The Nonprofit Power Podcast

The Nonprofit Power Podcast

The podcast for progressive nonprofit leaders who want to build powerful influence with the money and policy decisionmakers in their world.


Recent Episodes

July 20, 2025

The Four Essential Elements at the Heart of High-Impact Advocacy Messaging

The stakes are really high with advocacy messaging these days, especially for nonprofits. Effective messaging is so critical to every aspect of engaging decisionmakers. At any point in the process, no matter where you are in ...
July 11, 2025

Three Areas of Personal Growth that Will Have the Biggest Impact on Your Advocacy Success

Our personal growth as an advocate and as a leader is probably the single most important ingredient for our advocacy success. And yet, it’s one of the things we most often overlook. We don't give enough time and attention to ...
July 6, 2025

The Fastest Way to Get Decisionmakers to Value, Respect, and Rely on Your Expertise

One of the biggest frustrations that I hear from Nonprofit leaders is that much too often for comfort, decisionmakers fail to recognize or value our expertise. And when that happens, they're not listening to us in the same wa...
June 28, 2025

Decisionmakers Do Not Care About Your Services! (and That's OK if You Know What To Do)

Here’s an uncomfortable truth: Money and policy decisionmakers do not care about your services. This uncomfortable truth is a source of frustration for so many Nonprofit leaders, and it doesn't have to be. But we have to und...
June 22, 2025

The Most Powerful Thing Nonprofit Leaders Can Do Right Now to Preserve Medicaid and SNAP

The potential for massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP moved one step closer to reality when the Senate voted its version of the big ugly bill out of committee. The good news is there are still quite a few hurdles to clear befor...
June 13, 2025

The Shortest Distance Between Where You Are Now and the Advocacy Results You Want

I have a really important question I want to ask you. How satisfied are you, really, with the advocacy results that you're currently getting? Chances are, you're frustrated with at least one of the money or policy decision ma...