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Dismantling White Supremacy in the Nonprofit Sector with Hawa Mire

Dismantling White Supremacy in the Nonprofit Sector with Hawa Mire

How can we have a real conversation about systemic racism and white supremacy, especially at our workplace with power dynamics involved? On today’s podcast, Hawa Mire, strategy and equity consultant and community organizer, walks us through how we might build up our muscles and emotional intelligence for having these important conversations.

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Discovering Your Donors with Allen Davidov

Discovering Your Donors with Allen Davidov

In this episode, Allen Dadvidov, VP of Business Consulting and Nonprofit Sector Lead from Environics Analytics, shares with us tips on how to leverage our existing donor data (yes, spreadsheets included!) to look for indicators that can help grow our fundraising and how general behaviour trends of the populations can support our understanding of donors’ engagement and giving potential.

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Sharing the Responsibility for Decolonization  with Tim Fox

Sharing the Responsibility for Decolonization with Tim Fox

On today’s podcast, Tim Fox, Vice President of Indigenous Relations and Racial Equity at Calgary Foundation, shares his lived experience of facilitating the Calgary Foundation to commit to transformative changes and learning. Tim urges us to challenge us to think beyond decolonization as a short term project that has easy fixes. He encourages us to reflect on how we might make ourselves open and vulnerable in sharing our responsibilities for decolonization and commit to life-long actions.

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Embracing Advocacy with Cathy Taylor

Embracing Advocacy with Cathy Taylor

Advocacy is in the DNA of our sector. Every day, whether it’s a front line social agency, or an arts organization, nonprofits are doing great advocacy work at the community level.

How can we as a sector lift each other up and support each other’s advocacy efforts?

Joining us today for this discussion is Cathy Taylor, the Executive Director of the Ontario Nonprofit Network.

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Overhauling Your Fundraising Mindset  with Yvonne Harding

Overhauling Your Fundraising Mindset with Yvonne Harding

In this special episode of the podcast, one of the students from our spring 2020 Flipside Fundraising cohort, Yvonne Harding, Resource Development Manager at Assaulted Women’s Helpline, to share the transformation she has experienced after she changed her fundraising mindset with the lessons learned in Flipside Fundraising.

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“What I Learned From My Daughter’s COVID Wedding” with Nneka Allen

“What I Learned From My Daughter’s COVID Wedding” with Nneka Allen

The guest on our podcast today, fundraiser and writer Nneka Allen, wants us to forget about all these loaded questions and simply reflect on how authentic and long term relationships naturally happen in our lives. She shares some beautiful examples from her daughter’s wedding and her personal eureka moments.

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Always Be Learning with Aaron Sanderson

Always Be Learning with Aaron Sanderson

On today’s podcast, I am excited to have Aaron Sanderson, SVP, Advancement & Chief Development Officer at Kids Help Phone about professional development and learning. Tune in to learn about how we can create space for learning so that we can understand how we can invest in ourselves and our organizations so that we can do better work and work better.

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Shortcuts to Raise More Money with Dana Segal

Shortcuts to Raise More Money with Dana Segal

What compel donors to say “yes”?

This is the million dollar question for us as fundraisers.

Understanding how people make decisions is key to our success in fundraising.

On today’s podcast, international fundraising and management consultant Dana Segal shares with us her deep insight in the psychology of decision-making.

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Mastering Your Theory of Change with Lisa Watson

Mastering Your Theory of Change with Lisa Watson

Theory of change is one of those things that everyone seems to have a vague sense of what it is but can’t quite come to the same definition.

How does our organization’s theory of change play a role in our work? How can we ground it in our practice?

On today’s episode, Lisa Watson, co-founder of Openly, shares with us how she and her team help nonprofits to develop clear and effective theory of change. Lisa integrates the principles of design and design thinking in the process.

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