Episodes

Tips and tricks to help you with both your live and silent auctions! www.auctionfrogs.org To keep listening, visit www.auctionfrogs.org/podcast or subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, or your favorite podcast app.  

After 90 years the Children’s Hospital Association continues to help grow programs for Children’s Minnesota… Now virtually!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDEhAt6SMws https://www.cha-stpaul.org/ To keep listening, visit www.auctionfrogs.org/podcast or subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, or your favorite podcast app.    

The best practices for Event check in and check out for your event. www.auctionfrogs.org To keep listening, visit www.auctionfrogs.org/podcast or subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, or your favorite podcast app.      

This episode we talk with Bill Woolsey, the Founder and CEO of the FiveTwo Network.  They equip Christian entrepreneurs to launch a variety of sustainable start-ups, from church plants and re-plants, non-profits, and for-profits.  

How to choose the right audio and visual company for your fundraising and awareness needs!  They are NOT all created equal!!

Cory talks with Larry Flynn about his 25+ years as a board member, advisor and active auctioneer for non-profit organizations and what fundraising events look like in a post 2020 world! www.LarryFlynnEvents.com https://www.facebook.com/larryflynn1959  

Tyson Baker sits down with us to talk about the history, passion and heart of the Baker family and the Baker Auction Co. https://bakerauction.com/charity.html https://bakerauction.com/contact.php https://www.facebook.com/BakerAuctionCo/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tysonbaker

Fundraising Fails- Gala Edition with Auctioneer Anna Couvrette! Anna Couvrette took her experience as an actor and comedian and became one of the youngest charity auctioneers in the United States. What began as a way to supplement her tuition at the University of Southern California has become her passion and profession. Her dual degrees of

Nonprofit.Courses brings you Online Training for Nonprofits through Thousands of Videos, Podcasts, Books, and Documents from Around the World! Nonprofit Training Courses for Staff, Boards, and Volunteers To keep listening, visit www.auctionfrogs.org/podcast or subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, or your favorite podcast app.    

  Key Takeaways: Struggling is not sustainable. Our need to be in struggle causes burnout, turnover, mission creep and a ton of other issues. Essentially, the name “nonprofit” is hurting the industry. Being defined by a negative hurts us. We feel a huge responsibility to those people we serve and we tend to sacrifice ourselves because of

When nonprofits, governments, and businesses come together as a “network” to address the most pressing social issues of the day, they can more easily address root causes and implement effective approaches.  Renowned social impact researcher and advisor Dr. Michelle Shumate, Ph.D. joins Greg to discuss strategies for building network and collaborative frameworks to address complex social

Nonprofit teams are comprised of leaders with a diverse array of leadership and communication styles.  Dr. Jean Latting joins the podcast to share approaches to successfully build positive and productive professional relationships with those whose style is different than your own.   

A strategic plan serves as a roadmap to enable an organization to set priorities and measure progress. It informs the direction of the organization, generates heightened engagement and ownership of the mission.  Gary Romano, author and creator of Finding Your North Star Tm, joins Greg to discuss a bold, effective, and evidence-based approach to strategic

It starts with a story…  As nonprofit leaders, you have many stories to tell.  Program accomplishments, a wonderful event, a new offering, a particular challenge you are wrestling with.  However, sometimes it can be difficult to get these stories noticed.  Jessica Leving Siegel shares tips and strategies for positioning your stories with those likely to

The departure of a key leader can be a difficult time for any nonprofit organization.  One approach to ensure organizational stability and momentum is to hire an interim executive for a defined period of time.  Jarrett Ransom joins Greg to discuss the ins and outs of hiring an interim leader.  

Nonprofit organizations with effective fundraising strategies exhibit 5 key behaviors.  Philanthropy expert Sybil Ackerman-Munson joins Greg to discuss these key attributes and empower nonprofit leaders to feel good about their fundraising strategies.  

Healthy fundraising strategies begin by focusing on cultivating deep and lasting relationships with those who believe in and support your mission.  As Giving Tuesday approaches, Nejeed Kassam — Founder of Keela — joins Greg to discuss 5 donor types to engage this Giving Tuesday in order to enhance your fundraising success.  Greg and Nejeed also

A capital campaign represents an organization-wide focused effort to generate resources for a specific project or undertaking.  Hal Hedley, CEO of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kentuckiana, joins Greg to discuss strategies for successful capital campaigns, from critically important planning efforts to managing the highs and lows of a campaign.  You won’t want to miss

Healthy nonprofits carefully nurture and cultivate resources from a variety of sources.  One of the most important of these are transformational, or major gifts.  Brian Wells, a highly successful development professional, joins Greg to discuss approaches to develop or enhance your nonprofit’s ability to attract and secure major gifts.  

How connected do you feel to the core values of your nonprofit?  This episode features a discussion of values-based leadership for nonprofits.  Listen as Greg shares practical tips for developing or revising core values as well as ensuring that values play an integral role in the leadership and culture of your organization.   

Key Takeaways: Don’t put peace on a pedestal. Peace and conflict are both part of the process of healing. We were taught to value things that feel good, but not everything that feels good is good and not everything that feels bad is meant to be pushed away. Conflict is just people being human beings, we don’t

 He is a pastor, nonprofit executive director, professor, artist, and writer. He has earned undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in Biblical studies and organizational leadership, arts management and leadership, theology, ministry and interdisciplinary studies. Currently, he serves as President and Executive Director at Rise Community Development. Rise acts as a resource and partner to the

Sarah Javier is the CEO and President of APA of Missouri, an organization that helps more than 4,000 pets find homes and thousands more through outreach and wellness initiatives. During her tenure, Sarah has increased charitable giving by more than 70% and has double organizational reserves and has implemented a robust planned giving program that

Laura Rossmann started her consulting firm in 2014 and has specialized in nonprofit management, fundraising and marketing and leadership transition. She has two decades of experience working with nonprofits, from serving for 13 years as an Executive Director at several nonprofits to being on numerous  She holds a Masters of Business Administration (MBA), a Bachelor

Key Takeaways: Fixing communication problems can only be done by having better communication and shifting a culture can only be done by introducing a new perspective and a new set of thinking. You need both mindset and strategy. If you have strategy without mindset, the strategy won’t work. The two ways we struggle: feeling of separation or

Key Takeaways: Realize that your reaction to unexpected comments is a biochemical response and it will not be productive to continue responding from a place of either anger or fear. If you receive an unexpected comment via email and you start getting a feeling in your body, that’s your cue to pause and take an hour

Marc A. Pitman, CSP® helps leaders, especially in nonprofits, lead their teams with more effectiveness and less stress. His latest book is The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Use Uncertainty to Become the Exceptional Leader You Are Meant to Be. He’s also the author of Ask Without Fear!® – which has been translated into Dutch, Polish,

Rabbi Amy Feder became the Senior Rabbi of Temple Israel in July of 2009, when she became the youngest woman to become a Senior Rabbi of a large Reform congregation in history.  She is blessed to work alongside her husband, Rabbi Michael Alper. Rabbi Feder began working as the assistant rabbi at Temple Israel in

An Interview with Bill McKendry, Author of Do More Good, the Book If you’re in need of some firepower behind your marketing budget, listen to this episode! Bill McKendry shares select stories from his new book, Do More Good, to inspire and inform nonprofit leaders on the importance of brand, communications, and marketplace perspective.

Katie talks to Joel Kessel, the CEO of Kessel Strategies, about how strategic planning be reframed in order to maximize the impact for the board, team, and overall operation. Joel is a strategic advisor who helps nonprofits increase their impact through strategic planning and advising. For more than 25 years Joel has been advising, training,