5-Page Nonprofit Website That Actually Converts
What you’ll get from this post: Discover the exact five pages your nonprofit website needs to guide donors to give, and learn what content belongs on each. Takeaways Consolidate your sitemap into Home, About, Impact, Give, and Stories. Assign a single specific job to every page. Design for the donor’s journey instead of mirroring your […]
99% of Nonprofits Are Fighting Over 1% of the Pot with Eric Wilke
Watch Listen Read What you’ll get from this post: a way to stop competing for the same shrinking pile of cash and start asking for the assets donors actually hold, plus the two-question test that tells you which gifts help the donor and which ones quietly cost them. Takeaways Cash is the smallest slice of […]
What If You Killed the Grant Application? Rural Philanthropy That Actually Works with Megan Langley
Watch Listen Read What you’ll get from this post: a concrete model for funding small communities without the application that keeps most of them out, plus the trust-based practices that took one North Dakota program to a 44 of 45 success rate. Takeaways The grant application is the gate. StrengthenND removed it and let communities […]
Remember the Lesson, Forget the Mistake: How BIO Girls Scaled Without Losing Its Soul
Watch Listen Read What you’ll get from this post: A working playbook for scaling a nonprofit, drawn from how Missy Heilman grew BIO Girls from a handful of girls at one Fargo church into 120 program locations across five states. Strategic planning that survives contact with a real week, a test for killing programs that […]
Success Without Fulfillment Is the Ultimate Failure! Leadership Clarity with Kara Jorvig
Watch Listen Read What you’ll get from this post: Why the leaders most confident in their self-awareness are usually the ones missing the most, and the specific moves that close the gap. Plus a five-task plan you can start this week. Takeaways Self-awareness is the skill most leaders overrate in themselves. Seeing a pattern changes […]
How to Build Higher Education Branding That a Whole Community Believes In with Meloney Linder
Watch Listen Read What you’ll get: a real, eight-year playbook for rebuilding university brand trust after a major transition, drawn from a conversation with Meloney Linder at the University of North Dakota, plus the specific moves you can start this week. Takeaways A brand becomes real when the community says it back to you without […]
Scott Holdman Live at WellTold: Fundamentals, Eldership, and the Future of Donor Engagement
Watch Listen Read What you’ll get: a working playbook for nonprofit fundraisers who want to stop performing and start listening, built from a live conversation with one of the Upper Midwest’s most trusted philanthropic advisors. Takeaways Listen more than you pitch. The answers are usually already inside the person across from you. Remove before you […]
Joyful Fundraising and Inclusive Philanthropy with Tesha McCord Poe
Watch Listen Read This guide is for nonprofit leaders who feel worn out and want to raise more money, involve more people, and find more joy in their work. Takeaways Fundraising built on scarcity wears people down. Choosing joy and real connection changes your results and your relationships. Don’t count yourself out of an ask. […]
How Hope Blooms Built a Movement on Intentional Kindness with Kelly Krenzel
Watch Listen Read What you’ll get from this post: A practical breakdown of how one Fargo nonprofit grew from recycled jars and donated flowers into a 115,000-bouquet movement, and what nonprofit leaders can steal from their playbook for donor engagement, volunteer culture, and mission-driven growth. Takeaways Treat the tangible thing you offer as the reason […]
Why Fundraising Feels Hard (And What to Do About It) with Noah Barnett
Watch Listen Read What you’ll get from this post: Noah Barnett’s four-step framework for getting focused (mission, strategy, three priorities, and an omissions list), a real-life example, and a 30-minute plan to build your own. Takeaways Fundraising feels hard when you adopt other people’s “shoulds.” Anchor your work to your own priorities. Pick three priorities […]