The Smart Communications Podcast

Big Duck

The Smart Communications Podcast helps busy nonprofit leaders build their communications skills and develop their organization’s voice. Every episode shares insights and practical tips to help you leverage strategic communications to advance your nonprofit’s mission.

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215 episodes
Updated July 22

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Jul 6, 2022 · 22 min
Episode 116: How can you direct transformative fundraising for your nonprofit?
Listen in as Farra Trompeter chats with Rhea Wong, author, fundraiser, and stand-up comedian, about challenging the scarcity mindset and how you can better communicate with donors.
Jun 22, 2022 · 20 min
Episode 115: Why does belonging matter in the workplace?
Listen to this podcast to learn how to make your workplace more inclusive as well as how to understand and mitigate exclusions and microaggressions.
Jun 8, 2022 · 31 min
Episode 114: What can white managers do to reduce racial harm?
Listen to this podcast to learn how your team can better understand how we hold power, privilege, and bias, and what individual accountability looks like in working toward equity and justice.
May 25, 2022 · 19 min
Episode 113: How can you use research to understand your brand perception?
What kind of research can an organization conduct if they want to understand their brand perception? How can you engage your community and center equity in the process?
May 11, 2022 · 18 min
Episode 112: How can you facilitate inclusive conversations?
Facilitation. How can you do it well? This podcast explores how to engage in group discussions and intentionally create space for participants to feel heard.
Apr 27, 2022 · 24 min
Episode 111: How can your organization stay human-centered in an artificial world?
Learn how you can use smart tech tol take over the tasks that make work feel overwhelming and endless, and that can lead to staff burnout and a lack of forward progress.
Apr 13, 2022 · 23 min
Episode 110: How can technology create an equitable world?
Technology can strengthen our ability to communicate across society, across communities, across families, and across individuals. Listen and learn how to shift our relationship to technology.
Mar 30, 2022 · 27 min
Episode 109: How can workers tap into their own power and voice?
Farra Trompeter, co-director, talks with Esteban Kelly, executive director at the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, to discuss how cooperatives work and aspects of worker democracy.
Mar 16, 2022 · 10 min
Episode 108: How can you promote legacy giving?
Farra Trompeter, co-director, and Lori Kranczer, founder and CEO of Everyday Planned Giving, talk about legacy giving and provide tips on how to proactively market this way of giving to your donors
Mar 2, 2022 · 22 min
Episode 107: How can you approach succession planning?
Farra Trompeter talks with NTEN CEO, Amy Sample Ward, about succession planning and how creating continuity plans for everyone can support a people-centered culture that centers staff.
Feb 16, 2022 · 22 min
Episode 106: Protecting one's time: How can wellbeing play into decision-making?
Learn the value of starting with why, self-care, and the art of delaying with Big Duck’s Hannah Thomas and Fatima Jones, senior director of marketing & comms at the Apollo Theater.
Feb 2, 2022 · 21 min
Episode 105: Why do government agencies need strong brands?
Find out the importance for government agencies to be focused on branding and communications work.
Jan 19, 2022 · 15 min
Episode 104: How can you embrace the challenges of changing your name?
Learn more about what a good name can do for organizations–and how to navigate the process of changing it in the episode of the Smart Communications Podcast.
Jan 5, 2022 · 22 min
Episode 103: Tiny Habits: How can small changes change everything?
Get tips on how to take five days to learn about yourself and learn about the tiny habits that you chose.
Dec 16, 2021 · 25 min
Episode 102: How can you create a healthy workplace in remote settings?
What can you do to embed wellness into how your organization works? Meico Marquette Whitlock shares his knowledge about how we have to take care of ourselves so that we can do good work better over time.
Dec 1, 2021 · 22 min
Episode 101: How do you know when your nonprofit has a jargon problem–and what can you do about it?
How do you know when your organization has a jargon problem? Listen to this podcast to get helpful tips on how to tackle this issue.
Nov 17, 2021 · 38 min
Episode 100: How can nonprofits apply the principles of Emergent Strategy to their communications?
Hannah Thomas and Priscilla Hung, co-director at Move to End Violence, discuss adrienne mareee brown’s Emergent Strategy and how to apply it to nonprofit communications.
Nov 3, 2021 · 22 min
Episode 99: Who should be on your communications team?
Who should be on your communications team? Learn how to define the characteristics that help successful nonprofit communications teams achieve their goals in this podcast.
Oct 20, 2021 · 15 min
Episode 98: How can you build inclusive processes in branding and beyond?
Farra Trompeter talks with Dr. Renee Rubin Ross, founder of The Ross Collective, about how you can build inclusive conversations and ways to meaningfully engage your team and community in branding.
Oct 8, 2021 · 26 min
Episode 97: How nonprofit communications have changed over the years
Sarah Durham and Farra Trompeter share insights about how nonprofit communications have changed over the years, and share their experiences as professionals who have worked for and with nonprofits for several decades.

The Smart Communications Podcast

Episode 116: How can you direct transformative fundraising for your nonprofit?

Episode 115: Why does belonging matter in the workplace?

Episode 114: What can white managers do to reduce racial harm?

Episode 113: How can you use research to understand your brand perception?

Episode 112: How can you facilitate inclusive conversations?

Episode 111: How can your organization stay human-centered in an artificial world?

Episode 110: How can technology create an equitable world?

Episode 109: How can workers tap into their own power and voice?

Episode 108: How can you promote legacy giving?

Episode 107: How can you approach succession planning?

Episode 106: Protecting one's time: How can wellbeing play into decision-making?

Episode 105: Why do government agencies need strong brands?

Episode 104: How can you embrace the challenges of changing your name?

Episode 103: Tiny Habits: How can small changes change everything?

Episode 102: How can you create a healthy workplace in remote settings?

Episode 101: How do you know when your nonprofit has a jargon problem–and what can you do about it?

Episode 100: How can nonprofits apply the principles of Emergent Strategy to their communications?

Episode 99: Who should be on your communications team?

Episode 98: How can you build inclusive processes in branding and beyond?

Episode 97: How nonprofit communications have changed over the years