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

April 19, 2025

Three Secrets to Building Influence with any Money or Policy Decisionmaker in Your World

There has never been a time when the influence of nonprofit leaders was more needed. In particular, we need to have influence with the money and policy decision makers that hold the power to help or harm the people we serve. ...
April 13, 2025

How to Successfully Advocate for Your Funding on Multiple Fronts at Once

We need to talk about an emerging reality that virtually all of my clients are telling me is their number one challenge right now. Everyone is already dealing with multiple threats to federal funding. But now there’s the addi...
April 5, 2025

How to Ensure You Have Maximum Impact when Your Members of Congress are Home in Their Districts

We’re about to enter a period of opportunity to have a lot of influence over our Members of Congress. They'll be home in their districts/states twice in the next seven weeks for “district work periods” to connect with their c...
March 21, 2025

How the Power of Community Building Can Help You Fight Back Against Attacks on Your Program and Your Funding

We all know how valuable community building is, but we often don't understand just how powerful it is. And right now it might just be that nonprofit leaders' superpower as community builders could be one of the keys to making...
March 14, 2025

The Best Way to Help Your Supporters Become Valuable Advocates for Your Work and Funding

This is a time when we need all hands on deck. There's so much need for nonprofits to advocate aggressively for the work that we do, and specifically for the government funding that supports our work. And nowhere is that more...
March 7, 2025

The Essential 5-Point Messaging Framework for Your Advocacy with Congress

Nonprofit leaders have a lot going on in terms of advocacy we need to be doing with Congress. And I’m hearing from a lot of my clients and the folks in my coaching programs, saying “Just strip it down for me. What's the messa...