Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio

This Week:

Building & Leading High Performance Teams
From the little town of Rifton, NY, we get big ideas from Sarah Olivieri. She’s a strategist who shares her wisdom on organizing, recruiting, retaining, and leading your development team. She helps you avoid leadership burnout and lifestyle compromises as you lead with intentionality and your guiding principles. Sarah races a J/80 sailboat and shares the parallels between leading a racing team and your team. Her consulting practice is at SarahOlivieri.com.

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Empowering Women
Jenny Mitchell’s 2024 book, “Embracing Ambition,” unites the leadership stories of twelve exceptional women CEOs. The result is a mentorship resource for the current and next generation of women leaders. She shares the challenges, including perception barriers, glass cliff assignments and collective vision. (This originally aired August 26, 2024.)

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A Different Take On Donor Retention
Most donor retention research is on process. Like, get your acknowledgment letters out within 24 hours. Kerry Hecht’s research takes a fresh look at how to keep folks with you. She shares her thinking on getting people to donate time as volunteers, and donate through purchases. Kerry is CEO of 10k Humans. (This originally aired September 9, 2024.)

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Quantitative Fundraising Research
You can stop relying on conventional wisdom passed on through webinars and conferences. There’s a plethora of quantitative research on how to optimize storytelling to get your best fundraising outcomes. What is social emotion, how do you evoke it and why should you? How much story detail is not enough or too much? Better to talk about individuals or groups? What does the research reveal to maximize Planned Giving fundraising commitments? Professor Russell James of Texas Tech University walks us through what the research shows. (This originally aired September 23, 2024.)

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Easy Fundraising & Friendmaking for Board Members
That’s Gail Perry’s new book, working to overcome the bad reputation foisted on fundraising by many board members. She’s clear on the four fundraising roles your members can play, and only one means asking for gifts. She also emphasizes the importance of solid stewardship, and how easy it can be done, along with how your board and staff can best divide the fundraising work. Gail is the founder of Gail Perry Group.

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Your Board’s Role In Talent Management
With a strong CEO/board relationship, your board plays a valuable role in talent decisions that impact your culture, equity and sustainability. Likewise with executive compensation and evaluation, developing a leadership pipeline and succession planning. And what does that strong CEO/board relationship look like? Allison Wyatt, CEO of Edgility Talent Partners, shares her expertise.

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Be Present To Save The Universe
If you want your presentations and messages to persuade people, you need to be present; clear; confident; unscripted; and have fun. Whether you’re meeting one-on-one, one-on-one-hundred, or you’re on stage facing 2500. Whether you’re in person or virtual. Paul Gordon preaches the gospel of “Get out of your own way in order to say what you truly mean.”

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Planned Giving Accelerated & The Martignetti 3-Step, 1-Week Planned Giving Launch
It’s a first for Nonprofit Radio! Role reversal. Guest Stephen Christopher Nill leads the conversation and interviews Tony about his book “Planned Giving Accelerated: The Cut Through the Sh!t, No-Nonsense, Practical, Step-by-Step Guide to Start Legacy Giving Fundraising at Your Small to Mid-Size Nonprofit Simply in One Week with Bequests (The title may be longer than the book. Did you need a nap?),” launching on 15 September. A major part of the book is the 3-Step, 1-Week Planned Giving Launch.

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Non-Fulltime Employment
The next time you have a senior or mid-level job vacancy, you might consider a fractional, interim or advisory professional over hiring someone fulltime. Martin Rowinski defines these and weighs the pros and cons for your nonprofit. If you go this route, what do you need in place to make the transition smooth for your team and the person you hire? He also evaluates this from the personal career perspective, if you’d consider leaving fulltime employment. Martin is CEO of Boardsi.

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A Board Revolution, Or Just Improvement?
Linda Lysakowski’s book is “The Revolutionary Board.” Do you need to go that far? Or will a few tweaks suffice for your board? She shares her experience and advice around governance versus management; fundraising; CEO evaluation and support; board recruiting; the duties of loyalty, care and obedience; term limits; and, more.

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Calling This Decision Making Only Scratches The Surface
The book is The Tyranny of False Choices: A Guide to Authentic Decision-Making. The author, Rey Ramsey, reveals his research and thinking that go way beyond decisions. Let’s talk about following your inner voice and moral compass; the three virtues we all need; thought liberation; boundary crossing; navigating defining moments; and, spirituality. Rey is CEO of the Nathan Cummings Foundation.

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Grants Fundraising Before You Start Writing
Byron Coke says there are four things that decide whether you should spend your limited time applying for a foundation grant: mission alignment; geographic eligibility; funding stage; and, award fit. If any one of these isn’t in alignment between your nonprofit and the funder, you’re wasting your time writing the application. Byron is the founder of Grant Fit.

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Low-Lift Donor Retention
So many nonprofits have a leaky bucket problem: donors don’t stay after their first gift. We all know retaining existing donors costs so much less than acquiring new ones. Chris Vaughan shares his thinking on keeping donors in the bucket through mission connection; engagement; relationships; retention rate ownership; welcome streams; and more. He’s co-founder of Sequence Consulting.

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This Week:

The Science Of Fundraiser Feelings
We take a scientific look at fundraiser behavior and behavior design, with Mallory Erickson. What does the science say about what happens in the fundraiser’s body at stressful moments, like a solicitation or problem confrontation? Are you or your fundraisers performing tasks that make them feel productive, but avoid the true work of fundraising? Mallory is CEO of Practivated and she talks us through.

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This Week:

800th Show!
It’s Nonprofit Radio’s 800th show and 16th Anniversary Jubilee. To celebrate, co-host Claire Meyerhoff brings her Sweet Sixteen theme. We have our associate producer, Kate Martignetti; 3 live songs from Scott Stein, including our theme “Cheap Red Wine;” and, our contributors Gene Takagi (law), and Amy Sample Ward (technology), are also on board. It’s fun and music and celebration! And gratitude.

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A Wide-Ranging AI Conversation With 3 Experts
The company Accenture published an AI report, “Learning Reinvented,” about the connection between humans and artificial intelligence. Our smart panel discusses it and takes on broader, related subjects including leadership; equity; trust; values; space to adapt; and, training. They’re Afua Bruce, CEO of ANB Advisory Group; Amy Sample Ward, CEO of NTEN; and, Laurel Mikalouski, research specialist with Accenture.

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This Week:

5 Project Management Tools For Non-Project Managers
From project charter to closing report, Adrienne Figus walks you through the essential tools to help you take control of the changes you may find yourself leading. She’s with Madison College. Here are the resources Adrienne refers to. Open Link

Cybersecurity On A Shoestring
Our panel covers 10 essential security measures every nonprofit can implement right now, without an IT team and without breaking the bank. From knowing where your data is to changing default configurations. And from firewalls to offboarding data. They’re Edward Wilson at ArchTech and Ellen Samuel from Just-Tech. Here are their resources. Open Link

Make Confident Tech Decisions
Simone Carvalho and Rebecca Kaplan explain when you need an audit of your tech stack, and the steps to conduct the assessment. Along the way, you’ll lean on surveys, interviews and process maps. Simone is with Skeleton Key Strategies and Rebecca is at Feeding America.

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Confessions Of Nonprofit Social Media Managers
Approval processes. Posting frequency. Constant emergencies. Managing AI. To overcome those challenges, our panel offers time-saving tactics, strategies to fight burn out, smart ways to use AI, and more. They’re Keara Klose from Cats In Bloom, Kate Meyers Emery at Candid, and Ashlee Dean with Iowa Association for the Education of Young Children. (This is part of our 2026 Nonprofit Technology Conference coverage.)

Convert Your Member Website Into A Thriving Community
Leah and Chris Lundberg are spouses who met at a previous NTC. They reveal their thinking on creating a community by auditing your current experience, applying opportunities for connection and leveraging available tools. We also dive into their opinion that SaaS is dead amid a move to data democratization and the own-your-data movement. They work together at Engine 9. (This is also from #26NTC.)

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Your Fall Gala Strategy
The CEO of Trellis.org wants you to recognize your gala as a substantial fundraising growth opportunity. He shares his advice on unlocking new revenue drivers; turning one-night attendees into long-term donors; modern upsells; using tech wisely; and much more. He’s Justin Goodhew.

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A Skeptic’s View On The Value Of AI In Fundraising
“Holding Fire” is Stephen Christopher Nill’s new book, written by this artificial intelligence skeptic. Launching his book on Nonprofit Radio, he presents his Human-Centered AI Framework, five principles to keep humans at the center, as AI does the work no one fundraiser could do alone. There’s fundraising potential. There are fundraising risks. You’ll find Steve’s book at http://charitychannel.com.

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