Wisdom for Nonprofits Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In this episode, Betina Pflug is joined by Nicki Van Veen to discuss the critical role of polished writing and effective presentations in driving nonprofit success. Nicki shares her extensive experience and insights on how nonprofits can enhance their communication to connect better with stakeholders and achieve their missions.

Insightful Conversation with Nicki Van Veen: Discover how Nicki, the founder of Leveraged IQ, partners with organizations to bridge the gap between vision and execution. Learn about the strategies that empower nonprofits to present their ideas clearly and compellingly, fostering greater engagement and support.

Actionable Strategies for Nonprofits: This episode provides practical advice for nonprofits of all sizes, including tips on writing compelling proposals, crafting engaging presentations, and utilizing frameworks to streamline communication. Nicki’s success stories and Betina’s expertise offer invaluable guidance for nonprofit leaders looking to elevate their messaging without sacrificing their mission.

How to contact Nicki Van Veen: Leveraged IQ

About Betina Pflug: Betina is an entrepreneur, business and life coach, and a marketing and CRM specialist dedicated to supporting nonprofit professionals. With an MBA from the Rotman School in Canada and various coaching certifications, she tailors her approach to empower organizations to maximize their impact. Learn more about her work at wity.tech/nonprofits and schedule a quick call if you’re interested in mentorship.

How to contact Betina Pflug: Send us an email at podcast@wity.tech.

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Main Theme: In this episode, Betina Pflug is joined by Elizabeth Drozd to discuss the increasing demands of compliance, reporting, and administration in the nonprofit sector. Elizabeth shares her extensive experience and insights on how nonprofits can navigate these challenges effectively.

Insightful Conversation with Elizabeth Drozd: Discover how Elizabeth Drozd, CEO of the Australian Multicultural Community Services, has successfully managed the evolving landscape of regulatory requirements. Learn about the strategies her organization employs to maintain transparency, enhance credibility, and ensure operational efficiency.

Actionable Strategies for Nonprofits: This episode provides practical advice for nonprofits of all sizes, including tips on leveraging technology, training staff, and fostering collaboration. Elizabeth’s success stories and Betina’s expertise offer invaluable guidance for nonprofit leaders striving to meet compliance demands without compromising their mission.

How to contact Elizabeth Drozd?  https://amcservices.org.au/

Betina Meyer Pflug is an entrepreneur, a business and life coach, a marketing and CRM specialist with a passion for supporting nonprofit professionals. She has a degree in hotel management, received her MBA from Rotman School in Canada, and has completed three different coaching certifications, including a specialization in facilitating nonprofits, life coaching, and biopsychology to promote positive mental attitudes for mental and physical wellbeing. If you want to know more about her work, visit the website https://wity.tech/nonprofits/ and schedule a quick call if you are interested in having a mentor.

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Facing technology without frustration. Is that even possible? 

Are you considering investing in a new piece of technology for your nonprofit? Or migrating your CRM to a new one with more features? 

Choosing the right technology platforms for your organization requires aligning the features and packages of the software available in the market to your organization’s requirements and needs. Modern technology has come a long way and plays an important role when fighting for dollars from your donor and foundations. However, with the multitude of platforms available in the market, this choice is even harder; finding the one that works best for your growing organization can be challenging.

As a nonprofit professional or person responsible for implementing a new CRM, the choice can quickly become complicated. To save time and help make the decision easier, we have invited to our podcast a specialist in this field called Patty Breech; she will bring to us key considerations that will help you choose the right tech platforms for your nonprofit.

Patty spent five years working for the BlinkNow Foundation in Nepal, an organization changing the world by empowering Nepal’s youth. During that time, she grew the organization’s social media following by 2600% and tripled the size of the supporter database. She also led a marketing campaign to successfully convince the world to vote for the organization’s founder in the 2015 CNN Hero of the Year award. 

A self-proclaimed data geek, Patty is forever crunching numbers and studying spreadsheets. She loves putting systems into place to help teams work more efficiently. She graduated from Yale University and now lives in Colorado, close to me in Boulder. She is part of The Purpose Collective team and also Consultants for Good.

Betina Meyer Pflug is an entrepreneur, a business and life coach, a marketing and CRM specialist with a passion for supporting nonprofit professionals. She has a degree in hotel management, received her MBA from Rotman School in Canada, and has completed three different coaching certifications, including a specialization in facilitating nonprofits, life coaching, and biopsychology to promote positive mental attitudes for mental and physical wellbeing. If you want to know more about her work, visit the website https://wity.tech/nonprofits/ and schedule a quick call if you are interested in having a mentor.

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How to contact Patty Breech? Send her and email at hello@the-purpose-collective.com

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If you're the leader of a nonprofit organization, you no doubt face a constant barrage of demands and opportunities. And the more successful your organization becomes, the more demands you need to field. For example, your clients want you to provide more or different services; other groups ask you to partner with them; staff members suggest new program ideas and priorities. As a result, you are flooded with new possibilities, and at the same time, you have your own ideas for opportunities to create and seek out. 

Although this is an excellent problem, you can't do it all—and it can be challenging to consider all the options. So how do you decide which opportunities deserve the valuable time of your staff, board, and volunteers?

This is where strategic planning comes in. A strategic plan enables an organization to function from an intentional and active place rather than a reactive one. It streamlines decision-making and acts as a road map for realizing the organization's vision. 

I witnessed the benefits of strategic planning for nonprofits constantly while delivering training for several nonprofits on team building. Yet, I am always amazed at the sector's general fear of nonprofit strategic planning. I get it; strategic planning has traditionally been done so badly that many have given up on the idea. But that's a mistake.

You are just spinning your wheels without a long-term strategy for what your nonprofit is trying to accomplish and how you will marshal people and money to reach it.

Rather than be feared, I invite you to see it from a different perspective. In this Podcast episode, we will discuss the common mistakes when preparing a nonprofit strategic plan. 

I can assure you that the time we spent doing strategic planning will contribute to your success story.

Betina Meyer Pflug is an entrepreneur, a business and life coach, a marketing and CRM specialist with a passion for supporting nonprofit professionals. She has a degree in hotel management, received her MBA from Rotman School in Canada, and has completed three different coaching certifications, including a specialization in facilitating nonprofits, life coaching, and biopsychology to promote positive mental attitudes for mental and physical wellbeing. If you want to know more about her work, visit the website https://wity.tech/nonprofits/ and schedule a quick call if you are interested in having a mentor.

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Does Your organization struggle to solve finances, HR, fundraising, and board problems?

Nonprofits are, by definition, mission driven. As a result, nonprofit organizations are expected to deliver results on multiple fronts. The result of this pressure can be a nightmare for prioritization. For example, suppose you are a leader in a nonprofit context. In that case, my guess is that you are constantly grappling with the reality of being knowledgeable in different areas like finance, HR, fundraising, and board interaction, besides being responsible for delivering outstanding services to your constituents.

How can you be good in all these areas at the same time? Are you overwhelmed by your challenges as a nonprofit administrator or manager? Do you have a plan for resolving these challenges?

In this episode, we will discuss important topics like:

- Ins and out of Financial Management

- How to define long-term plans for your organization

- Negotiating with your board members

- The difference between relationship building x fundraising

- How to involve everybody in fundraising

- Ho to talk to your potential donors

- Fundraise appeals strategy

- Transforming grant management into a trust relationship

- Work collaboratively with funders

- And much more

Betina Meyer Pflug is an entrepreneur, a business and life coach, a marketing and CRM specialist with a passion for supporting nonprofit professionals. She has a degree in hotel management, received her MBA from Rotman School in Canada, and has completed three different coaching certifications, including a specialization in facilitating nonprofits, life coaching, and biopsychology to promote positive mental attitudes for mental and physical wellbeing. If you want to know more about her work, visit the website https://wity.tech/nonprofits/ and schedule a quick call if you are interested in having a mentor.

How to contact Betina Pflug? Send us an email at podcast@wity.tech

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How to contact Jodi Segal?

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/big-change-consulting

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Ask yourself the following questions: 

“Are my board members…”

Passionate about the mission?

Understanding of their role?

Turning up to meetings?

Helping at events?

Doing fundraising?

And even donating!? 

The hope is you can say yes to the majority of these because these are the fundamental responsibilities of any board. And yes, of course, boards come in many shapes and sizes. 

Some are deeply engaged, some decidedly less so. Some involve themselves in the organization's intricacies, and some take a hands-off approach. But ideally, your board will be well-rounded, inspired, and working towards your organization's mission in partnership with you, your staff, and volunteers. 

If some of these primary criteria are not occurring within your board, it’s time to look at how to improve them.

In this episode, here’s what you will learn … how to build and sustain a powerhouse board.

Betina Meyer Pflug is an entrepreneur, a business and life coach, and a marketing and CRM specialist passionate about supporting nonprofit professionals. She has a degree in hotel management, received her MBA from Rotman School in Canada, and has completed three different coaching certifications, including a specialization in facilitating nonprofits, life coaching, and biopsychology to promote positive mental attitudes for mental and physical wellbeing. If you want to know more about her work, visit the website https://wity.tech/nonprofits/ and schedule a quick call if you are interested in having a mentor.

How to contact Betina Pflug? Please send us an email at podcast@wity.tech

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How to contact Nanci Bacon?

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Visit nonprofitlearning.center to learn more about the Nonprofit Board Certificate Course. 

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• Things a nonprofit should do before hiring a consultant.
• How to find an external nonprofit consultant that fits your need.
• How to establish a GREAT partnership with your consultant.
• PROS and CONS of an RPF.
• New concept RFC - Request for a Conversation.
• How nonprofit leaders can use Nonprofit.ist.
• Benefits for nonprofit consultants using Nonprofit.ist.
• Getting Started with Your Consultant start pack.

I hope this information is helpful for your organization and many others, please share it with as many friends as you can that work in the nonprofit area. This information can be helpful for your colleagues.

Betina Meyer Pflug is an entrepreneur, a business and life coach, a marketing and CRM specialist with a passion for supporting nonprofit professionals. She has a degree in hotel management, received her MBA from Rotman School in Canada, and has completed three different coaching certifications, including a specialization in facilitating nonprofits, life coaching, and biopsychology to promote positive mental attitudes for mental and physical wellbeing. If you want to know more about her work, visit the website 

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Sometimes being an executive director is not easy, you might face a lot of difficulties, learning how to reprioritize and stay focused and help not only your non-profit but also your self-development.
Clark Hodge is the executive director of Chase the music. Chase, the music is a United States-based non-profit that gives children battling critical conditions, hope, strength, love, and joy through the power of music. They bring together the composers, the children, the performers, the venue, the audience and to make a unique event for each child they support.
One of the biggest issues he was facing was getting focused. After participating in the Happiness Journey Program, a lot of things changed. Now, he's much more productive and will share with you some tips on how to get there too.

During today's conversation, here's what we'll cover:
● How to break old habits
● Building new mindset
● Tips on how to bring self-awareness
● Project Management tools
● Tools to increase the non-profit productivity

Betina Meyer Pflug is an entrepreneur, a business and life coach, a marketing and CRM specialist with a passion for supporting nonprofit professionals. She has a degree in hotel management, received her MBA from Rotman School in Canada, and has completed three different coaching certifications, including a specialization in facilitating nonprofits, life coaching, and biopsychology to promote positive mental attitudes for mental and physical wellbeing. If you want to know more about her work, visit the website 

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I recently saw a fantastic presentation from the director of development for the Special Olympics in Colorado. presentation, I question myself, what are all the nonprofit professionals who speak like her in public with the ability to adapt a speech for the audience with confidence, saying a big breakthrough tells storytelling, keeping short and sweet, able to modulate to avoid engaging the audience and above all being yourself.   Jan Radnoti is the director of development for the Special Olympics in Colorado. She has more than 14 years on her belt working with Special Olympics in California and Colorado. She primarily works with law enforcement agencies throughout the state in raising awareness and fundraising for over 15,500 Special Olympics, Colorado athletes. 

There's so many different goals that she has, when she publicly speaks, it isn't making the sale every time, it's planting that seed. That's really what it's about. If you can really focus on the passion that you have for the nonprofit you work for, that passion should help you get over that self-criticism. Because all you are, you are a messenger for your nonprofit. 

During today's conversation, here's what we'll cover:

• Career Paths on Non-Profits
• Public Speaking
• Principles of Public Speaking
• Adapting and Storytelling
• How to adapt speech to the audience with confidence
• How to engage the audience

Betina Meyer Pflug is an entrepreneur, a business and life coach, a marketing and CRM specialist with a passion for supporting nonprofit professionals. She has a degree in hotel management, received her MBA from Rotman School in Canada, and has completed three different coaching certifications, including a specialization in facilitating nonprofits, life coaching, and biopsychology to promote positive mental attitudes for mental and physical wellbeing. If you want to know more about her work, visit the website 

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Website: https://specialolympicsco.org/

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Strategic thinking—from the big picture, long-range planning to the everyday use of project management tools and software such as Trello— can enable nonprofits to not just face, but actually thrive, amidst challenges and today’s dynamic environment.

Dayna Williams-Capone has worked as a leader and manager in public libraries for over 25 years and understands the similarities and connections that public libraries and nonprofit organizations share in common.  She has worked in partnership with nonprofits developing library programming, helping library users connect to nonprofit services and more close to home has used her career experience in advising her spouse on how the nonprofit he leads can take the ideas of community connection and innovation and apply them in his organization.  

Balancing family and professional life always makes for high-energy days and can lead to times of stress or intense satisfaction based upon the tasks and achievements of the moment.  Dayna is always looking for ways to decrease stress and increase efficiencies so the Happiness Journey was an ideal fit for her.

During today's conversation, here's what we'll cover:

• Management and Leadership
• Profession and Career Growth
• Organization Skills
• Work-life Balance
• How to grow your skill with a team
• How to manage a team during COVID.
• How to be ready for new adventures that you're gonna face as a non-profit.
• Family Relationships

Betina Meyer Pflug is an entrepreneur, a business and life coach, a marketing and CRM specialist with a passion for supporting nonprofit professionals. She has a degree in hotel management, received her MBA from Rotman School in Canada, and has completed three different coaching certifications, including a specialization in facilitating nonprofits, life coaching, and biopsychology to promote positive mental attitudes for mental and physical wellbeing. If you want to know more about her work, visit the website 

https://www.instagram.com/wity.coaching/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/betinapflug/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dayna-williams-capone