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The Smart Communications Podcast

Big Duck

Business

Government

Frequency: 1 episode/14d. Total Eps: 190

The Smart Communications Podcast helps busy nonprofit leaders build their communications skills and develop their organization’s voice. Every episode shares insights and practical tips to help you leverage strategic communications to advance your nonprofit’s mission.

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🇨🇦 Canada - nonProfit
28/07/2025
#48
🇺🇸 USA - nonProfit
28/07/2025
#48
🇨🇦 Canada - nonProfit
27/07/2025
#43
🇨🇦 Canada - nonProfit
26/07/2025
#32
🇺🇸 USA - nonProfit
26/07/2025
#86
🇨🇦 Canada - nonProfit
25/07/2025
#33
🇺🇸 USA - nonProfit
25/07/2025
#90
🇨🇦 Canada - nonProfit
24/07/2025
#20
🇨🇦 Canada - nonProfit
20/07/2025
#92
🇺🇸 USA - nonProfit
20/07/2025
#80

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https://capitalcampaigntoolkit.com/
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https://www.meonlylouder.com/
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https://bigduck.com/about/sarah-durham/
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https://amzn.to/2Tc6GOL
3 shares

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-activist-files-podcast/id1389473053?mt=2%20
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Score global : 38%

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Episode 168: How can framing inform your strategy?

mercredi 21 août 2024 • Duration 30:19

Farra Trompeter, co-director, is joined by Dr. Nat Kendall-Taylor, CEO, and Carinne Wheedan, director of communications, at the FrameWorks Institute, to discuss how framing can inform a nonprofit’s communications strategy. They share practical ways that organizations can effectively apply framing to their messaging or campaigns and provide general tips for those in the mission-driven sector.

Episode 167: How do you activate change in a network?

mercredi 7 août 2024 • Duration 24:36

Join Farra Trompeter, co-director, and Stacy Van Gorp, PhD, partner-owner at See What I Mean Consulting, as they discuss how change comes about in a network, how good communications is essential to creating change, and activation moments, tools, and activities related to communications that you can integrate into your everyday work.

Episode 158: How can staff take care of themselves while changing the world?

mercredi 3 avril 2024 • Duration 28:29

Farra Trompeter, co-director, talks with Meico Marquette Whitlock, founder and CEO of Mindful Techie, about mindfulness in the workplace and offers tips that nonprofit leaders can apply to cultivate care and resilience among their teams.

Episode 67: How do you build sustainable momentum into your communications?

mercredi 19 août 2020 • Duration 17:53

Sarah Durham discusses how nonprofits generate sustainable momentum in their communications. She identifies common challenges, including bottlenecks created by leadership micromanagement and a lack of staff accountability, and offers ways to address them. Tune in to hear about the six key elements that can help your organization create sustainable momentum in its communications.

Episode 54: How do you ask for a really, really, really big donation?

mercredi 5 août 2020 • Duration 15:28

Sarah Durham and Eric Javier discuss the 80/20 rule, the ladder of engagement, and how to articulate your vision to donors. Listen in to learn how your nonprofit can get their next really big donation to transform the organization.

Episode 68: Why is a clear voice important for nonprofits?

mercredi 22 juillet 2020 • Duration 15:30

Sarah Durham, CEO of Big Duck and Advomatic, goes deep into the topic of organizational voice—what it is, how to create it, maintain it, and more. Building on the insights in her book, The Nonprofit Communications Engine (https://bigduck.com/insights/nonprofit-communications-engine/), she connects the work of establishing a clear and consistent voice to building deeper relationships and mindshare with audiences. Tune in to learn how you can start developing your nonprofit’s voice and get answers to common branding questions.

Episode 56: How can you make your website friendlier and more accessible?

mercredi 8 juillet 2020 • Duration 11:44

Advomatic’s Sarah Durham and Amanda Luker discuss how to constantly improve your website, create different ways to experience content, and run accessibility audits of your nonprofit’s website. Learn how you can make your website friendlier to all users, including those who are differently abled.

Episode 66: How can you communicate better via Zoom?

mercredi 24 juin 2020 • Duration 07:09

Big Duck CEO Sarah Durham explores ways in which COVID-19 shelter-in-place restrictions have made us all increasingly dependent on video conferencing tools like Zoom. She shares a couple of tips and tricks to get more out of each digital interaction and to also combat the accompanying screen-time fatigue. Listen in to learn how creating “pop-up rules” or norms can improve the experience for everyone involved.

Episode 62: How can you disrupt power dynamics and bring a DEI lens to your major donor relationships?

mercredi 10 juin 2020 • Duration 12:28

Sarah Durham and strategist Hannah Thomas discuss how DEI plays an important role in your capital campaigns and other major donor communications. Centering your communications on participants and being aware of how you may be “privileging” your donors is the first step. Tune in to find out how you can reevaluate your organization’s donor centrism.

Episode 65: What happens when people think they know your organization but they don’t?

mercredi 27 mai 2020 • Duration 20:58

What happens when people hang on to an old idea of your organization? Learn how Teresa Younger, CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, shaped and advanced a well-known brand.