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Unlocking Wholeness At Work

Tuesday, August 27, 2024 • Duration 10:03

This conversation is with Ana Polanco, international ancestral coach and cultural facilitator.

This month I’m doing a mini-series called Lessons from COVID that are still relevant today. Pulling together collections of conversations that I had with sector leaders called the Next Normal. We were deep in the days of COVID, and heading into a difficult election season, and everything felt fraught and difficult. And no one knew what our organizations and our work and our sector would look like on the other end of it all.

Now, here we are 4 summers later, and we’re starting to see which shifts stuck and which learnings from those difficult times actually reshaped how we operate together and as a sector. We saw that there are some fundamental questions and truths - about community, leadership, partnerships and sustainability - that endure.

I’m bringing you snippets of conversations that illuminate some of those questions and truths.

Lessons from COVID Part 1: Conversations With A Funder: Building Sustainable Organizations: Essential Questions For Leaders

Lessons from COVID Part 2: Shaking Hierarchies & Building Powerful Communities

Lessons from COVID Part 3: Harnessing The Power of Collaboration

Want to work together?

Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations that are ready to install a powerful nonprofit Operating System to sustain impact at scale.

Budget under $800K? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board!

Connect with me!

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Harnessing The Power of Collaboration

Tuesday, August 20, 2024 • Duration 13:26

These conversations were with George Suttles, Executive Director of Commonfund Institute at Commonfund.

This month I’m doing a mini-series called Lessons from COVID that are still relevant today. Pulling together collections of conversations that I had with sector leaders called the Next Normal. We were deep in the days of COVID, and heading into a difficult election season, and everything felt fraught and difficult. And no one knew what our organizations and our work and our sector would look like on the other end of it all.

Now, here we are 4 summers later, and we’re starting to see which shifts stuck and which learnings from those difficult times actually reshaped how we operate together and as a sector. We saw that there are some fundamental questions and truths - about community, leadership, partnerships and sustainability - that endure.

I’m bringing you snippets of conversations that illuminate some of those questions and truths.

Lessons from COVID Part 1: Conversations With A Funder: Building Sustainable Organizations: Essential Questions For Leaders

Lessons from COVID Part 2: Shaking Hierarchies & Building Powerful Communities

Want to work together?

Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations that are ready to install a powerful nonprofit Operating System to sustain impact at scale.

Budget under $800K? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board!

Connect with me!

Spotlight on Donor Cultivation Dimension 4: Trust

Friday, June 14, 2024 • Duration 07:10

In today’s episode, I conclude our mini-series on donor cultivation by exploring the crucial fourth dimension: trust. If you missed the earlier episodes, I highly recommend starting there for a comprehensive understanding. Today, we'll discuss how to demonstrate your organization’s impact, strategic planning, and trustworthiness to potential donors.

What You'll Learn:

How to prove your organization's impact with data and stories.
Strategies for showcasing your clear and strategic planning.
The importance of social proof and sharing success stories.

Key Takeaways:

Use data and impact reports to show the solvability of your mission's problem.
Share specific and strategic plans to demonstrate thorough preparation and action.
Highlight success stories and case studies to show real impact.
Leverage social proof by celebrating your network of supporters and partners.
Illustrate the positive changes brought by your work through testimonials and stories.

Steps to Build Donor Trust:

Show Impact with Data: Regularly publish impact reports with statistics and evidence of your organization's achievements.
Share Strategic Plans: Be transparent about your goals and the strategic decisions behind them.
Use Case Studies and Stories: Share real-life examples of how your work has positively affected individuals and communities.
Demonstrate Social Proof: Highlight endorsements and support from other donors, partners, and advisory boards.
Illustrate Outcomes: Show the tangible improvements your organization has made through testimonials and stories from those impacted by your work.

Resources Mentioned:

Impact Reports: Regular publications detailing your organization’s achievements and statistical evidence of impact.

Lessons From The Field: What’s Working in Small Shop Nonprofit Leadership & Growth in 2023- Leverage

Tuesday, January 10, 2023 • Duration 19:48

In this week’s episode, I’m continuing my new year series about setting intentions to guide your leadership and growth in the new year. Goals are important, but I argue that intentions are perhaps even more foundational and important. While your goals are a commitment to an outcome, your intentions are a commitment to a process - they are an orientation to your work: How you want to approach your leadership, actions, and decisions.

The second intention that you should set in 2023 is to leverage your time.

In this episode, you will learn:

What it means to leverage your time
The definition and importance of of “high leverage” activities
Two strategies for finding time for visioning, thought leadership, and relationship building.

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RESOURCES MENTIONED
One Of The Most Powerful (& Underused!) Strategies For Reclaiming Your Time For "Real" Work

How To Actually Operationalize Your Plan For Organizational GrowthNonprofit Leadership Resource Hub ==> richiebabbage.com/nonprofitresourcehubOTHER WAYS TO ENJOY THIS PODCAST

Lessons From The Field: What’s Working in Small Shop Nonprofit Leadership & Growth in 2023 - Relationships

Tuesday, January 3, 2023 • Duration 18:26

In this week’s episode, I’m kicking off my new year series about setting intentions as a way to guide your leadership and growth in the new year. Goals are important, but I argue that intentions are often over looked and in some ways more foundational.

While your goals are a commitment to an outcome, your intentions are a commitment to a process - they are an orientation to your work: How you want to approach your leadership, actions and decisions.

One of the most important intentions you can set is to adopt a relationship orientation.

In this episode, you will learn:

What it means to set powerful intentions for your organization,
The centrality of relationships and network expansion in fueling your growth,
Two strategies for continually expanding your organizational relationships.

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Resources Mentioned

Podcast episode about Leveraged Networks

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Nonprofit Strategic Planning Mini-Series | Setting Goals

Tuesday, November 29, 2022 • Duration 27:32

In this week’s episode, I’m wrapping up my short series on the architecture of a powerful annual strategic plan. I’m focusing on goal setting - a simple framework for setting goals that will serve as the powerful link between your vision for impact and what you actually do every month and week and day.

When you’re bogged down by the messiness of running your organization, managing your team, working with your board, and all of the other things that you need to get done as a nonprofit leader, you want to really know that the activities you’re spending money and time on - the tasks you’re doing, etc. - are directly linked to - and will lead to - the impact you care most about.

The way to do that is to make sure that your goals are grounded in your priorities. And we talked last time about making sure that the priorities are grounded in your vision. That’s the throughline.

In this episode, you will learn:

The key elements of a well architected annual strategic plan
The importance of setting meaningful goals
How to define a really effective goal
Questions to ask to identify 3 year and 1 year goals for your organization

Links Referenced

Asset Mapping Guide

Fund Your Strategic Vision

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Nonprofit Strategic Planning Mini-Series | Creating Priorities

Monday, November 14, 2022 • Duration 18:00

In this week’s episode, I’m continuing my short series on the architecture of a powerful strategic plan by zeroing in on the why, what, and how of strategic priorities.
In this episode, you will learn:

Why it’s so important that you create strategic priorities to guide your planning process
What makes priorities strategic
How to identify strategic priorities for your own organization

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Check us out on YouTube!

Want to work together?

Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations that are ready to install a powerful nonprofit Operating System to sustain impact at scale.

Budget under $800K? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me!

Nonprofit Strategic Planning Mini-Series | Creating a Clear Vision

Tuesday, November 8, 2022 • Duration 27:23

In this week’s episode, I’m starting a short series on the architecture of a powerful strategic plan. Why it’s so important to have an effective plan, and how to build that plan from the ground up, starting with having a clear and compelling strategic vision.

In this episode, you will learn:

The elements of an effective strategic plan
The difference between vision and strategy
The dangers of not having a clear and compelling vision of your organization's future, and how to know if you're holding yourself back from crafting your vision
The four sets of questions to ask when creating your vision map

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Now is the time to invest in smart, strategic redesign of what's blocking your org's growth. Set yourself up for a poweful 2026 - apply to join the Next Level Nonprofit. brookerichiebabbage.com/nextlevelnonprofit

Want to work together?

Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations that are ready to install a powerful nonprofit Operating System to sustain impact at scale.

The Power of The CEO Day

Tuesday, November 1, 2022 • Duration 28:45

In this week’s episode, I talk about a powerful strategy for getting out of the weeds in your organization: The CEO Day (also known as the personal leadership retreat).
So often we label taking time for big-picture thinking as a "nice to have." But it’s actually a must have: We need to make time for our CEO -level work just as we make time for anything else that’s critical if we want the organization to grow and be sustainable.

In this episode, you will learn:

The importance of scheduling CEO Days into your annual calendar
How to structure and plan for your CEO Day
The 5 questions around which you should organization your CEO Day

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Links Mentioned
Newsletter: How To Keep Learning As A Leader

A Fun (& Powerful) Cultivation and Network Expansion Activity

How To Create A 2022 Vision Map For Your Organization

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The Curse of Perfectionism Holding Your Nonprofit Back

Tuesday, October 25, 2022 • Duration 18:10

In this week’s episode, I’m highlighting one common - and dangerous - challenge that may be hiding in plain sight in your organization. Like a shape-shifting snake in the grass, it can hold us back and we don’t even recognize that it’s happening. So I’m highlighting some of the ways that it shows up so that you can spot the snake and build systems to stop it once and for all.

In this episode, you will learn:

The many variations on a common challenge that may be sneaking into your organization.
The importance of calibrating planning and action.
How to design your organization’s “operating system” to help you keep moving forward in the face of uncertainty.

Links Mentioned

Brain Trust Toolkit, inside the Nonprofit Leadership Resource Hub

Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple Podcasts

“This podcast is heaven-sent. Grateful!!” <– If that sounds like you, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This helps me support more people — just like you — build and lead an organization that brings them joy. Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then be sure to let me know what you loved most about the episode!

Also, if you haven’t done so already, I invite you to share the podcast with friends! You can share this link: richiebabbage.com/nonprofitmastermindpodcast

Other Ways To Enjoy This Podcast

Check us out on YouTube!

Want to work together?

Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations that are ready to install a powerful nonprofit Operating System to sustain impact at scale.