Rich Johnson is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Ignite Journeys — a startup social business that provides experiences that benefit humanity & the planet — and also the Co-Founder of Spark Ventures — a nonprofit that builds partnerships that lift communities out of poverty.In part 2 of our chat, Rich discusses the decision to start Ignite, what it's al…

Rich Johnson is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Ignite Journeys — a startup social business that provides experiences that benefit humanity & the planet — and also the Co-Founder of Spark Ventures — a nonprofit that builds partnerships that lift communities out of poverty. In part 1 of our chat, Rich talks about starting Spark, working with a board, a…

Sarah Durham, author of the book Brandraising and founder of Big Duck total communications nerd — her words — is on the pod. In this episode, Sarah talks a bit about her starting Big Duck and being a certified Woman Owned Business, what brand means and its value to nonprofit organizations, as well as how to measure brand and Big Duck's Brandraising…

In this episode, I’m joined by Ann Rosenfield to discuss fundraising for startup and young nonprofits, monthly giving, and old school and new school fundraising among other things. Ann has been in the sector for 20 years, is an editor of Hillborn Charity eNews, and works as a major gift fundraiser. She also does a lot of volunteer work, like chairi…

In this episode I’m joined by Kathleen Janus, author of Social Startup Success and lecturer at Standford University. Kathleen shares 5 key insights from her book and over 100 interviews with nonprofit leaders, discusses what it means to scale and why some nonprofits shouldn’t try to scale, and gives one great tip to people starting or scaling a non…