Nonprofit Mastermind Podcast

Brooke Richie-Babbage

This podcast offers nonprofit founders and leaders a deep-dive into the mindset and key strategies behind launching, scaling, and leading a high-impact nonprofit organization.

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Jun 14, 2022 · 30 min
What To Think About Thought Leadership, Elements Of A Plan
This is part two of my two-part mini-training series about thought leadership. Last week, I talked about the “why” -- Why it’s important to have a thought leadership plan, and how precisely thought leadership can move your organization's work forward. Today I’m going to lay out my framework for thought leadership planning. Specifically, the elements of a strong plan. I teach what I call the OATS framework: Objectives, Audiences, Topics, and Strategies. It's a simple yet effective framework for guiding and organizing your thinking about thought leadership. Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
Jun 8, 2022 · 32 min
SPOTLIGHT: RaisedByUs, with Jessica Sloan
This week, I’m talking with Jessoica Sloan, ED of RaisedByUs. RaisedByUs has a big hairy audacious goal - one that resonates deeply with me in its power and simplicity: To make the world a better, kinder and more just place. They are literally aiming to raise as many charitable dollars as possible for global causes by mobilizing the power of individual philanthropy. What’s super cool about their model is that they leverage the workplace - and workplace giving - to narrow the gap between wanting to give back and actually doing it. Questions like: How can start ups and emerging companies define the kind of social good footprint they want to have, and then actually build volunteer and giving policies that get them there? What’s the relationship between corporate culture and employee giving? How can you shape one to influence the other? How can companies of all sizes build employee-giving programs that offer authentic and meaningful opportunities for their employees to have an impact on issues they care about? Ultimately, giving feels good. People like giving. How can we leverage the power of the workplace to help make it easier for people to give to the issues and causes and organizations they care about? That’s what RaiseByUs tackles. How to leverage our natural instinct to give, and mobilize dollars for good. In this conversation, Jessica and I talk about the mechanics of partnering with businesses and corporations to do social good, how employee giving can be an important key to helping nonprofits unlock small-dollar donors, and what it really means to be philanthropic. It’s a great conversation - I hope you enjoy! Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
Jun 7, 2022 · 16 min
How To Think About Thought Leadership, And Why It's So Important
I’m very excited about this episode because this is something that I’ve been thinking and talking a lot about recently. So often when we hear the term “thought leadership” and our mind goes fuzzy. The term is wonky and opaque and no one really ever says what it means or how to do it. But here’s the thing: having a strong thought leadership strategy is a critical aspect of growing and sustaining your budget and impact. So I’m doing a 2-parter about thought leadership. Today I’m going to dive into the framework - understanding why it’s important to integrate thought leadership into your strategic work, and talking about exactly how having a robust thought leadership plan can move your work forward in concrete ways. Next week’s episode we'll get into the structure and components of an effective thought leadership plan. Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
Jun 2, 2022 · 28 min
SPOTLIGHT: Flex Dance Program
In today’s conversation, I’m talking with the co-leaders of an organization that I’ve had the pleasure of knowing for a number of years: Ragz Bruland and Michael Aryee of Flex Dance Program. Ragz and Michael founded Flex Dance as a response to the problem of mass incarceration. They wanted to tap into the expansiveness and movement of dance as a way to help young people especially see beyond a system that can sometimes feel stuck. Their organization - through programs and community partnerships - provides young people not just with safe and engaging ways to spend their time - they are also creating a powerful and inclusive community that embraces young people and gives them a cultural home rooted in self-expression and joy. In this conversation, we talk about their own personal relationship to dance - and to flex dance in particular - and about how that deep personal connection helped them see dance as a vehicle for wider impact and broader social change. It’s a beautiful and powerful origin story, and a beautiful and powerful vision for change. Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
May 31, 2022 · 42 min
How To Get Your Finance House In Order, with Germeen Guillaume
Let’s face it - numbers can be scary. As nonprofit leaders, how often do you hear how important it is to “know your numbers”? But most of you didn’t get into the nonprofit leadership game with a background in accounting. So instead, you make sure you have a bookkeeper, make sure your books get closed and you track your spending, and MAYBE you get monthly financial reports to review. But you’re secretly faking it until you make it -- you don’t really know what it means to build a strong financial infrastructure - who to hire, what to talk to them about, and how to use your finances as a strategic decision-making tool. Enter Germeen. She’s taken her expertise and passion for accounting and merged it with her passion for social impact organizations and the result is both an incredible company - Virtual Accounting Group (which you’ll hear about) - and a great conversation today. Germeen talks with us about how to know when to move beyond the bookkeeper, how (and who) to think about hiring, the often unrecognized relationship between fundraising and financial infrastructure - she breaks it all down! So grab a notebook and pen and settle in with your beverage of choice and enjoy! Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
May 19, 2022 · 44 min
SPOTLIGHT: Willie Mae Rock Camp
This week’s conversation is with LaFrae Sci, a friend, colleague, and superstar in my Impact Accelerator! LaFrae is an accomplished musician, imaginationist, and Executive Director at Willie Mae Rock Camp, where she created the innovative and transformational Willie Mae Future Sounds STEAM-based curriculum. I’ve been excited to talk with LaFrae on the podcast for a number of reasons. First, I think that her story of stepping into the ED role at Willie Mae at a time of flux and stewarding the organization's growth through a pandemic is instructive and inspirational for other leaders. As I reference in our conversation, the org has grown in budget and impact in the under 2 years that she’s been at the helm, and I’ve wanted to shine a light on her journey and experience as part of a broader dialog opening up and creating transparency about what leadership looks like in practice. The second reason I’ve been excited to talk to LaFrae is more personal. She and I vibe out via email and on some of our coaching calls, about the role that having intentional abundance and gratitude practices have played in our lives. She leads from a place of abundance and gratitude, and I’ve wanted for a long time to invite her to share what that means in practice, and how those practices have helped her stay grounded and avoid overwhelm during the craziness of these past years. Finally, I just love shedding light on incredible leaders as part of this podcast, and LaFrae is an incredible leader. This is a great conversation, I hope you enjoy! Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
May 17, 2022 · 21 min
Strategy Quick Hit: How To Hire To Fuel Growth
I talk in my workshops and trainings, and in my Accelerator program, about how important it is to be intentional about building your organization's internal capacity if you want to grow in a way that is sustainable. By this I mean having the right people in the right roles within your ecosystem. But what does that look like in practice? In this short mini-training I talk about two principles to use when hiring in order to fuel and support your growth: hiring to give you more time for high-leverage activities and hiring for ownership rather than execution. Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
May 10, 2022 · 44 min
A Tribute: The Art & Science of Building Trust, with Darcy Richie
This week’s episode is very very special to me. It is a tribute to my sister, Darcy Richie, who passed away at the age of 40 in April of this year. Darcy Richie was the Chief Program and Impact Officer at Generation Citizen. Last Spring, I invited her to join me to talk about two of her many superpowers: the how and why of communication and team-building. I called Darcy the communication whisperer. She was one of those people who can be in any situation, with any group of people, and find her way to the heart of what they are trying to communicate. She had a unique way of making people feel truly seen and heard - which is really what communication is all about. Most critically for her work, she was able to help others do that for one another. Darcy spent her career building and sustaining high-impact teams, starting when she was the founding principal of a charter school at the age of 25. She built and managed national teams, and remote teams; Small intimate teams and sprawling layered teams… At the root of it, she was simply excellent at communicating, and at helping build the capacity of those around her to do so effectively as well. I'm replaying this episode as a tribute to her and her work. Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
Apr 21, 2022 · 28 min
MASTERMIND SPOTLIGHT: South Asian SOAR
This week, I get to introduce and celebrate South Asian SOAR, an organization working to build a national movement to end gender-based violence in the South Asian diaspora. South Asian SOAR, led by Amrita Doshi, is helping to create a bridge between the urgent, incredibly necessary direct service, and systems-level change. SOAR’s mission and work are rooted in the idea that these types of work - downstream and upstream - must happen in parallel and must inform and build off of one another if we are to co-create a world without gender-based violence. In this conversation, we talk about Amrita’s experience as a founder, the intersection of the personal and political, and what it feels and looks like to co-create a movement from the ground up. Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
Apr 14, 2022 · 38 min
MASTERMIND SPOTLIGHT: The New Harmony Project
This week, I’m thrilled to shine a light on an organization that is truly walking the walk when it comes to living its values. The New Harmony Project - led by Lori Wolter Hudson and David Hudson cares for and nurtures writers to give them the space, time, energy, and inspiration to create works that change our world by interrogating the complexities of hope. There’s a lot there -- what it means to care for and nurture writers, the role of hope in helping to forge a more just and equitable world, and what it looks like in practice to translate a bold and beautiful mission into organizational practices that can actually be used to guide the institution. In this conversation, David and Lori share how their recent strategic planning process has helped them answer these critical questions, and how it has helped them actually translate their mission and operationalize their values. It’s a great look into how powerful a good strategic planning process can be, and into how intertwined personal inspiration, strategy, organizational values, and day-to-day operations truly are when leading an organization. Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
Apr 12, 2022 · 48 min
How To Use Your Digital Assets To Attract - Not Chase - New Supporters & Fans, with Christina Edwards
I have so many conversations with organizational leaders about how social media strategy - especially when it comes to fundraising - can feel opaque - at best. At worst, it can feel like a time suck or even a waste of time - a misuse of limited capacity. The truth is, not getting smart and savvy about your digital footprint means that you’re leaving money on the table. And when we’re talking about fueling our social impact, we don’t want to leave money on the table. More importantly, it’s critical to find high-leverage ways of bringing new people into your orbit and activating them as supporters and ambassadors for your cause. So that is what I’m thrilled to talk with today’s guest about. Christina Edwards is the founder of Splendid Consulting, and she spends her days helping social impact leaders use your digital assets - your website, social media platforms - to add fuel to your fundraising. There is a hard way to fundraise - constantly searching and scratching for each new donor, and then there is the type of fundraising flywheel that you want to set up in which you’re using the assets you have to do some of the heavy lifting for you. You can chase or you can attract. That’s what Christina and I talk about - how to think strategically about using digital assets to attract people to your cause and get them excited. We talk strategy, we talk tactics - this episode is super juicy and concrete. So grab a notebook and a pen - I hope you enjoy! Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
Apr 7, 2022 · 29 min
MASTERMIND SPOTLIGHT: STEM From Dance
Welcome to our first Mastermind Spotlight! In this series, I’ll be showcasing and celebrating organizations in my Accelerator program - lifting up their mission, their work, and their personal stories of leadership. It means a lot to me to kick off this new part of the podcast by shining a light on a truly phenomenal organization - STEM From Dance, and a truly inspirational leader - Yamilee Tousaint-Beach. STEM From Dance works to get girls of color excited about STEM through dance by fusing STEMs spirit of innovation and experimentation with the creativity and fluidy of dance. Their programs aim to amplify young girls confidence and voices as artists, and to show them how they can use their ingenuity and passion as innovators, engineers, scientists and techies. In this conversation, Yamilee, the founder and current CEO, shares her founding story -- how deeply she has been inspired by her father, and how she drew on her experiences as a dancer, as a student at MIT, and as a middle-school teacher to start STEM from dance. She talk about its vision of increasing the representation of black and brown girls in STEM fields, and their plans for explosive growth as then head into their second decade. It’s a great conversation and I hope you enjoy it! Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
Apr 5, 2022 · 44 min
Building a Truly Engaged Board, with Christal Cherry
Christal Cherry is a board whisperer, founder and CEO of The BoardPro, and a children’s book author! She is a nationally recognized nonprofit executive and professionally trained fundraiser - she’s spent the past 2 decades in the sector, raising millions of dollars and getting buy-in from multiple stakeholders for big missions and projects. Along the way, one thing that has always been part of her work - which is what she leans into now - is moving people to action. Christal has interfaced with, guided, trained, and collaborated with boards made up of as diverse stakeholders as politicians, corporate CEOs, and religious leaders -- and is a master at helping boards achieve and govern from a sense of shared purpose, deep mission affinity, and belonging. And she breaks it all down for you all today! You get just a glimpse of what makes her such a powerful and effective board coaching and trainer. Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
Mar 13, 2022 · 22 min
Build Your Personal Board of Directors, with Lakimja Mattocks
This week I’m talking with Lakimja Mattocks, Chief Equity and Learnig Officer at Non[profit NY, Fundraising Consultant at Cause Effective, and visionary, powerful leadership coach. This conversation has a different origin than some of the others on this podcast - I was inspired by a very specific event. Lakimja posted on LinkedIn about what she calls her personal board of directors. We talk a bunch about this in the conversation, so I won’t go too deeply into that here, but what I will say is that she wrote with such passion and joy about having this network of people to support and sustain her along her professional journey, that I was moved, inspired, and really interested in pulling back the curtain on the how. As many of you may have heard me speak or write about in the past, I often reference how important I think it is to build structured networks of support and accountability as professionals. I’ve talked about peer coaching and Masterminds, and Lakimja talks about a related but subtly different - and more expansive - strategy for structuring a network of professional and personal support. This is exactly the kind of conversation that the Virgo in me loves - a great mix of personal and practical! Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
Mar 8, 2022 · 46 min
Using The Power of Video To Make Complex Legal Issues Simple, with Adam Stofsky
Recently, there’s been an increased focus - in earnest not just talk - on the importance of making sure that people who are most directly impacted by experiences and issues are an authentic and meaningful part of addressing those issues. There are so many ways to go about that, and one of the most powerful is actually also one of the simplest -- make sure that people have the information they need to participate in the process of advocating for themselves, to make informed and smart choices, and to tell their own stories. At its core, that is what Briefly helps nonprofits do. I’ll let Adam get into the details, but suffice it to say, Briefly gives nonprofits and legal service providers the tools to make the complex legal issues facing their constituents and their own staff simple - from helping organizations break down the intricacies of domestic violence law for their community members to helping nonprofit lawyers translate arcane areas of the law for their clients to helping social enterprise founders understand and explain to their staff, the laws surrounding hiring and HR and contracts. And it does it using the power of video . Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
Mar 1, 2022 · 44 min
How To Design & Grow A Nonprofit That You're Proud Of
At its core, organizational design is about the intentional choices you make in designing your organization’s structure, culture, and processes. You can organize the building blocks in different ways to address different challenges, ask different questions, and position yourself for growth and stability in the future. The idea is that we don’t build our organizations at 30,000 feet. Instead, we design them by being intentional about what’s happening on the ground and then building up from there. We make decisions as we move along about each of the building blocks, and they add up to an organization that we are proud of. So why am I talking about this topic? Because running an organization can feel scary and overwhelming sometimes - like a massive undertaking. How do we create and nurture the culture that feels right? How do we get our board to work together? How do we address issues of power and authority as roles shift on our team? You address these questions by notching down - by examining and thinking about the more basic elements of your organization’s design on a more granular level. So I’m going to walk through the building blocks and then share a resource to help you use them as a tool in your organization. Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
Feb 22, 2022 · 48 min
How To Inspire and Motivate People To Take Positive Action, with Abigail Ahoude and Adriana Dakin
For this week’s episode, I reconnected with an old friend from graduate school, Adriana Dakin, and her business partner, Abigail Ahoude. I’ve been excited to talk with them about ImaginePod, the company that they co-founded to help social impact organizations and movements use cutting-edge marketing strategies and tactics to drive more impact. Anyone who does social impact work knows that in order to truly have impact - to bring about the change we wish to see in the world - we need to move in concert with others - we need others to take positive action. Whether it’s signing up for one of our programs, partnering with us to work in a community, signing a piece of legislation, or donating money, joining our board, anything that we do or create is - at its core - rooted in our ability to move people to action. It’s a critical organizational growth skill and capacity. That’s what Abigail and Adriana do with the organizations that they coach, train and support through Imagine Pod. Resources Referenced www.imaginepod.com Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
Feb 15, 2022 · 1 hr
The Practice of Liberatory Leadership, with Trish Tchume and Ericka Stallings
Trish Tchume is the Director of Liberatory Leadership Practice at the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, and Ericka Stallings is the co-ED of the Leadership Learning Community. Together, they co-facilitate the Liberatory Leadership Project, which works to explore, define, and support approaches to leadership development and organizational capacity building that prefigure a world where all of us can thrive. In this wonderful conversation, Trish and Ericka talk about what it actually means to practice liberation… We talk about why it’s so important - as a leader - to be intentional about the way that we design the spaces that we are leading - how we use time, how we use language, how we build systems to support our actual values, rather than build the systems we think we’re supposed to have as high impact organizations. They share the questions that they use to guide their liberatory leadership work - because really, practicing liberation is as much about continuing to ask ourselves and one another the right questions to allow our whole selves to show up in our work. Finally, they talk about liberated zones - what they are, and how we can each create spaces of liberation in our own lives. We talk about so many things - the theory, the practice, and how to bridge to two. It’s a conversation with such depth, and exactly why I love doing and sharing this podcast with other leaders. Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
Feb 8, 2022 · 42 min
The "Why" and "How" of Creating Your Own Mastermind Group
In this episode, I'm talking about Mastermind Groups - or more generally, the why and how of building a structured network of support and accountability. I feel really strongly about this topic. Creating intentional systems of support may feel like a "nice to have" for so many people, but it’s actually so, so deeply important and impactful. So often, when I talk to the Executive Directors and CEOs that I work with, and the topic of leadership comes up, I find myself in a conversation about how lonely it all can be. Even for people who have a great relationship with their team and a strong board of directors, so much of what we do as leaders requires us to be out on the proverbial limb, alone. This also feels like a really timely topic… This feeling of - and in many ways, actual - isolation has only been exacerbated by the pandemic. So today I want to share what turned out to be one of the most impactful leadership strategies I’ve ever deployed - and I don’t say that lightly. The ED Collective that I was part of for more than half my time as an ED changed almost everything about how I lead. You can also get a copy of a toolkit for building your own mastermind when you download the Architecture of Impact toolkit at https://richiebabbage.com/ArchitectureofImpactToolkit Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube
Jan 25, 2022 · 35 min
Encore: How To Practice Whole-Self Leadership, with Ana Polanco
This is an encore presentation of a wonderful conversation I had with my friend and colleague Ana Polanco last Spring. Ana is an intuitive, international coach, storyteller, and wisdom keeper who helps culturally diverse women and social change organizations find new ways of leading. She is a beautiful case study in how to do and lead deep social change work in a way that is aligned with one's values, past, and purpose. This conversation is about sustainable leadership, and about how leading from a whole-self perspective requires practice and replenishment. Ana and I get into the nuts and bolts of what it means to move through the world and as one's whole self, how to reshape our own leadership practices to make them more reflective of our whole selves, and most importantly, how to bring work and lead in ways that refill our cups rather than deplete us. Want to work together? Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale. Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board! Connect with me! LinkedIn Instagram YouTube

Nonprofit Mastermind Podcast

What To Think About Thought Leadership, Elements Of A Plan

SPOTLIGHT: RaisedByUs, with Jessica Sloan

How To Think About Thought Leadership, And Why It's So Important

SPOTLIGHT: Flex Dance Program

How To Get Your Finance House In Order, with Germeen Guillaume

SPOTLIGHT: Willie Mae Rock Camp

Strategy Quick Hit: How To Hire To Fuel Growth

A Tribute: The Art & Science of Building Trust, with Darcy Richie

MASTERMIND SPOTLIGHT: South Asian SOAR

MASTERMIND SPOTLIGHT: The New Harmony Project

How To Use Your Digital Assets To Attract - Not Chase - New Supporters & Fans, with Christina Edwards

MASTERMIND SPOTLIGHT: STEM From Dance

Building a Truly Engaged Board, with Christal Cherry

Build Your Personal Board of Directors, with Lakimja Mattocks

Using The Power of Video To Make Complex Legal Issues Simple, with Adam Stofsky

How To Design & Grow A Nonprofit That You're Proud Of

How To Inspire and Motivate People To Take Positive Action, with Abigail Ahoude and Adriana Dakin

The Practice of Liberatory Leadership, with Trish Tchume and Ericka Stallings

The "Why" and "How" of Creating Your Own Mastermind Group

Encore: How To Practice Whole-Self Leadership, with Ana Polanco