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Every week your host Maria Rio, or her guests, will share actionable steps to support you in finding clarity, raising funds, and leading with courage.

Our Latest Episodes

Getting Started with Cryptocurrency Donations with Anne Connelly and Jason Shim

Getting Started with Cryptocurrency Donations with Anne Connelly and Jason Shim

Donating with cryptocurrency is an emerging trend. With a lot of information (and hype) out there about cryptocurrency, it can be confusing and even a bit scary when considering whether your charity should start receiving cryptocurrency donations. On today’s episode, two experts in this field, Anne Connelly and Jason Shim, share with us how to get started with cryptocurrency fundraising.

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Managing Conflict with Claudia Aronowitz

Managing Conflict with Claudia Aronowitz

Dealing with conflicts often invokes uneasy feelings or even fear. But healthy debates and conflicts can bring thought diversity and new perspectives to the table. So can we stop avoiding conflict and manage them with more ease and courage? On today’s episode, personal development coach and mediator Claudia Aronowitz shares with us practical tips on conflict management.

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How to Recruit Your Dream Board  with Andrea Shirey

How to Recruit Your Dream Board with Andrea Shirey

Managing the board often gives EDs a headache. When a board functions effectively, it can be an organization’s greatest asset, but when it doesn’t, it becomes an extra burden for the ED and the rest of the staff. So how do you build your dream board from inside out? On today’s episode, Andrea Shirey, CEO of One Nine Design and expert on nonprofit board management, shares with us step-by-step tips on improving your board’s experience and impact.

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Looking Forward with Bruce MacDonald

Looking Forward with Bruce MacDonald

I’m hopeful that some of the practices that we've seen emerge through a crisis can shift our DNA and become part of how we as a sector work together more effectively going forward. With 2.4 million Canadians working in this sector, 13 million volunteers and 8.5% of GDP, we are a force to be reckoned with in Canada, and should be reckoned with. And if there's one thing we can do something out of this is to leverage our ability to use that strength for good.

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Dismantling White Supremacy in the Nonprofit Sector with Hawa Mire

Dismantling White Supremacy in the Nonprofit Sector with Hawa Mire

How can we have a real conversation about systemic racism and white supremacy, especially at our workplace with power dynamics involved? On today’s podcast, Hawa Mire, strategy and equity consultant and community organizer, walks us through how we might build up our muscles and emotional intelligence for having these important conversations.

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Discovering Your Donors with Allen Davidov

Discovering Your Donors with Allen Davidov

In this episode, Allen Dadvidov, VP of Business Consulting and Nonprofit Sector Lead from Environics Analytics, shares with us tips on how to leverage our existing donor data (yes, spreadsheets included!) to look for indicators that can help grow our fundraising and how general behaviour trends of the populations can support our understanding of donors’ engagement and giving potential.

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Sharing the Responsibility for Decolonization  with Tim Fox

Sharing the Responsibility for Decolonization with Tim Fox

On today’s podcast, Tim Fox, Vice President of Indigenous Relations and Racial Equity at Calgary Foundation, shares his lived experience of facilitating the Calgary Foundation to commit to transformative changes and learning. Tim urges us to challenge us to think beyond decolonization as a short term project that has easy fixes. He encourages us to reflect on how we might make ourselves open and vulnerable in sharing our responsibilities for decolonization and commit to life-long actions.

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Embracing Advocacy with Cathy Taylor

Embracing Advocacy with Cathy Taylor

Advocacy is in the DNA of our sector. Every day, whether it’s a front line social agency, or an arts organization, nonprofits are doing great advocacy work at the community level.

How can we as a sector lift each other up and support each other’s advocacy efforts?

Joining us today for this discussion is Cathy Taylor, the Executive Director of the Ontario Nonprofit Network.

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Overhauling Your Fundraising Mindset  with Yvonne Harding

Overhauling Your Fundraising Mindset with Yvonne Harding

In this special episode of the podcast, one of the students from our spring 2020 Flipside Fundraising cohort, Yvonne Harding, Resource Development Manager at Assaulted Women’s Helpline, to share the transformation she has experienced after she changed her fundraising mindset with the lessons learned in Flipside Fundraising.

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“What I Learned From My Daughter’s COVID Wedding” with Nneka Allen

“What I Learned From My Daughter’s COVID Wedding” with Nneka Allen

The guest on our podcast today, fundraiser and writer Nneka Allen, wants us to forget about all these loaded questions and simply reflect on how authentic and long term relationships naturally happen in our lives. She shares some beautiful examples from her daughter’s wedding and her personal eureka moments.

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