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#GivingTuesday and New Power with Henry Timms

Henry Timms is the CEO of the 92nd Street Y, which "promotes individual and family development and participation in civic life within the context of Jewish values and American pluralism." Henry founded #GivingTuesday in 2012, a growing global day of giving, and has continued to evolve the ideas and values of #GivingTuesday through a new book co-authored with Jeremy Heimans, New Power. The book - and much of the values behind #GivingTuesday - emphasize a new paradigm of decentralized, shared power, and how movement building can supplant old ideas of centralized control.

Henry talks about the intentional "open sourcing" of #GivingTuesday, how the New Power values add to donor/supporter agency - changing a perhaps more passive role to a more active one. Charities and movements which show a willingness to evolve business models based on a shared (and therefore improved) power dynamic have new opportunities with new tools. Take the New Power Quiz and share your thoughts in your favorite New Power space (Twitter, Facebook, or anywhere else).

Board diversity with Kate Hayes

Kate Hayes is director of Direct Impact, a board leadership program transforming rising stars of the private sector into highly-effective board leaders of the world’s most innovative social enterprises. Direct Impact is a program of Echoing Green.

Kate joins host Steve Boland to talk about the process of creating diverse and inclusive boards for nonprofits organizations and other social good movements. The conversation includes ideas on recruitment, training, getting comfortable with being uncomfortable, and more. Kate's article for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is referenced and helpful material to share.

Boards and Development with Lori Jacobwith

Lori L. Jacobwith is a nationally-recognized master storyteller and fundraising culture change expert who was named one of America’s Top 25 Fundraising Experts. She is the founder of Ignited Fundraising.

Lori joins host Steve Boland to talk about the role of boards of directors in fundraising work for charities, and specifically the challenges and opportunities of board development committees. Lori shares resources available on her website to help think about how creating a fundraising plan and budgeting are critical for any successful board role, and how charities can leverage the strengths of board members to succeed.

2018 Digital Outlook Report with Ryann Miller and Michael Johnston

The 2018 Digital Outlook Report is a trends and strategy research report, which includes a "walk through three areas that may be uncharted terrain for your organization: mobile optimization, tracking web conversion, and email deliverability."

Ryann Miller of Care2 and Michael Johnston of hjc are part of the team that created the report, and join host Steve Boland to discuss the findings. The conversation includes email delivery rates, improving on email with list segmentation, mobile-first strategies in site creation, measuring "conversion" rates once a visitor comes to a charity web site, and much more!

The War for Fundraising Talent with Jason Lewis

Jason Lewis is the Managing Partner at BetterSchools, and author of the book The War for Fundraising Talent. The book "is an honest yet hopeful critique of professional fundraising, intended especially for small shops that find it difficult to consistently achieve their fundraising goals."

Jason talks with host Steve Boland about the changes and challenges in nonprofit fundraising, including a shift in focus from initial gift to more meaningful donations, how staff supports these growth gifts, relinquishing control in some circumstances, and why staff turnover in development has been such a challenge - especially in smaller charities.

Cause Way with Angela Titus

Cause Way "is a boutique consultancy providing advisory services to business, non-profit and institutional clients with an emphasis on corporate social responsibility, nonprofit capacity building, community revitalization, and social innovation."

Angela Titus is the Founder & Chief Strategist for Cause Way. She joins host Steve Boland for a focused conversation on what makes a 21st Century nonprofit. New organizations starting today approach problems differently from organizations which had conceptions of how to do mission work with fewer tools and different expectations than are available today. Talent management v. human resources, engaging people on long-term outcomes v. outputs, collaborative engagement across charities and more are part of the conversation.

Appolition with Tiffany Mikell and Kortney Ziegler

Appolition is a service that "Automatically give(s) your spare change from everyday purchases to help prevent the detrimental impact (of millions of people incarcerated because they cannot afford bail)." Learn more about the issue of mass incarceration, discriminatory practices in bail, and more at National Bail Out.

Tiffany Mikell and Dr. Kortney Ziegler are the co-founders of Appolition, and join host Steve Boland to talk about the creation of the platform, building on existing "spare change" ideas and technologies, how collective engagement can change people's responses to issues like criminal justice reform and the problems with money bail, and more.

Facebook Pages and Nonprofits with Jon Loomer

Jon Loomer is the founder of JonLoomer.com, specializing in Facebook ads, marketing and digital reach. Jon provides information, training and consulting services to help organizations improve their Facebook marketing.

Jon wrote a post in January 2018 about changes to the Facebook news feed, and how those changes may impact Facebook Pages. Jon's fun, honest way of imploring all Pages to not "screw this up" by trying to game a system is the focus of this conversation. Honest engagement is important, and understanding the reasons Facebook is making changes can help charities do a better job of using Facebook along with other tools and outreach opportunities.

Eisner Foundation with Trent Stamp

Trent Stamp is the CEO of the Eisner Foundation, a family foundation whose mission "...identifies, advocates for, and invests in high-quality and innovative programs that unite multiple generations for the betterment of our communities." The decision to move to intergenerational capacity building as a focus area has yielded some multiple-bottom line results for the Eisner grantees.

Host Steve Boland talks with Trent about long-term outcome results in multiple generation funding, general operating support granting and program grants, sharing the learning of the foundation and much more.

APM Research Lab with Craig Helmstetter

Craig Helmstetter is the Managing Partner of APM Research Lab, a new effort from American Public Media with a mission to "foster an engaged democracy by inspiring curiosity, inquiry and discussion through fact-driven, credible research and analysis." Craig (formerly of Wilder Research ) joins host Steve Boland to talk about nonpartisan, non-biased research and discussion, how partnering with nonprofit media helps choose topics for research, philanthropic support for this work, earned revenue models as a part of sustainability, and more!