Nonprofit Leadership Podcast

By Dr. Rob Harter

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The Nonprofit Leadership Podcast discusses important issues facing nonprofit leaders in our community and features real stories from real leaders about what strategies and practices have made them successful. Enjoy the show!

Episode Date
What is the essence of effective leadership?
Jun 07, 2026
Why you need to know what motivates the “Mission Generation”
May 31, 2026
How Bank of America Is Helping People Give More To More Organizations
May 25, 2026
What is the “Good Neighbor Day” movement all about?
May 17, 2026
How to Move From Providing Job Security to Career Security
May 11, 2026
How Leaders Sustain Long-Term Impact in Mission-Driven Work
May 04, 2026
Critical Conversations: Special Four-State Panel Discussion Addressing Today’s Top Trends
Apr 26, 2026
How Leaders Navigate Through Change While Staying True to the Mission
Apr 19, 2026
What is the Fundraising Report Card?
Apr 12, 2026
How Airbnb Is Doing Something Very Different with Their Social Impact
Apr 06, 2026
How Can We Best Alleviate Poverty?
Mar 29, 2026
Guided by a Mission Bigger Than You
Mar 22, 2026
What is Behind the Recent Growth of Nonprofit Consulting?
Mar 15, 2026
How Healthy Delegation Reduces Burnout and Builds Sustainable Leadership
Mar 08, 2026
Why Charity Navigator Is Seeking to Help All People Give Smarter
Mar 01, 2026
Rethinking Philanthropy: Women Shaping Global Giving
Feb 22, 2026
This is the Fastest Growing Trend in Fundraising Today
Feb 15, 2026
What Gen Z Can Bring to Your Social Impact Organization
Feb 08, 2026
How Can We Best Navigate the New Guidelines for Corporate Giving?
Feb 01, 2026
Are You Dreaming Big Enough for Your Organization?
Jan 25, 2026
Fundraising Trends You Need to Know for 2026
Jan 18, 2026
Rules of the Road for Social Impact Organizations
Jan 11, 2026
How One Organization is Greatly Improving the Care for Individuals with Disabilities
Jan 04, 2026
The Power of Grit and Positivity
Dec 28, 2025
The Biggest Fundraising Challenges Facing the Social Impact Sector
Dec 22, 2025
The Story Behind the Real Cause of Hurricane Katrina’s Devastating Impact
Dec 14, 2025
How Best to Approach Corporate Donors
Dec 07, 2025
How a Small Group of College Students Launched a National Movement
Nov 30, 2025
How Using a “Permission Ask” Can Improve Your Fundraising
Nov 23, 2025
How to Move Beyond Short‑Term Relief to Systemic Change
Nov 17, 2025
This Leader is Changing the Landscape for Digital Wellness
Nov 09, 2025
Is Becoming a Nonprofit the Solution to the Struggles Facing Major News Organizations Today?
Nov 02, 2025
Why a Leader’s First 90 Days Set the Tone for Long-Term Success
Oct 27, 2025
How Fundraising Can Be a Bridge-Builder
Oct 20, 2025
How Can Social Impact Leaders Turn Their Passion for Social Change into Policy Impact?
Oct 13, 2025
World Vision’s Bold Plan for the Future
Oct 05, 2025
Can AI Enhance Rather Than Replace Empathy?
Sep 28, 2025
One Social Impact Leader’s Journey of Leadership and Personal Growth
Sep 22, 2025
Is There a Crisis in Social Impact Giving?
Sep 14, 2025
Where Fundraising and Strategic Planning Meet
Sep 07, 2025
How to Grow Your Organization by Being Relentlessly Committed to Your Brand
Aug 31, 2025
How to Make This Your Best Giving Season Yet
Aug 25, 2025
Smart Ways to Boost Your Year-End Giving
Aug 17, 2025
How Can Nonprofits Successfully Approach Foundations
Aug 10, 2025
How Can You Maximize AI for Good?
Aug 03, 2025
It’s Not Just Passion But Your Patterns That Move Your Organization Forward
Jul 27, 2025
How Uncertainty Is Impacting Nonprofit Leaders’ Confidence and Decision-Making
Jul 21, 2025
Should You Focus on Team Development More Than Individual Development?
Jul 13, 2025
How to Recruit and Keep the Team You Need
Jul 06, 2025
Are Fractional Leaders the Solution to Your Staffing Issues?
Jun 29, 2025
How this social impact leader is using data and technology to improve the foster care system
Jun 22, 2025
What is the nonprofit that Matt Damon co-founded?
Jun 16, 2025
Are Relationships at the Core of Your Nonprofit?
Jun 08, 2025
How to Become a Savvy Fundraiser
Jun 01, 2025
How to Focus Your Time on Strategically Meaningful Work
May 25, 2025
Why Your Team May Be Having a Buy-in Problem
May 19, 2025
From One Caregiver’s Search to a National Movement: The Story of the National MS Society
May 12, 2025
How to Unlock the Power of Storytelling for Your Nonprofit
May 04, 2025
Leadership as a “Sacred Experience”
Apr 27, 2025
How Your Nonprofit Can Build Trust Over Time with Anthony Kennedy Shriver
Apr 20, 2025
This NBA Player’s Legacy is Helping People All Over the World
Apr 13, 2025
How This Nonprofit Has Leveraged Hollywood’s Influence to Drive Social Change
Apr 07, 2025
Why Passion is Not Always Enough
Mar 30, 2025
Leading a Multigenerational Organization: Strategies for Success Across Five Generations
Mar 24, 2025
Empowering Students Through Education: How One Nonprofit is Expanding Access for Those Affected by Poverty
Mar 17, 2025
How to Bring More Innovation to Your Organization
Mar 09, 2025
How the Hilton Foundation Is Addressing Homelessness in LA
Mar 02, 2025
How This Food Bank is Helping to Reduce Food Insecurity
Feb 24, 2025
How to Enhance Your Nonprofit’s Marketing and Fundraising Efforts
Feb 16, 2025
How to Create the Culture You Need to Succeed
Feb 10, 2025
How This Nonprofit in Spain is Seeking to Impact Their Country and Beyond
Feb 02, 2025
How to balance compensation and meaning
Jan 27, 2025
The Challenges of Accessing Funding for Scale
Jan 20, 2025
How to Both Empower People and Encourage Self-Reliance
Jan 12, 2025
What Does It Take to Mobilize Gen Z into Changemakers?
Jan 06, 2025
How Nonprofit Collaboration Increases Impact
Dec 23, 2024
An Update from the CEO of Rotary
Dec 16, 2024
How is AI Changing Medical Research?
Dec 08, 2024
What’s the Future of AI for the Nonprofit Sector?
Dec 01, 2024
How to Use Innovation for Positive Change
Nov 24, 2024
How to Be a Nonprofit Bestie
Nov 17, 2024
Your Retention Starts with Your Recruitment Process
Nov 11, 2024
Why aiming for a stress-free childhood is not ideal
Nov 03, 2024
How to Measure the Impact of Your Programs
Oct 28, 2024
How Massachusetts is Seeking to Make Hunger History
Oct 20, 2024
How to Become a Savvy Fundraiser
Oct 13, 2024
Nonprofits…we need a rebrand
Oct 06, 2024
What does it take to turn around a struggling nonprofit?
Sep 29, 2024
What one organization is doing to address our growing mental health crisis
Sep 23, 2024
How Petco is impacting the lives of both pets and humans
Sep 15, 2024
How government agencies and nonprofits can work together effectively
Sep 08, 2024
Hear how three emerging Gen Z leaders are making their world better
Sep 01, 2024
How to improve your organization’s recruitment and retention
Aug 25, 2024
How one nonprofit is changing the future of underserved students
Aug 18, 2024
Why staff retention is quickly becoming your top issue to address
Aug 11, 2024
Community Foundations: How they work and what makes them unique
Aug 04, 2024
World Day Against Trafficking in Persons special interview
Jul 30, 2024
Will AI replace your staff?
Jul 21, 2024
How to navigate corporate philanthropy
Jul 15, 2024
Strategies for helping to cultivate social change
Jul 07, 2024
How to scale an organization without mission drift
Jun 30, 2024
What traits are most important for a nonprofit leader?
Jun 24, 2024
Can AI help your nonprofit?
Jun 16, 2024
How to mitigate the staff retention challenge
Jun 10, 2024
How nonprofits can help change the odds for individuals in their community
Jun 02, 2024
How Habitat for Humanity is developing creative solutions to our housing crisis
May 26, 2024
What leading with courage looks like
May 19, 2024
How to manage conflict better
May 12, 2024
How do we recruit and develop the board we need
May 05, 2024
How you can become a changemaker through “micro-leadership”
Apr 28, 2024
Leadership Insights from The Bridgespan Group
Apr 22, 2024
How to successfully transition from the for-profit to the nonprofit sector
Apr 14, 2024
The power of generous leadership
Apr 08, 2024
Why your culture determines your brand
Apr 01, 2024
How to turn volunteers into champions of your nonprofit
Mar 24, 2024
How Charity Water is providing sustainable solutions to one of the world’s biggest challenges
Mar 17, 2024
How 501(c)(8) and 501(c)(3) organizations can collaborate together for good
Mar 10, 2024
How to improve your grant writing
Mar 03, 2024
How the right data can drive an organization’s story and impact
Feb 26, 2024
How to scale altruism
Feb 18, 2024
How the Wounded Warrior Project is expanding
Feb 11, 2024
How to implement effective accounting principles into your nonprofit
Feb 04, 2024
How can we reverse the downward trend in giving and volunteering?
Jan 28, 2024
What effective leadership looks like
Jan 21, 2024
Learn more about the nonprofit Matt Damon co-founded
Jan 15, 2024
How can AI be used for good for your nonprofit?
Jan 07, 2024
“What are the key aspects to successful donor retention?”
Dec 31, 2023
Just how prevalent is the problem of human trafficking right here in the US?
Dec 24, 2023
Is Servant Leadership Making A Comeback?
Dec 17, 2023
How to maximize the impact of your board
Dec 10, 2023
Walmart has a new way they are giving back to nonprofits
Dec 03, 2023
How to strengthen your nonprofit’s financial processes
Nov 26, 2023
What Amazon is doing to empower nonprofits to go further and faster
Nov 23, 2023
How can donors avoid the pitfalls of self-dealing
Nov 12, 2023
Are We Facing a Generosity Crisis?
Nov 05, 2023
How nonprofits can successfully collaborate with government agencies
Oct 29, 2023
Hear From Top Nonprofit Leaders Live at the NIO Summit
Oct 22, 2023
Live From the UNA Conference
Oct 15, 2023
What is the state of giving in America?
Oct 08, 2023
Nonprofits…we need a re-brand
Oct 02, 2023
How nonprofits can move from being an organization to a “brand”
Sep 30, 2023
How to scale an organization without mission drift
Sep 24, 2023
Can you help fund a nonprofit and also get a “return on your investment”?
Sep 17, 2023
How to manage a crisis
Sep 10, 2023
How to create a leadership culture that retains diverse staff
Sep 04, 2023
How to turn former gang members into nonprofit leaders
Aug 27, 2023
Hear how three emerging Gen Z leaders are making their world better
Aug 20, 2023
Are you ready for the largest wealth transfer in our history?
Aug 13, 2023
What a business entrepreneur can teach nonprofit leaders
Aug 06, 2023
How “Smart Tech” is changing the way we lead our nonprofit organizations
Jul 30, 2023
How is climate change and violent conflict impacting the most vulnerable around the world?
Jul 24, 2023
Jon and Becky from “We Are For Good” share their thoughts on the biggest opportunities facing nonprofits today
Jul 16, 2023
How to discover and encourage untapped generosity from your current donors
Jul 09, 2023
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is driving social change through community leadership
Jul 08, 2023
Are you maximizing all of your planned giving options?
Jul 01, 2023
What are the biggest challenges facing the nonprofit sector, with special guest panel (Part 2)
Jun 28, 2023
What are the biggest challenges facing the nonprofit sector, with special guest panel (Part 1)
Jun 25, 2023
What Adobe is doing to revitalize local communities
Jun 19, 2023
How you can build a culture of trust through listening
Jun 18, 2023
Live from Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) Summit Washington event featuring Allyson Fryhoff
Jun 12, 2023
What is your intended impact and theory of change, and why does it matter?
Jun 05, 2023
Why character and virtue matter
May 29, 2023
How to motivate your team towards mission alignment
May 22, 2023
Strategies for helping to cultivate social change
May 15, 2023
How to Make Better and Wiser Decisions Part 2
May 10, 2023
How to Make Better and Wiser Decisions Part 1
May 07, 2023
How you can improve your grant funding asks
Apr 30, 2023
Are leaders born or made?
Apr 24, 2023
How our experience with leadership impacts how we view leadership
Apr 17, 2023
How to overcome the most common barriers for growing as a leader
Apr 10, 2023
How this nonprofit is elevating the importance of hiring people with disabilities
Apr 03, 2023
How one nonprofit is promoting both mental and digital wellbeing
Mar 27, 2023
How this nonprofit is providing the gift of mobility to people all over the world
Mar 20, 2023
How you can become a changemaker through “micro-leadership”
Mar 13, 2023
How Petco is impacting the lives of both pets and humans
Mar 06, 2023
How Habitat for Humanity is developing creative solutions to our housing crisis
Feb 27, 2023
How you can bring positive change to your organization
Feb 20, 2023
Walmart has a new way they are giving back to nonprofits
Feb 13, 2023
How to bring technological change to your organization
Feb 06, 2023
How the Visa Foundation is helping both local and global nonprofits
Jan 30, 2023
Do we have a “worker shortage” in America or a “quality jobs shortage”?
Jan 23, 2023
Why community foundations play a critical role in the success of the nonprofit sector
Jan 16, 2023
How to improve your organization’s diversity and inclusion with recruiting
Jan 09, 2023
What Amazon Web Services is doing to empower nonprofits to go further and faster
Jan 02, 2023
What is your personal mission?
Dec 26, 2022
How “Smart Tech” is changing the way we lead our nonprofit organizations
Dec 19, 2022
How to increase the number of women of color in tech leadership
Dec 12, 2022
Is It Possible to Achieve a Healthy Balance Between Work and Home?
Dec 05, 2022
Why your culture determines your brand
Nov 28, 2022
How nonprofits get started
Nov 21, 2022
How to improve your grant writing
Nov 14, 2022
Preparing your organization for the future of giving
Nov 07, 2022
How Can You Future-Proof Your Fundraising?
Oct 31, 2022
Why are donor advised funds increasingly being used to fund nonprofits?
Oct 24, 2022
Are the days of having a singular Executive Director leading a nonprofit over?
Oct 17, 2022
“Stories from the front lines”: Real stories from nonprofit leaders just like you
Oct 14, 2022
How Harvard Business School is shaping today’s change makers Part 2
Oct 07, 2022
What are giving circles and why do they matter?
Oct 01, 2022
How Harvard Business School is shaping today’s change makers Part 1
Sep 26, 2022
How is cryptocurrency shaping the future of philanthropy? (Part two)
Sep 19, 2022
How is cryptocurrency shaping the future of philanthropy? (Part one)
Sep 12, 2022
“From Aristotle to Zuckerberg”, Learn How and When Philanthropy First Started and Where We Have Gone Wrong Today
Sep 05, 2022
The baton of leadership has been passed at the YMCA
Aug 29, 2022
How one organization is transforming philanthropy into a force for racial equity and justice
Aug 22, 2022
What Is the Key Predictor of Your Success as a Leader
Aug 15, 2022
How to make sense of the current fundraising landscape
Aug 08, 2022
Why Is This Generation Responding to Racial Equality and Diversity Differently Than Past Generations?
Aug 01, 2022
How this organization is helping Gen Z find the jobs they are seeking
Jul 25, 2022
Are large fundraising events making a comeback?
Jul 11, 2022
What a successful merger looks like
Jun 30, 2022
What major foundations are looking for in organizations they fund
Jun 24, 2022
Five Minute Fridays with Rob Episode 3
Jun 17, 2022
How this nonprofit is fighting both climate change and poverty
Jun 09, 2022
Why do you do what you do?
May 30, 2022
How can nonprofits best respond to the “Great Resignation”?
May 22, 2022
How to grow your organization quickly while maintaining your core mission
May 13, 2022
Five Minute Fridays with Rob Episode 2
May 06, 2022
How to balance becoming high tech, while remaining high touch
May 04, 2022
Five Minute Fridays with Rob
Apr 29, 2022
How a rockstar’s vision has turned into a global movement
Apr 26, 2022
Why your employees are your greatest competitive advantage
Apr 19, 2022
How can you grow and scale your nonprofit most effectively?
Apr 11, 2022
How can you develop a board that is ready for the future?
Apr 04, 2022
How to turn former gang members into nonprofit leaders
Mar 27, 2022
Why two of the country’s largest nonprofits are working together Part 2
Mar 23, 2022
Why two of the country’s largest nonprofits are working together Part 1
Mar 17, 2022
How nonprofits can move from being an organization to a “brand”
Mar 09, 2022
How effective leaders adapt to a ever-changing environment
Mar 03, 2022
How “Smart Tech” is changing the way we lead our nonprofit organizations
Feb 23, 2022
How a disability advocate has changed how the President of the United States communicates on his website
Feb 17, 2022
How to discover and encourage untapped generosity from your current donors
Feb 09, 2022
Meet the 2021 .Org Impact Award Winner for Fighting Hunger and Poverty
Feb 01, 2022
How can you make a successful transition from the for-profit world to the nonprofit world?
Jan 25, 2022
How to develop raving fans for your nonprofit
Jan 18, 2022
Are you ready for the largest wealth transfer in our history?
Jan 10, 2022
How can you scale your organization’s programs?
Jan 05, 2022
Did you know that everything you see at the White House, its furnishings, artwork and artifacts are maintained by a nonprofit?
Dec 29, 2021
How is cryptocurrency shaping the future of philanthropy? (Part two)
Dec 24, 2021
How is cryptocurrency shaping the future of philanthropy? (Part one)
Dec 14, 2021
When a vision turns into a movement
Dec 06, 2021
How a social enterprise is combining software with a human-centered approach
Dec 01, 2021
What the science of fundraising is all about
Nov 19, 2021
How Noggin and Sparkler Learning have come together to provide a critical learning opportunity for kids across this country in response to COVID
Nov 15, 2021
How can you improve your digital presence?
Nov 05, 2021
What you need to know about Gen Z and how to recruit them for your nonprofit
Oct 27, 2021
What is the difference between lobbying and advocacy when it comes to your nonprofit organization?
Oct 18, 2021
Why is telling your story so important to the mission and brand of your nonprofit?
Oct 13, 2021
How have nonprofits changed both now and long term because of COVID?
Oct 04, 2021
This emerging leader is helping ensure our next generation has a shot at some of the best paying jobs of the future
Sep 26, 2021
How do you make a healthy and effective transition with your CEO/Executive Director?
Sep 20, 2021
Can you help fund a nonprofit and also get a “return on your investment”?
Sep 09, 2021
How can you preserve what’s best in your organization while still striving to innovate?
Sep 02, 2021
The baton of leadership has been passed at the YMCA
Aug 20, 2021
How one nonprofit is ensuring that diversity and inclusion are informing the way we create and establish play spaces around our country
Aug 16, 2021
How can you turn a dysfunctional board into a healthy one?
Aug 09, 2021
What are three key marketing principles that can really help grow your nonprofit?
Aug 04, 2021
How one nonprofit helped to lead the effort for developing the vaccine in Brazil
Aug 02, 2021
Elizabeth Beisel, Three-Time Olympian Swimmer, Shares Her Story.
Jul 28, 2021
Hear about some of the latest trends in the nonprofit sector; some may surprise you.
Jul 24, 2021
How is the rise in corporation’s increased focus on social good and philanthropic work impacting nonprofits?
Jul 15, 2021
How Can You Future-Proof Your Fundraising?
Jul 06, 2021
Ever Wondered Who Makes Sure Your Nonprofit’s Website Works as It Should?
Jun 26, 2021
Is It Possible to Achieve a Healthy Balance Between Work and Home?
Jun 20, 2021
Why One Nonprofit Is Building Beautiful Websites for Numerous Underfunded Nonprofits
Jun 13, 2021
“From Aristotle to Zuckerberg”, Learn How and When Philanthropy First Started and Where We Have Gone Wrong Today
Jun 06, 2021
How Can a Small Nonprofit Have an Impact on a National Level
May 29, 2021
Did You Know That Google Is Doing This?
May 08, 2021
What Is Generation Z Doing to Make a Difference in Today’s World?
Apr 24, 2021
What’s Behind the “Red Nose Day” Campaign and Why Should You Be Interested?
Apr 11, 2021
Why Did This Emerging Leader Within a Prominent Wine Family Put All of Her Efforts Into This Nonprofit?
Mar 28, 2021
How Has COVID-19 Impacted Giving to Nonprofits?
Mar 20, 2021
Is It Time to Completely Rethink How We Lead and Manage Nonprofits?
Mar 07, 2021
Why Is This Generation Responding to Racial Equality and Diversity Differently Than Past Generations?
Feb 22, 2021
What Is the Key Predictor of Your Success as a Leader
Feb 12, 2021
Is Your Leadership Culture Stifling or Encouraging Progress and Innovation?
Feb 01, 2021
What Does Magic Have to Do With Nonprofit Leadership?
Jan 19, 2021
How Has COVID Impacted Global Nonprofits, Particularly Those Serving Refugees?
Jan 10, 2021
How have the giving priorities of the Walton Family Foundation and other large Foundations changed because of COVID-19?
Dec 23, 2020
Hear From Internationally Known Fundraising Expert Kathy LeMay on the State of Philanthropy for Today’s Nonprofits (Part 2)
Dec 17, 2020
Hear From Internationally Known Fundraising Expert Kathy LeMay on the State of Philanthropy for Today’s Nonprofits (Part 1)
Dec 13, 2020
Is Servant Leadership the Best Form of Leadership for Today’s Nonprofits?
Nov 28, 2020
What Are the Greatest Challenges Facing Nonprofits Today?
Nov 15, 2020
The Impact of COVID-19 Internationally and What One Nonprofit is Doing About It
Nov 04, 2020
How One Nonprofit is Effectively Transitioning In-Person Events to Online and Hybrid Events
Oct 15, 2020
What is a B Corp and What Impact Are They Having on Nonprofits?
Oct 04, 2020
How To Dream Big and Relentlessly Pursue Your Vision
Sep 17, 2020
How to Become an Advocate for the Most Vulnerable
Sep 07, 2020
How To Best Support Those Hit Hardest by COVID-19
Aug 25, 2020
How to Lead Through a Crisis
Aug 09, 2020
How do we overcome our growing divisiveness in today’s cultural context
Aug 01, 2020
How to Emerge Out of Burnout to Sustainable Success
Jul 18, 2020
What Does Effective Advocacy Look Like in Today’s Nonprofits, Especially Now?
Jul 05, 2020
How Has a Global Pandemic Changed the Fundraising Landscape for Nonprofits?
Jun 16, 2020
How One Nonprofit Is Helping Women Fight Back Against Sexual Assault
Jun 07, 2020
Leadership in the midst of COVID-19
May 27, 2020
A Look Inside Our Foster Care System
May 07, 2020
How to be fearless about making change according to Jean Case
Apr 24, 2020
Finding Hope in the Midst of the COVID-19 Crisis
Mar 31, 2020
How the National Dance Institute Is Changing Kids’ Lives
Mar 15, 2020
Hear Harvard Divinity’s Dean and His Thoughts on Leadership and Educating Our Future Leaders
Mar 03, 2020