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Volunteers are essential to nonprofits. Where can you find great volunteers? How do you motivate your volunteers to reach their full potential? Karen Knight joins us to share her expertise and years of volunteer leadership.

Conversation Highlights

{01:29} Introduction to Karen Knight {03:27} Tips to keep volunteers motivated {07:19} Tips to show appreciation to your volunteers {13:20} Tips to find great volunteers {15:56} Tips to make sure your volunteers don’t get burned out {20:14} Tips for online volunteers {24:10} What makes a good volunteer coordinator?

Remarkable Quotes

Travis: The difference between laying bricks and building a wall, is vision. Travis: You've got to have a purpose to know exactly what it is that you're doing and why it matters. Karen: Train volunteers so that they're not out there fumbling and hoping they're doing it right. Karen: In Canada, 79% of people have volunteered in the past year. Karen: Great minds discuss ideas and small minds talk about people. Karen: It's not the board of directors or the executive director doing the work, it's the volunteers that get things done.

Karen Knight Bio

Karen Knight is a consultant, volunteer leadership expert, and a dynamic and engaging speaker. As District Director of Toastmasters International, Karen has overseen a program with twenty leaders reporting directly to her with all of them being volunteers. Karen currently serves as the Vice-President of the Board of Directors for the Kamloops Therapeutic Riding Association. She’s used her 25 years of experience as a leader and mentor in the not-for-profit sector to develop a proprietary framework for turning volunteers into an enthusiastic, reliable, and committed team.

Connect with Karen Knight

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://karenknight.ca/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KarenKnightConsulting

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-knight-consulting/

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What do you need to make your organization succeed and be sustainable? Are you prepared for the changing demands of the nonprofit world? Mandy Pearce gives you the questions to ask before you start, and the information you need to keep going.

Conversation Highlights: 

{00:49} Introduction of Mandy Pearce.

{01:53} Questions you need to be answered before you start a nonprofit. 

{13:56} How do you do a needs assessment, and why is it necessary?

{18:44} Why you need to have your own life to provide quality services for the long term. 

{24:59} Why doing the back-end diligence is necessary to make your nonprofit sustainable. 

{29:56} Why do you need to do your own research and make an informed decision.

{32:14} The revenue streams that Mandy recommends

{37:46} The importance of bylaws 

{43:19} You need to know what makes you different.

Remarkable quotes: 

We can get grant money which is not the reason to start a nonprofit. 

People don't want to support duplication of services unless it's providing that service in a different way.

You should not serve on a board for life. There should be term limits. 

Ask people “what kind of person are you, what are your strengths your weaknesses”?

You can apply for a grant of three million dollars to use. That's not how it works. You haven't proven anything. 

Nobody wants to give money to people please. 

The real money is in that abundance; that story of amazing transformation in the impact you're making, not the tin cup. 

Resources: 

 www.fundingforgood.org 

linkedin.com/in/amandapearcefundingforgood 

https://www.youtube.com/fundingforgood 

email: [email protected] 

 Bio: Mandy Pearce

In 2009, visionary, Amanda Korye Pearce (or Mandy, as she is known in the fundraising world), founded her flagship company, Funding for Good, to equip organizations with all of the skills and tools needed to become successful and sustainable. She continues to enjoy evolving this company to meet the changing demands of the nonprofit world. 

For over two decades, Mandy and her team of experts have shared their proficiency in fundraising through executive coaching, strategic and development planning, seminars, and specialized consulting programs. Mandy’s dynamic teaching style has brought thousands of people to her presentations at conventions, training workshops, and online platforms. Mandy established Funding for Good, Inc. upon the core values of honesty, efficiency, direct communication, and bringing sustainable dollars to local communities. 

Mandy lives in Hickory with her husband, Ricardo, and their two furbabies, Dalli and Max. She and Ricardo also own and operate a successful landscaping and custom woodworking company, Two Green Thumbs and More (twogreenthumbsandmore.com). On her decompression days, she enjoys working in their garden, sipping sweet tea on their porch swing with a good magazine, and cooking gourmet meals for their family and friends. 

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How do you ensure that you secure the community buy-in? Social permitting is a process of engaging the public to gather their support. Whether you're a nonprofit or a company that's building an organization or a philanthropic organization, or if you're even constructing a wind farm, you need a process of engagement to ensure that you have goodwill and Community support to ensure that your project is a success.  

Remarkable Quotes

Houda: The community needs to understand what is the goal that you're trying to achieve.

Travis: A lot of nonprofits are so unwilling or slow to adopt new processes, new procedures, that it prevents them from changing with the times and becoming flexible and doing what needs to be done.

Houda: You can take something that could have potentially become a pitfall and turn it into a major opportunity for dialogue and a potential opportunity to turn critics into advocates.

Houda: You can't be afraid to go back to the drawing board.

Highlights

{05:30} How to build a movement 

{06:25} Four-step program for the social permitting process

{13:20} The importance of hearing from the community

{15:30} The history of Black Wallstreet and how to turn a protestor into an advocate

{21:30} Don’t be afraid to go back to the drawing board if the community needs a shift. 

{31:30} What makes Oklahoma special

Houda Elyazgi bio

Houda is the Chief Client Officer at Saxum, an integrated digital agency obsessed with good. Houda is committed to making the world better through her work in diversity, equality, education, and public policy, which makes her an invaluable leader in Saxum’s issue-based approach to strategic communications. 

Over the past 14 years, clients in the nonprofit, education, healthcare, consumer, and financial sectors have benefited from Houda’s strategic communication expertise, she has worked with numerous national foundations and nonprofits, including Walton Family Foundation, The Giving Pledge Learning Series, FWD.us, The Cherokee Nation and George Kaiser Family Foundation. Houda is an innovative and visionary thinker who can craft messages and campaigns that resonate with communities and help drive results for clients. She leads Saxum’s client service team to successfully execute issue-based campaigns. Houda also oversees Saxum’s Step Up Program which offers in-kind services to nonprofits across the nation, distributing more than $1 million in pro bono support over the last decade.

Connect with Houda

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You can maximize your cash flow and operational efficiency! Learn how to get alignment in your organization and board through five steps of strategic thinking!

Conversation Highlights

{03:21} Know your mission and rank your programs based on quality and quantity. {08:20} Analyze the unit economics. {14:13} Know which programs most directly impact your mission. {21:18} Budget! {28:02} Be a good steward of your funds.

Remarkable Quotes

Travis: Rank each program, which ones have the impact that you're trying to have. Stephen: If you show the donor the tangible result of your gift, you'll raise more money. Travis: It's amazing what's out there and what people are willing to do to get a mission done. Stephen: Get people motivated, they understand the plan, they are part of something bigger than themselves.

Stephen King Bio

From tech founder to nonprofit CFO and fundraiser, Stephen King brings a unique combination of vision, foresight, and experience to help nonprofits maximize their cash flow and operational efficiency. He’s been a dedicated board member of many nonprofit organizations - including seven years working for Amnesty International USA - first as Deputy Executive Director- Finance & Administration, and then as its Director of Development, overseeing 300% growth, then raising over $20M a year. His time at Amnesty reinforced Steve’s life-long commitment to giving back to the community through charitable causes.

Regarded as one of the accounting industry's top thought leaders, he's currently serving as Founder & CEO of GrowthForce, a heart-centered company with specialized teams providing accounting for nonprofits.

Connect with Stephen King

https://www.growthforce.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenkingcpa/ https://twitter.com/growthforce https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChcHVgeGQ4gWmI9NWm6JWRw

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You can increase the happiness rate in your nonprofit. Craig Handley inspires us to “live life like an extreme sport” and bring that energy into our nonprofit.

Conversation Highlights

{02:26} The American dream. {09:03} Programs that will increase the happiness rate in your nonprofit. {14:34} The importance of making changes in your staff life. {19:32} Talk about the big picture. {27:03} Getting caught up in ego. {32:46} Interacting with a person considered to be of lower stature. {36:04} Creating fans of your organization.

Remarkable Quotes

Craig: The happiness scores went through the roof; everybody was happier! Craig: When you are helping people go after their dreams it's hard to quit. Travis: All the innovative people in the world are rulebreakers. Craig: If you've got someone that's gossiping and cancerous, it doesn't matter what their skills are.

Craig Handley Bio

Craig Handley is an entrepreneur, speaker, musician, and philanthropist. He believes in “living life like an extreme sport.” As such, he has cage dived with great white sharks and rappelled down Table Mountain in South Africa, driven the Baja 500 trail in Mexico, hiked through the jungles of Malaysia, and in Iceland, he snowmobiled across a live volcano, swam in the Blue Lagoon, and dove in the famed Silfra Fissure which is the only dive site in the world where your dive is in the crack between two continental plates. He is the 85th civilian ever to jump out of a plane from over 32,000 feet... He is undefeated in his three trips to Necker Island when donning the Sumo Suit. He's met Ringo Starr and bumped into Paul McCartney before security escorted him back to his table while trying to get a selfie, and, in Calgary, he had a scarf blessed while meeting the Dalai Lama (which he has since misplaced). An expert in Hispanic Marketing, Direct Response Marketing, and Sales and Brand expansion, Handley is the CEO and founder of the hugely successful “Listen Up Española,” which was named #1 in Business Products and Service (#27 overall) on Inc. Magazine’s 500/5000 list. Handley’s businesses employ over 1,000 employees and have cumulatively done over 500 million in sales within the last five years to Hispanics in the USA. He started his professional career as a paperboy, winning a contest to go to Disney for most new subscribers at the age of 13, he followed up with 3 years of door-to-door insurance sales, where he again won the company's highest award 8 times. He worked in a call center in telephone sales and again was one of 3 employees (Out of 950) selling over a million dollars a year in product. A respected advisor for hundreds of brands, products, and services in almost every category, he has also contributed articles and been interviewed for leading marketing and business magazines, blogs, and podcasts and he's spoken at conferences, company retreats, seminars, and private masterminds.

Connect with Craig Handley http://revenueenhancement.com https://www.facebook.com/craighandley https://twitter.com/CraigAHandley https://www.listentrust.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/craighandley

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