking you behind the studio curtain. It's our Season 2 Recap! Get ready for our Season-2-in-Review discussion where you'll learn our favorite episodes, favorite mic drop moments and the greatest takeaways offered these last four months. If you're a Cliff Notes-kind of note taker, this is the quickest way to learn about the best-of-the-best of our convos since January.

Episode Overview

• An overview of Season 2 (1:00)
• The joy of meeting others: the power of podcasting, listening, connecting, and learning (1:30)
• Trends we saw throughout Season 2 (3:50)
• Women of Impact Week (4:00)
• Innovation (6:00)
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (11:30)
• Focus on your mindset (16:00)
• The episodes that made us cry (22:40)
• Favorite stories of philanthropy (28:00)
• Sneak peek at conversations coming in Season 3 (32:00)

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/114

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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It's our final week to talk through employee giving strategies that drive your organization to new levels of engagement. In this episode we're closing out the convo with a playbook for launching with huge momentum and staging your campaign for success. We'll also share a formula for building a presentation that connects and wins the hearts of even the toughest critics. And...icing on top? You bet - we'll share a round of feedback from the best tips and tricks from our community who is hosting employee giving campaigns across the country in the midst of a pandemic. Mask up and see you there!

Episode Overview

• Impact-led staging for your campaign (3:00)
• Begin with the end in mind (5:00)
• 6 phases to launching your employee giving campaign (5:10)
• What to do with your volunteers: 6 Steps! (16:00)
• Giving incentives (20:00)
• Join the waitlist for our upcoming Employee Giving Campaign Masterclass 
• Join us for Season 3: Launching May 10th
• Join our Good Community!

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/113

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Bryan. After years of helping Fortune 100 companies streamline their manufacturing and products for ultimate efficiency, Bryan combined his manufacturing skills and his love for the arts to help children in need. And thus The Crayon Initiative was born. If you've ever wondered what happens to restaurant crayons after their one use - then tune in. We're talking about an incredible mission story that's benefiting hospitalized children. You'll never look at crayons the same again - guaranteed.

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/112

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Rashuanda. She's passionate about equipping this generation's nonprofit leaders with the soft skills needed to build high-performing team. And it starts with creating a space where people feel they can thrive, share their experiences and be their authentic selves. Her team at Collective Impact is breaking through diversity and inequity gaps to train leaders to build healthy cultures which inevitably lead to healthier teams.

Episode Highlights

• The beginning of Collective Impact and Rashaunda's story - 2:25
• Philanthropic P.O.V. - 5:57
• Amplifying voices - 11:02
• Where do we start? - 13:37
• The future of Collective Impact - 17:38
• Rashaunda’s One Philanthropic Moment - 22:18
• Rashaunda’s One Good Thing: Meet people where they are. - 23:28

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/111

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Lauren. She's a nonprofit unicorn: impeccable designer and wholly passionate nonprofit ambassador. She left the for-profit world following a life-altering health scare, and she's never looked back. Today, her design agency is building beautiful design with heart. And boy does she get marketing! Join us as she leads us through auditing your brand, trends to be looking for this year and where to start multiplying your brand. If your organizational look/logo/voice may need a refresh - this is the episode for you.

Episode Highlights

• The launch of HeartSpark and Lauren's story - 2:46
• Key steps to building your non-profit brand - 6:17
• Where do you start? - 8:57
• Pulling donors into the brand - 11:57
• Trends in branding for non-profits - 14:46
• Investing in design - 18:20
• Take a look at your organization today: a mini audit with Lauren - 21:36
• Rebranding the brand - 28:00
• Lauren’s One Philanthropic Moment - 30:29
• Lauren’s One Good Thing: Engage with the creative community. - 33:07

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/110

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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ReThink Employee Giving: A 4-Week Series. It's not Christmas, but it darn near feels like it, because it's employee giving branding day!! Aka: Jon and Becky's favorite topic ever🎉 We're diving into storytelling, unpacking your branding recipe and building communications plans that keep everyone speaking with one voice while still being radically in-tune to seeing each employee donor as a gifted part of your philanthropic family.

Episode Overview

• Using the power of branding to connect with your donor base (1:50)
• Seth Godin - This is Marketing: A brand is what others say about you (2:00)
• Where to start: seek to disrupt (5:00)
• How you control the controllables (7:00)
• Becky’s tips for drawing meaningful stories out of people (17:50)
• Discovering your campaign voice (19:00)
• Challenges for today (27:00)
• Join our Good Community!

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/109

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Mike. Have you ever met a nonprofit leader whose passion for their mission just wants you to understand their story? Well, that guy is here. And he's brought a seriously incredible story to our conversation. And he's having the tough conversations with his team who are receiving mental health support unlike anything we've seen in nonprofit. It's wonderful to see. We're talking grief informed teams and we have a special surprise for our listeners at the end of the episode. Warning: Bring tissues.
 
Episode Highlights

• How Mike “fell” into his career - 3:23
• CF & the fight for the cure - 7:26
• Compassion fatigue & fostering grief informed workplaces - 11:38
• Through the philanthropic lens - 18:48
• Changing the culture - 23:04
• Mike’s One Philanthropic Moment - 25:53
• Mike’s One Good Thing - 34:41

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/108

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Kyson. This gritty optimist got his start in social good when he co-founded a startup aimed at tackling Malawi's illegal charcoal trade. Today, he and the Philanthropy Together team are working to empower us all with the knowledge of giving circles to build powerful communities for good. There are many in our sector who aren’t familiar with Giving Circles 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ Tune in as we dive into this powerful community-building strategy. Kyson also throws down some wise counsel on democratizing and diversifying philanthropy through giving circles and collective giving. If you have passionate ambassadors, volunteers or rabid fans - this episode is for you.

Episode Highlights

• Kyson’s career journey - 3:39
• Giving Circles - 5:14
• The Mission of Philanthropy Together - 8:55
• Kyson’s favorite giving circles - 10:34
• Where to start looking for support? - 14:34
• Kyson’s experience in Malawi - 17:21
• How listeners can be allies - 20:28
• Kyson’s One Philanthropic Moment - 25:53
• Kyson’s One Good Thing - 27:59

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/107

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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ReThink Employee Giving: A 4-Week Series. This week we're diving into building a campaign framework whose heartbeat is its people, projects and process. Don't worry. It's way more interesting than it sounds. Because when impact is the core of your plan, it's easy for everything to flow from it. We've got tips, heartfelt stories and plenty of structure to get you started on your own campaign. Thanks for joining us again for our favorite discussion topic: employee giving!🤝

Episode Overview

• Part one discussed mindsets and beliefs to build a movement. Today, we are diving into the infrastructure (2:00)
• How to structure your campaign (2:30)
• People, Projects and Process: The 3 P’s of the Campaign (3:00)
• FREE Worksheet: a checklist to help you implement this! (7:00)
• Coming soon: a full blown Employee Giving Campaign Masterclass (32:00)
• Join our Good Community!

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/106

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Marcus. He may be a professional tennis pro who regularly rubs elbows with the likes of Federer and Nadal, but that's not how he wants to be remembered. As the founder of High Impact Athletes, he's challenging his fellow athletes to connect with their favorite missions and join him pledging 10% of their annual earnings to those causes. His life goal: to create a movement in the sporting world where athletes can maximize their position of power to influence good. Three cheers for this👏👏👏🎾

Episode Highlights

• Marcus’ background - 3:29
• Powerful pledging - 7:05
• Why Marcus is giving back - 11:33
• Where Marcus is giving back - 14:36
• How can we better talk about our impact? - 18:24
• High Impact Athletes - 22:12
• Dreams moving forward - 26:06
• Marcus’ One Moment in Philanthropy - 29:12
• Marcus’ One Good Thing - 34:18

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/105

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Lereca. She's an accomplished Houston-based major gift officer who personally knows all about the power of philanthropy. As a recipient of human and youth services, she's always had an innate desire to give back. And she's channeling that passion into activating gift officers to "thank to bank" in an approach that equally uses the head and the heart to engage. She's walking us through virtual major gift asks and setting smart metrics.

Episode Highlights

• Lereca’s story and journey to where she is today (3:20)
• The history and mission of BakerRipley (7:00)
• Asking for major gifts in a virtual world (10:30)
• Lereca’s triangular method for cultivating major gifts (11:40)
• Focus on stewardship and your retention efforts (14:00)
• How to prepare for and ask for a major gift virtually (24:00)
• Utilize the power of a thank you note (31:00)
• A moment of philanthropy that deeply moved Lereca (35:30)
• Lereca’s One Good Thing: develop a word for the year. It helps you move through your year with clarity, focus, and intentionality (38:00)

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/104

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Rethink Employee Giving: A 4 Week Series. Buckle up, campers. Because we're going on a bit of a journey as Jon and Becky unpack what we believe holds one of the keys to revolutionizing your development strategies: employee giving. That's right, there's some serious untapped power by championing the philanthropy of those closest to your mission. If you're open to exploring a 180 degree strategy shift on how to build an employee giving campaign that is built upon a community-makes-it-better-ethos, one that grows and swells over time and ALSO infuses a healthier, more vibrant culture within the organization... then tune in. This four-week discussion will dive into new concepts leading to some quick-to-implement ideas to make some immediate tweaks now.

Episode Highlights

• Jon and Becky’s background with employee giving (1:30)
• 8 values of employee giving: how to ignite a movement (6:30)
• Stay tuned for our 4 part series!
• Join our Good Community!

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/103

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

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Meet Germeen. She's the caped crusader in the back of house that we all need. We talk a lot about raising money and stewarding it, but rarely discuss how to care for it. Germeen helps nonprofits shore up their financial operations and has led organizations to recoup millions in receivables with her smart accounting management. And she's making it FUN! Tune in and hear the 3 tips to strengthen your financial records and learn about moving financials virtually. Believe us - management will thank you for listening to this episode.

Episode Highlights

• A little bit about Germeen - 3:15
• How can we take better care of our money? - 6:59
• Partnerships and collaborative experiences - 15:48
• Small Shops, listen up! - 22:00
• Moving financial operations online - 24:25
• $2.8 Million saved… how? - 28:31
• Germeen’s One Philanthropic Moment - 33:39
• Germeen’s One Good Thing - 37:03

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/102

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Mark. This senior director of donor relations at Brown University believes the road to the next gift goes through stewardship.  And the best way to accelerate that process is to strengthen the relationship between donor relations and frontline fundraisers. Join us as we talk about breaking down the silos in our fundraising shops and leaning into the future of donor relations. Mark is hysterical and made this conversation a complete joy. Come learn and laugh with us.

Episode Highlights

• Mark’s story and journey to where he is today (2:50)
• The new normal for donor relations (6:13)
• Current trends in donor relations (11:30)
• Fostering partnerships between donor relations and fundraising teams (16:33)
• Donor relations advisory groups (19:40)
•  “Best practice” implies there's one way to do something. What's best is what accomplishes your goals. (23:00)
• Where to start with uniting your departments (30:00)
• Mark’s hack: ask people about the very first job they had (30:40)
• Mark’s One Good Thing: care about those you work with. (34:22)
• Mark’s request: connect with someone today who’s going to be able to be with you. 

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/101

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Join us as we celebrate 100 podcast episodes! 😍🎉🤩✨😁 Jon and Becky share their biggest lessons learned over the last 100 episodes, and the transformational power of community. With each connection we make, the world has gotten smaller and our dreams have gotten bigger. Tune in for a sneak peek at an exciting project we've been working on! We're so grateful you're here, friends.

Episode Overview

• An ode to 100 podcast episodes (2:00)
• The power of community (5:00)
• Story binds us together (6:30)
• The story of the Imani Collective (7:30)
• Always take the meeting: everyone matters. (11:00)
• Inaction is an action. Lift your voice and notice who is not at your table (12:50)
• Know your pitch. Are you coming from a place of admiration, curiosity, and kindness? (15:00)
• The 5 minute favor (16:20)
• If you are feeling alone personally or professionally, seek out community (17:00)
• Sneak Peek: We Are For Good Humans (20:00)
• The Ungettable Get List (21:00)
• Join our Good Community!

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Max. You may know him best as the CEO of Givebutter, an online fundraising platform that powers more than $100M in donations annually for thousands of nonprofit organizations. But this seriously humble visionary is giving us a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the company's founding story that began in a college dorm room and has grown to become the #1 rated nonprofit fundraising platform in the world. If you've ever wondered how to leverage the power of crowd funding and mobilize your rabid fans, then this episode is for you. Beware: brace yourself for some seriously awesome butter puns.

Episode Overview

• How the (Give) Butter gets churned: the story and founding of Givebutter 3:25
• Leveraging impact for good - 7:26 
• What makes Givebutter different? - 10:08
• Donor relations is key - 15:17
• Givebutter client success stories - 20:24
• The power of crowdfunding - 25:24
• Max’s One Moment in Philanthropy - 30:11
• Big dreams for Givebutter - 33:04
• Max’s One Good Thing: implement inbox zero. - 36:27

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/99

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Karon. She believes philanthropy can be a trusted partner in advancing the greater good. And her team at the Council on Foundations is centered on doing just that by fostering heathy work environments, developing diverse people and advocating for progress. By bringing people together around these topics, her org is bridging divides and creating opportunities for people to listen, share and do the work. And her One Good Thing will move your heart.

Episode Highlights

• Karon’s story and journey to where she is today (3:00)
• Council on Foundations and their mission (6:50)
• Philanthropy and how it was defined in 1949 looks very different now in 2021 (7:30)
• Cohorts: the power in bringing people together and having experiential trainings (10:00)
• Career Pathways: Council on Foundations’s Flagship Leadership Development Program (14:20)
• Know the stats: the current state of the nonprofit sector (15:00)
• Diversifying the talent pipeline in philanthropy (18:00)
• Start with your board. Be honest about where you are on your equity journey (20:00)
• Council on Foundations’s support throughout COVID-19 (25:00)
• Karon’s One Good Thing: tap into the liberating power of rest. The Nap Ministries (33:50) How much influence does rest have on your life?

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/98

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Niven. As a passionate voice for female empowerment and Vice President of the News Platforms at theSkimm, she wakes up everyday with a goal to make it easier for a generation of women to live their smartest lives. Niven cut her teeth learning the essentials of journalism and ethics at NBC News, and now channels her passion and expertise into fostering good around the world. Tune in for a moving conversation about connecting, informing, activating and empowering women around the most important social causes facing us today.

It's  We Are For Good Podcast Women of Impact Week presented by Virtuous.  Join us as we release 5 episodes, each dedicated to celebrating the incredible women making an impact in our world, and how you can take action to harness the power of women to further your causes too.

This series is more than just podcast episodes. Explore weareforgood.com/women to find extensive resources, a treasure trove of past interviews and inspiration too.  Want to be an ally to spread this message of goodness? Use hashtag #womenofimpact2021

Episode Highlights

• Niven’s story and journey to where she is today (3:44)
• Media in today’s world and theSkimm’s values (7:42)
• Utilizing platforms to advance good personally and professionally (11:00)
• You don’t have to be the loudest voice in the room, and you don’t have to threaten or try to elicit fear to gain respect (12:00)
• An overview of theSkimm and how they’re serving, informing, and empowering 7+ million women worldwide (17:40)
• The importance of having a voice digitally (23:00)
• 145,000 women lost or left their jobs in December 2020 (25:00)
• The pandemic has shone a light on that we are far from equality (25:58)
• The power of storytelling: how it can expose inequalities, challenge systemic issues, and build communities for good (29:00)
• Building advocacy within community (34:00)
• A woman who has shaped Niven into who she is today: her mom (38:00)
• A moment of philanthropy that shaped Niven’s life and desire to do good (41:00)
• Niven’s One Good Thing: Ask others how you can help and pause and listen to their response. (44:00)

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/97

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we believe the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you see and activate donors at every level.  And our friends at Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. Virtuous is the only responsive fundraising platform designed to help nonprofit teams build better donor relationships and increase impact with confidence. Plus, their number one core value is Team & Family, so this week we’re excited to highlight a few of the phenomenal women and clients within their family during Women of Impact Week.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Carley. This author and adjunct faculty at Stanford University and UC Berkeley teaches leadership and business as a platform for positive change in the world. Carley shares her passion for inclusive leadership and creating a workplace and world that works for everyone while prioritizing people and planet first. She's even walking us through male allyship and how men can be partners in the fight for gender equality.

It's  We Are For Good Podcast Women of Impact Week presented by Virtuous.  Join us as we release 5 episodes, each dedicated to celebrating the incredible women making an impact in our world, and how you can take action to harness the power of women to further your causes too.

This series is more than just podcast episodes. Explore weareforgood.com/women to find extensive resources, a treasure trove of past interviews and inspiration too.  Want to be an ally to spread this message of goodness? Use hashtag #womenofimpact2021

Episode Highlights

• Carley’s background - 3:15
• Where do we start to bring conscious leadership in the nonprofit space? - 8:10
• Leaders who live out conscious leadership - 12:13
• Advice on where to start regarding the internal “game” - 17:02
• Allyship, women empowerment, and inclusion - 22:13
• Carley’s One Philanthropic Moment - 33:45
• Carley’s One Good Thing: We need to lead from more love and that with you. - 36:36

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/96

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we believe the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you see and activate donors at every level.  And our friends at Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. Virtuous is the only responsive fundraising platform designed to help nonprofit teams build better donor relationships and increase impact with confidence. Plus, their number one core value is Team & Family, so this week we’re excited to highlight a few of the phenomenal women and clients within their family during Women of Impact Week.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Dr. Freeman. This award-winning scholar and Assistant Professor at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy has an incredible story to tell. Which prompts us to introduce the incomparable Madam C.J. Walker, the trailblazer for black women philanthropists. Dr. Freeman research focuses on the history of African American philanthropy and his latest book is entitled, Madam C.J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow. Confession: we all cried in this episode. This story has power, and we promise you'll be a better human for hearing it.

It's  We Are For Good Podcast Women of Impact Week presented by Virtuous.  Join us as we release 5 episodes, each dedicated to celebrating the incredible women making an impact in our world, and how you can take action to harness the power of women to further your causes too.

This series is more than just podcast episodes. Explore weareforgood.com/women to find extensive resources, a treasure trove of past interviews and inspiration too.  Want to be an ally to spread this message of goodness? Use hashtag #womenofimpact2021

Episode Highlights

• Dr. Freeman’s story and dedication to philanthropy - 3:54
• Meet Madam C.J. Walker - 9:13
• 3 key values learned from Madam C.J. Walker: Give as you can, spare no useful means, and give more as your means increase - 16:40
• The impact Madam C.J. Walker’s legacy has had on Dr. Freeman’s life - 21:50
• Dr. Freeman’s work: Who counts as a philanthropist and what counts as philanthropy? - 24:09
• African American philanthropy and philanthropy leaders of color challenge the conventional definitions of philanthropy throughout history - 24:12
• A powerful moment of philanthropy in Dr. Freeman’s Life - 35:02
• Dr. Freeman’s One Good Thing: Give along the way. - 39:45

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/95

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we believe the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you see and activate donors at every level.  And our friends at Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. Virtuous is the only responsive fundraising platform designed to help nonprofit teams build better donor relationships and increase impact with confidence. Plus, their number one core value is Team & Family, so this week we’re excited to highlight a few of the phenomenal women and clients within their family during Women of Impact Week.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Kiersten. She's a force for compassion as the founder and publisher of Philanthropy Women and through her clinical social work. Her passion and knowledge on justice and equity run deep, and she loves sharing stories about women donors and their allies who are advancing social change. We're talking 2021 women giving trends and discussing the intersection of philanthropy and gender equity. It rocked our world, and we know you'll get a lot out of it too.

It's  We Are For Good Podcast Women of Impact Week presented by Virtuous.  Join us as we release 5 episodes, each dedicated to celebrating the incredible women making an impact in our world, and how you can take action to harness the power of women to further your causes too.

This series is more than just podcast episodes. Explore weareforgood.com/women to find extensive resources, a treasure trove of past interviews and inspiration too.  Want to be an ally to spread this message of goodness? Use hashtag #womenofimpact2021

Episode Highlights

• Kiersten’s story and journey to where she is today - 2:43
• History of women in philanthropy - 5:06
• Women’s giving trends for 2021 - 12:05
• Political philanthropic movements - 16:00
• How do we see engagement with women in philanthropic causes? - 17:33
• Encouraging women and people in meaningful ways - 19:40
• Kiersten’s favorite philanthropic moments, “true gifts” - 22:22
• Kiersten’s One Good Thing - 25:50

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/94

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we believe the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you see and activate donors at every level.  And our friends at Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. Virtuous is the only responsive fundraising platform designed to help nonprofit teams build better donor relationships and increase impact with confidence. Plus, their number one core value is Team & Family, so this week we’re excited to highlight a few of the phenomenal women and clients within their family during Women of Impact Week.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Christen and Tammy. As founders of She’s the First, they're fighting for a world where every girl can choose her own future. For the past decade, they’ve worked closely with local organizations around the world and changemakers of all ages and backgrounds, from college students to celebrities. They're also the authors of the incredible book Impact: A Step by Step Plan to Create the World You Want to Live In. If you're looking for playbook to be a light to your favorite charity - then this episode is for you. Outstanding humans doing outstanding things for women. Tune in and be inspired!

It's  We Are For Good Podcast Women of Impact Week presented by Virtuous.  Join us as we release 5 episodes, each dedicated to celebrating the incredible women making an impact in our world, and how you can take action to harness the power of women to further your causes too.

This series is more than just podcast episodes. Explore weareforgood.com/women to find extensive resources, a treasure trove of past interviews and inspiration too.  Want to be an ally to spread this message of goodness? Use hashtag #womenofimpact2021

Episode Highlights

• Tammy’s background - 3:45
• Christen’s background - 5:30
• The founding story of She’s the First - 8:48
• Getting into the program and development side of a nonprofit - 12:35
• Impact: A Step-by-Step Plan to Create the World You Want to Live In - 18:08
• Using your unique skills to create impact - 23:18
• Creating your impact advisory board - 26:34
• Who inspires you? - 30:05
• Powerful philanthropic moments in Tammy and Christen’s lives- 32:57
• Girl power - 40:25
• Christen’s One Good Thing: No one can do everything, but everyone can do something - 45:15
• Tammy’s One Good Thing: Update your social media bio, and mention the cause you are most passionate about. 44:40
• She’s the First Mentors Make it Happen Challenge - 44:26

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/93

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we believe the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you see and activate donors at every level.  And our friends at Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. Virtuous is the only responsive fundraising platform designed to help nonprofit teams build better donor relationships and increase impact with confidence. Plus, their number one core value is Team & Family, so this week we’re excited to highlight a few of the phenomenal women and clients within their family during Women of Impact Week.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Tune in for a preview and sneak peek of the We Are For Good Podcast Women of Impact Week presented by Virtuous.  Next week we're releasing 5 episodes, each dedicated to celebrating the incredible women making an impact in our world, and how you can take action to harness the power of women to further your causes too.

Women are standing in a storied moment in time. We believe women have the potential to massively influence the future trajectory of philanthropy through their gifts, their volunteerism, their empathy and their advocacy. Together, their fire to chase justice and equity has the potential to be revolutionary and sector-impacting. We believe women can have that impact. And we’re here to drive a hard stake in the ground to lift up their good work and continue the fight toward greater equality in all spaces of our sector.

This series is more than just podcast episodes. Explore weareforgood.com/women to find extensive resources, a treasure trove of past interviews and inspiration too.  Want to be an ally to spread this message of goodness? Use hashtag #womenofimpact2021

Episode Overview

• Women of Impact Week: the backstory and vision (1:00)
• We Are For Good / Virtuous CRM Partnership (3:00)
• Research and background for women in the nonprofit sector and trends among women donors (5:00)
• Podcast guests who have inspired us (11:00)
• A thank you to the women who have impacted our lives (16:00)
• Women of Impact Week Presented by Virtuous - Episodes, Resources and More!
• Join our Good Community!

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/92

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we believe the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you see and activate donors at every level.  And our friends at Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. Virtuous is the only responsive fundraising platform designed to help nonprofit teams build better donor relationships and increase impact with confidence. Plus, their number one core value is Team & Family, so this week we’re excited to highlight a few of the phenomenal women and clients within their family during Women of Impact Week.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

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Meet Eryn. This social entrepreneur and creativity director is powering through some seriously awesome coaching on empathy, entrepreneurship, the power of honest conversations and the impact of self-doubt. Want to change the world? Start with valuing yourself, she says. It's an honest conversation with the woman who literally built a brand telling you you're So Worth Loving.

Episode Highlights

• Eryn’s Career Journey - 2:54
• Valuing oneself - 15:30
• The “accidental” CEO - 20:13
• Seeking inspiration & lighting the fire - 27:40
• Advice for young professionals - 30:50
• Eryn’s book, “So Worth Loving” - 34:00
• Eryn’s One Philanthropic Moment - 39:20
• Eryn’s One Good Thing: your rest is important.- 44:30

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/91

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello 

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Ian. This three-time nonprofit Executive Director is taking his two favorite topics - leadership and mental health - and he's putting together and facing its stigma right in the eye. You know we're crazily clapping for the front row. He's talking about why leaders must be culture caretakers of their organizations. Tune in if you want to help your leader get there, or just tune in if you'd like to be an incredible leader in the future. We need more Culture Caretakers in our sector!

Episode Highlights

• Ian’s background and journey to where he is today (2:00)
• Ian’s mental health journey and story (5:32)
• The landscape of mental health today (8:42)
• How COVID has shaped these conversations around mental health (13:14)
• Training to show empathy and concern (18:30)
• Tips for individuals feeling stressed and how we can best check in on each other (23:19)
• Mental illness is the number one reason for loss productivity and absenteeism (31:55)
• Ian’s Book - Stronger Than Stigma: A Call To Action: Stories of Grief, Loss, and Inspiration (34:00)
• Ian’s One Good Thing: In everything you do, provide value. (43:05)

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/90

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello 

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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We finished unpacking 10 steps to make your website irresistible to donors in last Friday's episode, and there were some serious questions and interest around creating a freebie and welcome series from our attendees. So we decided to break it down for those who might be stuck. You might be asking, "Well, I got their email address. Now what?" No worries, friends. We got you👊 Join us as we outline how to create an irresistible freebie then breakdown how to employ a drip email welcome series to engage your donors from the beginning. And do it genuinely and with heart. Let's do this!

Episode Overview

• What happens when you get that email address? The steps after are crucial (2:20)
• Start with a goal. One of the greatest goals you can have is to grow your email list (3:40)
• The importance of a welcome email: they are 4x more likely to be opened and 5x more likely to get click throughs (4:30)
• Hack: utilize freebies! Provide value add for your community (6:00)
• Examples of freebies you could implement today (6:20)
• Utilize automation: in today’s world, there are lots of different ways to automate this (8:30)
• Work on your tone: get rid of the robotic corporate voice. Talk to them like they are humans (9:40)
• Humanize the organization (10:20)
• Think of the welcome series as a journey. Create multiple connection points over the days, months, and years (11:00)
• Don’t know where to start? Try this 3 part cadence (13:20)
• Be strategic about your schedule: turn someone into a donor in 3 weeks (20:00)
• Join our Good Community!

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/89

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello 

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Julie. She's a change agent, a challenger, a bonafide fundraiser and risk taker. aka: she's clearly our people. The former top 1% performer of the United Way of Greater Los Angeles is now a nonprofit coach, and she's here to talk about the grit and courage needed to ask for major gifts. We're talking how to Change What You Believe, Change How You Fundraise, and Change the Size of Your Impact. Our minds were blown. Tune in!

Episode Highlights

• Julie’s Journey to the non-profit sector - 3:38
• Coaching Clients - 7:53
• 3 change habits to implement today - 11:00
• What happens in the courage lab? - 24:20
• Julie’s powerful philanthropic moment - 30:23
• Julie’s One Good Thing: Ask yourself a lot of questions  - 36:20

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/88

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello 

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Mike. You're about to meet one of the world's most kind, giving CEOs. When your company's mission statement is "we exist to give generously," you know everything that comes afterward is going to come from a pure place. We're sitting down for a founder's story about a socially good company that's turning the water bottle industry on its head, and each measure of success is getting poured back into incredible philanthropic missions. It's a thought-provoking discussion about doing business differently.

Episode Highlights

• Mike’s entrepreneurial journey (5:18)
• Simple Modern’s not so simple start (11:04)
• The Core Values and Work Culture of Simple Modern(11:52)
• Simple Modern’s Good Mission and commitment to giving back (17:28)
• Getting through the pandemic while simultaneously growing your company (25:10)
• Negotiation Tips (28:27)
• Partnership opportunities and Fundraising (34:31)
• Mike’s One Good Philanthropic Moment (43:22)
• Mike’s One Good Thing: Focus on multiplication. (46:55)

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/87

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello 

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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We're completing the final five quick steps to take your website through a super fast refresher to seriously boost your traffic and online donations. Join us as we talk about selecting the right visuals, creating a welcome series and explore how to gather feedback. Even better, we’re going to unpack this course alongside our buddy Dana Snyder at Positive Equation in a FREE online challenge that starts this week, so tune in!

Episode Overview

• This topic of optimizing websites will never get old (2:00)
• The last 5 tips to better optimize your website (3:00)
• Join the March Challenge with Positive Equation, Fundraise Up, and our team!
• Join our Good Community!

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/86

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello 

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Meet Nathan. As one of the world's foremost experts on the intersection between Artificial Intelligence and philanthropy, we're diving into the future of fundraising and how A.I. is less scary than we think. In fact, it could be simply brilliant. Join us as we visit with this expert who's leveraging A.I. already to help inspire a worldwide increase in generosity.

Episode Highlights

• Nathan’s story and journey to where he is today (2:19)
• The future of philanthropic giving and trends Nathan is paying attention to (7:22)
• Utilizing artificial intelligence in our sector today (13:08)
• Examples of life-saving AI in action (15:33)
• How you can implement AI today (25:06)
• Favorite philanthropic moment (31:29)
• Nathan’s One Good Thing: Work with people that you love (34:30)

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/85

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello 

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Angela. When you meet someone with a Harvard PhD in Education Leadership, you settle in because you know innovation and genius are going to collide. And yes it did! We're talking to Dr. Jackson about venture philanthropy (what is it?) and exploring how we can leverage our missions to breakthrough to social entrepreneurs. It's a fascinating discussion about developing innovative technical solutions to help missions partner with big dreamers.

Episode Highlights

• Dr. Jackson’s story and journey to where she is today at New Profit (3:30)
• The mission of Global Language Project: An organization founded by Dr. Jackson that supports the expansion of K-12 world language programs in public schools 
• An overview of venture philanthropy and the mission of New Profit (7:50)
• New Profit’s the Future of Work Grand Challenge, powered by New Profit, JFF, XPRIZE, and MIT Solve (10:20)
• It is all about the power of big thinking, connectivity, and pulling sectors together (18:15)
• Leveraging storytelling to take this to a global scale (19:30)
• Dr. Jackson’s Medium blog, and the power of storytelling (22:00)
• You have to be in the mindset to up-skill. There are many contributing factors to the larger systemic issue (24:00)
• 140,000 women, majority of which were women of color, left the work force last month (24:00)
• A powerful moment of philanthropy for Dr. Jackson (25:00)
• Unrestricted funding and the power of the greater good (28:00)
• Dr. Jackson’s One Good Thing: Utilize Systems Thinking. What players need to be at the table? Don’t try to do it all.

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/84

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello 

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Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Our websites are the front door of our organizations, but how much effort and time are we spending optimizing them for our donors to fall more in love with our mission and make a gift? In today's world - you can't afford not to make your website irresistible to your donors.

Over the next two weeks we are walking you through 10 quick steps to take your website from 'wah-wah-wah' to 'WOW!' and set you up to raise more money online. Spoiler: it’s not rocket science. But little shifts can make a big difference. Even better, we’re going to unpack this course alongside our buddy Dana Snyder at Positive Equation in a FREE online challenge next month, so tune in for details and scroll down to the Freebies section for all the links!

Episode Overview

• Your website is the heart of your organization and center of your digital brand (2:00)
• Get laser clear with what you’re asking people to do on your website (3:00)
• 5 tips to begin optimizing your website (5:30)
• Join the March Challenge with Positive Equation, Fundraise Up, and our team!
• Join our Good Community!

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/83

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

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Meet JD. This serial entrepreneur and big-hearted founder stumbled into founding his company, ThankView, during an attempt to make writing his wedding thank you notes more enjoyable. Today, the sincere personalized video company helps 1,500 nonprofits say thank you through the creative use of video. And as you can imagine, the stories that come with them are incredible. We're talking the power of thank you, and you'll come to see how big JD's heart is and why he's one of our favorite people.

Episode Highlights

• JD’s story and journey to disrupting the nonprofit sector through video (2:00)
• ThankView and what they provide (3:20)
• The power of a thank you (4:30)
• Our “Kindness Week” and ThankView’s involvement in helping us make it happen (8:00)
• ThankView’s passion to give-back and how it has affected their organization culturally (9:00)
• Donor Engagement trends the ThankView team is seeing that individuals and organizations should leverage (14:00)
• Embrace adaptation and being unafraid of failing (19:30)
• The founding of Odder and utilizing electronic endowment reports (21:00)
• What you can employ now to up your stewardship game (25:00)
• The moments of philanthropy that move JD’s heart (27:30)
• JD’s One Good Thing: Enact Random Acts of Kindness. Live in the moment and enjoy the moments we have. You can have that impact on anyone. The culmination of little moments add up to a happy life.

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/82

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

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We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

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Meet Alphonsine. She may be the world's bravest sister. During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, her parents and two siblings were killed in the conflict leaving her to raise three younger siblings under the age of 10. It's a harrowing story of survival, chasing educational dreams and eventually landing her dream job at Cisco. Today, she's talking about paying her good fortune forward through a new nonprofit benefiting Rwandan children, and she's even brought a board member into the discussion. Love and hope reign supreme in this chat.

Episode Highlights

• Alphonsine’s Story (5:00)
• Alphonsine’s resilience and how she rose above the storm (9:00)
• Alphonsine’s education and journey to the United States (14:00)
• “Education is a top priority for me because of what it has done for me.” (15:50)
• The founding story and mission of Rising Above the Storms (17:30)
• The story behind the name of Rising Above the Storms (20:30)
• Devin’s connection to the mission and how she became involved (22:00)
• Rising Above the Storm’s digital strategy and what Devin is bringing to the organization (27:00)
• Start with your audience. Hone in on how to market to them (29:00)
• How COVID pushed them to move into the digital space to create a virtual fundraising event (30:00)
• An overview of the programs within Rising Above the Storms and how they change lives through a message of hope, advocacy for orphans, and empowerment through education (33:00)
• Impactful stories of philanthropy in Alphonsine and Devin’s lives (40:00)
• Alphonsine’s One Good Thing: You don’t have to change the world. You don’t have to change a town. Have an impact on 1 person.
• Devin’s One Good Thing: Networking is the single most important thing you can do to get knowledge and awareness out there. Be vulnerable and network.

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/81

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello 

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We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Getting clear-eyed and full-hearted toward a mission and vision holds the power to fuel your work, give clarity of when to say "heck yes" to opportunities and when to give a hard pass too.

You've likely heard in our podcast intro that our vision is "to create an impact uprising"... but what the heck does that mean anyway? The answer just might surprise you - even if you are a ridiculous idealist like us.

In this Friday Convo, Jon and Becky give a peek behind the curtain of what's motivating us to show up and cultivate community here, and what's to come on the horizon. You better believe we have a seat ready for you at this table. Won't you join us?

Episode Overview

• The story behind the creation of our “impact uprising” story (2:00)
• How our dreams have shifted and grown since talking with so many world changers on the podcast so far (6:00)
• How we want to plug into the current Generosity Crisis (7:00)
• The act of giving leads to greater happiness, more empathy, and connects you with community (8:20)
• By activating this sector, there is going to be so much more of a ripple happening (8:00)
• An example of the power of being connected to causes and the meaning and purpose it gives to our lives (10:30)
• What is your burden? What are you accountable to? That’s the cause you’re called to serve. - Sara Cunningham, Episode 7 (13:30)
• If your life is not set up right now to include part of that mission, that can be a change you can make today. Whatever that may look like for you: volunteering, donations, or even just sharing why you love a mission on your social media. (15:00)
• An insider look at things we are launching soon! (17:00)
• Join our Good Community!

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/80

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello 

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Meet Beth. She knows the textbook approach to conducting campaign feasibility studies. But in this conversation she challenges us to throw out the old playbook, because our campaigns deserve our fresh eyes and creative minds to improve this planning process. Beth has reimagined the typical feasibility study by not just trying to predict future investments, she's leveraging storytelling in these meetings too (yippee!) to create a more inclusive and collaborative process that pays dividends. We'll break it down in easy steps, so don't miss this convo.

Episode Highlights

• Beth’s story and journey to the nonprofit world (3:00)
• The importance of inspired thinking in the nonprofit world (6:00)
• Feasibility studies: what are they and how can we disrupt the way they’ve always been done? (8:00)
• We should be having these conversations all the time, not just during large campaigns (11:30)
• Advice for how to conduct interviews during a feasibility study and examples of questions to ask (14:00)
• Using some of these strategies to connect more deeply with donors - especially throughout COVID-19 (20:00)
• Suggested questions to ask to get to the heart of your donor (21:00)
• Get to the WHY behind your donor. Why are they in the room with you? What connects their heart to your mission? (22:00)
• The 4 steps of a feasibility study (25:00)
• How to do this successfully virtually and what Beth has learned while implementing this throughout COVID-19 (28:00)
• The concept of anonymity and the power of sharing about generosity (31:00)
• Transparency is everything. Donors give when they feel as though an organization is worthy (33:00)
• The conversations during feasibility studies become your road map (36:00)
• A powerful moment of philanthropy in Beth’s life (38:00)
• Beth’s One Good Thing: You have to have a big, bold, audacious, unapologetic vision. Tell your story in a way that is inspired and impactful. There isn’t a donor on the planet that wants to give to an “ok” vision. You will never be apologetic in asking for the big gift

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/79

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello 

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Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Gabe. He's a founder on a mission since learning the nonprofit sector was facing a generosity crisis. While major donors are pouring into the industry, the rank and file mid-level and lower donors are dropping off. And now Gabe's team is punching back through some seriously innovative and brilliant tech strategy that gives our annual giving programs hope. We're talking about leveraging marketing automation to treat ALL donors like major donors whilst building some seriously rabid fans in the process.

Episode Highlights

• Gabe’s story (1:58)
• The Generosity Crisis (3:45)
• Responsive Fundraising (7:58)
• Gabe’s Suggestions for Retention (12:17)
• How to grow donor engagement through personalization (18:29)
• Examples of easy personalization methods you could implement today (21:04)
• Virtuous & their mission (23:27)
• Gabe’s Favorite Philanthropic Moment (26:50)
• Gabes’s One Good Thing: Create and hold onto durable relationships. (31:00)

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/78

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello 

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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It's your time. Time to step boldly out and embrace the big thinking your mission needs to scale and grow long-term. We're finishing up our final entrepreneurial hacks series with one of our favorite topics: thinking bigger. Fair warning: it requires us to employ cognitive diversity (gosh, we love this expression!). By digging into big problems to debate root causes and solutions, we can eliminate roadblocks and find a clearer path to news successes.

Evolved professionals don't let challenges get in the way of achieving their goal - they let it inspire them to think critically. We're talking risk-taking and big, bold thinking that allows us to break out of "the way it's always been done." Join us as we share our own risks and how we channeled bigger thinking to seize opportunities. Hey, this company is living proof that big risks can yield amazing rewards.

Episode Overview

• The power of big thinking (2:40)
• Cognitive Diversity - include people who have different styles of problem solving for new perspectives (3:00)
•  Start with your values and understand what those really mean (6:00)
• Take the risk that your mission deserves (6:30)
• Quit looking for best practice case studies and just implementing them as is (7:40)
• Jon & Becky’s 5 tips to embrace big thinking (10:45)
• The role of community in thinking bigger (17:20)
• Ask yourself: what community could you leverage? (17:40)
• Thinking big is a learnable skill (18:44)
• Join our Good Community!

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/77

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

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Meet Bill. The self-professed evangelist for strategic philanthropy just may be the godfather of healthcare philanthropy. With more than 30 years under his belt in the development sector, this CEO of San Diego's Sharp HealthCare Foundation wants us to stop talking about being costly and start talking about being profitable. We're talking about the intentionality behind syncing development and strategic plans and celebrating frontline healthcare heroes.

Episode Highlights

• The power of philanthropy throughout the COVID-19 pandemic (4:00)
• Bill’s story and career journey at Sharp HealthCare (6:15)
• The intentionality of syncing your development plans with the strategic plans of your organizations (10:31)
• Inspiration is the essence of philanthropy (14:15)
• Always start with a story of inspired giving. Our organizations have large, complex strategic plans, but get it down to a powerful 5 minute story that will inspire (16:05)
• Building strategy: Focus on vision. What is it that you see that you need to do? What are the investments that are required to achieve that? (20:00)
• There are only three ways you raise money: you acquire, you retain, and you grow (20:55)
• Sharp’s $100 Million Inspire Campaign (23:07)
• Sharp’s Guardian Angel program and their acquisition strategy and a powerful patient story (30:00)
• Bill’s One Good Thing: have people skills, a work ethic, and attention to detail. Be an officer for philanthropy.

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/76

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello 

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Susan. She is a serial connector, angel investor, and corporate responsibility expert who just happens to be the ultimate word weaver. We're talking through the new normal of corporate responsibility (it's no longer nice to have - it's essential!), and she's giving her best advice on networking. Spoiler: there's nothing better you can give someone than connecting them to others. This Girls Who Code and 19th News adviser and investor took our breath away with her compassion and wisdom. Tune in for uber inspiration! 

Episode Highlights

• Susan’s story and journey to where she is today (3:30)
• Creating meaningful partnerships between nonprofits and corporations through shared values (9:25)
• It’s not about what the for-profit can do for you, it’s what you can do for them (10:17)
• The history of Microsoft and the beginning of Bill Gates’ philanthropy journey (11:20)
• The opportunities are immeasurable, it is a matter of being strategic (12:15)
• In today’s climate, companies are less inclined to write a check if there is not an opportunity for employee engagement (12:35)
• Employees want to feel that there is more than the actual job that they are doing everyday (14:44)
• The most philanthropic person on the spectrum is a woman at the lowest level of the socioeconomic scale (Women’s Philanthropy Institute) (16:10)
• Susan’s article in Forbes: Corporate Responsibility: What To Expect In 2020 (16:50)
• Susan’s new book: The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Relationships (21:30)
• It is important to give people options for how they can help (28:15)
• How nonprofits can implement the Gather, Ask, Do method to create genuine partnerships (31:52)
• Always take the meetings (35:00)
• Susan’s work with The 19th* (37:00)
• Susan’s One Good Thing: In the next hour, pick up the phone and call someone you love who you haven’t talk to. (40:04)

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/75

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello 

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Found yourself stuck in the vicious cycle of ‘playing it safe’ to avoid failing at all costs?  Well friends, it’s time to flip the script. We believe failure just might be what's missing in each of us to grow into the people who take our causes and missions further than ever before. 

In our Friday Convo, we dive into how to embrace a healthy mindset around failure, and how to build failure into your bold goals and actions. We also share our simple steps for turning failures into a springboard to growth. Of course you can expect to hear some of our most palm-to-the-face moments too as we embrace failing right alongside you. We’re in this together, friends.

Episode Overview

• Taking away the fear of failure (1:15)
• Thinking like an entrepreneur and embracing their unique lens (2:00)
• Failure is just a label that we are putting on it about our missed expectations (4:15)
• Failures are just missed expectations (4:40)
• Jeff Bezos’ Story: Don’t let failure stall you (9:45)
• This space is not competitive, it is focused on community (10:35)
• Focus on being brave, not perfect (12:50)
• Jon and Becky’s stories of failure (14:00)
• What is staring you in the face right now that you’re afraid of? Recognize that it is your own personal expectations you are putting on it. (20:00)

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/74

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

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Meet Lindsay. While the rest of us are scrambling to figure out virtual events, she's been orchestrating them online for years alongside her nonprofits clients. And today she's bringing those tips to the show. She'll be sharing what she believes is the new normal for event fundraising as well as sharing innovative approaches to engagement. If you're looking for virtual event ideas - today is your day. Freebies shared too!

Episode Overview

• Lindsay’s career journey (2:10)
• The new normal for events in our industry (8:17)
• Examples of successful, innovative events throughout the last year (17:32)
• Lindsay’s budgeting advice: how create an outstanding event that is budget conscious (24:41) 
• A powerful moment of philanthropy and community in Lindsay’s life (35:12)
• Lindsay’s One Good Thing: Never stop asking questions. (39:10)

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/73

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello 

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

Learn more and save your free spot today.

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Meet Kim. He's spent his career in university development from University of Arizona and Berkley to today at UNLV. He's talking about the future of philanthropy in higher education and trends for the sector - including efforts to encourage universities to embrace the Diversity & Inclusivity in Advancement Pledge. It's not just a pledge; it's a call to action. There's a lot to discuss even as he talks through 2021 strategic planning. Tune in!

• Kim’s career journey (2:03)
• The future of philanthropy in higher education and what trends Kim is paying attention to (5:37)
• Power of Philanthropy in higher education & a powerful story of the impact (13:32)
• The Pledge: Diversity and Inclusiveness in Advancement (19:41)
• Less than 11% of professionals in higher education advancement are diverse
• The vision and goal for The Pledge Diversity and Inclusiveness in Advancement (26:20)
• Examine the culture of your organizations. Are you treating everybody the same, and are you providing the same opportunities for everyone?
• Kim’s One Good Thing: People make great organizations, organizations don’t make people. (31:03)
• Becky’s One Good Challenge: if you are someone of privilege, find someone in your organizations or circles and give people a voice. See how you can partner with them. (32:20)

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/72

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello 

Join us at The Spread!

Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛

We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.

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We get asked a lot how we're able to drop three podcasts a week while running our business and giving our best to our families. There's seriously only solution, and it's batching. Other than batching gifts, we had never heard that term until a couple years ago when we started recognizing the parallels between entrepreneurs and nonprofits, and it is game-changing to staying focused and doing a lot in a short amount of time. Feeling overwhelmed? Overburdened? Whether it's professionally or personally, these simple little life hacks will help you "work in focus." Are you really multitasking or are you just frantically moving back and forth between projects? We're here to help, and naturally, we'll keep it light too.

Episode Highlights

• What is batching? (2:00)
• Bring batching out front and use it other spaces of your nonprofit, not just gift processing (4:00)
• The average time spent on a task before you lose focus is 75 seconds (5:20)
• How to apply this to your office (6:45)
• Examples of successfully using batch work (12:50)
• How we utilize batch working in our podcast (17:00)
• The mental game is key (17:50)

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/71

The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!

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