Big Nonprofit Ideas for the Other 95%

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My Guests:

Interviewing Aria Finger at NextGen:Charity 2011

Aria Finger, COO of DoSomething.org, gives ideas for motivating teens and finding their passion points to get them engaged in your work. (Pre-recorded at last year’s NextGen:Charity conference.)

Interviewing Eric Saperston at NextGen:Charity 2011

Eric’s journey took him across the U.S. in a VW microbus, inviting 200 of the country’s most famous and powerful to coffee. Eric Saperston is chief creative officer at Live In Wonder, and he learned some amazing lessons over coffee. His story is told in the Disney documentary, “The Journey.” (Pre-recorded at last year’s NextGen:Charity conference.)
 


 

Maria Semple

Maria Semple, The Prospect Finder, and our regular prospect research contributor, goes deeper into Google search. How do your search results differ when you’re logged in or not logged in to Google? Plus, advanced search tips. It’s a short course on search to help your prospecting.
 


 

You’re on the air and on target as I delve into the big issues facing your nonprofit—and your career.

If you have big dreams but a small budget, tune in to Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio.

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Nonprofit Radio, February 24, 2012: Take On Teens, Pursue Your Hero’s Journey & Going Greater Into Google Search is a post from: Tony Martignetti

Wrapped Pennies by Ben Popken on Flickr

Donors who give you only $5 a year–and have been doing it for many years–are outstanding prospects for a planned gift. You need to thank your small donors.

They may be testing you, to see whether you appreciate small donors, as they anticipate a larger gift. Or, they may be giving all they can (or all they feel they can) during life. Because they love your work so much, there may be a gift in their estate.

The savvy Planned Giving officer at New Jersey Institute of Technology knew this well. Monique Pryor wisely nurtured a relationship with Helen and John Hartmann, who had given NJIT around $25 a year for thirty years. Last week the college announced a $5 million gift from Mrs. Hartmann’s will, the largest in the school’s history.

You don’t thank small donors because they might some day be large donors. You thank them because it’s the right way to treat your donors.

Your small donors deserve your respect.

(My thanks to Maria Semple, The Prospect Finder, and a regular contributor to my radio show, for sending me this story.)

Respect Small Donors is a post from: Tony Martignetti

Thank you Geri Stengel for hosting me for “Planned Giving In Small- and Mid-size Shops“!

“Thank you crowd” for spending time with me. I hope it was helpful to each of you.

Your slides are below.

Ventureneer: Your Slides Are Here is a post from: Tony Martignetti

Big Nonprofit Ideas for the Other 95%

Sponsored by GE Grace corporate real estate services.

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My Guest:

Penelope Cagney

Penelope Cagney, consultant and author of “Nonprofit Consulting Essentials” shares how your nonprofit can get the most from these engagements. What’s special about nonprofit consulting? Does it matter whether you need help with fundraising, governance or management? How do you make a good match? And what can we expect for the future?

Please take a moment to take the survey for this week’s show with Penelope!

You’ll find it below. If you could also share it with other nonprofit professionals, I would appreciate it. The more people who take it, the better the results and the better the show! Thank you!

 

Here is a link to the survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZW7NVBP

You’re on the air and on target as I delve into the big issues facing your nonprofit—and your career.

If you have big dreams but a small budget, tune in to Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio.

I interview the best in the business on every topic from board relations, fundraising, social media and compliance, to technology, accounting, volunteer management, finance, marketing and beyond. Always with you in mind.

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Here is the link to the audio podcast of the show: 079: The Best Consulting Relationships

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Nonprofit Radio, February 17, 2012: Consider Consultants Carefully is a post from: Tony Martignetti

A screen cap from the "Celebrate Generosity Day 2012" video on YouTube.

Sasha Dichter was a guest on my show early last year. During the hour in the studio, he shared professional insights revealing that he thinks about the business of philanthropy as few professional fundraisers do.

Sasha was director of business development for Acumen Fund at the time. Just his title betrayed a different orientation. Anywhere else he would have been director of development, or some such. Today, aptly, he is Acumen’s chief innovation officer.

He revealed a personal insight that he wasn’t as generous as he ought to have been. So he rebooted Valentine’s Day 2011 as Generosity Day, encouraging others through blogs, Twitter, YouTube, etc. to consider their own approach to giving and generosity throughout the month, not just for the day. Generosity Day hit tens of thousands. It’s sure to reach many more this year.

That’s the history.

This month I’ve been trying to be more conscious to look for ways to help others when I’m not asked (tissue for a sniffling subway rider is a favorite) and to think “How can I?” rather than “Why I cannot!” when I am approached.

Something I began recognizing a few years ago and now incorporate into my speaking, is how good it feels to share your love with others–like sniffling commuters and restaurant servers and bathroom attendants and flight attendants and telephone customer service reps and even head hunters–in very ordinary, simple and routinely overlooked ways.

(How did head hunters ever get so maligned and marginalized?)

So many times each day you can show your love and be generous with just five syllables: “Hello, how are you?” It feels very good.

There’s nothing shameful about the glow and goose bumps that come from a simple act of kindness that I like to call “showing love.” It feels so good that Generosity Day could be Selfishness Day.

So on February 14th, and the rest of this month and the rest of the year, show your love in your own ways and revel in the good feelings.

You’ll go looking out for ways to repeat.

Generosity Day is a post from: Tony Martignetti

Big Nonprofit Ideas for the Other 95%

Sponsored by GE Grace corporate real estate services.

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My Guests:

Betsy Cohen

Psychic medium Betsy Cohen, one of the “Top 10 Psychics in New York,” will take your calls and tweets to read your nonprofit’s energy and help you see a wider perspective, reveal what’s hidden and understand possible futures from different alternatives related to donors, staffing, budget, programs or whatever challenges you’re facing. She will also do readings about career issues.

 

Gene Takagi & Emily Chan

Our regular legal contributors, Gene Takagi and Emily Chan of the Nonprofit & Exempt Organizations Law Group, will unlock the vagueness around “board oversight.” This is part two of the discussion we started on January 20th. There’s a lot to say, and it’s important.

You’re on the air and on target as I delve into the big issues facing your nonprofit—and your career.

If you have big dreams but a small budget, tune in to Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio.

I interview the best in the business on every topic from board relations, fundraising, social media and compliance, to technology, accounting, volunteer management, finance, marketing and beyond. Always with you in mind.

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Make sure to tune in at 1pm ET on Friday and participate in the live tweet by following the #NonprofitRadio hashtag on Twitter. We’ll have a guest live tweeter this week: Mazarine Treyz, consultant and author of “The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising.” You can find Mazarine on Twitter here and her website here.

Here is a link to the podcast: 078: Readings, Possible Futures, Past Lives & Board Oversight Basics II

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Nonprofit Radio, February 10, 2012: Readings, Possible Futures, Past Lives & Board Oversight Basics II is a post from: Tony Martignetti

Napping courtesy of marabuchi on Flickr

Based on what I hear from friends and colleagues, I’m not alone in my affection.

Everyone seems to have a ceremony around their nap. A special locale, blanket, attire, duration. Some luxuriate in bed, while I prefer my sofa. I definitely have my favorite blanket. It’s a hideous green, but soft. Folded in half, it’s just the right weight and warmth. Weight of the cover, by the way, is very important.

I love naps. If naps ran for president, I’d vote for them. Sometimes I take a nap right before bed. That way I’m well rested when I go to sleep.

I never nap in street clothes, always sweat pants and a tee shirt. In colder weather, a sweat shirt.

Europeans are huge nappers. I admire that.

Here’s the science on napping, from the National Sleep Foundation. I almost didn’t give them a link. I resent the reference to “elderly” in the first paragraph. They list the benefits: restore alertness; enhance performance; and reduce mistakes and accidents. So how do we explain the Greek economy?

Away from home I have to make accommodations, like switching venue to the hotel bed. And I don’t travel with my blanket. But I see lots of (mostly) young people who travel with a favorite pillow. I’m sure they’re claiming comfort for a long drive or flight.

Really, they seek their nap in motion and aren’t yet comfortable admitting it.

Maybe you’re not a napper. If not, I hope you have (an)other indulgences you treat yourself to.

You’re worth it.

In Praise Of Naps is a post from: Tony Martignetti

Big Nonprofit Ideas for the Other 95%

Sponsored by GE Grace corporate real estate services.

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My Guests:

Geri Stengel

Entrepreneurs are underutilized on boards and Geri Stengel, founder of Ventureneer, will help you make the fix. Who are they? How do you find them? And how do you approach them to get their special talents on your board?

Please take a moment to take the survey for this week’s segment with Geri! You’ll find it here at the end of the guest and segment descriptions. Thank you!

 

Lorri Greif

Lorri Greif, president of Breakthrough Philanthropy, encourages you to start the planned giving conversation with your committed prospects and donors. (Pre-recorded at National Philanthropy Day, AFP Westchester County chapter.)

Here is a link to the survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WR8CP7P

You’re on the air and on target as I delve into the big issues facing your nonprofit—and your career.

If you have big dreams but a small budget, tune in to Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio.

I interview the best in the business on every topic from board relations, fundraising, social media and compliance, to technology, accounting, volunteer management, finance, marketing and beyond. Always with you in mind.

Sign-up for show alerts!

“Like” the show’s Facebook page.

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Here is the link to the podcast: 077: Entrepreneurs On Board & Starting The Planned Giving Conversation

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Nonprofit Radio, February 3, 2012: Entrepreneurs On Board & Starting The Planned Giving Conversation is a post from: Tony Martignetti

I’ve got my last three HD video interviews from the NextGen:Charity conference last November. Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio was a media sponsor, so I got excellent, insightful commentary from the 12 inspiring speakers I interviewed.

Here are the previous posts:

Part I with the founder of Craigslist and CraigConnects, Mr. Newmark, urging simple, consistent messages to donors; Peter Thum, founder of Ethos water, on radical ideas and perseverance; and DoSomething.org‘s Aria Finger with ways to draw teens to your cause.

Part II with Wali Collins encouraging a regretless life; positive communications with Sharyn Abbott; and Charles Best on connecting donors to their causes. He’s the CEO of DonorsChoose.org.

Part III with Rachael Chong from Catchafire.org on meaningful volunteering; Marc Ecko, the clothing magnate, on branding; and Neil Strauss with fundraising tips generated from the art of seduction.

Here’s what’s new this week:

1. Innovation in social change, and the leadership to envision it and drive it forward. She’s the founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year. She urges you to, “Continue dreaming.” My interview with Abby Falik.
2. His site is his credo: Live In Wonder. He wants you to pursue your hero’s journey. His journey took him across the country, meeting about 200 of the world’s most influential and powerful people over a cup of coffee, and learning amazing lessons. The Journey is his Disney documentary that tells the story. My interview with Eric Saperston.
3. Lessons on motivation and innovation from this director of the X Prize Foundation. Be audacious! Make space to dream! My interview with Jaykumar Menon.

Click here to get to the NextGen:Charity interviews from 2010.

My NextGen:Charity 2011 Interviews, Part IV is a post from: Tony Martignetti

Thanks so much for hosting Maria Semple and me to deliver “Will You Love Us Forever? How To Identify & Approach Donors For Planned Giving.” We had fun meeting you, and thanks a lot for your questions.

Isn’t Maria Semple the best!

Your slides are below.

Community Works: Your Slides Are Here is a post from: Tony Martignetti