Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | Communications
Joan Garry: Nonprofit Leader and former Executive Director of GLAAD helps fellow CEOs, Boards and Board Chairs, Fundraisers, and Nonprofit Marketers
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Ep 262: How to Be a Force for Good When Your Tank Is Empty (with Sam Horn) (opens the original)
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Some weeks the news takes something out of you and doesn't put it back. Author Sam Horn has spent a year with people who kept going anyway, and she draws a line between three kinds of people that will make you check which one you've been.
Ep 261: What Would Dolly Do? Leadership Lessons from a Life of Giving (opens the original)
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Glennda Testone, CEO of Nonprofit Leadership Lab, did not grow up on Dolly Parton. A year and a half of full immersion later, she came away with three lessons about Dolly Parton philanthropy that every nonprofit leader should hear.
Ep 260: How Can Nonprofits Do Better Good? Hint: Doing More Isn’t the Answer. (opens the original)
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What if greater nonprofit impact isn’t about doing more? Glennda Testone talks with Better Good author Scott M. Curran about focusing on what works and using what you already have more intentionally.
Ep 259: Nonprofit Unions: What Leaders, Staff, and Boards Need to Know with Bev Tillery (opens the original)
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For many nonprofit leaders, unionization can feel deeply personal. Explore the questions, challenges, and realities of nonprofit unionization, and how leaders, staff, and boards can navigate the process while preserving trust, culture, and their org’s values.
Ep 258: Burn on vs. Burnout: A Conversation With Jim Collins About What Matters in Life (opens the original)
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What if the goal isn’t simply to avoid burnout, but to learn how to burn on? Jim Collins joins Joan Garry to explore why some leaders stay energized for decades, what it means to stay “in frame,” and how to build a life around what matters most.
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