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 Success Without Fulfillment Is the Ultimate Failure 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. There’s a kind of leader who has […]
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. The brand on paper that nobody believes In 2018, Meloney Linder walked into a […]
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. The Problem Most Nonprofit Fundraisers Don’t Want to Admit You’re talking too much. Not in a rude way. Not in […]
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. The meeting you’ve been dreading You know the feeling. That donor meeting you’ve been putting off for weeks. The coffee chat that keeps getting rescheduled. The […]
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. Nine years ago, Kelly Krenzel didn’t set out to start […]
Why Fundraising Feels Hard (And What to Do About It) with Noah Barnett
Watch Listen Read The Villain You’re Fighting Isn’t What You Think You know the feeling. It’s 9 PM. You’re still at your desk. The event went well, the donor call was solid, the campaign launched on time. But you can’t shake it. Did I do enough today? That question. That’s the villain. Not your board. […]
Jello, Hot Dish, and the Go-Giver Mindset: Kyle Gagner’s Unlikely Guide to Nonprofit Storytelling
Watch Listen Read What you’ll get from this post: A field guide to nonprofit storytelling that ditches the polished veneer and leans into vulnerability, community, and the go-giver mindset. You’ll walk away with a framework for telling stories that actually connect, a new way to think about generosity, and a five-task action plan you can […]