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We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits
The We Are For Good Podcast brings nonprofit professionals + everyday changemakers into conversations with the most innovative, heartwired leaders in social impact. Hosted by Jon McCoy + Becky Endicott, each episode unpacks fresh mindsets, practical skills + inspiring stories designed to help you work smarter, build healthier cultures + accelerate our collective impact.Join our value-aligned community—it’s free—at weareforgoodcommunity.com.About We Are For GoodWe Are For Good is a storytelling…
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We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits749. Stewarding a 160-Year Legacy: How to Honor History While Driving Change - Archana Jayaram, Brooklyn Community Services
Archana Jayaram stepped in as CEO of Brooklyn Community Services just as one of New York City's oldest nonprofits entered its 160th year. Her first move wasn't…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits748. How One Founder’s Lived Experience Created 116,000 Anchors - Ali Borowsky, Find Your Anchor
A note before you listen: This episode discusses suicide and suicide prevention. If you or someone you know is struggling, you’re not alone. In the U.S., call…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits747. How One $14,410 Fundraiser Became a Global Movement - Jeremy Vallerand, Atlas Free
Jeremy Vallerand and a few friends turned a Mount Rainier climb into a fundraiser: $1 for every vertical foot, $14,410 total. It was supposed to be a one-off…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits746. 1 in 2 American Adults Struggle with Social Connection. Nonprofits Are Part of the Solution. - Aaron Hurst
1 in 2 American adults is struggling with social connection, and fewer than 20% are thriving. Aaron Hurst, the social entrepreneur behind the Taproot…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits745. 3 Case Studies on Using Data + Storytelling to Grow Your Org's Impact - Urina Harrell
A pandemic relief territory that grew 39% while every area around it went red. A fund that deployed capital fast and couldn't prove what it did. A 55-year-old…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits744. Make the Problem Bigger: A Different Way to Build Community - Greg Tehven, Emerging Prairie
Greg Tehven runs a $5.5 million nonprofit with 40 teammates in Fargo, North Dakota — and his advice to leaders is to stop working on problems they can solve…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits743. Unlock the Full Potential of Your Peer-to-Peer Program - Victoria Vighetto, ZERO Prostate Cancer
When ZERO Prostate Cancer's peer-to-peer program started slipping, Victoria Vighetto didn't tell her field staff to make more calls. She walked the constituent…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits742. Money Is Medicine: Decolonizing Wealth and the Future of Philanthropy - Edgar Villanueva
An elder told Edgar Villanueva that the medicine that had chosen him was money. One sentence — and it turned an angry, burned-out program officer into the…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits741. Fundraising Problem or Distance Problem? The Reframe That Raised $1M - Connie Lewin
Connie Lewin found the funders. She wrote the emails. She sent the proposals. The response was silence.With a $1 million goal for a small nonprofit in Rwanda…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits740. Start Before You're Ready: How Creative Futures Collective Grew from 10 to 3,500 Without a Roadmap - Jai Al-Attas
Jai Al-Attas started a record label at 16, sold it to Virgin Records at 24, and never went to college. So when he moved to LA and tried to get people from a…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits739. The Simple Gratitude System That Doubled Donor Retention (From 33% to 66%) - April Thompson
April Thompson took a grassroots foster care nonprofit from 33% donor retention to 66% — and grew the donor file from about 100 to over 400 along the way.The…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits738. The Storytelling Strategy That Turns Donors into Believers (And How to Build It) - Annie Wood and Max Kringen
The film ended and the room went silent. Then it roared. Over the next three years, hundreds of donors gave more than $300,000 to build one young woman a home…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits737. How to Find and Activate the Right Influencers for Your Mission - Trevor Boffone
The right influencer for your mission probably isn't the biggest account in your city. It's more likely someone already following you, already talking about…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits736. Meet the Nonprofit Building a Brand + Movement Around Unity - Adam Mizel, Us United
"There's so many brands for division in this country. Where's the brand for unity?"That question is why Us United exists. Adam Mizel spent more than 30 years…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits735. Case Study: How a Grant Rejection Turned Into a $223,000 Yes - Katie Hannah, Momentum Leaders
Katie Hannah printed out the rejection email and brought it to the interview. "After careful consideration, our board of reviewers has determined that your…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits734. The Planned Giving Multiplier: Why Your Most Loyal Donors Are Your Biggest Opportunity - Tony Martignetti
$1,500 in lifetime giving. A million-dollar gift in the will.Tony Martignetti calls it the planned giving multiplier — the gap between what a donor gives you…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits733. The Creator Partnership Playbook Every Nonprofit Leader Needs - Patricia McLoughlin, The Anthem Awards
One in five adults now get their news from TikTok. Over 40% of adults under 30 do. That same feed is where younger donors are finding the causes they'll give…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits732. Measuring What Matters: The 3-Step System for Measuring Your Impact - Ginneh Baugh, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Big Brothers Big Sisters has been collecting data for 120 years. When an economist finally studied it, the case for support changed completely: young people…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits731. What the World's Most Effective Nonprofits Have in Common (And You Already Have It Too) - Scott Curran
Scott Curran has helped former presidents, Fortune 500 companies, and street-corner nonprofits turn good intentions into real impact. After a decade as general…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits730. Capacity Is the Strategy: How to Make Your Org More Sustainable - Brooke Richie-Babbage, Chidi Asoluka, and Casey Lardner
Most nonprofit leaders treat capacity like a fuel tank — something you deplete and refill. Brooke Richie-Babbage makes the case that capacity is something you…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits729. The 4-Step Formula to Get Your Mission Seen by Media, Partners, and Donors - Jenn DeBarge Goonan
Jenn DeBarge Goonan has sent thousands of pitch emails to editors, producers, and partners. She's distilled what works into four steps — and they work whether…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits728. How to Tell Stories That Fill the Hope Gap: 3 Lessons from 8 World-Changing Leaders - Jon and Becky
The gap between hope and despair has grown from 4% in 2010 to 27% today. That's the "hope gap" — and it's the reason Jon and Becky spent 10 episodes sitting…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits727. Working Session: The Automation Playbook That Added $200K at Year End - Rachel Bearbower
One client reclaimed 15% of their lapsing donors and added $200,000 by year-end. No new campaigns. No bigger team. Just a stewardship system running quietly in…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits726. Stories to Fill the Hope Gap: Turning County-Level Wins Into National Change - Hannah Fried, All Voting Is Local
Most of us picture democracy being decided on Election Day. Hannah Fried spends her life on the part nobody watches — the quiet, local decisions made months…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits725. How to Fund, Storytell, and Scale What Feels Unsolvable - Sam Teicher, Coral Vita
Half the world's coral reefs have died since the 1970s. That's the kind of number that makes a person feel too small to matter. Sam Teicher has built his whole…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits724. Stories to Fill the Hope Gap: The Fight to Hold Big Tech Accountable - Imran Ahmed, Center for Countering Digital Hate
A 52-year-old man who'd spent too long online reading conspiracy theories walked up to Imran Ahmed's colleague — a member of parliament and mother of two — and…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits723. How American Express Is Building the Next Generation of Nonprofit Leaders (and What It Means for Yours!) - Madge Thomas
Madge Thomas leads a leadership academy most nonprofit professionals have never heard of — one that's quietly spent nearly two decades and $100M+ training over…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits722. Stories to Fill the Hope Gap: Storytelling That Turns Crisis Into Action - Dr. Lisa Hunter Romanelli, The REACH Institute
There are 12 million kids in the U.S. with a mental health concern, and four out of five never get treatment — not because the care doesn't exist, but because…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits721. Four Leaders on Mergers, Burnout, and Radical Honesty with Funders - Stacy Huston, Lindsey Fuller, Tammy Tibbetts, and Becky Straw
The traditional nonprofit playbook is full of defaults nobody voted for: merge only when you're desperate, expect your team to run on empty, soften your…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits720. Stories to Fill The Hope Gap: Why Celebration Is the Story That Changes Everything - Colby King, Kiki Arts Collaborative
The Kiki and ballroom scene, built by Black and brown LGBTQ+ youth of color in New York City, has been creating art, designing fashion, performing, and…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits719. Consistency Over Intensity: The Science of Sustainable Giving - Dr. Sanjay Bindra, GOSUMEC Foundation USA
Dr. Sanjay Bindra is a practicing cardiologist who built a $2.5 million endowment at a zero-staff nonprofit in less than four years, with no campaigns and no…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits718. Stories to Fill The Hope Gap: How Hip Hop Therapy Is Rewriting What Healing and Storytelling Look Like - J.C. Hall
An 85% graduation rate against a district average of 60% — at a second-chance school in the South Bronx where the primary healing tool isn't a worksheet or a…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits717. The Funding Landscape Is Shifting. Here's What Nonprofits Need to Know - Hala Hanna, MIT Solve
"Crisis creates clarity, and philanthropic funding is the best risk capital we have." That's how Hala Hanna reads the moment we're in, and as Executive…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits716. Stories to Fill the Hope Gap: How Story Becomes the Strategy to Shift Culture - Ai-jen Poo, Caring Across Generations
As Co-Founder of Caring Across Generations and President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Ai-jen Poo has spent decades working at the intersection of…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits715. Working Session: The Email Infrastructure Every Nonprofit Needs - Katelyn Baughan
Most nonprofits treat email like a megaphone. They show up loud when they need donations and go completely quiet in between. Katelyn Baughan has worked with…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits714. Stories to Fill the Hope Gap: The 3 Part Formula Behind Sesame Street’s Storytelling - Scott Cameron
Scott Cameron is a two-time Emmy Award-winning creative leader who has spent his career executive producing international adaptations of Sesame Street…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits713. The Case for Playing the Long Game in Philanthropy - Matthew Oh, FOREFRONT Charity
Matt Oh was an engineer with a stable career and a 9-to-5 when a mission trip to India stopped him in his tracks. He saw something he couldn’t unsee — women…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits712. Stories to Fill The Hope Gap: How Art is Healing Veterans - Richard Casper, CreatiVets
This episode includes themes of combat trauma, mental health, and suicidal ideation. If you or someone you know is struggling, please reach out to the 988…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits711. How Fiscal Sponsorship Is Rewriting Who Gets to Lead Change - Vincent Jones
What does it actually mean to fund community power? Not a one-time grant, not a single big donor relationship, but real, sustained infrastructure for the…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits710. Stories That Fill the Hope Gap: Closing the Hope Gap with Story - Afdhel Aziz
There is a growing gap in our world between hope and despair. And storytelling might be the most powerful tool we have to fill it.Welcome to Stories That Fill…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits709. Working Session: Fundraising as a Team of One: What to Do When You Don’t Have Time for Everything - Christina Martin Kenny
Meet Christina Martin Kenny 👋 She is a career fundraiser and the founder of Guava Tree Strategies. She has been a fundraising team of one more times than she…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits708. Working Session: How to Build a Story Engine for Your Nonprofit - Amanda Green
Meet Amanda Green 👋 She is a journalist turned Communications Consultant with more than 20 years of newsroom and public relations experience, including 12…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits707. How to Break Philanthropy Out of Hypothesis Mode - Casey Lardner, Ph.D., GenSpace
Is philanthropy stuck in hypothesis mode?In science, there are two kinds of research: hypothesis-driven, where you predict the outcome before you run the…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits706. How to Turn Around a Nonprofit From the Inside Out - Marisol Pineda Conde + Lindsey Fuller, The Teaching Well
Meet Linsey Fuller and Marisol Pineda Conde 👋 Together, they have spent five years turning around an organization that started with one month of runway…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits705. Working Session: How to Keep More Monthly Donors + Increase Generosity - Dave Raley
Meet Dave Raley 👋 He is the founder and CEO of the Center for Sustainable Giving, author of The Rise of Sustainable Giving, and one of the most trusted voices…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits704. How Special Olympics is Using AI + Technology to Scale Belonging - Nathan Cook
Meet Nathan Cook 👋 He is the Chief Information and Technology Officer at Special Olympics International, where he is using technology to do something…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits703. People Power: How to Turn Volunteers Into Core Capacity - Sara Lomelin, Nicole Stewart, Nicole R. Smith, CVA, and Susan McPherson
We're living in the loneliest moment in modern history. And at the same time, people have never been hungrier for hope, for joy, for meaningful connection…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits702. Working Session: Planned Giving Without the Overwhelm - Pedro J. Rivera
Meet Pedro J. Rivera 👋 In 30 years at the intersection of law, philanthropy, and fundraising, he has launched three planned giving programs and raised $150…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits701. 93% of Funding Gone Overnight: A Case Study in Crisis Leadership - Jennifer Rupp
At 4am on April 3, 2025, Jennifer Rupp's phone wouldn't stop buzzing. 93% of Michigan Humanities' budget. Gone overnight. What happened next is a story about…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits700. What 700 Episodes Have Taught Us About Generosity - Jon and Becky
700 episodes felt like the kind of moment that deserved more than a LinkedIn post and a few dancing emojis. So we sat down to talk about what this journey has…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits699. How to Build a Mission That Outlasts You - Jeremy Bouman, RISE
Meet Jeremy Bouman, Founder of RISE in Omaha 👋. Today, RISE operates in seven Nebraska prisons with a 90% graduate employment rate and a recidivism rate a…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits698. Contagious Culture: Why Better People Build Better Organizations - Kyle S. King
Kyle S. King started his nonprofit journey as a college junior, raised $100K, and never stopped. Eight books, a publishing company, a keynote career, and the…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits697. How Team Rubicon Built a Movement of 200,000 Volunteers - Jeff Byard
"You don't manage volunteers. You have to inspire them."Jeff Byard figured that out after 14 years in Alabama emergency management, six years as a senior…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits696. Building Trust: The 3 Layers Every Nonprofit Leader Needs - Aila Malik
Trust is not a soft skill. It's the whole job.Today we're bringing you something special: Aila Malik's live keynote from the We Are For Good Summit, followed…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits695. How to Build an Organization Ready for Its Biggest Moment - Sara LaBarge
Sara LaBarge grew up on the Menominee reservation in Wisconsin, won a Gates Millennium Scholarship as a teenager, and went on to lead strategic partnerships at…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits694. Stop Scaling. Start Solving: What the Nonprofit Sector Gets Wrong About Growth - Eliza Blank
Meet Eliza Blank, the new CEO of The Farmlink Project 👋 We’re exploring what happens when a founder-CEO mindset collides with one of the most urgent food…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits693. Despair Is Paralyzing, Hope Is Galvanizing: Afdhel Aziz's Three-Step Playbook for Stories That Move People to Action
In today's episode, Jon and Becky sit down with Afdhel Aziz, founder of Good is the New Cool, to unpack why the way most nonprofits tell their story is quietly…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits692. Working Session: How to Grow Your Online Giving - Josh Burns
In this Working Session, Jon and Becky are joined by digital strategist Josh Burns to rethink how nonprofits approach online giving — moving beyond quick wins…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits691. The Volunteer Strategy Gap (And How to Close It) - Nicole R. Smith, CVA
In today's episode, Jon and Becky sit down with Nicole R. Smith, CVA, Executive Director of AL!VE (Association of Leaders in Volunteer Engagement), to talk…
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits690. A Case Study in Building Trust and Authentic Partnerships - jacob adams, Inner Spark
In today's episode, Jon and Becky sit down with jacob adams, founder of Inner Spark Learning Lab, to talk about what it looks like to challenge the nonprofit…