The Nonprofit Show
The Nonprofit Show is the nation’s daily broadcast for the business side of nonprofits — bringing you practical insights, expert interviews, and real-world strategies to help your organization run smarter, lead stronger, and fund better.
Each weekday, our co-hosts and guests break down the most current topics in fundraising, board governance, leadership, staffing, technology, communications, and financial strategy — giving nonprofit professionals the tools they need to build sustainable, high-performing organizations.
With more than 1,400 episodes and growing, our on-demand library is a trusted resource for executive directors, team members, fundraisers, board members, and sector leaders who are ready to move beyond inspiration and into implementation.
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Episodes
931 episodes
Misinformation Is Costing Nonprofits: The Data Leaders Need Now
With the kind of energy that makes you sit up straighter: Tim Sarrantonio, now Chair of the Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP), leads a boardroom-level conversation about one of the biggest business th...
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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30:11
The New Nonprofit CFO Mindset: Resilience, Revenue, Results!
In 2026, nonprofit finance isn’t just about reporting what happened — it’s about shaping what happens next. Ellie Hume (Regional Director, at Your Part-Time Controller) leasds a forward-facing conversation on fin...
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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30:38
Why Nonprofit Boards Don’t Do the Work: And How to Fix Them
Why don’t nonprofit boards do their work — and what can executive leaders actually do about it? In this episode we welcome back executive coach, author, and speaker Hardy Smith, creator of the Amazon bestsell...
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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30:31
The Organizational Assessment: Board Reality Check Using Interims
Organizational assessments can sound intimidating—like a test, a grade, or a “gotcha.” We sit down with Joan Brown, Chief Operations Officer at Third Sector Company, to reframe assessme...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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30:36
The 2026 Fundraising Forecast: What Smart Nonprofits Do Now
2026 is already rewriting the fundraising playbook—and your nonprofit can’t afford to run last year’s plays. In this Fundraisers Friday conversation, Julia C. Patrick and Tony Beall lay out the business realities that will separate thriving org...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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31:32
Trauma Talk for Nonprofits: The Real Cost of “Push Through” Culture
Nonprofit work is purpose-driven, but the business reality is relentless: tight budgets, heavy caseloads, public scrutiny, and a pace that rarely fits inside “normal hours.” In this episode we welcome Rahul ...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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27:48
Set A Goal That Scares You!
What if the biggest thing holding your nonprofit back isn’t budget, bandwidth, or the board… but the size of the goal itself?In this energizing conversation, Julia C. Patrick turns the spotlight inward for a rare public coaching session ...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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30:22
2026 Nonprofit Forecast: AI, Hiring, and the New Rules of Retention
We welcome Katie Warnock, CEO and Founder of Staffing Boutique, for a “New Year Trend Forecasting” conversation—focused squarely on what nonprofit leaders must do to operate smarter, steadier, and mor...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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29:52
Nonprofit Funders Want Systems Not Stories: Start Building Real Capacity
If your nonprofit is staring at a funding gap in 2026: your money problem may actually be a structure problem. Host Julia C. Patrick welcomes Dr. Sharon Elefant of The Nonprofit Plug to talk about why...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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30:06
The Year End Goal Plan For Fundraisers
how nonprofits set goals that actually move revenue, relationships, and results. They start with the metric many teams avoid because it can be a rude awakening: donor retention. Tony walks through a simple way to calculate it, then connects the...
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Season 5
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Episode 200
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30:09
Nonprofit Leadership Moves You Need to Have Finance Teams Win Under Pressure!
Year-end doesn’t “arrive” in nonprofits so much as it ambushes us. And that’s exactly why this conversation with John Tiso, VP of Revenue and Service Delivery at JMT Consulting, and Buu Lình Tran...
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Season 5
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Episode 199
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32:37
The Quickest Path to a Compliant Nonprofit: Using Tech and Heart
Starting a nonprofit is often treated like a simple administrative step: fill out a few forms, wait a bit, and you’re off to the races. But in this episode, Julia C. Patrick and cohost Ellie Hume sit down with
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Season 5
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Episode 198
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31:00
The “Boring” Fundraising That Builds Real Stability
Consistency is not glamorous, but it’s the engine that keeps a nonprofit’s business model running when the calendar flips and the pressure spikes. In this conversation with Matt Glazer, Founder and...
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Season 5
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Episode 197
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31:43
Nonprofit Founder Syndrome: When Grit Turns Into Gridlock
Founder syndrome gets tossed around like a diagnosis, but this conversation reframes it as a leadership and governance challenge that shows up in real nonprofit operations: decision rights, communication, accountability, and the organization’s ...
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Season 5
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Episode 196
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31:14
Donor Tiers That Actually Work: The Right Way To Segment Supporters
Fundraisers Friday is back, and Julia C. Patrick and Tony Beall (Mr. Nonprofit Consultancy) tackle a topic that quietly runs the business side of fundraising: donor tier levels. If you’ve ever stared at your donor list and wondered, “Where do w...
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Season 5
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Episode 195
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30:28
Five Finance Moves Nonprofits Can't Ignore: Finishing the Year Strong!
Finishing the year “strong” is not just a slogan for nonprofit leaders; it’s a finance and operations project. Regional Director Ellie Hume from Your Part-Time Controller walks through five concrete steps to wrap...
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Season 5
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Episode 194
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30:19
Women, Water And ROI: Turning Lost Hours Into Community Wealth
Around the world, women and girls walk long distances every day to fetch water, losing education, income, and safety in the process. On this global episode of The Nonprofit Show, we welcome Shilpa A...
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Season 5
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Episode 193
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30:34
What is 'Rolling Retention'? Fundraisers Using AI and Better Metrics
Donor retention is not just a feel good metric it is one of the most powerful levers in the business model of a nonprofit. We sit down with Kirsten Wantland, Principal Industry Strategist at Bloomerang,<...
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Season 5
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Episode 192
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30:49
Why Smart Nonprofits Rely on Temp Staffing
Labor myth buster Dana Scurlock, Director of Recruitment at Staffing Boutique, reframes temporary staffing as a sophisticated business tool for nonprofit leaders—not a last-resort move when thi...
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Season 5
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Episode 191
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29:12
Donor Appeals vs. Donor Relationships: What Truly Drives Giving?
In this thoughtful Fundraisers Friday conversation, cohosts Julia C. Patrick and Tony Beall take viewers inside one of the most persistent tensions in fundraising: the distinction between donor appeals and donor relationships. Using real experi...
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Season 5
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Episode 190
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30:35
Inside Team Culture: The New Era of Nonprofit Leadership
A valuable and thought-provoking conversation with Carrie Wright, consultant and coach at Wright Consulting. Joined by cohosts Julia C. Patrick and Wendy F. Adams, Carrie guides leaders toward...
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Season 5
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Episode 189
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31:21
Rethinking Nonprofit Success: Information Is Not Action!
Rethinking nonprofit success usually begins with new metrics or another training calendar. In this conversation, educator and learning strategist Nancy Bacon of Nancy Bacon Consulting proposes someth...
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Season 5
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Episode 188
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30:56
Nonprofit Scaling Reimagined: A New Playbook for Expansion
Nonprofits love to talk about growth. New markets, new programs, new grants, new everything. But our guest, Aila Malik, founder of Venture Leadership Collective, flips the script and asks t...
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Season 5
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Episode 187
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30:37
Interim Leadership in Fundraising Is More Powerful Than You Think!
Interim leadership is no longer just a stopgap in the executive director’s seat—it’s becoming a strategic engine for sustainable fundraising. Joan Brown, Chief Operating Officer at
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Season 5
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Episode 186
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30:26
Can Mindset and a Soccer Ball Change a Child’s Future?
What happens when a kid who scribbles “play soccer at Ohio State” in kindergarten actually does it—and then decides his story shouldn’t be the exception? That question sits at the center of this episode with Channing Chasten, professional athle...
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Season 5
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Episode 185
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28:51
