Grassroots to Grasstops: Investing in your mission to land in a nonprofit field of dreams

Grassroots to Grasstops: Investing in your mission to land in a nonprofit field of dreams

As an avid advocate of advocacy-based causes (say that 3 times fast!), Michele's advice for nonprofits looking for funding is to lead by example: invest the resources you have available in the same way that you're asking funders to invest in your mission. Rather than stretching your own programming budget, find a counterpart in advocating for your cause and strike up a collaboration. And Michele's number-one must-have is a healthy link between your theory of change and your programs.

Michele's story hits differently than most—being born with metatrophic dysplasia, a rare form of dwarfism, she's had every reason to be thrown off course by life's obstacles. But instead of being knocked down, Michele has looked up and treated every experience as an opportunity, smashing through that glass ceiling and becoming the first female president of the Caterpillar Foundation.

Michele and Justin Wheeler, CEO and Co-founder of Funraise, touch on the things that foundations like Caterpillar look for in investment-worthy nonprofits, ways to communicate the value of your cause, and the best way to present a nonprofit story that resonates with both donors and funders. So, dive with us into grassroots strategies and then come up for a birds-eye view of grasstops results, as we weave the two into a nonprofit field of dreams.

And if you want to hear more from Michele, go to LookingUp.com!

Det här avsnittet är hämtat från ett öppet RSS-flöde och publiceras inte av Podme. Det kan innehålla reklam.

Avsnitt(93)

Solving problems or seeking opportunities? Mission-based Appreciative Inquiry

Solving problems or seeking opportunities? Mission-based Appreciative Inquiry

With over 30 years working in nonprofits, Michael Mantel knows a thing or two about sustaining change over a long period of time. And as the President and CEO of Living Water International, an organiz...

24 Okt 202439min

Using Fundraising Intelligence to Modernize Nonprofit Growth

Using Fundraising Intelligence to Modernize Nonprofit Growth

Here at Funraise, we've long known that if only nonprofits were able to harness the power of data, they’d have the world changed in no time at all. In fact, nonprofits that embrace data tools like Fun...

22 Aug 202436min

What makes a visionary leader? Whiteboard.is breaks it down.

What makes a visionary leader? Whiteboard.is breaks it down.

What makes a leader visionary? How is visionary-ness developed and what does it look like in practice?While the concept behind these questions seems nebulous, we’re talking today with someone who has ...

25 Juli 202439min

Identifying Your Nonprofit’s Lane for Scalable Impact

Identifying Your Nonprofit’s Lane for Scalable Impact

When it comes to programming, some nonprofits choose a lane a mile wide and an inch deep while others dive a mile deep and an inch wide. The key is to know which lane your nonprofit thrives in.Today’s...

27 Juni 202435min

Nonprofit accounting from the ground up with Signature Analytics

Nonprofit accounting from the ground up with Signature Analytics

Money, budgets, funding, accounting—all nonprofits know how important these are to the success of programming and impact. But when you're a smaller nonprofit or just starting out, do you really need a...

30 Maj 202433min

Deep-Rooted Innovation with The Farmlink Project

Deep-Rooted Innovation with The Farmlink Project

Nonprofiteers have long known that our strengths lie in our passion for enacting change. More often than not, though, we see an issue and reach for it, only to find that we’re blocked by a lack of tim...

16 Maj 202442min

Bigger Than Philanthropy: Affecting change through alternative funding

Bigger Than Philanthropy: Affecting change through alternative funding

Today, we’re catching up with Francesco Ambrogetti, Principal Adviser of Innovative and Alternative Finance for Children at UNICEF. A champion of innovation in funding and paradigm-shifting change, Fr...

2 Maj 202445min

Partners, Not Projects: Actionable ideas to make space for ethical storytelling

Partners, Not Projects: Actionable ideas to make space for ethical storytelling

After an enlightening interview with Olga M. Woltman of LemonSkies (queue it up next!) left us pondering the role of storytelling in the nonprofit world, we realized that our focus on advanced fundrai...

21 Mars 202444min

Populärt inom Business & ekonomi

framgangspodden
varvet
badfluence
rss-borsens-finest
uppgang-och-fall
avanzapodden
rss-dagen-med-di
lastbilspodden
fill-or-kill
rss-inga-dumma-fragor-om-pengar
bathina-en-podcast
borsmorgon
24fragor
rss-kort-lang-analyspodden-fran-di
tabberaset
kapitalet-en-podd-om-ekonomi
market-makers
rss-den-nya-ekonomin
bilar-med-sladd
svd-tech-brief