Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership

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386: How to Build on Your Community Capital as a Nonprofit Leader (Dan Bevels)
386
Sept. 16, 2026

386: How to Build on Your Community Capital as a Nonprofit Leader (Dan Bevels)

Episode 386: How to Build on Your Community Capital as a Nonprofit Leader (Dan Bevels) Episode Summary Plenty of nonprofit professionals talk themselves out of executive roles because their resume does not show years of philanthropic experience. Dan Bevels, President of the Atrium Health Floyd-Polk Foundation in Rome, Georgia, nearly did exactly that, and applied only after his wife and a mentor pushed him. He walks through the case he made in place of the credentials he lacked: that what h...
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385: No Margin, No Mission: Building Nonprofits That Last (Cecilia Haag)
385
Sept. 9, 2026

385: No Margin, No Mission: Building Nonprofits That Last (Cecilia Haag)

385: No Margin, No Mission: Building Nonprofits That Last (Cecilia Haag) Episode Summary Nonprofit leaders are told that the urgency of the mission will carry the organization, and that financial and operational discipline is something the corporate world worries about. Cecilia Haag, President of Thompson Impact Consulting, came out of that corporate world, joining the 140-year-old human services organization Thompson as Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer after watching it decide to take...
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384: How to Launch a Planned Giving Program in One Week (Tony Martignetti)
384
Sept. 2, 2026

384: How to Launch a Planned Giving Program in One Week (Tony Martignetti)

Episode 384: How to Launch a Planned Giving Program in One Week (Tony Martignetti) Episode Summary Small and mid-sized nonprofits routinely tell themselves that planned giving belongs to hospitals and universities, that it takes a lawyer and a brochure to begin, and that raising it with a donor means starting a conversation about death. Tony Martignetti, founder of Planned Giving Accelerator and host of Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio, has worked in planned giving since 1997 and spent more...
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383: What Nonprofit Leaders Get Wrong About Growing Fast (Steve Isom)
383
Aug. 26, 2026

383: What Nonprofit Leaders Get Wrong About Growing Fast (Steve Isom)

383: What Nonprofit Leaders Get Wrong About Growing Fast (Steve Isom) Episode Summary Nonprofit professionals often come to the sector craving mission, not metrics, and the discomfort that creates around money, growth, and hard numbers can quietly limit how far an organization goes. Steve Isom, Chief Operating and Financial Officer at Bloomerang, has spent nearly six years professionalizing the finance, operations, and customer functions behind the giving platform that now serves more than ...
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382: From Shoe Drive to Global Movement (Andrew Lovedale)
382
Aug. 19, 2026

382: From Shoe Drive to Global Movement (Andrew Lovedale)

Episode 382: From Shoe Drive to Global Movement (Andrew Lovedale) Episode Summary Too many nonprofit founders assume that the people who love them will automatically support the mission they've built, and few learn how costly that assumption is until donors who cheer from the sidelines never actually give. Andrew Lovedale, Founder and Executive Director of Access to Success (A2S), learned that lesson firsthand after a shoe drive he started as a Davidson College basketball player, whose...
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381: What Leaders Must Know to Build Cross-Sector Power (Karen Riordan)
381
Aug. 12, 2026

381: What Leaders Must Know to Build Cross-Sector Power (Karen Riordan)

Episode 381: What Leaders Must Know to Build Cross-Sector Power (Karen Riordan) Episode Summary Nonprofit leaders often assume advocacy, cross-sector partnerships, and funding diversification are someone else's job — but Karen Riordan, President & CEO of Together SC in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, argues that building real power for the sector starts with everyday relationship-building. Drawing on three decades of for-profit marketing experience before her move into nonprofit leadershi...
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