How We Run: Non-profit success stories
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How We Run: Non-profit success stories
“How We Run” investigates the multi-faceted approach needed to run nonprofit organizations. We tackle topics like managing your board, fundraising, and measuring your impact. Each episode features an interview with a successful nonprofit director who shares their insight about running an organizatio...
Recent Episodes
45 episodesE45 Reimagining Nonprofit Impact
In this episode of How We Run, nonprofit consultants Julie Lacouture and Lisa J. Baxter sit down with Heather Hiscox, founder of Pause for Change and...
E44 Creating Spaces for Upcoming Leaders with Frank Velásquez Jr.
In this episode of How We Run, we sit down with Frank Velásquez Jr., Founder of 4 Da Hood, to explore how he transforms leadership development for com...
E43 Creativity in Fundraising with Brittney Miller
You’re probably familiar with many proven strategies for nonprofit fundraising, but what about the role of creativity? In today’s episode, we’re divin...
E42 Building Teams with Kamilah Martin
In this episode, we speak with Kamilah Martin, founder and CEO of Katalyst Consulting. Kamilah discusses her journey from a VP of a humanitarian organ...
E41 Building Social Capital with Amir Whitaker
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Amir Whitaker, educator, author, human rights lawyer, and artist. He is the founder and director of Project Knuckle...
E40 Prospect Research with Celeste Davies
Prospect researchers are the secret weapons in fundraising. Celeste Davies, an experienced and dynamic fundraiser, shares her talent for prospect rese...
E39 Nonprofit Growth with Richard Reyes
In this episode, Richard Reyes, founder and executive director of PLUS ME Project, shares his inspiring journey from being a first-generation college...
E38 What's Next for The Nonprofit Sector with Trent Stamp
"There are a lot of organizations that are out there hoping for this Hail Mary from Mackenzie Scott, but they don't have any idea how to prepare for t...
E37 Changing Minds and Building Relationships with Tera Hilliard
Our guest is Tera Hilliard from Forgotten Children, Inc., a nonprofit organization on a mission to combat human trafficking through rescue, restoratio...
E36 Introduction to Season 6
Welcoming Season Six with Co-Host Lisa J. Baxter: A Dive into Authentic Fundraising and Community Building
In the debut episode of Season Six, w...
E35 Confident Honesty with Jessica Aronoff
After only eight months in their new facilities, the Cayton Children's Museum faced the pandemic and subsequent reopening. According to their CEO, Jes...
E34 Big Swings: Reinventing an Organization
Season 5, Episode 3 of the How We Run podcast has an amazing leader that has built an amazing organization.
Our guest is Nichol Whiteman, the CE...
E33 Growing By Merging
We are joined by Liz Forer, CEO Venice Family Clinic, who tells us about the recent successful merger of two nonprofits: Venice Family Clinic and Sout...
E32 Succession planning with Jenna Hauss
Jenna Hauss started as an intern at ONEgeneration and today she is the President and CEO of this $9 million organization in Southern California. Jenna...
E31 Our favorites from season 4
Since we're giving thanks this week, we thought we'd look back on all the fantastic guests we've had on Season 4 of the How We Run podcast and share w...
E30 Leading Through Crisis with Leslie Ito
Before Leslie Ito was the Executive Director of Armory Center for the Arts, she assumed the leadership at an organization that was struggling. Leslie...
E29 Embracing Community Centric Fundraising
Mollie Marsh-Heine joins us to talk about how and why the fundraising department at Earthjustice has embraced the principles of Community-Centric Fund...
E28 Transitioning from Fiscal Sponsorship and Building a Collaborative Culture
David Diaz is the Executive Director of Active San Gabriel Valley who has recently transitioned his organization from fiscal sponsorship to being an i...
E27 An Unexpected Leap to Virtual Programs
Never in a million years did Sarah Walzer believe that virtual visits with parents and families would ever yield the same high-quality results at Pare...
E26 It's All About Trust
"We need to ask ourselves on a monthly basis on a weekly basis, are we making a positive impact?"
Johng Ho Song has held nearly every job at KYC...
Leadership and Transformational Gifts
Marc Freedman talks with Trent Stamp about receiving a transformational gift from MacKenzie Scott, “I think for those of us on the team it really felt...
Retaining Pandemic Donors
In this episode, Trent Stamp and Julie Lacouture are joined by Roger Castle of the LA Regional Food Bank who shares the amazing outpouring of support...
Building Leaders by Letting Go
"We shared the leadership responsibility and we had to develop and tighten up our operational procedures and policies because that was going to help o...
Finding Success With A Virtual Fundraising Event
"It was definitely a big shift, but it also allowed us, and kind of forced us, to think outside the box."
Our guests are Alexis Madrid and Amand...
Introduction to Season 4
Trent Stamp and Julie Lacouture return for Season for of How We Run where we'll look at how non-profit organizations are adapting and moving forward....
Employee engagement, happiness, and inclusion
Kelly Bruno, CEO of the National Health Foundation, shares tactics her organization uses to be responsive to employee needs including an employee enga...
Pivoting operations and fundraising for new services
In this episode, Mike Lansing, Executive Director of the Boys and Girls Club of Los Angeles Harbor, joins us to talk about how his board, staff, and c...
Pivoting to a Responsive Grant Making Program
Alan-Michael Graves is the National Director of National Programs at the Good+Foundation. When the COVID-19 crisis started, his program had to act fas...
Social Media for Nonprofits (in pandemics and normal times)
Season 3, Episode 4 of the How We Run podcast is a crash course in social media.
In this episode, we’re talking to Nick Carranza, a multi-facete...
Responding to Emerging Needs in Changing Times
In this episode were talking to Porter Gilberg, Executive Director of the LGBTQ Center Long Beach about how his organization been able to respond to e...
How To Keep Services Going During a Pandemic
We're joined by Angela LoBue, the COO of the Coalition for Responsible Community Development who takes us through the changes her organization has bee...
What To Do When You Cancel a Fundraising Event
It's unfortunate but true, many fundraising events scheduled for the next few months will not be able to go on, leaving organizations that count on ev...
S2E6 Telling Your Financial Story with Kristen Paglia
A few months ago Trent said organizations need to be using their 990s as marketing documents. So we followed up with an organization that caught his e...
S2E5 How To Be Intentional and Strategic with your Volunteers
We had so much fun talking about volunteers a few episodes ago we decided to have another conversation about how to be strategic with your volunteers....
S2E4 How to start a social enterprise (w/ Vivienne Lee)
Should your organization be thinking about a social enterprise? Vivienne Lee of REDF joins us to talk about the reasons they succeed and the reasons t...
S2E3 How to Hire Nonprofit Leadership (w/ John Brauer)
How do you find a visionary leader? John Brauer from New Horizons and Allison Fuller of Envision Consulting talk to us about recruiting top non-profit...
S2E2 Creating a Community of Volunteers (w/ Joel Arquillos)
Trent Stamp and Julie Lacouture talk about volunteer experience and managing volunteers. Joel Arquillos from 826LA discusses how his organization crea...
S2E1 How We Run Season 2 Intro
We're back for another season of How We Run. Trent Stamp and Julie Lacouture are aiming to find stories and advice from non-profits that you can put i...
S1E7 Grant Writing and Management (w/ Melissa Khamvongsa)
In this episode of the How We Run podcast, Trent and Julie talk about raising money from foundations. Trent shares some of the mistakes non-profits ma...
S1E6 Building an Online Audience for Your Non-Profit (w/ Kamy Akhavan)
Trent Stamp shares what funders look for on non-profit websites and reveals what worked for him in building an audience for Charity Navigator. The gue...