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Nonprofit Radio for July 29, 2016: 300th Show!

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Claire Meyerhoff, Scott Stein, Maria Semple, Gene Takagi, Amy Sample Ward: 300th Show!

It’s the 6th anniversary of Nonprofit Radio! We’ve got live music, giveaways, Nonprofit Radio Fact or Fiction, impressive show announcements and all the familiar guests. Claire Meyerhoff our creative producer co-hosts. With us are theme song composer Scott Stein with his “traveling 88” and our savvy contributors Maria Semple (prospect research); Gene Takagi (law); and Amy Sample Ward (social media). It’s a blowout! It’s an extravaganza! It’s our 300th show!

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Hello, martignetti non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. I’m your aptly named host. You hear that? Live music. That means it’s, our three hundredth show. Scott stein. We got lots of live, more music, more live music coming up. We have a listener of the geek lauren wilkerson she’s at fit underscore fund-raising she first tweeted me that she’s been a podcast subscriber for awhile and loves it. Although lauren, you spelled my name teo and i please get that straight is why at the end when i told her that she’s our listener of the week, she said she’s geeking out so i dubbed her listen er of the gate and she tweeted back, geeky is the new sexy she sent nice tweeted a nice picture with those black bcd you know those birth control device classes and saying that geek is that geek is the new sexy. So she is our listener of the geek she’s lauren whisker seuin congratulations, lauren, our very first listen to the game. Cool. Oh, i’m glad you’re with me. I’d be thrown into press oh, pota, please jia! If i had to face the idea that you missed today’s show it’s the sixth anniversary of non-profit radio, we’ve got more live music giveaways, non-profit radio fact or fiction, impressive show announcements and all the familiar guests clear myer half our creative producer cohosts with us are the theme song composer scotty stein, who he already heard from and he’s traveling eighty eight. We’re going to hear a lot more music from scott are savvy contributors are calling in maria simple on prospect research. Jean takagi are brilliant and now award winning lawyer and any sample ward our social media ceo it’s a blowout it’s extravaganza it’s our three hundred show that’s claire meyerhoff that’s name we are we’re on periscope way don’t start periscope oh no where’s our periscope corey okay, we’re going to be on periscope very shortly. We didn’t start where’s our periscope cable sam um if you have the app, then i’m at tony martignetti and also on twitter. Of course we’re live tweeting the show today so check check that use the hashtag non-profit radio wanna give a shout? Out. And thanks to cure a coffee and the non-profit times they are our giveaway sponsors on tony’s take two. You know, i just i got to say thank you. We’re sponsored by pursuant full service fund-raising data driven and technology enabled. You’ll raise more money pursuant dot com. And by we be spelling super cool spelling bee fundraisers. We be spelling dot com and we be spelling. Where the heck did that come from? That’s? One of the cool announcements. Our newest sponsor is spelling bees for charities. We’d be spelling dot com. We’re going to talk to the ceo. He’s going to be calling in alex’s career. Explain why we be spelling is perfect for non-profit radio listeners krauz meyerhoff. Welcome back to new york city. Thank you, tony. Martignetti, it is great to be here. It’s. A pleasure to have you co hosting. You gotta hold your mike because it fell off the stand. Well, you know, sometimes you have to go old school. You are, you’re improvised, and we gotta get our get our periscope feed going. I just plug this in. Sam. Okay, okay. I’ll try to do that, huh? Well, i also welcome scott. Stein okay, sign doesn’t have a mic. Regrettably wasn’t do yell. Doesn’t quite have a mic, but he’s here and okay, so you have that? Here we are. Cool. There’s scott star he’s got a mike? Yes. Thanks for having me. Well, it’s a pleasure. You were here for the two hundredth last year. You couldn’t make it. So we had a pre recorded segment of you right in my apartment. We did it from your apartment, your studio in your apartment. And this year, fortunately, you can make kitt on dh. You’re live, and we’re going to course be playing cheap red wine. Yes. Yes, we are. And you got a piece coming up from your new album. Yes, indeed. All right. We’re going to a chance to talk about all that clear meyerhoff what’s going on with you and the plant e-giving agency. Well, i’ve recently incorporated. I’ve grown my business. I have a great new website pg agency dot com and i’ve brought on a partner. Business partner diana grows from the national wildlife federation. She’s a ah, millennial she’s a younger person shows she knows a lot of stuff that i don’t know and i know stuff she doesn’t know, so you are a great combination and we’re helping all kinds of non-profits with their philanthropy, communications and their plan giving marketing and just basically helping them with a wide range of communication needs, the good half are the pg agency dot com it’s pg agency dot just pg agent don t agency dot com we have a special paige pg agency. Dot com slash tony three hundred and for anyone who wants a phone consultation, which we have ah fee for a very reasonable fee, we have a discount for you, so give us a tap there on pg agency. Dot com slash tony three hundred cool you arranged a discount for not property listening but described your property respond? The website is new, right website is new. We’ve got all kinds of great content on there about some strategies you probably haven’t even thought about that most people don’t think about for their plan giving marketing so it’s not the same old, same old plan giving marketing and, of course, in addition to those weighty responsibilities at the plant giving agency, you’re non-profit radios, creative director i am non-profit radios creative director when tony i met tony years ago when he was starting the show and he’s like, can i? Can i help you? Can you help me start the show? And i’m like, sure, and so i showed him how to make, like, a clock, you know? So the u do you know, certain things that certain times and and and guest schedules and things and he’s using all that to this day, i’ve seen your many your files full of them? Absolutely dunaj job i do you and that wasn’t just a few years ago. That was actually your six years ago. Like almost to the day it was it was a was a very auspicious july day in two thousand ten, and we gotta ruth, chris steakhouse or some somewhere like that. I think it went great. Papaya, gray’s, papaya. We get a cheap, hot dog. No, it was in north korea was in care o in cary, north carolina. We did. We did to organize things that’s right? Would you, uh, why don’t you and scot chat a little bit? Because i got to get our periscope feed started. Dahna you know what? You know each other? He’s got a new album and she’s got a new website got talking about you have a new album tell us a little bit about your new new album. Sure, it’s called traveling companion on dh it’s going to be widely available next month. I’m gonna be going on tour, hitting some spots in pennsylvania, being lancaster and pittsburgh and my hometown of akron, ohio. Now we’re going to a cd release show here in the city on september twenty first rockwood music hall s oh yeah, traveling companions knew record i’m very, very excited for people to hear this the first single which i think we’re going to play later, is already out. You khun get that on band camp and get down on my website on scott at scott’s buy-in music dot com and yeah, i can’t wait for people to hear the whole thing that’s wonderful. So how long did it take you to complete this? This album we started recording back and january or february on dh. The initial plan was to knock it out in about two weeks and then slowed down a little bit and so down a little more, and what we found was, you know, what this we felt really strongly about this, this collection of songs, me and and the guys i’m working with, and we just felt like it’s worth it to take our time and get this thing right, and i’m just really glad that we did it. It was the right decision. So tell us about a couple of the other songs on the album. Um, well, i could tell you in general that i think the album touches on a number of themes, including, i think, sort of moving up and moving forward, you know, it’s a lot of recollections of things that i did maybe in my first years in new york as a twenty something and growing in to a thirty something who is now married and ah, homeowner and things that feel very adult and so that’s. So that’s, i think the theme of the record, we’re going to we’re going to a quick give away oh, great, you got the periscope feed going? So if you have the periscope app, check me out to follow me at tony martignetti and you can join us on periscope and i guess, well, i’m talking, maybe i should turn. It around there we go. Cool. Okay. And we’re going to go. We got to give away. This is for is going out to katie benson she’s at katie be underscore nc and she tweeted our three hundred show she’s a mom volunteer consultant to non-profits c f r ee fundraiser jargon jail that’s a certified fund-raising executive and she says she’s funny, we have to check that, but i have no reason to doubt her. I mean, why? Why running by lie in a twitter profile? Of course, right, claire? No, of course it doesn’t. It doesn’t happen. It doesn’t have never. Okay, but she’s she’s a listener so she’s an honest person. Katie benson, we have a bag of cura coffee coming your way. And claire, why don’t you? Don’t you actually tell us a little about cura? Well, cure coffee directly connects coffee lovers with farmers and families who harvest the finest organic coffee beans. So with every cup of cura, you join our effort to expand sustainable dental care to remote communities around the world and curious direct trade coffee company with direct impact. It’s brought directly to you, creating organic smiles beyond the cup and you can find them at cura coffee, dot com that’s, cura coffee, dot com delicious coffee and and ah, very important social mission and very important dental care to low income, really coffee farmers and their communities. It’s our two favorite things non-profits and coffee and we love cure. Thank you. Okay, we’re gonna go out for a for a, uh we got a first break. We’ve gotta take a break. And when we come back, we’ve got tons. We got cheap red wine coming up. We’ve got another song from scottie’s new album. Uh, we got all the all the regular contributors calling in. We got more giveaways, we have non-profit radio fact or fiction stay with us. You’re tuned to non-profit radio. Tony martignetti also hosts a podcast for the chronicle of philanthropy fund-raising fundamentals is a quick ten minute burst of fund-raising insights published once a month. Tony’s guests are expert in crowdfunding mobile giving event fund-raising direct mail and donor cultivation. Really, all the fund-raising issues that make you wonder am i doing this right? Is there a better way there is? Find the fund-raising fundamentals archive it. Tony martignetti dot com that’s marketmesuite n e t t i remember there’s, a g before the end, thousands of listeners have subscribed on itunes. You can also learn maura, the chronicle website philanthropy dot com fund-raising fundamentals the better way. Claire meyerhoff maybe you could hold the mic for him so that because we’re going, we’re going to do a little. We’re gonna get the full version cheap red wine. So as we figure out the studio configuration, um, yeah, exactly. Exactly. That was not cheap red wine, but that was our that was scotty with his traveling eighty eight. And maybe if you take that mic flag off, maybe it’ll work better. Um, cheap red wine just struck me as a perfect song. I just love the instrumental it’s been our theme song for probably three years now or so roughly you you hear it at the opening of every every show. We come back from commercials. Of course we close with it. And ah, scott stein is the composer and it’s all legal it’s all license and everything. This is certainly not a bootleg. Okay, scott stein, appreciate that high. Okay, you’re you’re good there. We’re going to get cool, okay? Just before we play it, tell us what’s the what’s, the story of cheap red wine, i think it’s ah, sort of. Ah, recollection of being new to new york and ah, being a musician in a neighborhood in which it was a lot of people who work in law and finance. In fact, i remember, i went to aa a dinner of some sort dinner party, and someone very new york ish came up and said, so do you work in law finance? And i said neither, and she thought, well, then, i must be a doctor, you know? And then i had to explain that i know freshly musician, doctor, doctor, lawyer or doctor. Yeah, so here i am, him shoretz places. I don’t know if we need that is unimportant. No, we’re good without okay. Ah, yeah, so that’s, what the song is about. The song goes back in number eight years, and i love this song, but, yeah, i’m so glad it has found a home here, and i appreciate you using it. All right. Here we go. Wait, you just keep on talking sooner or later, i think you’re out just what you mean. You seeking romantic advice from a bill. What i’m looking for answers up on a tv screen way can agree on nothing way, get tell our ups from my down, wait. Disappointed in each other now, timid baby ate this love with me. I found you know you used to find a charming, but i can’t figure out how and you said, you thought i was handsome, but it doesn’t matter now. So game fallen for my punch lines, as long as your time will allow, because i’ve gotta read me promises about laci bread awhile on and now. You know, some girls just living diamonds, they want type of that kind of clothing that i wear well, i’m to put over for the good stuff in your too easily distracted to care way ain’t got too many options, and so i’m going to do the best that i can wait, do you have some competition when day, when i’m a well, the your man, you know, you used to find me charming, but i can’t figure out how and he said, you thought i was handsome, but it doesn’t matter now, so get falling for my punch lines as long as your time will allow it. I gotta wrap your promises of biology bradrick red wine and wait well, baby, literally glasses take a drink better daisy of a people can kiss houses and they don’t like the things you say and i again because the heavens no i want flashing up into signs were perfect for each other’s along with nobody else it’s in my nobody’s winning way wait hyre hey, you know, you used to find me charming, but i can’t figure out how you said your father was handsome, never mind don’t matter now, so get falling from a punch on his lungs. Your time will allow. So i’ve gotta empty promises about a cheap one. Wait! Neo-sage wait. Well, i love that song. Thank you, scottie. Alright, think. Love that song. I love that song. All right, we’re gonna turn in. Thank you. Thank you. And we got more from scott coming up. He’s going to play something from his new album, traveling companions shortly is gonna play out in the second half. And while well, scott and ah, and claire share mikes on dh get themselves together than there’s, not there’s. No. You know, it’s totally transparent. Here we exercise. What? All our guests a total transparency. Nothing happening behind the scenes that you’re not aware of, um, because in a moment, claire and i are going to play little non-profit radio fact or fiction. Wait, marie on the line. We do. We got maria simple online. Okay, i’ll tell you what, let’s, talk to maria. Simple and they will do is fact or fiction. Maria simple. How are you? I’m doing well, thanks. How about you congratulate? I’m doing great. I look, i’m congratulating myself and you were doing great. But you can’t you tell? Well, i’m delighted to be here and congratulations to everybody there. Thank you. Thank you very much. Six long years and although it seems like seems like six months, i mean, the time cruises by but maria semple, i’m just very grateful to you on our show. I don’t know how many years you’ve been on three years, right? And, uh, every month talking about prospect research, yeah, absolutely, absolutely. So i’m delighted to be here and sharing my tips when i can. Thank you, it’s. Absolute pleasure. Now i’m glad you you emerged relatively unscathed from recent little traffic accident you had you’re now listeners know you’re a boater. Listeners know that you have a sailboat you probably should have. Maybe she’d been boating when when this happened. Actually, i was on route to go to do that, but i never made it there. Ok? Oh, so was boating. Okay, well, i’m glad that it wasn’t a big deal for you and glad everything’s a okay. And i guess the waterways they’re safer than the roadways. Yes, they sure are. Well, you know, so it’s a good a good news. Bad news situation. Good news is ah, my husband and i survived. The bad news is the cars completely totalled? One of your prius is you have multiple priuses, right? I d’oh. Okay. Okay, well, you’ll get a brand new one from the insurance company. Well, yeah, we’ll see posting of that? Our work, our sticks, the sailboats and ah, we’ll be talking to you very soon because you’re on every single month. Love it, that’s. Right. Okay, well, listen, i hope you’re all having a great party there. I know you’ve got all the other regulars calling in and, uh, you know, i think it’s some point, you know, i was thinking about this as i was listening to the red wine song. Tony, it be really fun if you got all the regulars together in manhattan for a bottle of cheap red wine, i see. Ok? And i presumed that would be a non-profit radio expense. Well, that’s that’s. The whole cheap red wine piece, the cheaper. Yeah, but i gotta fly gene in from san francisco. I gotta fly. Amy. And from portland, oregon. I gotta bring claire miree often from north carolina. You from new jersey. You’re the you’re the cheap date your accuser train ride, but okay. Okay. What do you call me? The queen of no dia. Diane of dirt. Cheap and free, because he always got free and cheap resources for us. That’s, right, you are dyin okay, all right, thank you, maria. Simple, cool. I hope you all have a great party there. Thank you very much. All right, we’ll talk soon. Bye. Maria abi. Mr cem non-profit radio factor fiction. Claire crime. I hope i’m ready. And i know you feel how you feel. Okay? It’s ah. Okay. I did. Did a guest. Oh, i’m not going to play the clip because the radio, the phone has periscope on it, so i won’t be able to play our heart attack clip. We’ll have to describe it. I’ll have to describe it. Dahna did. Did a guest almost have a heart attack on non-profit radio? I think it kind of gave away the answer right there. We’ll just sort of it. I guess it probably didn’t happen. Yeah, it was dennis miller on dh. Hey, was he was, you know, there’s miller? Oh, the comedian? No, not the committee. This one is he’s. A little it’s a little bigger than the dennis miller that most people know and he ran from i think you ran from the subway. He had a heart attack? No, he almost he came close. He was breathing. He was breathing very hard. He was huffing and puffing. Onda had a clip for you know, but i didn’t realize require any any assistance? No, no, no, it is there an i e d here in the studio. Sam, there was not a good thing. We didn’t need the no, he was fine. And he persevered and was out for the hour. It was cool. That’s. Good. So he was. He was he was a okay, um, let’s. See, um, did i interview a cab driver ever? Um, i think that’s fiction dahna it’s actually it’s close enough to be a fact. I’m sorry i came close. I interviewed that was, uh that was derek feldman, and he was in a cab at the lincoln tunnel when we started, which is not very close to here. That was a good ten twelve minute cab ride before he actually made it to the studio. That’s pretty far on. Guy tried to get him. I tried to get the cabby on the air, but he doesn’t have a sack guard, so he wasn’t allowed to do it right. He doesn’t sets a requirement here. No, it’s, because what? I understand, you’re all upset cards. This is i actually did this bonified you do? Your tough man after saying radio what’s your radio background, you been on washington? I worked. I worked for an abc radio cluster in d c doing doing news and traffic hour for exams, satellite radio at the very beginning days of satellite radios, they’re in the launch of the x m except, um, satellite room in d c in two thousand one. We launched on september tenth, two thousand and one. Okay, so the next day was september eleven, two thousand one. We weren’t prepared for that, and we’re also i worked. I worked. I worked for cnn. I worked for the d c bureau of cnn, a za news writer and sometime reporter at worked for beauty. Oh, petey! Oh, petey! On the station in d c i was news reporter and sports anchor there on the weekends. Your weather girl. I’ve never been a weather you want, whether okay, sports argast i’ve read plenty of weather because when you do news like for an fm station in the morning, you do like a little bit of sports. A little bit of weather. I was like doing the weather. Three t o p it’s still going strong to your council being up here, it’s like two big deal is awesome. Yeah, great station, cool. I learned to it all the time. All right, let’s, try one more fact or fiction. Yes, one more. Um, has seth godin been on this show? I’m going to say that that’s a fact, that is a fact. Did i interview seth goat subpart a. Did i interview seth gordon? I don’t know, maybe did to tap dance, or or you interviewed him. I think you interviewed him. I didn’t do that interview. Seth gordon was on the show. In fact, it was our very first next-gen charity conference and was our very first remote first time we took non-profit radio remote, right? And seth cohen was one of the speakers, and it was here in the city, and i ran to an atm. I don’t member. Why? But i remember i went to an atm to get money. Yeah, why? I needed money. Why do i need money for the route as paying guests? Latto buy-in might i have a paper trail for my sag card? I guess. And when i left, seth gordon was available, so somebody else stepped in. That was our very first social media manager. Was regina walt? I know. I know. Regina, you know, regina, remember regina? And she was she was doing the room. She was in new york at the time, national in san francisco. But she jumped in and did that interview. So seth was on the show, but i didn’t interview. You’ve done quite a few remote ce. We were together one time in san antonio at the national plan getting conference. We did that’s, right? I forgot. We did that together. That’s, right? San antonio. I’m talking to them about being at the next one. You know, alice yes, in dallas now called and pcc, isn’t it? National? No. Nc p p national conference for philanthropic planning. And now they call it now. And speaking of which, i wantto let the listeners know that if you’re in fort worth, texas, i am going to be speaking in fort worth, texas, on september twentieth to the lone star chow chapter of the ppp. They’re bringing me down there to talk about legacy storytelling. So i’ll be in texas in september. The lone star chapter, the lone star chapter. Sounds like worth and west. Okay, it sounds like three people are going to show up. No lone star chapter because texas is a huge state. You know, i have heard rumors to that effect. Yes. It’s enough. You know, texas is the number two populated state after california. Really bigger than new york. I know. On people in new york, uncommonly known scottie give us fact that’s a fact that’s that is, uh, that is fact. Yes. Texas is the second most populated state after after california. Really? Yeah. Very interesting. All right, nasco you’re from midwest, you’re from ohio. I am akron, ohio. Indeed. Ok. You’re following the convention at all. That was in cleveland. Yeah, it’s an extent, you know, little. Okay, it’s kind of not necessary on doesn’t really matter what side of the island you’re on. You wanted to see that the city of cleveland and the region come across well and i think they did. I think they did in this job. It was obviously it’s it’s always a challenge. And i think that they were think they were up to it. Ok? The fact they had a little championship parade a couple of weeks earlier. Sort of help them prepare so that’s right? See, i’m not i’m still celebrating. You are cavaliers nb a championship n ba that’s basketball that’s baseball that’s baseball, basketball basketball’s basketball. Okay n ba that’s not basketball associate baseball season what’s the national baseball association that’s and there’ll be a major league baseball and then there’s the national league in the mlb for major league baseball. Okay, i’m not a big sports story, ok, nfl, you know that is the nfl i’m gonna put you in charge in jail for assault folly in the nhl. What’s the nhl hucksters. No, okay, i’m putting you in jargon, jail for both. For nhl, nfl, they grew up in new york, unknown terms to me, you so sports plain country, xero i’m not even gonna that’s, ok, thank you. I’ve heard of the met because my dad, we grew up in the met, so i know i know that they cause i’m nets, they definitely do field goals. They’re very good field goal. They were very good. Ditigal now they have a good free throw percentage. Sametz sametz cool. Sorry, kar exist. We should take a break and what we got coming up, we’ll wrap the break will do a giveaway. We got another giveaway coming up and ah, jean takagi is going to be on the line very soon. We got more music. We got more non-profit fact or fiction. Stay with us. Oh, okay. Sam says that we shouldn’t take a break right now. Okay, that we should do something different. All right, so in that case, we got ill. D’oh. Oh, i know what i’ll do. Okay? We should we should say that we’re grateful to the sponsors and yeah, that’s. Right. Take a minute of your, uh, carol marrow. If you’d be into this pursuing pursuing to the sponsor now they do. If fund-raising software right for non-profits like, you know, they help you stay time against goal for fund-raising managed tasks like when’s. My next phone call to this group of donors. What’s. Um, next milestone i gotta make for being on task and on goal. That’s, the plan giving agency. I mean, you do marketing communication. We do marketing communication, so we would. When i lived with a client, i would i would rely on them. And i would say, what sort of software do you have? And they might say, you know, if i’m lucky, they’ll say they have pursuing for something well, let’s look at some of the information in there and try to, you know, target some specific donors or, you know, there’s all kinds of good information that’s in there, if you know how to use it, and i think that’s important is that for company, you know, for pursuing, i’m sure they offer great customer support and trainings and things like that so you could make the most of the software that’s really, exactly in the most it’s dule, you gotta have the data, and you gotta have the marketing communications to tell those stories, right? That aaron, the data. Okay, you have to have good data in a good way to organize it, and with pursuant that that’s what they could do and, you know, get the most out your pursuit software. Don’t just learn like, the first two things like, you know, learn it all. Yeah. And there are pursuing dot com and, uh, tell you what uh little differently when i told alex career but we’re gonna bring alex career on he’s on the line because our our new this is another cool already. I divulged it earlier, but another cool announcement that we have and there’s another one coming up later too, involves california that’s all like that’s. All i am permitted to say at this time about that cool announcement, but this school announcement is that we be spelling is a brand new sponsor of non-profit radio. We’ll be spelling and alex greer, ceo is on the line. Alex welcome. Thank you, tony. How you doing? We’re doing great. Welcome. Thank you for being a sponsor. Thank you for having me on. Congratulations on the three hundred show, it’s. Very tough. Cool. Now we we’d be. We’d be spelling these air. Not your grandmother’s spelling bees, right? They’re not your grandmother’s spelling bees. They’re not your elementary school spelling bees. We had no idea two a kind of nostalgia that we all have of spelling bees. But combine it with some stuff that we love to do when we go out in new york city. Like like music like comedy, music, dance, write music, dance around, meet up with some new friends. Have a couple of drinks and play a really silly game, okay? And we make money for charities at the same time. We sure did. Right? We have. Ah, great. Yeah, we have a great fund-raising platform. The idea here was to create a ticket price that young people could afford so that they could come and join these events. It’s not a five hundred dollars gala it’s usually a twenty five dollars ticket to come in, but then we turned all the spellers into peer-to-peer fundraisers. So essentially, if you were running a marathon or five pay for charity, these people will participate in this killing me, okay? They’ll reach out to their network and say, hey, and you and get up on stage and might embarrass myself, but i’m doing provoc oppcoll right. And so this makes perfect sense for the small and midsize non-profits that are non-profit radio listeners? Absolutely. Yeah, we’ve had a lot of success with a mid sized non-profits engaging younger people and really activating their crew to come out, learn about the non-profit and have a great time while they’re doing it cool. Well, alex, i want to thank you very much for for being a sponsor of non-profit radio. Thank you. That’s. Really cool that that’s my pleasure and got loved the music. We should connect. It will get you that be fantastic. You’re both in brooklyn. Oh, scotty’s soon moving to brooklyn. Yes, and alex is in brooklyn now. Oh, cool. All right, well, then we’ll have tio have to connect that be great. Absolutely. Okay, he’s going to the next musician on cool on one of the wee bey spelling bee. Sounds good. Alright, alex. Alex men. Thank you very much for being a sponsor. Absolutely. Thanks for having me. And congratulations to get cool. Pleasure. Pleasure. All right, take it. Ah, let’s. Do tony’s take two when i just want to say gratitude and thanks to all the people who have made this show possible, you hear me recite them at the end of every show, including claire meyerhoff and scott stein. Get credit every show. But then there’s so well and soon chavez, she gets credit every show to she’s doing the live tweeting right now. Are we watching the hashtag non-profit radio? Sam, we are not okay. We’re watching the phone panel that’s important too? Just in. Case anybody live tweets besides susan she’s out there tweeting this show and but then there’s, you know, there’s, the behind the scenes guy mark silverman on, of course. There’s family what’s it. The board he’s credited every show. I’m staring at him at him and taking him for granted every single week. I’m doing it right this second. But he’s the one producing he’s, the one managing the live stream that’s. Why he’s managing the stream and a right to ask him to watch the sea. You telling me who’s listening live so i could do live listener love plus he’s watching the hash tag plus he’s watching the conference line pushes, watching the board pushes. Got to keyboards in front of him. The man is uncredited. We gotta turn this thing around. Where is this? Uh, here, sam. Here, sam. Dreadfully uncredited. There he is on periscope. All right. Very odd. Looking to see. I’m not blind to keyboards. Looking at multiple. Should have multiple screens. But there’s a screen is the man’s inundated with technology. It’s it’s. Amazing. He keeps this thing together. Scot’s done. Okay. This clip there, huh? Cool durney. Uh, let’s. Keep it on. There, meyerhoff, while i’m talking, is that bad things gets a mistake is a mistake. No. Okay, so all the people who have made six, three hundred shows possible six years, three hundred shows. It’s amazing. I am so grateful to this magnificent team. And of course, the team includes our three contributors who are calling in maria and gene and amy, you know, they just they take time to prepare this show mean, every month they come up with a topic, they come up with conversation around the topic, and they take the time to think about these things, and then they take the time to call it. I mean, you know, gene and, uh, amy on the west coast, i declare i mean, they’re doing us a ten. Thirty ten o’clock in the morning, ten. Thirty in the morning. That’s early. Well, for california. Yeah. I mean, you know, those people, i mean, they’re starting the day like noon, but these but these two are not they’re they’re more ambitious than your average california person. That’s bad, right? That’s bad for everybody, for i was born in california. Are you? Are you from california? Was born there you’re born he was more than a little teeny tiny town called coal inga. They had a big earthquake there in nineteen eighty three. Is that their claim? Tio? Okay, wasn’t that the celebrated jumping frog that’s, calaveras celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county or something? Isn’t it cooling? Is is known as the home of harris ranch, which is a horse breeder, and they had a horse a couple of years ago that that one like the two big races but didn’t want the third one. I can’t enter the name of it. No, i’m sorry, it was a great story, okay, so you don’t know much more about sports going to do well and i don’t know that much about horse racing. Well, let’s, me neither feel any better, but i don’t know about baseball, so great gratitude, gratitude going out to those three contributors who have been with us for a long time. Maria is like three years, amy, since the hundredth show, which would be four years, fifty shows a year, two hundred shows, five, fifty, two hundred for four years. And jean takagi even longer than that. It’s amazing! So that’s tony’s take two lots of gratitude going out? Okay, let’s do a giveaway we give away, we got some to give away this one’s going tio dan kimble dan is a product specialist, and apple owes software longtime non-profit fundraiser, he says with a passion for people, music, food and a few other things and probably the real interesting stuff is probably a few other things that he doesn’t, including his twitter profile he’s at fugitive d m k although it doesn’t spell fugitive the right way, i hope he knows that, but he tweeted our three hundred show and that’s what it took to win a prize we’ve got to give away for your dan it’s a subscription to the non-profit times. Claire the non-profit times the leading business publication for non-profit management than non-profit times dot com that’s non-profit times dot com that is non-profit times beautiful. What a pro! Thank you. You do have a sag card? I can tell nastad card, scott. No, i do not. But i’m a musician some part of local later to here in the city. Look latto to any man. He’s bona fide. I’m the only one who’s not. I don’t have any have no credentials. All right, jean chicago. Lots of credentials i’ve could have, but nothing like you’re an attorney and that’s. The first one you think of, i’m embarrassed. That’s the first one. That’s important podcaster. You’re a podcaster. Thank you. You’re a certified podcaster. C p c let’s, bring in jane takagi he’s on the line. Gene, welcome to the party. Congratulate durney amazing three hundred shows. Thank you very much. Thank you, jean how’s. Everything. Where you doing in san francisco today? What’s going on there? Well, it’s, a little early, as you mentioned, have, uh, just getting a bit of work done. But it’s, a beautiful day out here, as we often happen in california and san francisco specifically, you have beautiful weather there, right? Well, particularly in july, july? Not june. Sometimes a little gloomy, but right, junior, get that junior. Yes. Do you know where do you know the little town that claire miree office from in california what’s kayman coalinga. Do you know that when you absolutely drive by all the time as i drive down i five tillis, ingeles it’s, halfway between l a and san francisco. Pretty much, right? Yeah, exactly where we make a little stop to get gas and grab, drink, exactly, or you could go to the harris ranch. They have great food at the restaurant of paris ranch. There you go, jean. If you need a lunch, stop instead of just gas and bathroom break, stop it! You know that stuff? I think there’s, a it’s, like a bob’s, big boy or something, is right there. I’ve driven up and down there. Is there a big boy there? Gene, can you verify that? Recall their way? You lots of big boys. But that ok, well used to see lots of big arjun. I want to go there, let’s. See what else we got. Oh, so oh, well, just the fact that you got a restaurant recommendation. So if you need lunch what’s in paris, the harris harris ran her cerini is this huge ranch, but they have a restaurant on site with, you know, great burgers, because the meat comes from the cows that you smell when you’re driving along. I five. There you go. Okay, so i get the before and after. Okay. All right, all right. You are truly a vegetarian. Jean takagi. Uh, are your vegetarian gene? No, i’m not. I don’t admire those who are ok. Waiter it’s a big world out of love for everyone. The vegetarian, vegan, macro, macro, ovo lacto, whatever you might be, your inclusive were inclusive. You included? You included? Because we’re inclusive. Non-profit radio. Um so, jean, you’ve been with non-profit radio for a long, long time. I think it’s i think it’s it may be even more, like more more than five and a half years. You were on very early in the show. My first show was august twenty seventh, two thousand ten august. I see you did the research. You’re better than you better than the host that’s. Why that’s why? I’m not bona fide august twenty seventh, two thousand ten well, we only started the thing in july two thousand ten. Oh, so you were definitely your your hands almost the whole six years. Yeah. It’s. Pretty amazing. And i take way. We have a way. Had drinks, actually at a restaurant here in san francisco that is unfortunately closed down. Since then, i take the only to the best places, right? Yeah. That was back when emily chan was was with us. Yeah, absolutely. So we had the drinks. Do we have the drinks? And then you were on the show or we we did the show and then two drinks, remember? You know, i can’t remember the order, but it was it was very close to around the same time. Okay, so, so call it six years. Jean. You’ve been on the show the whole six years for pete’s sake. I guess so, and very honored to be part of the show. Wow, cool, all right, well, i want to thank you very much for doing that gene. Year after year after year, so many shows together, jin takagi hey edits the very popular, exceedingly popular non-profit law blawg dot com, and his firm is neo, the non-profit and exempt organizations law group in san francisco, um, and on twitter he’s at g tak e t a what a gentleman and what a smart guy. Oh, but we can’t sign him off. You got the award to talk about jean. We gotta spend minutes on this. All right, again, either fact or fiction. Non-profit radio was instrumental in your winning a major award. Jean takagi. Yeah, i’m a little shy to talk about it, but yeah, it was really very, very helpful in and on the first line of my bio. I’ve noted out that that i’m a regular contributor to tony martignetti non-profit radio and that the american bar association’s non-profit organizations committee was kind enough to honor me with their lawyer of the year awards. Thanks. Thanks. It’s also about tony and i very much appreciate being part of this show and absolutely help you get that recognition. Now, gene, i know how modest you are. It’s coming out right now. The full title of the award from the american bar association is two thousand sixteen outstanding non-profit lawyer that’s the award that gene takagi one it’s remarkable, so well deserved. So overdue. I mean, you should have been the twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen too. But they finally they fixed it. Twenty sixteen and i was very proud that non-profit medio was a part of your bio on that in that testimonial for the award. So, jean, you’re modest and i admire that. But i’m shouting you out as the american bar association. Twenty sixteen outstanding non-profit lawyer. Well, that’s. Awesome that is awesome, absolutely. Gene, your gentlemen, thank you so much for being a part of non-profit radio. Congrats many, many more so absolutely, and you’ll be a part of a lot of them. Thank you, jean. Thanks, jane, okay, was i mean, we get a little break, we’ve got to go toe, you gotta go to break, is that right? Okay, sam, labbate says, break time. We’ll be back in, uh, moments, mere moments, and we got any sample ward still calling in. We’ve got more fact or fiction. We got scott stein’s gonna play a song from his newest album, stay with us. Like what you’re hearing a non-profit radio tony’s got more on youtube, you’ll find clips from stand up comedy tv spots and exclusive interviews catch guests like seth gordon. Craig newmark, the founder of craigslist marquis of eco enterprises, charles best from donors choose dot org’s aria finger do something that worked. And naomi levine from new york universities heimans center on philanthropy tony tweets to he finds the best content from the most knowledgeable, interesting people in and around non-profits to share on his stream. If you have valuable info, he wants to re tweet you during the show. You can join the conversation on twitter using hashtag non-profit radio twitter is an easy way to reach tony he’s at tony martignetti narasimhan t i g e n e t t i remember there’s a g before the end he hosts a podcast for the chronicle of philanthropy fund-raising fundamentals is a short monthly show devoted to getting over your fund-raising hartals just like non-profit radio, toni talks to leading thinkers, experts and cool people with great ideas. As one fan said, tony picks their brains and i don’t have to leave my office fund-raising fundamentals was recently dubbed the most helpful non-profit podcast you have ever heard. You can also join the conversation on facebook, where you can ask questions before or after the show. The guests were there, too. Get insider show alerts by email, tony tells you who’s on each week and always includes link so that you can contact guests directly. To sign up, visit the facebook page for tony martignetti dot com. Lively conversation. Top trans sounded life that’s, tony martignetti non-profit radio. And i am his niece, carmela. And i am his nephew, gino. Welcome back to big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. As you can tell, we got we got skynet is traveling eighty eight. We got scott at his traveling eighty eight is called it’s time. I responded many names. Okay, um, the album, the new album, is traveling companion. What were you gonna play? I’m gonna play the first single it’s called wild abandon, and it just released it last week. It’s available on bandcamp and via my websites, got stein music dot com, and the record will be out in the coming weeks, and as i’m starting to hit the road and do some, do some tour dates in support of the album. So cool. All right, here is scott stein, wild abandon off his new album, traveling companion. I’m going against the traffic, if not exactly against the grain speeding past jamaica on the first outgoing tree. It ain’t the prettiest of day. Ah, but it’ll have to do. To make in naz living, god be in honest man. I read that in a book somewhere is all i understand. No, i’m headed somewhere. I don’t know where to wait, but wherever i’m going, i’m going with you. I live my life. Just win for someone who threw me out in deep shit, mate from a stupor arouses wig made from my sleeping to teach me how to love, because i didn’t have. Hit me like a rocket then, and never side coming. You nearly knocked me over, but his payment run. It doesn’t matter what direction. But just as long as north is true way, wherever i’m going, i’m going with you. Yeah, wherever i’m going, i’m going with you. We’ve got tio love with wild abandon and louder, abandoned, my dear. You’ve got to learn to love with wild abandon, wilder abandoned, my dear, i’m good love you, wild men and wild bend, my dear, i’m done. You know what? Out of band wild abandon, my dear. I’m going against the traffic of not exactly against the green speeding past to make it line and down, darling, i can’t wait. Till’s wagon days through there has never been more certain, darling. Because i made up my mind. I’m going to make that safe, uncertain path going. But my heart walk line. So baby let’s get lost together. Stumble down the avenue. Because wherever going going with yeah, wherever i’m going, i’m going with you. Wait! Thanks. Scott stein. Scott stein. Music dot com the new album is i do. Two new album is traveling companion. That was wild. Abandon you’re gonna find him. It’s scott stein, music dot com you’re gonna find him in pittsburgh coming up. You’re gonna find him in lancaster pen pencil. Vania we’re gonna find him in akron. His hometown has got dates in all these towns coming up and there’s a lot more at scott stein. Music dot com, right? Yes, sir. Thank you. And again. Congratulations on three hundred. And thanks for having me. Absolutely. It’s a pleasure. I want to hear for three. Fifty. I’ll start. I’ll start counting. I’ll give you the date so you don’t look yourself. You okay? Cool. I’m glad you’re with us. And you with us for the rest of show. Write your exam. We got there. We got ten minutes left on my god. Okay. So while while scott and claire switch mike’s again, i’ll turn the periscope around me and i’m going to live listener love you gotta have the live listen love it’s always got to go out now live listeners know this i make a big, big to do out of you gotta have the live listening, but why is it because i’m grateful? I’m just showing men, i’m just showing gratitude that we’ve got live listeners and i don’t care when it’s only three or when it’s thirty three or fifty i i know the three people are out there and i love it it’s a rush knowing people are listening live yeah, the vast, vast majority that over ten thousand listen, the podcast but the live listeners knowing you are with me gives me juice. I’m telling you it gives me energy every single show. So we got a live listener love going to new york, new york, charlotte, north carolina and swan’s borrow north carolina, mount vernon, new york a couple of new yorkers checking in thomasville, north carolina, multiple north carolina school treat dale, oregon i know it’s oregon, not oregon, because amy sample warden trained me months ago years ago that there’s no e at the end of oregon treyz dale, oregon, um, alexandria virginia’s on live listening love going alexandria st louis, missouri matt laurel, new jersey live listener love to each of you now, of course we’ve got to go abroad lots. Of countries always checking in south korea. So so loyal, always, always somebody from south korea. So for south korea live listen, love i send comes our ham nida japan! I don’t know where in japan were a little tax today, so we don’t know cities but we got japan in the house konnichi wa also argentina, hungary, china’s with us china also always checking in so loyal in china, ni hao and australia is with us live listen love to australia that’s the live love has got to go out we got to the podcast pleasantries because you know, if the live listen love goes out right comes after that podcast pleasantries, bestie over ten thousand claire over ten thousand people listen to show on itunes and stitcher those were the vastness of the vast majority, the the itunes stitcher platforms, but over ten thousand people on the podcast i mean, this technology is wonderful and the different shows on talking alternative radio it’s, like anybody, can have their own show and everybody can be their own media mogul. You don’t have to rely on traditional communications and traditional media to get your to get your message out, you’re absolutely right. But you know what? We have traditional on non-profit radio because we have affiliate stations throughout the country. I am and fm stations throughout the country listening stations. Do we have dozens? I don’t remember how many really doesn’t. Yeah. So from oh, in fact, scotty is doing lancaster, pennsylvania. We have a station in lanchester. Yeah, we’re talking about that stopped when we’re on the way out. W l r i will shout them out specifically in lancaster, pennsylvania. Mary-jo yeah, we’ll see you guys this saturday. Okay? Out and will a straight hans her house is probably playing so outstanding. Okay, but the am and fm listeners. So we got we got the traditional media. We got the new media, the podcast, but but going out to the affiliate listeners, of course. That’s affiliate affections. It’s not podcast pleasantries. We’re live. Listen, elearning that’s affiliate affections for the affiliate listeners. Okay, just so we know fillied affections to all our lives to are all our affiliate listeners. Okay, um, let’s, bring in the sample. Warden, we gotta bring around she’s on amy sample ward. How you doing? I’m doing well. How are you? Happy number three. Hundred. Thank you very much. You’ve been with me since number one hundred. I know that was my first show. And you have another very auspicious occasion. You’re on maternity leave right now. Well, concrete’s am. And today is my son’s. Three months treyz orange orange way today. Have you, it’s? Not a year. Three months and three hundred, sold was three months old and we’re doing the three hundred show. This is very auspicious, three’s. Lots of trees. So open. Nobody in the audience has triskaidekaphobia because that’s fear of the number three. I hope that i hope nobody has that. Now you have tricked triskaidekaphobia. No, you don’t. Okay. Congratulations, orin. Happy birthday, he’s. Currently way. Okay, okay. We just have a minute or so. Amy sample word. But i wanted to have you on to thank you for all your work with this show. It’s. Amazing. Oh, my gosh. It’s. My pleasure. I was just thinking this morning about this being the three hundred show. I heard you do the math earlier. So fifty show of the year. So four years and how how much has happened in all of that time in the sector and the kinds of conversations that we’ve had in the different topics that you covered, like four years is a long time in a non profit world. Thank you. And i’m glad you’ve been with me for that long. And and the show’s been around for six. So imagine that so. Well, like a dinosaur non-profit radios. A dinosaur? No, we’re not done, sir. All right. We have to go in, but i want to thank you very much for being a part of the show. Really? Sincerely. And for calling in on maternity leave time and orin happy third, third month. Thank you so much. We love you. We love you. We love you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, we got one minute left. Claire meyerhoff has a bunch of let’s. Let’s. Do a little more factor fiction before we before we wrap. What do you got? Well, i’ve got a quiz for you. It’s a it’s. A new york quiz that comes by way of my friend amy wolf at the new york community trust. We’ve got a couple of questions for you, let’s. See what you know. How many public charities call new york city. Home includes hospitals. And churches is a ten thousand. Or is it twenty thousand or thirty thousand? Hyre i thought i was like fifty thousand. So i’m going to say thirty thousand thirty, one thousand one hundred and fifty, to get some music for that, i said thirty. Yeah. Thank you. I’m getting screwed by. I’m getting screwed by scott stein. I’m not getting my music, all right? What else we got? Okay. What is the largest nonprofit organization in the state of new york? Is it in you? New york university? The metropolitan museum of art or columbia university, new york university, columbia. Fourteen billion billion. Thatis oh, and assets o if you had said in assets i would’ve known i thought you meant number of students. So here’s, the last. The last question. New york employees. The state of new york employs the most number of people in non-profits in the nation is at one million. One point, one million or one point two five, nine. One point two five. One point two. Five million workers are paid more than fifty seven billion dollars in wage is. Thank you very much. Thank you. You did really well, okay, i did. I got two out of three, but i get you cheated me on the way. You asked that’s what i got wrong. Thank you, amy wolf. Okay, we gotta wrap this up, so we turned off the periscope to me, and i have to say thank you very much to cure a coffee. We love your coffee, our price sponsor and the non-profit times also. Thank you so much. Thank you, scott stein. Thank you. Being with its course. Thank you. Clear. Markoff. Thank you. Thank you for co hosting. Love us love being here. I love the show. We also got to thank everybody who called in. You know, those listeners, those those contributors, you know who they are. Maria, gene and amy. If you missed any part of today’s show, how could you miss it? It’s the three hundredth finding on tony martignetti dot com. Responsive by pursuant to full service fund-raising data driven, technology enabled pursuing dot com, and by we be spelling supercool spelling bee fundraisers. We’ll be spelling dot com. Our creative producers plan meyerhoff. Sam liebowitz is the line producer shows social media is by susan chavez susan chavez dot com on our music is by scott stein you with me next week for non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. Go out and be great. 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Hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent i’m your aptly named host. I very much hope that you were with me last week. It would cause me great vengeance and furious anger if i learned that you had missed e-giving in two thousand eleven, how could that have happened? How could you have missed giving in two thousand eleven? E-giving yusa and atlas of giving use very different methods to report charitable giving e-giving yusa is a survey that looks back the atlas is a forward looking prediction with e-giving yusa boardmember and the atlas of giving ceo we contrast, id the methods and heard what each had to say about last year’s e-giving numbers and video talk with scott scott koegler our tech contributor and the editor of non-profit technology news. He shared buzz on video sites, many that air free that help you make good looking videos to tell your stories this week, you’re more effective board. Gail gifford is the author of how to make your board dramatically more effective starting today. Starting today, she’ll help you make sure your charities mission is relevant. Your ceo is supported and your board is strong. Also, a conversation with paul clolery he’s, the editor in chief of the non-profit times. We talk about what he sees trending and what concerns him about the future. For charities. Between the guests. On tony’s, take two non-profit radios. One hundredth show it’s in two weeks on friday, july thirteenth. I’ll say little about that. Use the hashtag non-profit radio to join the conversation with us on twitter. Right now, i’ll take a break, and when we return, it’s your arm or effective board with author gail gifford, stay with me, co-branding think dick tooting getting ding, ding, ding ding, you’re listening to the talking alternate network e-giving. Nothing. Cubine hi, i’m carol ward from the body mind wellness program. Listen to my show for ideas and information to help you live a healthier life in body, mind and spirit, you’ll hear from terrific guests who are experts in the areas of health, wellness and creativity. So join me every thursday at eleven a, m eastern standard time on talking alternative dot com professionals serving community. Are you stuck in your business or career trying to take your business to the next level, and it keeps hitting a wall? This is sam liebowitz, the conscious consultant. I will help you get to the root cause of your abundance issues and help move you forward in your life. Call me now and let’s. Create the future you dream of. Two, one, two, seven, two, one, eight, one, eight, three, that’s to one to seven to one, eight one eight three. The conscious consultant helping huntress people be better business people. Dahna you’re listening to the talking alternative network. Hello and welcome back. I’m glad you’re with me. Also with me is gail gifford she’s, the author of how to make your board dramatically more effective starting today. Published by emerson and church, she has, over thirty years experience working with non-profits she’s, a consultant, and has extensive experience working directly for non-profits as director of development and communications, a plan yusa director, development in marketing at save the bay and director of development at city year or i rhode island she’s on the board of several charities, including waterfire, providence and she joins us from providence, rhode island. Dale gifford, welcome to the show. Welcome, thank you, tony. I’m it’s such a pleasure to be here when they were for inviting me. I’m very glad you’re here, it’s my pleasure, you tweeted something very thoughtful, like an hour and a half or two hours ago that you were you can’t wait to be on the show, okay, that was very thoughtful, thanks. What’s ah, what is a good board? Upleaf a board that makes up organization that does great work in the world. That’s a good board. Okay, that where the non-profit does work, that really matters where the board is thoughtful and building an organization that’s worthy and trust worthy of support. And where the board members i really enjoy the work that they did that’s interesting. So the mission of the you believe the mission of the charity suggests whether it’s a good, effective, bored or not? I think the mission of the charity is central and fulfilling the mission of the charity is the highest aspiration of what? Makeup for a good and effective board. Okay, what good is a great board? Because i’ve got great people, it’s the organization isn’t really doing anything valuable, okay? And we’re gonna talk about some of those. Some of those important on dh hard questions to ask. Why do you see that? Boards are not so effective? Is they could be saying a little more than just they’re not doing what good boards do. See, you know, i think there are a lot of effective board or the shaft, right? So but think about what this board is that the bunch of volunteers teo being a boardmember isn’t theirjob working for that particular organization’s mission may not even be a particular expertise of theirs, and we asked them to do lots and lots of things, so we want them to be knowledgeable about that particular industry or cause that the organization is doing. We expect them to be knowledgeable about non-profit rules and regulations, we expect them to go out, be champions and advocates for the organization, we expect them to be good facilitators, we expect them to be deliberative people and strategic thinkers, and we want them to be fund-raising there’s a lot for a volunteer, the list goes on and on and on, right? So when you put that superhuman job description in front of people it’s not surprising that not every board is as effective as it could be boardmember czar are stewards, you make the point of the book, what they stewards ove yes, so that this concept of stewardship, which is taking care of things that you don’t know on behalf of someone else, is what boards are essentially so they are taking care of all those. Things that this organization wass kind of socially contract id to do, right. So it’s two to fulfill the mission to be trustworthy and responsible organization those things that the board needs to think about and that’s what they’re stewarding, and that promise really to the community that promise, exactly. And does that gets to where it was just it was on my lips. You heard the first one who who does this charity belong to write that the board is stewarding it for, right? So now we have with the social compact society says we allow these privileged organizations to exist that don’t pay taxes, that people can get a donation or, you know, in most case, who could get a donation, a tax deduction for donating to that gets used, volunteers, people, unpaid labor in their organization without violating labor laws, right, and then return we want something back, we want a better world for that, a better community, or better life, or some people or whatever that is so that’s where the promises right, the promises back to society and one of the first drops of aboard is, in fact, to figure out who exactly is it? That we’re holding this organization and trust for okay fremery organization is a little different that’s another one of the big questions and just we have a couple of minutes before a break. You really challenge boards and senior staff to ask some hard questions? Yes, as what are is what we’re doing really making a difference? Is it relevant? Is it relevant? Doesn’t that that’s important? What if they say not so much, then they need to figure out whether they still need to exist as an organization or if they may be, should be doing better work and again, just a minute or so before break. How do you how do you assess whether your mission is relevant and we’re going to be a more time after the break? Of course, afraid to go over? How do you figure that out? Let teo really be smart and thoughtful about doing your homework on what is it that the community needs? You know what is happening out there, and the others have conversations with people and ultimately the community’s going to tell you if your still relevant, because if you’re not there not going to give to you, you’re not going to get support, so you need to be getting information from outside. This is matt, get outside, i think you make the point that book get outside the conference room, right? This is not an internal discussion, all right, are we relevant? Yeah, figure out who you need to talk to in your community, who you’re serving, talk to them, talk to the people who would be interested in the work you’re doing. Look at the data. I mean, all of those things are things that need to happen in the organization, and in some way, the board needs to facilitate that. Make sure that that’s happening. We’re going to take a break, and we’re going to get into some more detail about assessing the community’s needs and getting out and talking to the right people with gail gifford. And i hope i’ll be with you after this break. Talking alternative radio twenty four hours a day. How’s your game. Want to improve your performance, focus and motivation than you need a spire athletic consulting stop second guessing yourself? Move your game to the next level. Bring back the fun of the sport, help your child build confidence and self esteem through sports. Contact dale it aspire, athletic, insulting for a free fifteen minute power session to get unstuck. 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Any non-profit radio ideo, i’m jonah helper from next-gen charity. And i’m tony martignetti from tony martin and non-profit radio and gail gifford is author of the book how to make your board dramatically more effective starting today. Gail, what are we, um, what are we going to do out in the community to find out what the community’s needs are? And, you know, i also find this interesting this could be for brand new charities, of course also this important questions for startup charities, i especially for start of charities, you probably you bump into many, as i do, where people just decide to start a charity, and then they they haven’t really done any of their homework and haven’t talked, they don’t even know that they’re whether there are other organizations that are doing exactly the same thing that they’re doing, and they might be able to save themselves the the burden of creating an organization if there’s one existing already that they can partner with right, maybe volunteer for or maybe develop a program for something like that exactly. But in terms of evaluating the community’s needs, say a little more about what those data points are. How do we figure out who to be talking to? Well, what? I’m working with a couple of organizations right now, you know, most of us think of it traditionally and strategic planning, but it doesn’t have to be limited to strategic planning, but it’s really great for board to come up with who’s, everybody in the community that we need to hear from him. And that would not like to talk to a boardmember in our organization. So it could be some of your partner agencies. You could go meet with another board of directors of the similar colleague you could set up. You know, i like to use the formal questionnaire and then go and talk to potential donors, talked to state agency people talk to the really smartest person in the community. Yeah, there are lots of people that we can think of your political officials, all of whom are really important people toe be talking, teo, and that it makes a big difference. Tab boardmember having conversations. I know your executive director’s having conversations with those people all the time and some of your program staff. But it changes the relationship for an organisation and it changes the the board’s thinking about the organization when they can go out and have those conversations as well. You didn’t hold a focus group focus group? Yes, in the in the office, right man, the officer and somebody else’s location again. It’s, great to get out of your doors. You recommend that the that if this if this is part of a strategic planning process and as you said, it doesn’t have to be that the strategic planning commitee could meet year round instead of just being on an ad hoc limited duration committee, right? Some organizations create strategic planning committees that that do go on and they they’re sort of the champions of the plan, right? So they’re constantly making rechecking the assumptions under what the strategic plan was created and also falling through and saying, are we doing this? You know, how is this influencing our work? Where are we going? And so asking those questions in the board way spent way too much time in our boards talking about what did we do last month with our finances? Are not that that’s? Not important, right? But we’ve lost sight of having the big conversations about the work that we do. Yeah, and these are the aziz. Said the earlier the challenging questions that you’re you’re insisting that charity’s asked, all right, of course. Now, if we convene the strategic planning commitee year round that’s going to be upsetting that people who were looking for something short term, i mean, i don’t like i only want to be on the committee for a year now you’re going to make a lifetime, but you can convene it year round, but it only has to meet once or twice, right? Okay, i mean, that doesn’t meeting every month as the strategic planning commitee once your plan is done might be a little excessive, and i wanna make a point that no, one of the things that board should do is really a that’s. How often do we need to meet? Do we really need to be here every month? That’s it doesn’t seem pretty frequent once a month. I’ve seen charities that meat that often doesn’t that doesn’t mean it. Could there be a call for that? I think it’s the norm for many and boards go through cycles or the work of boards goes through cycles, sometimes there’s, there is a lot of stuff happening that boards need to connect with, say, you know, you’re in between ceo, executive directors, so the organization and or you’re in some kind of a crisis or there’s some fast moving program changes in the wind or community changes that might need you to be together that frequently but many, but often that leads to cash we, you know, we really don’t have very much to talk about at the board meeting, so let’s get into stuff that’s just staff work sometimes i think metoo zoho often causes boards the medal yes function. And again, it’s different. No. One of the points i want to make is every board and every organization is different. And so each board has to determine what’s the right board what’s the right governance work that we need to be doing for this organization at this time looking forward. Okay. And how does the board know that it’s getting accurate information from the charity as it is convening in reviewing how can they be sure what they’re getting is correct? That’s a good question. Well, it’s one of yours in the book? Yeah, thank you very much. But i stole it from day one. Thanks for asking. It on the show, the i’m a big fan of the work of john and mirriam carver boards that make a difference and they used the course a couple of them criteria. One is you get a report, right? That’s the one you’re asking so some, you know, staff give a report that’s one way of of checking. But in order to know if that’s true, you either have to send hired somebody else or get somebody else to go in and check things for you. Which is what auditors do. So we’re familiar with that model or periodically, you got to go check them yourself. Okay? Point. Somebody do some kind of thought check. And hey, is this really happening? Did this really going on? Because it might not be right again getting outside the conference room. Right? Okay. How about assessing impact? I mean, part of the concerned about are we meeting? The community’s needs let’s. Assume we’ve identified them correctly. Is are we now presenting a solution for those for those needs? Are we creating impact? How do we measure that that’s? Very difficult. In some cases. Well, that is very difficult. But that’s a good conversation. So what? And and bring in the professionals. I mean, this is a partnership with your professional staff and with outsiders, but just raising the questions. How do we know what’s the right stuff to measure? It isn’t important conversation for the board to have, and not just because, well, mainly because we owe it to the community to make sure that were the work. And the resource is that we are receiving are being used well and wisely and working toward making a difference. But also those watchdogs out there that people who are following charity good start asking, right? And it might be that you don’t have all the data or you don’t have perfect measures, but if you don’t have any at all, you’re gonna get penalized for that. Yeah, yeah. Now, charity navigator only only measures how many’s it was five thousand. Haven’t they broadened? I think the seventy five hundred. Yeah. You have to be a fairly large organisation. Toe set and charity navigator. But but local thunders, they’re asking the question. How do you how do you know? Are you making a difference? How do you know you’re making a different local funders are an individual. Donors are asking this more and more. Yeah. Okay, so you need to have to have an answer on impact. Yeah, you need to do it. This is the right thing to do. And you need to do it because people are asking e-giving gail gifford is the author of how to make your board dramatically more effective starting today. And it’s published by emerson and church. And i love our listeners. And i want to say hello to our we have listeners in north carolina. Hello, north carolina. Great north carolina. My sons both went to college. They’re okay, where one at guilford college and green sarah and the other at warren wilson college in outside asheville. Oh, actually, today feel i’m dying to get to national gorgeous. I know, i know. Um, let’s say a little about recruiting the right board members. Now, if we’ve how can we be? Sure? Listen, you sound like you’re eating a chocolate chocolate souffle or something. That’s pretty good. Ah, rich topic for you recruiting boardmember zoho how do we go about it the right way? First and foremost, we need to sit down and have a conversation. What is that? That is the ideal board. What is this organization need? What kind of experiences? What kind of knowledge? What kind of thinkers? What kind of connections? What voices do we need at the table? Asking the right questions and coming up with a profile of what that ideal board looks like. And that’s not. Oh, we need a lawyer, it’s. Much that’s. Just going to say right, it’s much more than we need a c p a right. Exactly, it’s. Not that it’s g we really don’t know what these segments of the community are asking. Are we asking the right questions? How do we get this person to the table? Maybe i can give the example of our, um i was on the board of our state humanities council and at various times do-it-yourself one a big question that we were confronting wass what’s the role of no technology in discussions about the humanities, and we needed some expertise on the board even know what the right conversation wass so if you, you don’t have enough knowledge teau asked, and not that our staff wasn’t knowledgeable in that area that we wanted other voices, a cz well, do you know where you want to reach into new communities and get their perspective? And sometimes you don’t need that legal not the opinion, because i’m not one for putting your counsel on the board, but the lot of mines that can say, hey, this is an area that we might want to pay a little more attention to our need to be thinking about here, you know, finance people who can really think strategically about the financial future of the organization and make sure that that conversation happens in your board and once we’ve recruited the right board members, then we need to be the board needs to be following their own rules about how they operate, right? Yeah, they’re by-laws i i want to go back a little bit more to recruit, but teo, say one of the things that, after you’ve come up with that ideal profile, you need to start making a list, right? Like called the shopping list for the board, who’s everyone in the community that could potentially be a boardmember that fills this role that cares about our issues and that that’s something that boards can keep building on forever. And i’m a big fan of governance or board development committee’s, because i think that we need a little human resource department for the board of directors and that’s what that committee’s purpose is so it’s to make sure we have the right board and to make sure that the board members who are there have the tools that they need to participate well, that relationships are built between people, all of those things. So i like to think governance committee develop for development committee, the human resource department for the board, okay? And when you’re paying attention to that it’s, more likely that you’re going tohave ah, better functioning board of directors, okay, and a little bit more about the functioning, and then we want to spend some time talking about the ceo also, but you mentioned the by-laws that’s, the rules that the board is supposed to operate by, right, right? You need to pay attention to what they are because, you know, we think a lot of organizations think it doesn’t matter, but i know organizations they mentioned in the book that have been sued for actions that they’ve taken and the judge is ultimately went backto, say, one of the by-laws on whether those oh, so whether those actions were permitted by the by-laws whether the bored was, um, organized according to the rules of the by-laws with valid being their right to have a quorum, where the people who were elected that they have the authority to make that kind of decision, those questions, and if you’re not, then you can always but if you’re operating properly on deficient lee, but outside the by-laws is just you can amend the by-laws right to comport with reality, right? The by-laws should be adaptive to the structure that you need for your organization at the time, but don’t jump in and start doing things like we can never get a quorum for meeting so let’s lower the quorum you need todo the problem about why is it that we never get a quorum for meetings before you start making little fixes that don’t go to the court? How does the board make sure that the organization has the right ceo? You have, ah, number of good, uh, ideas about ceo effectiveness, right? And what i say, and sometimes when organizations they’re stalled out, probably that leadership somewhere isn’t the right one for what you need at this point in time. So getting the right person to begin with being really clear about what type of leadership you need in your organization again, you know what? Qualities of leadership, what expertise is the person? A connector into the community? Can they bring? Resource is in, do they? Are they an implementer? Are they make things happen? Kind of person right there. Just a sinker. Yeah. So. And clearly doing a big search, casting a big net, having lots of conversations and checking references. Okay, that part that’s also do. What did they do before. Okay, what’s past past history show straight about them. And then the other is reviewing the one that you have right and asking all those same questions. Because as our organization’s change and grow and develop gnarnia for leadership changes too. And which brings me to another thing that i think it’s just the really important requirement of being an effective board way have just about a minute and i’ll just say it. Courage boards need to be courageous. Board members need to have courage because there’s a lot of tough decisions and a lot of difficult questions to ask. No one tells us that we need to be crazy. Effective. Quite a coincidence. I just pin something on one of my pinterest boards is women leading non-profits and i just yesterday pinned a video where the woman who’s in the name of the organization. Vital voices? Yes. I think it’s a least nelson and she’s have a short clip of her saying courage is not eyes not working without fear. It’s having fear and transcending it and proceeding despite your fear. Yeah, great. Yeah, well, that’s the least nelson and vital voices, but more important, gail gifford is the author of how to make your boardroom attic more effective, starting today, published by emerson and church gifford, thanks so much for being on the show. Thank you so much, and board members out there, keep doing great work. We need them to you. Right now. We take him right now, we take a break, but i want to give a shout to california. We have listeners in california, love, love, california, love those who love the listeners. 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Interested simply email at info at talking alternative dot com welcome back time now for tony’s take two at roughly thirty two minutes into the our very excited made people say they get excited about something, but usually there they say like, oh, i’m very excited to be here, but i am very excited that non-profit radios one hundred show is coming up in two weeks. It’s friday, july thirteenth, one hundred show and it’s devoted to social media and i’m opening it up. You are asking the questions my guest is going to be amy sample ward she’s, an officer at n ten, the non-profit technology network, and she’s, also a blogger and contributor to stanford social innovation review at stanford university, and we’re going to take your social media questions. We need the questions in advance so anything social media related, you know, we’ve talked a lot about social media, scott koegler especially, but others also. 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Welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of fund-raising day two thousand twelve with the marriott marquis in times square, new york city, hosted by the association of fund-raising professionals, greater new york city chapter. My guest now is paul clolery he is vice president and editorial director of npt publishing group, which includes non-profit times and magazine for clolery welcome. Thanks, tony. Glad to have you on the show. It’s quite a crowd here. I think we’re going to do a dunking booth next. Year thie only crowd is because non-profit technology news i’m sorry, because non-profit times is right next door, right? You’re the you’re the magnet with the we’re just in your pocket and people just throw things at me so it’s a lot easier. Well, because you reject their pictures routinely, right? But it, but in a nice way, i’m sure no doubt you are seeing some trends in buy-in events, they’re getting bigger than getting costlier say little about that. Well, what we’ve been seeing lately, not just in new york, but around the country, it seems like events are coming back strong this year and the ticket prices are going up. I know. In new york city, for example, a lot of organizations were trying to keep their events under a thousand dollars for the big gala. Now they’re routinely at a thousand or more, and we’re seeing that. And then just in the past four to five months, people are really starting tio realize that there’s the economy’s getting better, at least here in new york and for the people who would frequent these types of events, and we’re seeing also a lot of online bidding for extremely expensive items for help organisations, whether it be trips where there would be top gun type, that airplane battles. Yeah, really been exciting to watch and this is not only in new york, you said nationwide, nationwide, the prices are coming up and the people seem to be on the high into the doner scale looking for adventure now, not just to give money. Yeah, and thie you mentioned online auctions is that has that been trending for awhile? The auction’s moving from something live or silent to online? Or is that more recent, too? Well, it’s been building over the years, but now organizations are finding that they don’t need a gala to have an online auction so they can have it for months and months and lead up to a gala or let it go afterwards. And they’re even doing it online with people’s cell phones from the event so people don’t have to run back and forth to to the silent auction decide their name. Oh, my god! Seventy five bucks here’s. Another fifty? Yeah, they’re doing it on their cell phones and in some cases, that being prompted by bye, butlers come to the table and say oh, by the way, your bid, sir, it has been has been upped. Your bid? Oh, interesting. Yeah. It’s a organizations are finding lots of different ways to up to get the bidding going. That seems pretty sophisticated. Your online bid has been has been challenged. Would you like to? Would you like to reply? Exactly? Yeah. Okay. It’s. All right. Since you’re talking about technology, i have the current issue of non-profit times publication that you’re somewhat familiar with a little bit. Yeah, eighteen years is editor in chief. Future of technology donations is cloudy. What what’s happening around this around mobile given well technology in the cloud organisations are so used to going to gifts in-kind international or nair or some of the other past the rent cities where non-profit organizations i’m sorry for profit companies like microsoft or some of the other vendors in the industry would give product, and then it would pass through the charities. That would be a donation gift. In-kind well, the charges were used to getting the box you’d say, oh, i want microsoft office and they would send you the box right now. It’s all online so everything is moving to the cloud particularly, but when it comes to technology donations of software i miss i miss read your headline. I see going to the cloud it’s an ambiguous headline who wrote the headline it’s a u s citizen quote it’s in quotes it’s a cloud technologies in quotes icy future of technology so i mis read it to think that it was mobile give it was giving. Okay, so what? What khun charities be asking for now from microsoft, etcetera? Well, what we’re seeing that the product will stay the same difference is theirs now selling site licenses or licensing seats rather than giving away the software. Okay, and we’re seeing now is a lot more. We’ll have to be spent probably on the side of putting it together in your office dahna needing to have a specialists in house to craft the technology. So that works best for your organization. Nothing’s in a box anymore, everything is khun b handcrafted. Everything could be manipulated to what you needed to dio and there’s so many bells and whistles these days from various online vendors that the technology vendors that you khun craft a piece of software or or a piece of technology. Now you’re not getting the software to do anything that you need to do. And so and so some of that consulting is available. Oh, yeah, and that’s and that’s. Where it’s going to start getting expensive? Because the consultants are not free. Software was always free. The consultants were never free. Ok? And now when you download software and you now have to configure it to your systems and what haven’t worked with what you’re doing that’s now it’s going to start getting expensive? Uh, well, you see the company’s donating that consulting service as well? That oh, no. Oh, no. I’m not going that far. Okay, beneath that one let’s, see if i could read this one appropriately. Alright. I’ll just read it. Vegas draws youths looking for meaningful relationships. Meaningful relationships in vegas. He’s, not he’s, not by the hour relationships. Well, no. You know, i forgot to tell you to take that gross thing off. It just reflects that’s all it’s. Not gross, though. The name tags are beautiful, but they reflected our lights. What about vegas? Youthful relationship? Well, they’re hoping what happens in vegas doesn’t stay in vegas. Okay? The whole point is to bring kids into you a friendly setting, a familiar setting, someplace that’s a little bit exciting, and maybe they’ll bring some of the what they learned back into their communities. In this case, we’re talking about jewish community organizations where there have been seeing some waning in youth development and it’s going back to the communities and building the jewish community centers and whatnot, and what they’re trying to do is bring folks into an exciting place like vegas, hoping to build those friendships, helping to build those connections so that they can bring it back to their communities and helped to build the next generation of jewish communities. Okay, and you are you familiar at all? And if you’re not fine hyre with the trend generally around youth engagement, is it declining generally? York i know this was just about the jewish community organizations well, there’s been a whole man push for national service and then not and not just community in your community, but nationally and internationally. I think it’s next week either the next week or in the next two weeks, the national service conference is going to be out in chicago, make tens. Of thousands of people going to talk about how they could serve their communities better it’s a terrific conference put on by the points of light institute, the corporation for national community service, and they bring volunteers and volunteermatch ledgers in from all over the world actually to talk about how they could make those connections in their community. And it’s really starting to build national service is no longer a buzz where, but had we had we’ve been seeing youth engagement declining? Well, no, i mean it’s starting to build now, because building now it’s building now in the last five or six years, okay, you really start because kids had to do it for their college transcripts, but now you’re seeing more and more count kids getting engaged, you’re seeing the occupy wall street kids, you’re seeing a lot of youth engagement across the country and national service is really becoming important aspect of what kids do these days, okay, i’m going to switch to another publication that you’re acquainted with exempt magazine, i’ve seen it, and by the way, the non-profit times issue i was referring to was june first of this year. The exam. Magazine rights. Bright lights and big stars challenge. Charities are reaching out to celebrities. More you’re seeing more of this now, we’ll not. Only we’re seeing more of it, but so much of, unfortunately, big charity is being tied to celebrity, and that could have its good points and its bad consequences. If especially when charlie sheen goes to jelly down here, that could be a problem, and in years gone by, if you’re a celebrity went to jail, it was problem, maybe the’s days. It’s actually, my actually being enhancement to some of some of what they do. But the challenge there. There are a lot of challenges with working with celebrity, obviously the obvious ones of the arrests and then with the public relations nightmares, right? But also just getting them, too. To go to these events gets expensive. Oh, john doe is going to show up for free, but he’s got an entourage has gotta pay. You gotta pay for it. You got a paper? The first class flight. You’re gonna pay for the first class hotel and it can get very expensive. There were some celebrities who are salt of the earth human beings like george clooney. He will do anything you want if he signs on he’s there and he’s there for free. And that doesn’t mean a first class room. He’ll buy his own by his own flight and one of those terrific human beings. But there are others who are will demand have a very high list of demands? Okay, but what are some of the upsides of of the of the celebrity. What do they bring? Bringing it back, teo mobile giving and back teo special events. You can pack a room with lady gaga and the robin hood foundation here in new york city did that just the other day. Hey, i think they think the number was eighty seven million dollars that they raised in that holy count in one night. So they had. They had lady gaga at there, right at their gala, and they raised eighty seven billion dollars. Yeah, there’s, about eighty million. All right, round it. Well, this is the amazing thing about it was they had lady gaga and martha stewart in the same room and nobody got hurt. They play nice together, at least in public. In public. I see a column. This is a regular feature. Human resource is donordigital what what what are we seeing around dahna diversity in human resources? Did i scare you? Do you want to read it up first? No, no, no, no. What? I positive we look like, oh, yeah, you’ll realize that i’m working on seven of the ministers at one time not to have the print, but we’ve got five letters, so sometimes that their mental roll index that takes a while to go back and remember what we did was that that actually came out back in february. Oh, i’m already working on some temporary you worked out all right. Can you say anything about dahna differences? Non-profits are working very, very hard to move the donor base abroad in the dahna base for years and years of the backbone of the e-giving was done by white females in their seventies who would get a piece of mail and said give to the red cross or give to the salvation army. Or give to whomever. And they would dutifully write a check. Well, it’s, time for charities to start grinding that that base. And we’re seeing in communities of color, ethnic communities, more and more non-profits going into those communities and trying to reach in and trying to broaden their appeal to those communities. Because every poll that you’ve ever seen, when you ask somebody where they gave the answer is because you asked nobody’s asking in those communities for years and years, names nobody asking those korean. So now, charities are finding ways to ask within those communities. And they’re building out the diversity of their of their donor base, okay. You’re listening to the talking alternative network. Have you ever considered consulting a road map when you feel you need help getting to your destination when the normal path seems blocked? A little help can come in handy when choosing an alternate route. Your natal chart is a map of your potentials. It addresses relationships, finance, business, health and, above all, creativity. 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What he’s, seeing there danger. There are a lot of people are coming across the border for medical help, medical care. So if human services organizations that just strapped along the border because people are coming across seeking help and just trying to get out of the out of the massacres that are going on just one hundred yards over the border, and then the legal issues of serving that population and treating that population well, the legal issues are not so much the treating of them if they show up at your doorstep, if they show up at the hospital, they will be treated, the question becomes then it becomes dicey about the immigration status and it is immigration get called and that’s a whole other bag of worms that they’re they’re dealing with right now, but right now they’re dealing with the money issues because they’re coming. People coming across the border need to be treated, they need to be fed, they need to be housed because there’s a war going on in their community and you can hear the gunshots at night. Dahna okay, what else? What else? Coming up, coming up, we have the power and influence top fifty coming up we fifteenth annual npt pound influence top fifty that’s the argast one issue okay, every way announced really fifty most influential people in the sector r i’m not on the list of incredibly and i know times are not yet there’s still, time doesn’t come out till august. Yes, but i’m the editor of publication. I don’t get on the list. Okay? So we’ve got we both got screwed and there’s way have a gala for the nominees in september and he’s gonna be an interesting list again this year are these are people working in charities or they philanthropists giving to charities or both or neither? They have to be executives working in the charity at the time that, well, the issue comes out, so they have to be working in the charity august one one that when the list comes out ok, and they’re nominated by their organizations know we have a kitchen cabinet. How does this work explain? We have we’ve been doing it for fifteen years, so about janu first week in january, second week in january, let it goes out to all the former winners, okay, who did we miss? Who do you think we should be putting on this list? Okay, if you’ve been on this before, you’re automatically re nominated, that doesn’t mean you’re going to get on the list, so we look at those lists we talked way have the contributing editors to the non-profit times who way? Talk to them about who they think we should be talking to. Then we get pool of about three to four hundred names on it over the time over a couple of months, we whittled it down to fifty one fifty two, okay? And then it gets to fifty and then we published on what criteria do you use? What you looking for? We’re looking for people who are moving the industry in a specific area and putting together programs that can be used as a bridge nationally, programs that can be implemented in other organisations people who have enough girth in the industry that they can get something done and move it and they can only they don’t have to have been in the second one hundred years if they come up with a new idea in the past couple of years, and they vaulted to the top of the list that we’ve had those people. For example, scott harrison, charity water was on the list, and they’ve only been around for a couple of years, right? Right? Okay, eighteen years as chief. What concerns you aboutthe charity community regulation arika e-giving getting more burdensome. Not only is it getting more burdensome, but it’s getting to the point where there is a blurring between charitable sector, federal government and local governments are trying to regulate the sector as well. I mean, everybody knows that there’s been a recession. There’s been financial crunch. All this property is tax exempt and so there are payments and little taxes going on throughout the country. But if you look at the way that congress and some state legislature’s looking at the terrible sector, it’s clear that they don’t understand it, and nobody is out there making it clear to them that know this is what the non-profit sector does, we don’t do that four this is the non profit sector there. There are some lines and walls between what we do and what the government does, what state government does, and i’m getting more and more concerned as days go by that the charitable sector is going to get even more regulated, be forced to do even more things that they’re not supposed to be doing well, if you look at california, they now be corporation. Well, this is from for-profit cos for-profit cos that want a special designation because they wanted to get within their communities? Yes. Oh, yeah. So if you want to do good, do good. I mean, look at newman’s own a terrific company they wanted. To give back to the community started a foundation. Profit from the company goes to the foundation when he gets put out. Is nothing wrong the way that’s not. Why do you need a special special designation? Newman’s own doesn’t want designation. Neo-sage killing him is an example of a sterling example. If you want to do good, make your money, give them foundation gave it to the community. Why do you need a special for-profit wolber intensity will be cooperation. You want that? Because that’s just the first step. Then the next step five years from now is going to be so. Maybe we should get some tax exemption on the property they have. Or maybe we should get some relief on the payroll taxes that were paying the people who work in our company because we do good to the extent that we’re doing good a proportional breaking taxes that are very interesting so that that’s that’s the real danger that i said, ok, we’re gonna watch that. Thank you. Well, clolery is vice president and editorial director of and petey publishing group, which includes as we talked about non-profit times and accept magazine eighteen years in the post paul’s a real pleasure. Thanks, darling. 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