Tag Archives: women

Nonprofit Radio for April 19, 2019: Grit: Succeeding As A Woman In Tech & Great Ideas

I love our sponsors!

Do you want to find more prospects & raise more money? Pursuant is a full-service fundraising agency, leveraging data & technology.

WegnerCPAs. Guiding you. Beyond the numbers.

Credit & debit card processing by telos. Payment processing is now passive revenue for your org.

Fundraising doesn’t have to be hard. Txt2Give makes it easy to receive donations using simple text messages.

Get Nonprofit Radio insider alerts!

Listen Live or Archive:

My Guests:

Marisa Lopez, Sara Chieco, Tami Lau & Aparna Kothary: Grit: Succeeding As A Woman In Tech
Our panel takes on the common challenges facing women in tech as they share their own stories and reveal lots of strategies for succeeding in this overwhelmingly male-dominated career. They’re Marisa Lopez, Sara Chieco, Tami Lau & Aparna Kothary. (Recorded at the 2019 Nonprofit Technology Conference.)





Graziella Jackson & Marcy Rye: Great Ideas
Also from 19NTC, we get methods for generating strong—even breakthrough—ideas, everyday, with help on how to choose and implement the best ones. Our panel is Graziella Jackson & Marcy Rye.





Top Trends. Sound Advice. Lively Conversation.

Board relations. Fundraising. Volunteer management. Prospect research. Legal compliance. Accounting. Finance. Investments. Donor relations. Public relations. Marketing. Technology. Social media.

Every nonprofit struggles with these issues. Big nonprofits hire experts. The other 95% listen to Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio. Trusted experts and leading thinkers join me each week to tackle the tough issues. If you have big dreams but a small budget, you have a home at Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio.

Get Nonprofit Radio insider alerts!

Sponsored by:

View Full Transcript

Transcript for 20190419-GritSucceedingAsAWomanInTechandGreatIdeas.mp3

Processed on: 2019-04-23T12:32:31.387Z
S3 bucket containing transcription results: transcript.results
Link to bucket: s3.console.aws.amazon.com/s3/buckets/transcript.results
Path to JSON: 2019…04…20190419-GritSucceedingAsAWomanInTechandGreatIdeas.mp3.888152088.json
Path to text: transcripts/2019/04/20190419-GritSucceedingAsAWomanInTechandGreatIdeas.txt

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. Oh, I’m glad you’re with me. I’d get slapped with a diagnosis of silicosis if you mentioned the bird brained idea that you missed today’s show grip succeeding as a woman in tech, Our panel takes on the common challenges facing women in tech as they share their own stories and reveal lots of strategies for succeeding in this overwhelmingly male dominated career. They’re Marissa Lopez, Sarah Chico, Tammy Lau and Aparna Kothari that’s recorded at the twenty nineteen non-profit Technology Conference and Great Ideas, also from nineteen ninety Sea. We get methods for generating strong, even breakthrough ideas every day with help on how to choose and implement the best ones. Our panel is God’s piela Jackson and Morsi ry. I’m Tony Steak to thank you. We’re sponsored by pursuing full service fund-raising, data driven and technology enabled Tony dahna slash pursuing by where you see Oppa is guiding you beyond the numbers regular cps dot com by tell us turning credit card processing into your passive revenue stream. Tony dahna slash tony tell us, and by text to give mobile donations made easy Text. NPR to four four four nine nine nine Here is grit succeeding as a woman in Tech. Welcome to Tony martignetti non-profit Radio coverage of nineteen ninety Sea. That’s the non-profit technology Conference coming to you from Portland, Oregon, at the Convention Center. This interview, like all our nineteen ninety si interviews, is brought to you by our partners at Act Blue Free fund-raising Tools to help non-profits make an impact. This topic is grit. Succeeding as a woman in tech panel is all tech leadership. Women beginning with Closer to me is Marissa Lopez. She’s director of account management, presents product group, then. Sarah Chico is director of technology. Social Impact of Presidents Prat Presence Product Group. Tommy Lau is senior self sales force. Energy engineer Tommy Lau is a senior sales force engineer. Social Impact Presents product group and Aparna Qatari is director of technology operations, a global citizen year. Technology. Women Welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Technology leadership with women. Welcome. That’s what way women in Texas. They’re succeeding as a woman in tech. This’s not. This is not a panel of lackluster professionals. A panel of successful professionals Important to make the difference makes a distinction. All right, um, let’s talk down the end there. A partner. Thank you for sharing Tammy in a partner. Thank you for sharing Mike’s. The panel is so big, but I didn’t want to exclude anybody, So let’s start with a partner, you know, Give us Give us the headline. Give us the headline in the lead. What is it? What does it take to be, uh, to remain as a successful woman in tech not to get there We’ll get we’LL get to the get there But what does it take to remain st Stay, Stay as successful as you have been I think because you know where you are, right? I think we’Ll probably have slightly different answers with this, but probably with an underlying theme of community and finding a community that you resonate with that you could be comfortable with. One of those communities for us is amplifying. We are working with people with underrepresented voices in tech and so we have in person groups, online groups. But the fact of having a group of people who you can be yourself within share yer challenges with I think something about being an underrepresented voice and tigers when you’re in the workplace. You sometimes don’t want to show that you don’t understand something. Don’t know something are are kind of not faltering but are struggling a little bit. And so it’s been really nice to have a community of people where you can show those struggles, get support, get riel. Resource is without judgment, without judgment, with pretense. So that has to me that has been kind of a game changer. Tammy, would you want to add anything to the community? Sense of the importance of community? Yeah, absolutely. I think I wholeheartedly agree with what partner said. Just finding this community specifically amplified. But other women in tech communities as well has really made my life as a woman in tech so much easier, so much more fulfilling and has really helped me to get to where I am today. Andi organization is amplify. Is that right? Yes, amplify were amplified out, or ge amplified dot org’s okay there. Pointing to Marissa was where assuring the amplify shirt. But everybody doesn’t have the advantage of the video. Yeah, most of our audience is podcast, right? So So what’s that make sure? Amplify. It says amplifying. Yeah, that’s right. We are amplified out. Organs are website in the name of the group. Example. Five. Okay. Okay. Um so, Sara, let’s let’s get you in on the headline. Anything more than community? Uh, probably. I think perseverance and hard work and diligence are are kind of traits that I feel I’ve had to exhibit and had to be strong at in order to succeed and continue succeeding more, though more so than male counterparts, do you feel on the persevere inside, Absolutely absent, really persevering over what persevering over the challenges that come as being a woman in technology, in having managers that don’t understand necessarily how to relate to you or how to speak to you properly, or how to kind of bring out the best in you being having to do that on your own essentially and kind of overlooking, you know, various slights and or obstacles that are put in your way because you’re a woman and not similar to your male counterparts. What are some of those obstacles? Pay disparity, promotion disparity? You know, I was once told, yes, it’s true that you’re better than your male counterparts. And yes, it’s true that they all are making more than you. But it would just be too hard to re calculate the pay scale at this point in time. So we’re just going to leave it as is when this is done. That’s your trouble line. Herbal example. Yeah, too much trouble. It’s just one minor example, but it’s been like that. I have a master’s degree in computer science. I’ve been in Tech since the nineties, and it’s gotten better, but it’s still definitely not all the way better. Okay, because there is a stereotype that people are guys. Yes, guys become computer scientists. Yes, I was a graduate teaching fellow and out of a class of one hundred twenty six students, one was a woman. Reza. Yes. What do you want to say to introduce this? What do you want with the headliner? So what comes to mind for me is the title of the session, and so it’s it’s really what Sarah said around perseverance like to be the word grit, little shorter little fun, more fun and a little more edgy, but really is about the same thing, right? So to be gritty. I mean, if you think about Grigg, you’re thinking about, like, a piece of sand in your eye you’re thinking about, like, you know, biting your tongue. You’re thinking about surviving something they, you know you’d rather just bail out on. I think all of that, really. You know, they’re analogies for the experience of being a woman in technology. Um, some of the common challenges other. Certainly. Sarah listed a couple of poignant and illegal leased. The pain started challenges, Uh, other challenges. Are you willing to open up to any personal I mean, get personal, But what’s happened to you personally as a professional, uh, that I don’t feel comfortable talking about on this radio cast, but I will say that toe piggyback on what they all were saying about community, I think one of the big challenges is also just around being vulnerable and not being able to be vulnerable in the workplace. And that is one of the reasons we need our community. The vulnerability aspect. Yeah. All right. All right. Okay. Anybody wantto respond to what I you know? Like what? What you faced Shuriken in general. So as you mentioned Yes, the stereotype of programmers and developers. Being men is a constant challenge. I’m fighting whenever I’m in a space with other developers. I always have to to feel like I have to prove that I am also a programmer. And over that, yes, I do belong there. Yes, I don’t look like you. Yes, I do indeed. Write code, you know, so that constant mental energy of having to prove myself and altum to convince others I belong, you know? So there’s that that costs to my tio, my energy and my time that there’s that men don’t have to do, don’t have to expend Yeah, partner, I think for me I think a lot about the role of assumptions, both assumptions that are placed on us. But once that we have placed on ourselves just based on how way have been raised in a society as such. And so I think about how we were talking about how your first job out of college, that salary really sets you on a path of, you know, Sal er, promotions and salary raises and how you start off when I think about the wage gap. We’re starting off at a disadvantage for no reason other than our gender perceived gender. And I just get the assumptions role of has really made it made it more challenging, but also made it harder. Tio Excavate what the challenges for? Because it’s so ingrained in my own. Have you, uh have you done your session yet tonight? Coming up. Okay, so now I know a lot of what you’re gonna do is spend time listening to with stories are coming from the audience. Okay. Are you not? Yeah, I thought you were some but we’re also going to talk about our stories. OK? Yeah. We’ll be telling stories. Okay. Uh I guess in more detail. Alright, Thin. You want thirteen thousand strangers to here? Ok, I understand. It’s not a perfectly safe space. It’s time for a break. Pursuant. The art of first impressions. How to combine strategy analytics and creative to captivate new donors and keep them coming back That is there a book on dahna acquisition and how to make a smashing first impression. You’LL find it at the listener landing page which, as always, is that Tony dahna may slash pursuant with the capital P for please let’s do the live love live love goes out. I don’t know where you are because we’re pre recorded, But you’re listening live. And I love that you are. It seems like strips that I love you. I love that year. I hardly know you. I don’t know you at all. So I love that you are listening and the live love goes out. Let’s just Let’s just keep it at that. Let’s not get carried away. And the podcast Pleasantries. Of course. The pleasantries have to come on the heels of the love first love. Then the pleasantries tow our podcast audience. Thank you for listening via podcast pleasantries. So from here we go back to Marissa Lopez, Sarah Chico, Tammy Lau and a partner Kothari. You think I could say all those names? Here they are. We’re not quite halfway, but let’s move to the positive. Okay, Okay. I’m gonna put you on the spot. Although you did say you’re willing, but yeah, I think we’ve We’ve covered the challenge is sufficiently. I think I think the guys there’s a lot more to talk about. Guys, we’re listening, Tio. All right, Go ahead. Teresa. You wanted Teo won’t do one more. Well, I just think. I think the pay in salary is actually really huge and really a big deal and really a really problem. And it it goes deeper than the workplace. I mean, when you’re getting played last year, disadvantage of the world, your children at our disadvantage. Some people are a disadvantage to their partner. I mean, that’s like a huge, huge power issue that women have to deal with. I say I would say myself specifically I was. I kayman attack about a quarter way through my career and I was severely underpaid. I didn’t know that I should be getting paid more. There wasn’t a lot of salary studies out of the time, and I didn’t come from a tech background. I wasn’t part of the network. The good old Boys network for folks know how much people are getting paid so again without that community, that network in that background, I got underpaid for many, many years and I will never be able to make that up, you know, like Aparna said, like you can’t make up for being underpaid early in your career affects your the rest of your life. Yeah, home holds you back and that’s it’s all based on the beginning. All right. You want to Sara? Sure. I can give you an example. So I worked at a start up in San Francisco down your South Park maybe almost twenty years ago. And though it was, you know who’d strap warehouse, whatever. And it was just it was one person who kind of ran the office and the company at operations. And then there were five software engineers and I was the only woman in the company, and I didn’t often open. We didn’t have, You know, anybody who opened the door had kind of an office role. Occasionally I did. Mostly, I didn’t. But whenever I would get up to answer the door, sure enough, the guy who was standing at the door would ask me to get him coffee. Never once did any of my male counterparts get asked to bring coffee too, you know, I mean, it’s just little things like that that happened throughout your career. Kind of perpetually. But I don’t even drink coffee, nor do I know how to make it. So you know, I know I do know how to make it, but I don’t like you drinking? That’s irrelevant to the boy. Almost. Why were you hired in that company? Uh, because I was a good software engineer. So they so they were open. They recognized your your professional talent. But then it was the visitors who ask this now. I don’t know. I’m sorry. These air. Oh, that’s right. You were opening the door of the visitor’s presuming that you’re the office secretary. I’m the secretary, makes the coffee. Women and minorities will deal with micro questions like that every single day. I will tell you every single day in the workplace, and it is very exhausting. And I I think that that is part of the reason that folks with underrepresented voices do not get promoted to leadership is they don’t have the additional band, wants to do all the networking and all the snoozing and all the extra work. Sometimes and all the things. All the things you have to do to move up the ladder because they’re already being overburdened with all these little aggressions. And it is every day still Okay, I see. Let’s let’s let’s talk about let’s talk about overcoming, okay? Overcoming these obstacles and challenges. Um, Tammy Tammy, you have Ah, kick us off the first first tip. I mean, the whole community’s been said so check out, amplify if you’re if you’re among the oppressed. Well, I guess all female. So if you are, if you are the oppressed that we’re talking about, check out, amplify amplify dot or ge is that we are amplified dot org’s okay for under represented folks. Okay. Underrepresented in any in any respect. Okay. In tech. Okay. Exactly. So strategies. Tammy Teacher. So I think I’m going back to the issue I talked about which was the mental energy of explaining yourself. Is that yes. Take the opportunity to explain you know the issues and to explain your story and to try to educate people using the venues that you have, but sometimes just say no. Just walk away and save that energy for another fight. So you don’t have to fight every battle, make it fight. It were accounts, so that’s that’s made him okay. Um go ahead apartment. Have a real simple find a mentor and be a mentor. Yeah, I hear that commonly, for women especially needing to support each other Umm, how about when you’re you’re getting started in your career, is there? Is there anything unique too? To suppose u s o Unlike Sarah, Suppose you are aware that you’re being grossly underpaid. You know who was who was underwear? Who was away? That Morris Resa unaware that you were grossly underpaid. Suppose you are aware. Uh, you go to your boss. Let’s assume that that’s Ah, guy. Worst case scenario. Uh, all the women can be difficult to eye, right? It’s not. It’s not only men, although I’m not gonna let me off the hook. But women can be difficult to women also, let’s assume, let’s assume it’s a male supervisor. You know, you’re being terribly underpaid, but you’re new in your career. Maybe you’re just a year or two out of school, and this has come become aware to you. You become aware of it. Uh, who wants to? What do you What do you think? What? You said you can stay a couple of things so that we could move on. So so once someone else’s dancer. But I would say one thing. First of all, don’t be afraid to go look at a different top if they’re not going to give you a raise at your job. You do not have to stay. If there was a lot of opportunity for smart people up and hardworking people and that is a really thing. And I feel like maybe my generation or maybe who am or maybe who I was raised always like. You have to stick with this and you have to make it work or whatever, but you actually don’t. So that’s one thing. Don’t be afraid to go somewhere else, that sort of do it all the time. Two. I really believe in accomplices and acts in accomplices, meaning like allies that could be male allies that could be other co workers. I could be your friends, but I think it is important to find people that you can trust that can help toe advocate for you. Yeah, and sometimes it’s like Tammy. Wising sometimes is not the fight pick. It’s not the battle Tau Tau battle against, but sometimes someone else can do it for you. And you could either call them in and you could establish that relationship so they could do it. Okay, help from others. Anybody else for the early first couple of years of work, uh, strategies for that For that phase of career. I am pretty far removed from that phase of my career at this point. So why would you remember? Because you were mentoring somebody who right who is in that? Well, I was underpaid when I was in that phase, and I wound up having to have other job offers in hand twice to get raises, because both times they claimed there was not any additional money, which was not true. And then when I, as Marissa said, you have to be willing to look elsewhere. One thing I would recommend not doing is don’t threaten to quit somewhere if you’re not actually really ready to leave and have another good opportunity. That’s possible because I think idle threats are probably not together, completely counterproductive. But so I did actually have other job offers in hand and got matching raises twice and then left when I felt like what I wanted to do. There was done because I was never going to stay in a place that didn’t value my worth. So as a as a you know, I was a director of technology. I managed about ten people now and I always bring people in at what I feel is a is a higher than you. No base salary, because I want people starting off on the right foot. And I want people happy with what they’re making and not feeling like they’re already behind the eight ball to start. You know, a lot of times people kind of like negotiate down with you when you’re doing your initial salary negotiations. And I just don’t believe in doing that. Tammy three of you are with Presidents Product Group, so we may as well disclosed. What? What’s the work of President’s presence? Product group? Sure. So, actually, I was with a non-profit until about six weeks ago. And you’re the only one. You have No one there. Yeah, masking the newest employee. All right, Will you still know? You still know what they do. So what do they do? S o? We build digital products, whether that’s mobile APS o our products on sales force. And specifically our team works with social impact ordered. So non-profits be corporation. Is anybody making a difference in the world building self source products for them? Because you have seen your sales force engineer Yes, you’re correct. Okay. Okay. Uh, all right. Let’s Let’s progress in our career were beyond the first two to three years. Um, for any for any phase of any phase of career. What are apart? You haven’t spoken for a while. What? What is some strategy would give us another strategy for coping overcoming these obstacles. I mean, I think I go back to what I said about being a mentor. I think having a mentor outside of your organisation, but in your industry, because I think often what we do is we tie our salary to ourselves. To our sense, our self worth. Really, this is what we are worth in the work place. This is what we should be paid and that I guess it’s fine. And without having someone to see toe like, understand the industry and understand the work that you’re doing and understand what comparison’s across the industry, I think oftentimes we’re just way are not aware. We’ve convinced ourselves like Oh, yeah, way always justified, right? I’m only fears into my career. This seems like an appropriate salary, because this is what they’ve given me. So I just I think that like building you’re what? I’ve heard someone call like your own board of advisors. We’re kind of your own council of advisers. Teo, give you advice. I think I need to work on that. But I keep keeps coming back to me as a strategy. Okay. And as you said earlier, also, when you are more senior, be willing to be a mentor, seek a mentor and be a mentor. Yeah, All right. We still have lots of time together, right? Go ahead. What else we’re doing? Well, I have something that was really hard for me. That I have learned to do is shamelessly is to toot my own horn. Publicized things on social media linked in I mean linked in this huge, you should be putting updates on lengthen. You should be putting like articles. You should be putting events. You’re going, Tio, that is actually really important. And I always thought that it was more like the work that I am doing for this company and if I am doing my job really well, but actually, publicizing that, especially in this day and age, is actually really important in whatever your networks are. So I think that is a piece of advice that applies to any stage of the A career, but particularly mid career and think it’s easy to get lost in the actual have your head down and focus on what you’re doing. But you need to talk about it and you need to get up in person and you need to write block post and nobody really has time for that. But it actually makes a huge difference. The quality, not just what you’re making or the opportunities, but actually the quality of your career experience used on DH. Your point about Lincoln well taken before that, you said tooting your own horn. Well, how do you do that? You go into your How do you do that with your with your boss with like like, Quarterly? Is that you? You, uh, do you rely on the annual or the semi annual performance review to do that? Or there are other times you’re doing it? Yes, so that proactively, that’s a fair question, I think for me personally, the closer I am with someone, the harder it is. Tio toot, my own horn, so to speak. It’s easier to do it more publicly in generically, but I think that I need to do that a lot more, and it just comes down to communication. You win a big deal. You have a great conversation with a client. You call him, you text them, you slack them. You sent him an email, whatever kind of way you mentioned it during a sales meeting, you mentioned it. Turn whatever meeting you’re having being vocal and meetings again. An area that I need to work on and sayings what’s going on. Hey, I had this great day or even I met this great connection that would be really beneficial to our company. Whatever it is, that’s positive talking about it, you know, not holding it in latto things. Nobody knows unless you say it. This is the This is the great panel. And a couple of you have already said I need to be better at this, you know? But it’s hard. It’s hard to actually take the take the steps on. And it’s you know, it’s probably exhausting, too, starting at a disadvantage, but But you’re the great panel and and you’re even saying you know, I need to be I need to be better at this for myself. But consciousnesses know that women are very self critical of themselves. Yeah, that’s true. Wasting no more time. I’m, uh Are there other subjects you’re going to cover that weren’t Maybe we’re not in your session description, which is what I got my notes from. I saw the common challenges. I know we did that personal challenges from the audiences and talk about your own and then strategies for overcoming obstacles. Is there more that you’re doing? Don’t hold back on non-profit radio listeners. Well, like we’re saying, I think we’re going to dive a little bit deeper into our story. So I think everybody here has a really interesting story of how they got to this point. Three of the four of us started off in the nonprofit sector. Part is still in the nonprofit sector. Tammy just crossed over to the dark side. Um, Tammy also comes from an environmental background. I come from a background in conservation. So Sarah’s actually the only one on this panel that came from a real computer science background. Yet we’re all in technology, so I think there’s some interesting points within that. Okay. Yeah. You want to flush some of them out there. Go ahead. Yeah. So I will say, coming from a non-profit background. And we’ve talked about this amongst ourselves again. Sort of the culture of tech. Just so you have glitter eye shadow. That’s right. Just your glasses. Where I didn’t notice it. Even though you’re sitting there like it, it’s Ah, striking. Yeah, Thank you. I just I only because I was lifting up until now. Your eyeglasses covering here? Well, they just write out the eye shadow. Yeah, you could show it off your for those who don’t have the benefit of video, they’re not going to see that. So Marissa has Yes, literally. I’ve been dreamforce twelve or thirteen times. I actually don’t know. In Dream Force is the global sales worth extravaganza, right? And so, you know, like maybe eleven, twelve years into it. You kind of have to like, you really, really have to have fun with it or else you are not happy. So I was going to just bring the glitter for the evenings out, but I figured I could just wear it anywhere. And then I just realized I could wear it to other conferences to nobody here knows me and knows whether I worked litter all the time aren’t hot. All right, So you were flushing something out? Yeah, the difference backgrounds that you bring to today. So I brought you to non-profit, Released lives or culminating this moment Don’t radio. That’s right. And so I would say that like for younger generations So it might not be applicable if you’re a millennial or if your generation z but for my generation sales lorts and exist. When I went to college, the Internet barely existed. I definitely didn’t use a window in high school. You know, a lot of this stuff is new, and so there’s this term of accidental techie that folks like to take on, but I actually think that that term should not be used right. And folks like myself that come from the non-profit backgrounds are usedto lower pays and usedto working for the mission rather than for the money. I also have this. This might applied to folks that are listening to non-profit radio like inclination that once you go into the tech space, you still have to stay at the non-profit salaries. You’re still working for a mission. And so I think that and the culture is frankly grittier. Once you get into the space and I would say it sze rougher. It’s more fast paced. It’s more masculine. And from my experience, then the non-profit fate space, which is often more feminine and so that cultural change for me was really challenging. And I think it can be for a lot of people. And I think it’s also very normal to cross over from one sector into tech because so many people are working attacked. There’s so much need for that. And there’s need for folks intact and people getting poached in to check all of the time. So there is this transitional, a thing that can happen that some of us have experience that can be fairly challenging. Yeah, and Tio Tio, I think, as someone without a tech background who’s now a tech, and this happens to some extent to everybody. But that feeling imposter syndrome can be much stronger when you don’t have a tech background and you’re surrounded by other people who you feel like, Oh my God, Everyone knows what they’re doing. I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m a fraud. I shouldn’t be here that could just make it really hard coming from a different background into the space and then being underrepresented person on top of that. So I got to imagine that in any phase of our life we imitate and sort of we look at other people where social people are social, right by nature. And so when you look up and you see that only three percent of the CEOs in the tech space or Latino you assume that you don’t belong in leadership. It’s just a natural human assumption. So there’s a very big disparity and leadership that we’re also dealing with here. OK, we’ve got about a minute or so left. Uh, Sarah, a partner. You haven’t spoken most recently. Uh, somebody want toe, give us sort of a wrap up and optimism. Uh, either one of you. I tell you what. A partner. You I let you open. I should session say, like you opened. I asked youto open. I did ask you, uh, Sarah, do you feel comfortable with Cem Porting words, Some parting words? Yeah, I think that, you know, it’s I mean, it may sound cheesy, but, you know, you should do what you are drawn to do and what makes you feel good doing it. And if that’s being in technology, whether you’re under represented or not, you know, go forth and be strong and doing it. Look to your mentors. Look to your community. Don’t be afraid. Women. A lot of times they’re really afraid to ask for help because they feel like it makes them seem weak. Do not be afraid to ask for help. You know, ask for help along the way. It’s actually it’s a really great trait to be able to do that, and I think it’s also well respected. So I would say, You know, go forth. Don’t be put off by the fact that it is more difficult. This is the great panel. We gotta leave it. There they are. Marissa Lopez, director of account management at Presence Product Group. Sarah Chico, director of technology Social Impact Presents Product group. Tommy Lau, Senior Sales Force Engineers, Social Impact Presents Product Group and Aparna Kothari, director of technology operations at Global Citizen year. Thank you very much of each of you. Thanks for telling so much. This is Tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of the nineteen twenty nineteen non non-profit technology conference, and this is brought to you by our partners and act blue Free fund-raising Tools to help non-profits Macon Impact Thanks so much for being with us. We need to take a break. Wagner, CPS. They’ve got a free webinar It was on April sixteenth. That was a few days ago, but you watch the archive. Of course, it’s tips and tricks for your nine ninety. The best part. You’ve heard me say it. Using your nine ninety as a PR tool is a marketing promotion tool. So many people are reading it because it’s so widely available. Ubiquitous. You might say that you may as well not just satisfy the I. R. S because they don’t care what your right and how you used these sections. As long as the numbers all add up, uh, use it as a marketing tool because it’s so widely read by potential donors. Watch the archive of the Webinar Goto wagner cps dot com click seminars. I wish you could click webinars, but you can’t quick seminars. Then go to April. Now, Time for Tony. Take two. Thank you. Um, thanks. Thanks for listening. Thanks for supporting non-profit Radio however you do if you are subscribed on YouTube. Thank you very much. Twitter. Following their joining there, I’d like to say I don’t really like to turn followers some messiah. Uh, no. You’re joined me. You joined me on Twitter. Thank you for doing that. You’re an insider. You get the insider alerts. You got the access to the insider videos. Thank you for doing that. Whatever you do. Uh, what else? Facebook. Oh, yeah. Facebook were still there? A cz disenchanted as I often am with Facebook. Yes. Were there along with four billion other people. So, uh, thank you. Your your fan on Facebook. Thanks for doing that. You shared non-profit radio you shared with your colleagues to share it with your board. Thanks for doing that. Whatever you do. Thank you. Thank you for being with non-profit radio. Now let’s go to our panel for great ideas. Welcome to Tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of nineteen. Auntie Si. You know what that is? It’s the twenty nineteen non-profit technology Conference. We’re kicking off our coverage right now. This is our first interview of many, many thirty seven to be exact on DH this interview, like all of ours. At nineteen. NTC is brought to you by our partners at Act Blue Free fund-raising Tools to help non-profits make an impact. Kicking off with me, our gods piela Jackson seated next to me. She’s CEO of Echo and Company and Marcy Ride. Marcy is founder and principal of wire media Ladies. Welcome. Thank you. Pleasure. What chorus? Eleven. And your topic is staying sharp. How to create an implement. Great ideas. Yes. Okay, uh, let’s start at the end. More. See? What? What do you feel like? Non-profits could do better around, I guess. Problem solving and idea eating. I think one thing that’s important is getting everyone involved in the whole process on DH have it not necessarily coming top down, but getting all kinds of input coming in. Okay, Stay close to you. Might remember. Stay close to me. Okay? Andi, I’m sure you know, subsumed in that is getting the right people involved. Yes. Identify who they are. Okay, uh, got piela anything. You want to kick us off? Yeah. I think when we’ve been working on projects where innovation is the core of the project, a lot of times, what we encounter is that culture is a barrier to being able to drive innovation forward. And a part of that is because non-profits in particular, have cultures where there’s scarce. Resource is, there’s not a lot of time. A lot of the staff is very overworked. And so the idea of getting together and creating space actually create and innovate is very scary. Because if you don’t get the right answer first, then you might actually exhaust all your resource is you might actually not be able to go on to the next idea. Everybody’s tired of the process And okay, so we’re gonna talk about culture now. This was originally presented at the Harvard University Digital Innovation Academy. Wass by the two of you Just bite me first. Are you okay? In the true spirit of ideas, this is a pilot. Yes, awesome. And also, in the true spirit of Tony martignetti non-profit radio, which is big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. So if you want the ideas that emanated from Harvard metoo listening to non-profit radio and here’s the proof. All right, um, you, uh let’s take what you’ve got you what you want to encourage strong, strong ideas like every day. This is not just for your strategic plan or something like that. This is every day, pre idea creation. So how do we start to make this culture shift? Thinking about breakthrough ideas every single day? Yeah, yeah, I think the most important thing is that ideas don’t come from a predetermined spaces or predetermined settings. So a lot of times, what you need first in order to come up with new ideas, is a spirit of play in a spirit of spontaneity and often times when we’re in meetings, we have laptops were sitting around a table. Everybody’s in a setting where they’re afraid of being the one, not saying the right thing. And there isn’t a spirit of embracing mistakes. And it’s embracing attempts as much as you have embraced successes. But we really need to shift your setting, whether that’s being up on your feet, it’s changing. The environment is going outside, and you really need to bring in a spirit of play and equal contribution to the table in order to just even start. Okay, this all sounds sounds very good, but how do we convinced our CEO that playtime is eyes really question that playtime is appropriate for our idea. Generation? Yeah, it has to be structured and has to be intentionally set to a goal. So normally, when you’re creating this environment, what you’re trying to do is separate the creation of ideas from the refinement of ideas and picking the one that actually can go forward with limited resource is budget and people. And when you actually see ideas constrained and started inside of organizations that they haven’t done enough prep work, enough research to actually ground the session, you’re going to be having an ideation. And then you’ve also tried to create ideas and edit ideas at the same time, which ends up with too much dress. So, Marcie, I mean, when I was in college, I learned this as brainstorming right on DH the first, the first step in brainstorming was nothing was disallowed. Everything ridiculous. Wild but insane was was not labeled as such. It was written on the board. Is that is that an outdated, uh, brainstorming dead? Now, Marcie, you were just calling it a breakthrough idea generation or what? I think the idea of brainstorming in a group is may be dead and time to move past it. I know that we’ve had some success where people are are individually coming up with ideas. And then they worked together as a group to organize and come to consensus on them. And that works pretty effectively. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah. One thing, too, is a brainstorming in the method a lot of people use. It really don’t doesn’t allow people of different types of thinking and different learning styles actually contribute equally. Why’s that? Oftentimes it’s a group of people, and there are questions put out to the room. And then there’s a sort of ad hoc responses to questions. But a lot of people don’t answer well. They need to take time to reflect. They need to have structured activities, to think, to frame their thoughts and then be able to contribute it back to the group. So what end of happening is people who are really good at responding quickly, who are more extroverted and who are better at thinking out loud, dominate the setting and the people who are actually more cautious and they’re thinking and reasoned. And maybe it’s quieter. Researchers don’t have space, but often times have the best ideas, okay, and so you really have to structure your setting. So how do we do? Martin? Marcie, can you start? Give us some tips. How do we structure this to empower everyone equally? I mean, there’s there’s different ways to do it The way loud on non-profit radio when I was what I was thinking of earlier and sort of referring to earlier is something that we do with branding. Exercise is where it’s pretty simple, but everyone has time to write down their ideas on sticky notes. For example, if they’re trying to figure out, you know, how do they come to consensus on what the personality of the brand should be like? And so they have time on their own to come up with ideas in their own way, and then they and the next phase is they get together as a group, and they work together to figure out how to organize these ideas into categories and which categories are the most important and in the process of doing it, they have conversations about why they’re making those decisions, and it’s really effective in getting to consensus with the whole group that includes often like the CEOs down to the the marketing assistant. Some of the audience. Sometimes it works really well. Okay, um, stick with you, Marcy. Had you mentioned the CEO? How do we get our CEO onboard with this is culture change. What would you say? Way? Tell listeners to say what one of my favorite sort of go twos is. There’s a psychologist called me. Holly Chick sent me. I and don’t ask me to spell it, but he way, having asked you to say it a second time, he came up with the concept that’s called Flow. And it’s the idea of being so fully engaged in something that time passes freely. You don’t notice the passage of time on DH, you do it very. You do your activity very well because you’re completely engaged in in the moment on DH. Then there’s information. There’s data somewhere that shows that you could be more effective. When you’re in a state of float, you get more done. You do better work. All right. What if our CEO says sounds very metaphysical, but how are we going? Toe You wanted me to give you want You want me to get our team into a flow. What do I need to do? What we need to do? Well, I think that’s what God Cielo was recovering Teo earlier about having a structured format that gets them there, and that puts them in the moment. Okay, if you can also drive if you can drive that conversation towards operational efficiencies. So what actually happens when you make this culture shift is teams are happier. They feel more productive. They’ve created space to come up with better ideas. They also embed research into the process that we didn’t really talk about. How you prime yourself for the session before you start. But the idea is to go out to your audience, understand the mission, understand the people you’re serving, actually get input from them so staff can be representative representatives of the end constituent in the room. What actually happens is staff tends to get way more re engaged in the purpose of the organization and the mission, and, uh, and then they start putting in more qualitative hours during the workday. So it’s not showing up in just doing the usual work, which is very important. It’s creating space to do work better and being really connected to how you actually scale the mission a little bit more and you can actually map it. Tio outcomes that looked like revenue looks like costs. It looks like decreased costs and recruiting staff and keeping staff. It looks like decreasing the amount of time that is spent to get better ideas. And then it’s actually having a spirit of trying a lot of things. Picking the best ones, replicating them, maturing them and turning them into programs so the organization itself can grow in a non haphazard way can grow very intentionally around the efforts. All right, I got to take a break. Tell us the passive revenue stream. You want fifty percent of the fee. When cos you refer process their credit and debit card transactions with Tell us and all that fifty percent of those tiny fees it adds up. That’s the long tail of passive revenue. You don’t work for it. That’s passive. Get passive right passivity. The passivity of the revenue. The Explainer video is that Tony dahna slash Tony Tell us, watch it, then have the company’s watch it, then make your ask. Would they switch to tell us and then tell us we’LL we’LL work with them, right? You go to Tony dahna slash Tony Tell us now Back to Gutsy Ella Jackson and Marcy Ry Way. If we’ve made the case on DH, we’ve we’ve had our first. This’s not just like a single session. It doesn’t sound like you know, you said some people function very well in one hour setting. They think rapidly, and other people need Teo. Be more considerate. So we’re talking about something that’s not just a one, a one off ideation session, and then we moved to the next step or something. You know, we start going down. It’s a longer term. Yeah, Usually the cycle is a research and prepare. Then idee eight. Then concept test concepts figure out which ones are the best. Replicate those and then a couple times, and then the ones that prove themselves than mature them and continuously start that cycle over again. That can be a sprint in a matter of two weeks. Or it could be a longer term programme in a matter of months or a year just depends on the complexity of the problem that you’re trying to solve. Okay, and then eventually the goal is that this becomes very natural. And so that that then you are doing this in every day, decision making. But it’s happening obviously more, more rapidly. We can spend two weeks on every decision. Yeah, and then the other thing that is very beneficial for a leader is a part of the process. Is teaching staff to learn how to pitch their best ideas to leadership in a way that leadership can then go pitch that to board members and thunders and things like that. And so you actually want at the end of it, you want to go knothole process so you can prove your pilot. You can pitch it to the executives, they could go pitch it to the board, and it’s founded in research. So when the board is arguing about the marriage of that or questioning the merits of that, they’re arguing with numbers and evidence and not with people and ideas. So you do want to push out of the ideas phase into evidence, but the process allows you to do that better. Okay? What brought you to this work? Initially? A good question. It only took me twenty twelve minutes e-giving dancing question out. I’LL try harder next time. It’s marrieds are getting So I started in journalism when newspapers were falling apart. Somebody said, Who wants to learn? HTML and I did, and I ended up in technology. But I ended up in technology doing big Web strategy for organizations that had thousands of people, lots of micro sites. They kind of had homegrown technologies. Everybody had their own budget. All of the technologies were decentralized, and people were had an appetite to consolidate all of that. And I started in organizations trying to do it from a Strat from a consulting perspective. And it didn’t work because you have so much change embedded in the process that if you don’t do the work to get people excited about process and excited about the ideas, they’re not going to be able to understand or commit to the amount of change that you’re asking them to go through. And so I just got really excited in that I studied design thinking, which, uh, it’s a It’s a way of solving unknown problems, using a lot of co design with people who are going to be the end beneficiaries of the solution and it’s actually built on improv. So the the for the, um, the art form of improv has a central concept. And yes, and exactly why do I have done in problem taking improv classes? And I use it in my stand up comedy? Yes. And you surrender or fishes? Yeah. Alright. And so it was just and I’m involved. I’m on the board of Washington Improv Theater in D. C. I’m very close to that work. And I could mind at UCB Upright Citizens. Yeah, And in these working Alan Alda actually created a organization. I think it’s called the Center for Compassionate Communication. We goes into mostly scientific organizations, teaches them improv and completely sort of read, helps them re imagine the way they communicate with each other and the way they communicate externally. Kruckel mostly. What drew you to this work? What drew me to it? Yeah, it’s kind of the opposite track. I guess I started working more with smaller organizations that had few numbers of people that needed to do a lot with a little on DH. So it was starting to think about how can we get there pretty quickly and then, you know, my background is more designed, technology oriented. So I kayman things from that perspective and started seeing that some. You know, some of the problems pretzel is talking about where change management issues on the on their staffing side and how their processes were creating problems for the project we were doing. And that got me interested in trying to fix it. Yeah. Okay. And so you apply this for your clients? A wider media, Okay? No, the ones that are willing, the ones that are willing. Okay. Okay, um see, choosing implement. So let’s talk about choice now choosing, choosing the options that we’re goingto way. Just choose one. First of all, we’re really choosing one of the many or we’re choosing half a dozen. How do you know who knows best this? I mean, that’s where I think pitching, pitching it is important and making a case for who is going to serve, what the outcome is going to be and why the commitment of resource is worth the eyes worth the investment. And so I can I think it just depends on the problem you’re solving and whether or not you want to try different things in different context to be able to compare them. There’s a lot of different types of research that you can do in our field. We kind of break it down before the first one is explorations. If you’re just trying to explore a concept, you do kind of many things that you, Khun, see how people would solve problems in their own world in their own words. And then the second one is, once you’re kind of headed in a direction, you do assessment testing, and that’s kind of figure out. You come up with a concept, and how close did you get it actually solving things the way that they that someone might want it to be solved, and then it just gets more formal from there. Once you have a finished design, you test that once it’s live and in production, you test that. So it really depends when you’re in this exploration phase. You wantto do the right amount of exploration to hit the appropriate audiences. We always do and use their definition first. It’s like there’s no point in doing anything unless we design for the people who are going to be using it, and that could be fifty different types of audience groups that could be too. And so that kind of dictates the how much work you do in that, um, who can give me Marcie, Can you give me some examples of problems that were that you’ve seen your client’s solve using this method? What types of decisions are we talking about? Well, I mentioned earlier, like coming up with branding characteristics for a new brand or something. Another one might be So something we’re working on now actually is women organization has lots of different kinds of information that they want to share with the world. And they want to put that on a website or some kind of application. How do you structure that? So that the people that need that information can quickly and easily find what they need, you know, and you couldn’t think of a million different ways to organize data or content like that. But doing the right kinds of testing at the right time really helps you with the audience focus, right? Really helps you make sure that you know the person who needs the particular piece of information gets it quickly and easily. Yeah. Um, you said in your session description that the best ideas are often undiscovered. Why why is that? Is that because, Well, you explain me. What? Why why do you say that? Um, well, we see it in different ways in different organizations. But my my general sends is that the people who carry some of the best ideas because they were the closest to the people that are being served aren’t in the room. When ideas are being created on and you don’t you don’t necessarily know by instinct. Who in your organization has the best ideas? I think the best thing you can do is an executive is go ask around for who kind of is the most pioneering who’s willing to drive things forward, who’s really good at people and marshaling resources towards a common end who’s really good at just guarding that. The innovation aligns to the mission. You have to have all the four types of those people to be able to get to a good idea, and oftentimes you’re just leaning on leaders to come up with a Biggins up inspiring idea or your leading on on leaning on staff or overworked a busy and they don’t have time. We use a formula where we kind of look at the amount of time that staff members are spending on different types of ideas. There’s bread and butter ideas that’s like your daily to do list. I always say that that’s like a goldfish. It’Ll grow to the size of the pond, so if you have a million hours, your to do list will grow to a million hours. The second type is building boost ideas, and so it’s creating a little bit of space to do something that requires a little more coordination, a little more effort. And from that, you often times can get what the third category is, which is breakthrough ideas. And that’s like big ideas. You spend a lot of time developing and nurturing, and most organizations are just stuck in bread and butter. And so there’s not enough intentional time carved out for the other two types. Time for our last break text to give Diversify your revenue by adding mobile giving. It’s not on ly for disasters. It’s not only for small dollar. Donations is not only through the phone company lots of misconceptions. You can allay those you can. That’s the Lei is more for fears. You can slay those misconceptions you can. Ah, eliminate. Seems kind of easy, but you can’t eliminate the misconceptions. You do that by texting NPR November Papa Romeo to four, four, four, nine, nine, nine Just do it and the misconceptions will die. We’ve got several more minutes for great ideas with Nazi Ella Jackson and Marcie Ross marchenese doing doing a lot of nada. Anything you want to add. What? I mean she’s right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, Information. Affirmation is a part of the process where it fits in rewarding people for being courageous and putting an idea out there that they’re hesitant about because the bad ones are as good as the good ones. The bad ones prime you for a better one. So it’s funny. I spoke on a panel two high school girls in stem on Monday before I came here, and they asked us a question. What will we go back and tell ourselves in high school? And mine was Don’t measure your don’t measure yourself to the success. Measure yourself to the attempts because we’re hardwired to learn from mistakes and failure, and sometimes we just get obsessed with what success looks like. But it’s better for us to try a lot of things and write things. And eventually we’LL we’LL hit a couple that are really good. I should have asked you, Is there a client story or two you want to share? Yeah, I’LL try to share one short red quickly So way work with organization in Washington, D. C. Called the Newseum. They’re pretty well know. Yeah, so they focus on their mission is to advance media literacy and education about our First Amendment freedoms. And years ago in twenty fifteen, they indigenous to just kind of redesign. A very simple website had about ten lesson plans and some PDS and some videos and way got in there with them. We did some ideas, ideas, princessa sessions, and we asked them why what teachers were looking for. And teachers were really preoccupied with not being able to teach current events in the classroom with curriculum that helped him deal with sensitive subjects and then with the materials to help them teach it. And so we started doing a ton of exploration, and we realize that the museum was sitting on this goldmine of thousands of artifacts that had to do with historical references to politics and media and also contemporary references. And when we went to talk to teachers, we realized that we needed to not redesign the thing that we were hired to redesign. We needed to create a completely new platform that was one hundred percent dedicated. Teo serving media literacy curriculum teachers in the classroom. So they making all these resources available to them for free indexing. Okay, Yeah. Driving. Yeah. So we pause that project way. We created a platform and a brand. So before they were just a department and then they were the Newseum. Ed, Uh, they ended up getting a major funder commitment for five years to be able to build this platform that’s still growing. And they went from eight hundred users to one hundred thousand users in about three years. How did the breakthrough process contribute to that exponential growth in usually So there was like a very cinematic moment where I walked down a hallway with something on a sticky note. It was like we need to do this, and honestly, they have. They had a vice president of education, and I think she was a director at the time. She is exceptional at pitching ideas and leading her team. And she took that idea on the sticky note. I think, to the CEO of the Newseum and said, We need to do this This is central to our mission. If we don’t do this, somebody else will do it. We’re going to miss the opportunity. I will lead it protects her effort into it. I will find my own funding for it. I just need your support. I need to be at the executive table to have conversations about this. I need to be ableto talk to the board and understand their support in this. And they did. That kind of shifted the department. She ended up sitting thie executive on the executive team and she really did. She was a visionary and she drove it forward, including this decision making process. Yeah, including this decision making process. So we launched a like what we kind of call the beta of that platform and twenty fifteen didn’t have enough resource is and we knew that we were to achieve what we needed to We needed a road map. We wrote that so she could go get funding. And then we actually relaunched it this year, a major version release again with a lot more committed funding. And so it’s it’s growing from there. I hope it around for a very long time. Um, Marcy, how can we be sure that the idea that is going to be implemented remains intact through this through this? I don’t wanna call a tortuous process, but through this through this process, like, how do you ensure that you stay true to the idea that with the solution that was chosen through implementation, I think that comes down, Teo, the idea of having a structure and a specific process that you go through and you stick to it and you don’t let you know random outside ideas come in and derail that you stick to the formula that you’ve decided to use from the start. Um, we still have another, like, two minutes or so together. What, uh, what more can you say about you? Have a ninety minute. How long of the sessions on our or ninety minutes? Fifteen. Okay. Somewhere in the middle. So you got You got seventy five minutes on this topic. What? What can we say for another couple minutes? Yes. Oh, I am going to be fun. Yeah, so? So majority of the session is going to be a game, and I feel like that’s really important because you have to be able to bring a spirit of play and fun into it. Okay? And it’s going to be a man activity that helps you figure out you have a listener’s listeners can’t be on the game. Okay, so what else can we talk about this topic that listeners can benefit from? So it’s based on a model where there are four types of ideas and you can think of it as a ladder and you have to run your idea of the ladder. And the first question is, Is it useful? Is your idea useful is something that you can move forward If it if it’s yes, then you go to the second question. And that is, uh, is it rare? Is it valuable or is it rare? And then, if you get it, if it’s no, you’re you’re filtering out your ideas. If you get a yes on the next is is it difficult or costly to replicate? Can you only do it because there’s something about you and your resource is where you can achieve it. And if you get yes, you go to the last one. Which is is it designed for lasting value? And those air Four questions you can ask about every single idea. And what you’re trying to do is weed out the ones that don’t hit all four questions. Yeah, would you say Yeah. Yeah. And then the ideas, Teo, the idea is to present your idea to Piers or to other people involved and get their input on whether or not you’re asking them those questions. You’re not asking it of yourself. You’re asking the other people you’re working with. You’re asking this team right in each of these four questions. Okay? Yeah. And then what? Do you have a minute or so That what happens if multiple ideas? Well, then do. Then you start to co implement, right? Yeah. Move them all through the process. Yeah. Here, you pick one that seems to have the most merit. You’re going forward with that one? Yeah. It is kind of like the U size, the decision to the organization, But I think just going through that exercise will get you either a stack of all those really lasting value ideas or not. Okay, well, don’t leave it there. Thank you very much for naming my pleasure. They are gods piela Jackson, CEO of echoing company on Marcy RAI, founder and principal of Wire Media. You’re listening to Tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of nineteen ninety seethe uh twenty nineteen non-profit Technology conference in Portland, Oregon, on this interview Like all our nineteen ninety seon reviews brought to you by our partners at Act Blue Free fund-raising tools to help non-profits make an impact. Thanks so much for being with us next week. Maria Semple returns. If you missed any part of today’s show, I beseech you find it on tony. Martignetti dot com were sponsored by pursuing online tools for small and midsize non-profits, Data driven and technology enabled Tony dahna slash pursuant capital P by Wagner’s Deepa is guiding you beyond the numbers. Gregor cps dot com by tell us credit card in payment processing your passive revenue stream tourney dahna slash tony tell us and by text to give mobile donations made easy text NPR to four four four nine nine nine our creative producers. Claire Meyerhoff. Sam Liebowitz is the line producer. Shows Social Media is by Susan Chavez. Mark Silverman is our Web guy, and this music is by Scots. Dine with me next week for non-profit radio. Big non-profit Ideas for the other ninety five percent Go out and be great lorts You’re listening to the Talking Alternate network e-giving Wait, you’re listening to the Talking Alternative Network? Are you stuck in a rut? Negative thoughts, feelings and conversations got you down. Hi, I’m nor in Sumpter potentially ater. Tune in every Tuesday at nine to ten p. M. Eastern time and listen for new ideas on my show yawned potential Live life your way on talk radio dot N Y c Hey, all you crazy listeners looking to boost your business. Why not advertise on talking alternative with very reasonable rates? Interested? Simply email at info at talking alternative dot com Thie Best designs for your life Start at home. I’m David here. Gartner, interior designer and host of At Home Listen, Live Tuesday nights at eight p. M. Eastern Time. As we talk to the very best professionals about interior design and the design that’s all around us right here on talk radio dot N. Y c. You’re listening to Talking Alternative Network at www dot talking alternative dot com now broadcasting twenty four hours a day. Are you a conscious co creator? Are you on a quest to raise your vibration and your consciousness? Sam Liebowitz, your conscious consultant and on my show, that conscious consultant, our awakening humanity. We will touch upon all these topics and more. Listen live at our new time on Thursdays at twelve noon Eastern time. That’s the conscious consultant. Our Awakening Humanity. Thursday’s twelve noon on talk radio dot you’re listening to the talking alternative network hyre.

Nonprofit Radio, February 15, 2013: Some Raise Money While Some Raise Hell & Pinterest and SlideShare

Big Nonprofit Ideas for the Other 95%

Listen live or archive:

Tony’s Guests:

Marcia
Marcia Stepanek
Marcia Stepanek: Some Raise Money While Some Raise Hell

I’m talking about women in philanthropy with Marcia Stepanek. She was founding editor-in-chief of “Contribute Magazine” and is the new media advisor to the New York University Heyman Center for Philanthropy. We’ll talk about Limbaugh and Komen; leadership roles; traditional giving; and how women organize themselves.

 

Amy Sample Ward
Amy Sample Ward: Pinterest and SlideShare

Amy Sample Ward returns. She’s our social media contributor and membership director of Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN). She shares how small- and mid-size nonprofits can reap definite value from these lesser-known social sites.

 
 


Top Trends. Sound Advice. Lively Conversation.

You’re on the air and on target as I delve into the big issues facing your nonprofit—and your career.

If you have big dreams but an average budget, tune in to Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio.

I interview the best in the business on every topic from board relations, fundraising, social media and compliance, to technology, accounting, volunteer management, finance, marketing and beyond. Always with you in mind.

When and where: Talking Alternative Radio, Fridays, 1-2PM Eastern

Sign-up for show alerts!

Here is the link to the audio: 129: Some Raise Money While Some Raise Hell & Pinterest and SlideShare. You can also subscribe on iTunes to get the podcast automatically.

View Full Transcript


Transcript for 129_tony_martignetti_nonprofit_radio_20130215.mp3

Processed on: 2018-11-11T22:58:32.522Z
S3 bucket containing transcription results: transcript.results
Link to bucket: s3.console.aws.amazon.com/s3/buckets/transcript.results
Path to JSON: 2013…02…129_tony_martignetti_nonprofit_radio_20130215.mp3.216121625.json
Path to text: transcripts/2013/02/129_tony_martignetti_nonprofit_radio_20130215.txt

Hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio it’s that time again. Big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent i am your aptly named host. I very much hope that you were with me last week. Yes, i do, because last week was lead and matching gifts in your campaign to start professor john list from the university of chicago, chairs the economics department and founded the science of philanthropy initiative. There no longer must fundraisers rely on tradition and conventional wisdom in campaign planning because he shared a rigorous science to guide you around lead and matching gif ts also many matching corporate gif ts chuck longfield, chief scientist at blackbaud had lots of simple ways to increase your matching gif ts from corporations did you know that volunteer hours are also dollar matched by many? We started with sector benchmarking, and we went from there, and my interview with chuck longfield was recorded at blackboards bebe con conference last october this week, some raise money while some raise hell. I’m talking about women in philanthropy, with marshals to panic. She was founding editor in chief of contribute magazine and is the new media adviser to the new york university heimans center for philanthropy we’ll talk about limbong coleman leadership roles, traditional giving and how women are organizing themselves also, pinterest and slideshare amy sample ward returns she’s, our social media contributor and membership director of non-profit technology network and ten she shares how small and midsize non-profits can reap definite value from these lesser known social sites between the guests on tony’s take two, my podcaster on top i’ll tell you what i’m talking about, and i will thank you, my pleasure now, to welcome marshes to panic. She is new media advisor to the n u heimans center for philanthropy, and she also curates its annual speaker siri’s philanthropy three point oh, which explores disruptive innovation in the social good sector. It sounds like some organized anarchy. Anarchy pointed in the right direction. She teaches social media strategy. Yes, it may very well be totally okay. We’ll get teo talk about anarchy. I’m still trying to introduce you. Hold on there, marshal. She teaches social media strategy. You have a very lengthy bio. I was to get through this a cz well, a social enterprise. New media and cause video in the masters program at new york university she was, as i mentioned, founding editor in chief of contribute magazine, her upcoming book swarms. The rise of the digital antiestablishment published by little brown is due out later this year. And it’s actually because of that book that she couldn’t be in the studio because she’s interviewing someone for her book swarms very pleased to welcome marshes to panic. How are you? Thanks so much, tony. I’m just really delighted. Honored to be on yourself. Oh, it’s, my pleasure to have you. Thank you, marcia. Honored not too many people say that. Thank you. I hope you feel that way by the end you believe i’m sure you will. You believe that women are reshaping philanthropy? How is that what’s happening? Generally, you know, i didn’t use teo buy into claims that women somehow we’re you know, very different behaviorally and men in terms of their capacity for compassion and their willingness and generosity. But there’s some new research out and it’s very much triggered buy-in just in the economy and structural changes in the workplace that have given women a little more income over the last ten, twenty years, and since nine eleven, we’re we’re starting to see some measurable differences in the way women spend money in terms of the charitable contributions that they make, so that there are some differences that are starting to emerge here. There’s certainly other differences to in-kind of what those new income numbers are spawning in the non-profit industry, but armored and okay, and we’ll have time to talk about those, so you feel this is mostly economically driven? I think a lot of it is economically driven in terms of just the numbers with regard to the money uh given and how that those contributions different, for example, in the highest e-giving levels of people who give generally men and women, uh, baby boomer aged women are more likely to give them their male counterparts in all giving levels three percent or more, or they’re coming down to charity among people who do that. Male baby boomers and older, single headed households are nearly two times it’s, likely than men to give to charity. So that’s that says an age when most women are saving and have significant savings and disposable income and that’s even happening even as a result of women not getting paid is most statistically on the average than men. So it’s pretty significant. Okay, but there’s also interesting developments around organizing and advocacy. Yeah, very much so because of some of these economic trends, but also as a factor of globalization and particularly social media, technology and internet technology in general, we’re seeing some behavioral changes. First of all, it could be a simple as ah ah lot more charities targeting their solicitation campaigns more directly. Tau women. I know a lot of your listeners. Now, united way has now one hundred thirty seven women’s leadership councils that have raised something like nine hundred eighty five million dollars just over the left twelve years creating marshal those those leadership councils are our volunteers. They’re volunteermatch women supporters, yes, and doner groups. So what the united way has done? Uh, kind of piggybacking the general trend and women’s income and changing numbers and how much they’re spending on charity decided to tap into that trend and organize some of these councils. Teo, do more engagement around women’s not only volunteerism, but something like fund-raising as well and what’s. Interesting about that is, uh, this so called tiffany circle, which is an all female. Network created by the red cross, for example, another organization, uh hey has been started not just by the transport by social media networks that have popped up around some of these activities, so a lot of places they’re using a combination of social media and these economic trance really bolster their fundrasing activities, and we’re gonna have a chance to talk a little later on about women organizing themselves, not needing umbrella organization to do it. But, you know, around some of the controversies, like what happened to komen and rush limbaugh’s comments, and so we’ll get a chance talk about women organizing themselves, as i said, not even needing that kneading the big organization, but just coming together on the social sites let’s talk about some of the social change and social enterprises that you’re seeing women engaged in. Yeah, they’re concurrent with these other changes on certainly partly a factor of economic wealth. Growth among women is that a lot of women, particularly on wall street and other very in the financial services field, are really being a critical force behind the creation of pretty much a majority of social enterprises that are out there. The skull. Forum for, uh, global entrepreneurship has done on international study on this and seeing that at least half it’s not up to as high as seventy percent, and some regions of the new enterprises that have been started have been done by women, women who have earned independently of their thousands um uh, who are seeing that the needs community isn’t as fully developed as it ought to be around new issues of concern to these cohorts, such as women’s, self esteem, women and girls, self esteem, women, education issues. Now, these air getting much more focused thanks to a lot of the social enterprises on march for-profit businesses for good, if you will, that coming online. Also seeing a lot of female boomer women burned, creating films, getting into the social good film space and making some very interesting documentaries that are here about women helping women and trying to move the needle a little bit on education and their film initiatives that are also being used to raise a lot of money for certain non-profits abigail disney surely johnson, some of the big entrepreneurs are involved in these things on there, really successful in terms of measuring impact. Are there? Are there specific documentary titles? You khun you convention for us? Yes. Uh, shirley johnson made something about kicking the ball, which is about women’s basketball group. We’ve got abigail disney was working in liberia. Um, we’ve got some recent documentaries that are are being funded by again the women run fledgling fund, which is a foundation, and it’s about women and girls in the slums of calcutta being turned into activists and it’s a very compelling story. Uh uh, all sorts of new films i’m attending here to see for the first time i’m in washington, d c today as well, and i’m interviewing for the book as well as screaming some films that american university conference on social media that matters and this is focusing, i’m still making efforts. So again, you couldn’t you couldn’t be in the studio because you’re in washington, d c watching a movie that’s what you’re saying, i see a film, they have probably hard working the minute you’re seeing argo and lincoln, i’ll bet that’s why you’re in washington? Because they’re not playing in new york anymore, okay, we have just a minute before a break, so i don’t want to really get into anything brand new, too deep. But, of course, you’ll still be with me after the break. When and i want to make sure that what listeners understand, we talked about social enterprise, we’re talking about often cos right, that air, social, socially oriented, social good business is sort of. We’re talking about socially, social good enterprises that have been begun with the primary purpose now so much of raising money for stakeholders, but for raising the bar on social impact wielding an impact that’s measured first of those companies over organized to be accountable to those kinds of and our wii just very briefly before break, we necessarily talking about corporations or these could be not-for-profits also, these could be not-for-profits for-profit non-profit hybrid organizations and then for-profit organizations, but it’s the way that they’re organized on around what they promise to deliver, i understand what their outcomes are, not not necessarily one hundred percent profit, if there, if their profit mathos lately, okay, we’re going to take a break and when we return, of course, after this marchenese to panic stays with us, and i hope that you do, too, talking alternative radio twenty four hours. Are you confused about which died it’s, right for you? Are you tired of being tired? How about improving your energy strength and appearance? Hi, i’m rick, a keg, holistic nutrition and wellness consultant. If you have answered yes to any of my questions, contact me now at n y integrated health dot com, or it’s, six for six to eight, five, eight five eight eight initiate change and transform your life. Are you concerned about the future of your business for career? Would you like it all to just be better? Well, the way to do that is to better communication, and the best way to do that is training from the team at improving communications. This is larry sharp, host of the ivory tower radio program and director at improving communications. Does your office need better leadership, customer service sales, or maybe better writing, are speaking skills? Could they be better at dealing with confrontation conflicts, touchy subjects all are covered here at improving communications. If you’re in the new york city area, stop by one of our public classes, or get your human resource is in touch with us. The website is improving communications, dot com, that’s, improving communications, dot com, improve your professional environment, be more effective, be happier, and make more money improving communications. That’s, the hey, all you crazy listeners looking to boost your business? Why not advertise on talking alternative with very reasonable rates? Interested simply email at info at talking alternative dot com dafs welcome back to big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. I have to send live listener love. Now is the time let’s start anyway. Taipei, taiwan. Ni hao, changsha, china. Shanxi, china, hi bay, china. Beijing, china knee. How going out to china and taiwan, fork. Wacha, japan. Konnichiwa, and new bern, north carolina. What’s going on there. More live listener loved to come their arm or live listeners out there. Marcia yeah, let’s, let’s, talk a little about the a new organisation called the girl effect they have on there on the opening page of their website that what they say exactly, that women are the most powerful force for change on the planet. You what do you think about that? No, i got this. Let me say that hyperbole is shared by by because i was wondering how about even like, like men, maybe i don’t know they’re not a good food what’s interesting about the girl effect, though, is kind of the structure behind it, and we were just talking a moment ago about social enterprise and so forth. What the girl fact represents is is a really progressive and very successful partnership. Example of great collaboration in the do gooder space between the noble foundation, which is run by the bucket children warren buffett’s, kids corporation, nike and it’s ah it’s foundation arm and ah partnership with hundreds of non-profits that have it’s part of their mission statement helping women and girls to achieve change, whether it’s in the education space of the art stays or healthcare. It’s a partnership where ah, a very good shorts film was funded, its animation, but it basically finally connects. The dots taking it from hyperbole to show why funding women and girls projects actually affects everyone ah, and affects everyone in a very local way. And so it’s in a very effective messaging tool that kind of breaks through the the problems that a lot of these issues had had in the past, where it sounds awfully one sided, the girl fact does a wonderful job of making this ah, great messaging, peace around thie economic impact on everyone of the lack of educating women and girls, and some of the status around the world. Dahna uh, the lowly status love women hold around the world. So it’s it’s a great burger, and what it does is it kind of lends this little short film to a lot of organizations that couldn’t otherwise afford to make it and lets them put on their websites and interface that helps them to raise micro cash, you know, ten dollars, twenty dollars, right after people to do the film online, they’ve done ability, teo, donate to some of the causes that have been vetted. And though it’s just a wonderful campaign that is now finally being copied in other parts of the sector so we hope to see more of that kind of collaboration in the future. In fact, we’re seeing a lot of micro giving among women organizing themselves around social enterprise. Yes, we are a aa lot of this thie evolution of social networks, social media still relatively, very new, but as people get together and now they found each other online and now they exchange, you know, kind of information about the trivia are the important bits of their lives. Now, the next evolution is the first getting people together to make change or around certain issues folks i care about and what we’re starting to see is on what we saw a lot of last year were the social network, some of them that are very strong, many of them led by women being able to make a difference, either in defense of, uh, an action taken by an organization or to bring up some concerns that hadn’t been brought up otherwise and holding some of these traditional non-profit organizations accountable. And, of course, the the leading edge that was the komen foundation controversy where coming foundation had decided to be fund-raising goods breast cancer testing on dh without telling a lot of its membership, and when it finally freaked out, a lot of folks got online a lot of women and started protesting thiss was an example of women organizing themselves through the social networks and very rapidly yes, absolutely, and it was a very successful protest, and it wasn’t so much the significance here isn’t so much whether you believe that that decision was the right or wrong one it was looking, and there are social networks out there holding traditional organizations and non-profits accountable for their actions and ways that has never been before. And the rapid response of some of these networks to some of these decisions has really encouraged a lot of organizations to start really getting serious about engaging your supporters and their networks in new ways so that everybody does feel that their part of the decision making process and there is a new level of accountability achieved not only holding organizations accountable but individuals for there flippant and ah antagonistic, i’d say, remarks rush limbaugh, when he accused you really accuse nobody eats cited a law student was a prostitute because she wanted funding for birth control to be included. In health care and there was a huge backlash. Yeah, there was an internet firestorm over that in just three days. That firestorm was ableto porcelain about to apologize, not once but twice to the woman he had called a flat was the one of the quotes, okay? Ah, and he lost nearly one hundred advertisers right in that in that, uh napor so we’ve seen that these swarms, if you will, of the social networks that have been highly developed and that have a riel sustainability to them, are able to work very quickly when they’re organized. One of my colleagues, a friend of emmett has called these accountability networks actually because they’re social networks and they are always there, but they can get into action very quickly. Uh, if one of them are influential, members of these networks decides to call them into action. So it’s somethingto watch it’s a phenomenon now, but it’s becoming replicable, and we’re seeing a lot of this kind of action over. Yeah, and so this is what you’re calling swarms of women in this case and it’s not women, are not the only ones active actively engaging but that’s that’s the third today, but one of those air swarms saw another one very well done stop sopa campaign, but to delay a vote by the u s congress that would diminish him internet freedom, at least for now. And, uh, it’s, really a new form of activism that is used social media to coordinate swift action around the specific goal. And it’s it’s it’s significant because it’s, uh, much more to do with the ability of new players and the advocacy sector toe work collectively and successfully kind of outside the non-profit sectors long established structures fired-up alternative goals. So it’s it’s something that all organizations want to start infusing more with their supporters in new ways but also so constructively trying to really be able to prove that they’re having an immeasurable impact. A lot of donors now are saying, what have you done for us? We’re the cause lately, and a lot of organizations are now using the social media tools to measure impact, or at least to get a more specific numerical handle on the work that they are doing so that they are able to not only convince people of their value, but to be able teo create partnerships on new levels to achieve more social impact over time marchenese to panic is the new media advisor to the n u heimans center for philanthropy, and her upcoming book is will be swarms. The rise of the digital anti establishment, and you can follow marcia on twitter. She is at claw cause pardon me at cause global ah, marcia let’s, let’s focus a little more on the on the actual, more traditional e-giving and the way women are being more generous essentially than men, it’s a it’s a little more about that. Yeah, even though women in general are earning less than men and have less money in retirement and are generally outliving their spouses, these recent studies on their standing for charity demonstrate that young women, certainly, and especially boomer women, older women in particular are just more likely to give and to give more to charities and then beyond that, there’s, also a behavioral that women in a recent survey by indiana university also said that they they want teo uh, not just have more impact on spending. They want to be more involved in the decision making and indeed, a lot of the rise of some of these new organizations on social enterprises, uh, is due to women wanting to bypass, too simply writing a check to existing organizations but setting up a kind of a bee metrics around specific initiatives that they themselves want to see. And as long as they have the means and some of these new networks, especially on wall street and elsewhere, to accomplish that, they’ve been racing to set that up. That slowed a little bit during profession, but still a very vital force. A lot of people are saying that this income situation for women and this this habit of giving mohr, especially among older women, is very likely to continue. By twenty thirty, for example, fifty four percent of american boomers will be women. And because of their sheer numbers and the social changes that have occurred as they grew up, they have a significant impact on society through their beliefs and attitudes and behaviors and have us already. And so now, as they get older and more charitable on dh, i think we’re seeing the start of some more further behavioral changes among women towards charitable organization. So i think that’s a little bit of good. News you said earlier that the social networks are relatively young, but i hear people say how sick and tired they are a facebook or or twitter sometimes are these are these social networks with us forever? I think some forms of them are, and certainly is they morph and evolve our use of them well, morgan of all hope, the more distinctive things about social networks and social platforms that we’ve seen over and over again is that the people using them tend to define how going tio improve them over time. Ah, facebook, for example, everybody’s kind of getting organizations on facebook now so much personal things now that but seeing how they used them toe left bitch events and, you know, do pr in a different way, certainly, uh, we’re also seeing a rise in the use of private social networks, kind of a private facebook that go under certain names like ning’s o r other certain other platforms that are being set up so that it’s kind of like a private, charitable, uh, type of facebook that’s membership only on some organizations and non-profits they’re using this to great effect, one in particular is the provocative understand veterans organization? Marcia, marcia, you broke up a little bit, say they say the name of the organization again. It’s called i a v stand veterans iraq, afghanistan veterans association a okay, i look, they’ve dahna they set up a peer-to-peer private social network, uh, that bear as long as you’re in that network, you know, they don’t want this isn’t like vietnam veterans or korean, more veterans for eighteen, nineteen, twenty year old folks just and this particular war and are facing some very unique challenges, thanks largely to the health care technology being used to save them from injuries that in previous years killed and so there are unique challenges for them coming home and a lot of challenges always for veterans coming home. So combined with their existing use murcott given their age and their experience before going off to war ah, they are very successfully putting together these private networks is veterans to talk to each other, and they’re subsets like women’s subsets like people who were injured from a certain type of injury and you get on them by giving a password. You are pre qualified so you you it’s not just anybody, is not your fourth grade teacher finding you it’s a private conversation that built trust and credibility among the members and as it moves toward a membership model it’s also proving to be a very sustainable non-profit kind of model using social networks to serve those in need buy-in involving an engaged, those in need not just writing checks, marcia, just just a minute or so left, i have to ask you, what is it you love about this work and the and the research that you’re doing go how people, uh, can hold power accountable in new and constructive ways. I love how this technology couples to be advocacy sector e-giving voice teo so many more people who otherwise were not involved. These full social media, the, uh, the internet has democratized philanthropy, and in such is turning traditional organizations on their beer. I think it all about here. Social change, enormous empowerment absolutely marchenese to panic is new media advisor to the n u heimans center for philanthropy. Look for her book coming out later this year, swarms the rise of the digital antiestablishment it’ll be published by little, brown and she’s at caused global on twitter marsha thank you so much for being a guest, my honor and pleasure. Thanks, tony it’s. Been a pleasure having you right now. We will go away for a minute or two, and when we come back, it’s, tony’s, take two, and then amy sample ward is with me, and we’re going to talk about pinterest and slideshare stay with me. They didn’t think dick tooting getting ding, ding, ding ding. You’re listening to the talking alternate network e-giving. E-giving cubine are you suffering from aches and pains? Has traditional medicine let you down? Are you tired of taking toxic medications, then come to the double diamond wellness center and learn how our natural methods can help you to hell? Call us now at to one to seven to one eight, one eight three that’s to one to seven to one eight one eight three or find us on the web at www dot double diamond wellness dot com. We look forward to serving you. Hi, i’m ostomel role, and i’m sloan wainwright, where the host of the new thursday morning show the music power hour. Eleven a m. We’re gonna have fun. Shine the light on all aspects of music and its limitless healing possibilities. We’re going invite artists to share their songs and play live will be listening and talking about great music from yesterday to today, so you’re invited to share in our musical conversation. Your ears will be delighted with the sound of music and our voices. Join austin and sloan live thursdays at eleven a. M on talking alternative dot com. You’re listening to the talking alternative network. Schnoll i’m chuck longfield of blackbaud. And you’re listening to tony martignetti non-profit radio. Big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. Hi there and welcome back. More live listener love! Montgomery, illinois. Tustin, california. Littleton, colorado. Atlanta, georgia. And two unidentified in somewhere in the united states of america. You’re masking your i p s we know who you are, i’m just since you’re masking, i won’t say who you are, but we know who you are. I’m just telling you that we know here you’re not you’re not you’re not hiding from us, but two unidentified on dh for our listeners in china, all those cities in china that are listening, i said earlier. Happy new year, gung hay fat choi also xero chou korea and seoul, korea on yo haserot it’s, time for tony’s take two, my podcasts are on top and i’m very grateful to you for that. This show was what’s hot in two categories on itunes very recently non-profits and government and organizations and my podcast that which is a monthly for the chronicle of philanthropy fund-raising fundamentals. That was a top podcast in non-profits the’s honors are enormously fleeting. I don’t know, maybe they last five minutes, maybe their last an hour, but they go fast, so i took screenshots and you could see the photographic documentary evidence is on my blogged at tony martignetti dot com. But more important than that, i want to thank you for rating the show. We had the five hundred stars campaign. Thank you very much for raiding the show on itunes more than doubled the number of ratings and i’m sure that’s what made the show trend in itunes. And there was some carryover effect to the to the other podcast to the fund-raising fundamentals that i do. So i thank you. Um, my next guest would caution me that there’s more to true social engagement than numbers and and bumps and and peeks in listenership. So i i take that seriously there there was a lot more to that than engagement. But i thank you for being engaged to the level that you have been so far, and hope to get you even further along mohr, that on my block at tony martignetti dot com. And that is tony’s take two for friday, february fifteenth, the seventh show of this year amy sample ward she’s, the membership director at non-profit technology network. And ten her she co authored social by social, but even newer than that her very new book, also co authored, is social change any time everywhere with forward by two time guest on this show, craig marko is the founder of craigslist he’s been with us twice amy’s blawg is that amy sample, ward dot or ge and she’s on twitter at amy r s ward on twitter. That’s right? I’m going to finish the sentence without without without twitter id, and we know that the army’s rene amy rinascente ward welcome back. Thank you for having me. It’s a pleasure every month. I’m always surprised you allow me back every time. No, you shouldn’t be. I make you feel that in secure. I assume that there’s like a jargon jail downstairs. No, no, no, you’re you’re you’re pretty good about it. You’re quite good were very conscious of jargon jail amy’s here with her little field notebook it’s, an adorable little yellow forty eight page notebook. It’s branded from the state of texas. I don’t know. What were you in texas lately? Is that where you got your little fuel? No. It was given to me as a thank you by a friend, david jnf, who lives in austin. And i don’t even know why he was thanking me, but he gave me this little field notebook and it’s the perfect size it’s about phone sizes, let me ask you, you have co authored or contributed to five books by my count, when you’re going to do one on your own? Yeah, i’m hopeful that maybe that one is next, okay? And then there’s none of the like, you know, trying to interpret someone else’s edits like, for better or for worse, i could just come out of my brain and we’ll see what happens. It will be very, very much better. We’re looking forward to the solo effort, but we’ll celebrate your book coming up. In fact, i’m going to you’re going to one of your book launch events, which we’ll talk about later on act for the end later this month for those who are in the new york city area, but right now we’ll talk about pinterest and and slideshare um, how did these how do these fit into social change and social engagement? Well, i think that they’re really great examples of platforms that actually have tons of use, but organizations haven’t, for the most part translated how individuals air using that tool to how they as an organization would use it. You know, facebook’s pretty straightforward, you have an individual profile, you have an organizational page like you know, how to get started. But with these tools where there’s there’s, no difference between who the the user profile is, organizations are a little bit more, you know, without boundaries, there’s too many options, so they don’t really know how to engage. But organizations that have tried or are using the tools in part of their content strategy are really seen engagement there. I don’t know which one you want to talk about for just let’s talk about why don’t you explain what pinterest is? Because maybe so little known to some people that they don’t even know that exactly what it is? Sure, so pinterest is free to use social platform just like facebook or anything else where it is free to use, but that means you are than the product on and it’s very visual driven so it’s all about collecting on a pin board that’s virtual, just like you would maybe, you know, in your office pictures, recipes, anything on the web so whenever you pull in a block post, whatever images associated that block post would be actually what people see on your board, they wouldn’t see the block video also yet exactly. I have a pin board for women leaders of non-profits excellent on video, but it’s video zoho contributor of them speaking so just a quaint listeners that video can be as well. And then what you’ll see on that pin board if it’s videos would just be a screenshot, right like this still like you would when you had a youtube page and the video isn’t played ok? Yep. On dso you, khun, even though you have this pin board, you can actually have unlimited pin board, so maybe i have a pin board for conferences i want to attend, but then i also have a pin board like the most frequent one i see is recipes that i’m going to cook one day, but i’m never actually gonna cook like that whole sentence isn’t the title, but it’s like recipes and you know this person’s never cooking next i wish list. Recipe list. Exactly. All right. So how are charities? Engaging? Constituents were around around pinterest. Yeah, their organizations have you. Know, as you can imagine, tried different things, short campaigns, longer standing content and something that’s interesting, and i know you have the links to some infographics to share on the block. Pinterest has about eighty percent of that content is repent content. So anyway, you know, if i went to your pinterest board say, if it was the average boring, you know, think about hypothetical i would never i would never dane never squander my precious time with tony’s interest account because of pin boards are so mundane and superficial and dull, but if you if you stumbled on it buy-in accidentally, you clicked on it stumbles away there. Um, eighty percent of the content across pinterest is repent, meaning someone else pendant first, and you’ve just, you know, reposted on your on board, so but like you said, you’re, you’re bored that’s all about interviews with non-profit women leaders, i’m sure that you were the one that did that interview are or were some of the original? Yeah, so they’re going to show up all over pinteresque, but it’s because you were the source and so thinking about that at, like, how much content is shared amongst the platform where is very little of that content for people? Time is spent clicking on things, and i’m going to read websites. You know, i think organizations naturally think, well, this is, you know what has put up a bunch of great images to our website and we’ll drive a bunch of web site traffic, but that’s not the case, people are using the platform within that within the place. Yeah, so eighty percent are re pens? Yeah, that’s enormous. Yeah, do you have a corresponding stat for any buy-in a chance for twitter. How much of twitter is re tweets versus i? I don’t have a twitter for tumbler, which is a more similar platform to pinterest because it’s ah it’s like blogging but it’s much, you know, micro style and it’s about nine out of ten temblor posts are re blogged so it’s very similar in that way where people that are on the platform or just, you know, following each other and finding great things and it’s more a matter of like, i want to have the best curated recipe board versus the on ly recipe board, you know, so it’s it’s much more shared eso organizations are taking advantage of that in different ways. One one example that i really like. Because it’s very clearly aligned with the mission is city of hope, which is an l, a based a hospital research center, etcetera. They have a campaign called mushrooms for hope because mushrooms are shown to have really great health benefits, especially for people at risk of or with cancer. So they have a mushrooms for hope board that’s. All great ways, you know, recipes to use mushrooms, because we know everybody in there. Mom has a recipe board on pinterest. So why not, you know, curate all those different ways to use mushrooms so that people will re share it again in the platform and ultimately it’s, not about them knowing who city of hope is it’s about them eating mushrooms, right? You know, but they’re using that for exposure exact recipe sharing community. Exactly. Here’s a great super great cream of mushroom soup recipe. Right. Very smart. S o just to make it explicit. So people follow your boards, right? People can follow your whole board. They could also follow just you. And then whatever board here pinning tio, they could get those. Notifications or they could just never follow you and find your your pin through someone else, you know, and then see, allow just a great mushroom recipe, you know, and then click through. And actually the original post was was from your account i love those clever ideas that yeah, that shit’s a smart one. Yeah, another example of maybe not a specific example, but a way that, oh, our strategy for charities to engage on pinterest yeah, a different take on that that i i think is on interesting one is n w f national wildlife federation has a campaign for, you know, getting outside and and has a big, like camping go the great outdoor camp. I’m goingto mess up the name of their campaign, but so they have ah, aboard all about that where they’re pinning other people’s content about campaign so it’s not even their content, but again, it’s it’s making those people in the community that are talking about the campaign feel like they’re in the spotlight because this is a board of all those other people talking three national organization has exactly exactly bored or my my my pen? Yeah, exactly. Engagement. Yeah, exactly. Two way street let’s. Talk about slideshare. Sure. Because always shoot. There was something i want to ask you about. Interest. It’s, overwhelmingly women. Yes. I see different statuses. Somewhere, anywhere between two thirds tow. The mashable said maybe it’s this high is ninety seven percent. So somewhere in there, overwhelmingly women. What should we be capitalizing on that? What should we be doing with that? Yeah, i think part of just to address the point, you’re making that all the numbers being a little different. And part of that is if it’s actual user sign ups versus active users and again, different platforms in different data. Analysts consider active user as, like logs in once a month or is on it for an hour a day like which one of those is active, you know? And once you get wherever you fall in that active definition scale that’s where it starts skewing much more women. So actual user accounts are a little bit more typical of social networks, but the active is much more female. Okay on. And so i think organizations can take advantage of that in those are, you know, the examples where two shared but also just remembering that, you know, even like marcia was saying women want to be making the decision of where money goes, women want to be, you know, figuring out the causes that they care about and engaging with them, so figuring out ways that isn’t just, um, you know, a generic call to action for everyone, but you’re figuring out, what are the the women boomers in your community interested in doing? And maybe it has it it’s not, you know, all about city of hope and all about all of the life saving measures and research ugo but it’s about mushrooms, you know, and you like, let that be the thing for them? S o i think really, figuring out who your community is back to some of the stuff we’ve talked about in previous months and then focusing really specifically and letting them either drive that content and you’re just re, you know, you’re collecting that o r just taking their lead? Excellent, we’re goingto take a short break, and when we come back, amy sample ward stays with me, we’re going to talk about slideshare stay with me, too. You’re listening to the talking alternative network. Schnoll 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 conscious people. Be better business people. Dahna 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. Current planetary cycles can either support or challenge your objectives. I’m montgomery taylor. If you would like to explore the help of a private astrological reading, please contact me at monte at monty taylor dot. Com let’s monte m o nt y at monty taylor dot com. Talking alternative radio twenty four hours a day. And you, sample ward, is our eyes, our social media contributor and our social media scientist. I doubled that id number that she’s too modest to say that i did that on dh. We’re talking about slideshare what let’s acquaint listeners. What is slideshare great? So slideshare is ah ah, platform, where you can post content that you want to share and it’s called slideshare because it’s it’s most prominent feature is posting slides like a power point presentation or a slide deck that you would be using in a, you know, at a conference are in a board meeting or whatever for count for mac users, or use kino exactly like, you know. And then i translated over the power point, exactly little little parenthetical for mac users. Or what does whatever google aps calls there? Oh, yeah. Anyway, so that’s that’s, the most dominant features people posting slides and you can find them and review them and share them. But you can also embed them. And so you could post slides from your conference and then on your blogged have them embedded so people, you’re not just having to write out what you said. You khun embed it right there and people can flip through the slides. But what’s great is that you can also use it for all kinds of content. So do you use your organization? Is part of your new campaign launching, you know, with an infographic about why you’re running this campaign? Well, you could upload that info graphic, you know as a pdf or whatever to two slideshare embedded in your block. Have people share it just like they do. Slides and track track the shares that way. Okay, you know, if you wished you could also use that info graphic on pinterest. Exactly. Okay, on dh that and you know that goes for all kinds of other content. Maybe you have a new orientation, you know, to sheet that you give to your volunteers, will. You could post it there and then also post slides that you’re goingto review with them of this is how to be a volunteer for our organisation. This is what we do, this is why we have volunteers. This is what the volunteer job looks like, and that way you could just send them those two links they don’t have to download anything they don’t have to, you know, have have any special software, whether they’re on the phone or they’re you know, on a computer they could read or digest those materials ahead of time, show up and be ready to volunteer, and you don’t have to be emailing large files were about exactly top box or some other bright, just a link exactly. Now i’ve so in a few places slideshare called youtube for slide shows. Yes, it’s not as anyone here is popular as youtube. Well, yeah, definitely not as popular as you tube in that when you look at youtube stats, basically, you would think humans do nothing but watch youtube video that there really is a ridiculous thing. So so slideshare has about three billion views a month, so that’s still sized amglobal yeah, yeah, and and i think something social. Engagement is not just in the numbers, though, right? And i think something that’s interesting as faras actual of what the numbers say is that of all of the different social platforms facebook, youtube, whatever slideshare is foreign away, much more popular amongst business owners, organizational leaders, you know, executive level staff of different kinds of organization. So hyre go ahead. So i was just going to say, you know, if you want to make sure that you spent a lot of time preparing something for some funders that you were going to meet with, you know, you made the slide deck showing them who you are made it really clear the impact you make. Why not post that for free on a platform where other, you know, leaders in the sector could come across your sides and say that’s? Exactly. We’ve been looking for someone like you to partner with exactly, and what i was saying, slideshare is owned by linked in. Yeah. So not surprising that it’s i guess it’s gravitated toward business and you can you can embed slideshare content in your personal yet or your or your organizational linked in page yet? Yep. You khun just connect them on dh from from your linked in profile, and it’ll even just automatically pull in your most recent slides or uploads, you know, if you were doing something else so all a very easy way to embed large what maybe large files? Because especially if you’re doing power point or keynote and you have video and or there’s photos in each slide yeah, very large, you get those very large files other other ways, you know, just ask you generally other ways that charity’s could be using slideshare or other tips that you have for for engaging through slideshare well, i think that the training is really what what i’ve seen organizations do well with most often is there already creating training materials, whether it’s for volunteers, it’s for a certain department, you know, and using slideshare is away too. Put those up there, how’s them for free, you know, think about it like youtube, where even though you’re goingto use that video for your campaign or in your marketing and you’re going to embed that video on your website, you’re still going to post it on youtube so that all that organic traffic that could maybe come across it can still come in. And so posting those materials about, you know, the great things that you’re doing with social media at your organization and here’s, you know, kind of your overviewing training materials than other people that are interested in either your organization or social media in general could find that come to you and say, great, i want to get involved with your efforts, so i think thinking about it as the place you know, like youtube, where you, you how’s the content even though you’re using it elsewhere because you still just get the benefit from the other platform. And as google and other search engines index the the content that’s in your slides, it’s, sort of a wayto ona ona niche because you’re you’re slideshare going too, so dense with key notes that are just i mean, i’m sorry keywords that are necessarily embedded in there because it was part of your part of your presentation. Yeah, way of sort of owning a very narrow niche that your expert well and it’s it’s great for search engine optimization, you know, they’re one of their three highest sources is organic google searches so if i am, you know, working on a proposal for these are the five strategies for ending homelessness in new york city, and i’m pitching this to some thunders, and i want to find you know what? I’m going to start a coalition post it there because if someone else is looking just on a search for how do we end homelessness in new york city? And they get to my presentation now, i’m i’m creating credibility for myself and setting up our organization as the leader on that cause. Any sample ward should membership director at non-profit technology network and ten her new book is social change anytime everywhere, and i am going to a february twenty eighth book launch at five thirty at, which is at the planned parenthood federation quarters. You want to say a little about how people can can attend that if they’re if they’re in the new york city area? Yes, i think if you go to social change any time dot eventbrite, dot com something i will come. We started your blogged way started any sample ward dot or yes, i will put it up there. It’s not up there now, okay? Or put it. On the show’s facebook page, facebook page and lengthen group grayce forget linked in okay, yes, but that happens to be on february twenty eighth at five thirty, yes, and we’ll have books to sell but also will be doing a presentation just about ten, really tactical tips that people can take away from it, too. I’m gonna be there. I’m gonna see how many other people think you’re the social media scientists like i do think, of course, thanks for having me pleasure, my thanks also to martius to panic. More live listener love philadelphia p a you joined us a little bit late, but welcome next week. J love, ceo of bloomerang we’re going talk about donorsearch tension, you know that it’s, much cheaper and easier to keep a donor than to replace one j love has insights to help you, and that might actually have something to do with engagement using the social networks. Somebody should write a book about that and maria semple, the prospect finder and our prospect research contributor, returns she’s our doi n of dirt cheap and next week maria has to free sites to help you get serious with prospect research natural. You’re gonna have to listen and a reward we’re listening this long, and staying at the podcast is far i’m giving away two, three hundred forty nine dollars one year subscriptions to the atlas of giving remember rob mitchell was on a couple of weeks ago atlas of giving you khun benchmark your own giving get custom reports through this three hundred forty nine dollars value. One live listener one podcast right now live listener go to pick a platform, but i’m on facebook go to facebook! Go to the shows, facebook page and post i’m listening live to non-profit radio first person who does that on the facebook page gets one these three hundred forty nine dollars subscriptions and first podcast listener who does that? Also on facebook? I’m listening to the podcast of non-profit radio you will also win. Our creative producer was claire meyerhoff. Sam liebowitz is our line producer shows social media is by regina walton of organic social media and the remote producer of tony martignetti non-profit radio is john federico of the new rules. I hope you’ll be with me next friday one to two p m eastern at talking alternative dot com finding things to getting ding, ding, ding ding. You’re listening to the talking, alternate network waiting to get in. Duitz nothing. You could hi, i’m donna, and i’m done were certified mediators, and i am a family and couples licensed therapists and author of please don’t buy me ice cream are show new beginnings is about helping you and your family recover financially and emotionally and start the beginning of your life will answer your questions on divorce, family court, co parenting, personal development, new relationships, blending families and more dahna and i will bring you to a place of empowerment and belief that even though marriages may end, families are forever join us every monday, starting september tenth at ten a m on talking alternative dot com are you suffering from aches and pains? Has traditional medicine let you down? Are you tired of taking toxic medications? Then come to the double diamond wellness center and learn how our natural methods can help you, too? He’ll call us now at to one to seven to one eight one eight three that’s two one two seven to one eight, one eight, three or find us on the web at www dot double diamond wellness dot com way look forward to serving you! You’re listening to talking alt-right network at www. Dot talking alternative dot com, now broadcasting twenty four hours a day. This is tony martignetti aptly named host of tony martignetti non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent technology fund-raising compliance, social media, small and medium non-profits have needs in all these areas. My guests are expert in all these areas and mohr. Tony martignetti non-profit radio fridays, one to two eastern on talking alternative broadcasting are you fed up with talking points, rhetoric everywhere you turn left or right? Spin ideology no reality, in fact, its ideology over in tow no more it’s time. Join me, larry shop a neo-sage tuesday nights nine to eleven easter for the isaac tower radio in the ivory tower. We’ll discuss what you’re born you society, politics, business and family it’s provocative talk for the realist and the skeptic who want to know what’s really going on? What does it mean? What can be done about it? So gain special access to the ivory tower. Listen to me very sharp your neo-sage tuesday nights nine to eleven new york time go to ivory tower radio dot com for details. That’s, ivory tower radio dot com e every time i was a great place to visit for both entertainment and education. Listening. Tuesday nights nine to eleven. It will make you smarter. Told you.

Nonprofit Radio for June 8, 2012: Got Women Donors? and Lovin’ LinkedIn for Prospect Research

Big Nonprofit Ideas for the Other 95%

This is a rebroadcast of Nonprofit Radio from August 12, 2011.

Listen live or archive:

Tony’s Guests:

Travis Fraser
Michele Walsh & Travis Fraser: Got Women Donors?

From the Fund Raising Day conference in NYC in June, we talk about successful initiatives to expand your female donor base through targeted and appropriate cultivation, solicitation and stewardship.

My guests are Michele Walsh from the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and Travis Fraser from United Way of New York City.

 

Maria Semple
Maria Semple: Lovin’ LinkedIn For Prospect Research

Our regular contributor, Maria Semple, The Prospect Finder, is with me to share strategies for using LinkedIn to find people and organizations who can be your next employee, board member, donor or sponsor.
 

 

Here is the link to the podcast: 096: Got Women Donors? & Lovin’ LinkedIn for Prospect Research.


Top Trends. Sound Advice. Lively Conversation.

You’re on the air and on target as I delve into the big issues facing your nonprofit—and your career.

If you have big dreams but an average budget, tune in to Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio.

I interview the best in the business on every topic from board relations, fundraising, social media and compliance, to technology, accounting, volunteer management, finance, marketing and beyond. Always with you in mind.

When and where: Talking Alternative Radio, Fridays, 1-2PM Eastern

Sign-up for show alerts!
View Full Transcript


Transcript for 095_tony_martignetti_nonprofit_radio_20120608.mp3

Processed on: 2018-11-11T22:50:54.916Z
S3 bucket containing transcription results: transcript.results
Link to bucket: s3.console.aws.amazon.com/s3/buckets/transcript.results
Path to JSON: 2012…06…095_tony_martignetti_nonprofit_radio_20120608.mp3.263854387.json
Path to text: transcripts/2012/06/095_tony_martignetti_nonprofit_radio_20120608.txt

Welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio on friday, august twelfth. I’m your aptly named host tony martignetti hope you were with me last week when it was wild woman fund-raising i had mazarene treyz consultant and author of the wild woman’s guide to fund-raising she was with me for the full hour to share her thoughts about career social media grants, manship and mohr. We did our live first tweeting last week, and we’re going to keep that up this week when it is got women donors from the fund-raising day conference in new york city this past june, we talk about successful initiatives to expand your female donor base through targeted and appropriate cultivation, solicitation and stewardship. My guests are michelle walsh from the us fund for unicef and travis fraser from united way of new york city second half of the show linked in for prospect research i’ll be joined by our new regular contributor maria simple the prospect find her, she’ll be sharing strategies for using linked in to find people and organizations who could be your employees boardmember sze volunteers and donors. As i said, we’ll be live tweeting this week the hashtag is non-profit radio we’ll take a break, and then we’ll start with god. Women donors you’re listening to the talking alternative network. Neo-sage you suffering from aches and pains? Has traditional medicine let you down? Are you tired of taking toxic medications, then come to the double diamond wellness center and learn how our natural methods can help you to hell? Call us now at to one to seven to one eight, one eight three that’s to one to seven to one eight one eight three or find us on the web at www dot double diamond wellness dot com way. Look forward to serving you. Is your marriage in trouble? Are you considering divorce? Hello, i’m lawrence bloom, a family law attorney in new york and new jersey. No one is happier than the day their divorce is final. My firm can help you. We take the nasty out of the divorce process and make people happy. Police call a set to one, two, nine six four three five zero two for a free consultation. That’s a lawrence h bloom two, one, two, nine, six, four, three, five zero two. We make people happy. Zoho hey, all you crazy listeners looking to boost your business? Why not advertise on talking alternative with very reasonable rates? Interested simply email at info at talking alternative dot com durney durney welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of fund-raising day two thousand eleven at the marriott marquis in times square in new york city. My guests now are travis fraser and michelle walsh. Travis is director of mate gif ts for united way of new york city and michelle walsh’s, director of leadership gif ts for the united states fund for unicef. Welcome, thank you, thanks pleasure to have you, they’re seminar topic is success stories got women donors, and so we’re all about talking about female donors. Michelle, why are female donors important? Why are the important they’re important? Yeah, i mean, if you look at research even to start, which is where we were talking earlier today, it’s, they’re making up a larger part of the e-giving population than ever before. So i was just referencing an article earlier where in two thousand five was the first year that the irs had records that women were actually out giving men as a whole. I think it was sametz twenty one billion as compared with about sixteen or seventeen billion so and that’s already, you know, six years old at this point, but they have huge giving power and very often that they make their decisions differently, and we need to be aware of that and that they also are motivated differently, so i think they’re important because they do give and when they do give, they tend to mobilize people, so not only did they give their own funds, but they’re also generating additional support very often and travis. Of course, in the upper ages, women survive men on average, yes, moflow closer tonight. So? So if we’re talking about deferred or planned gift, women become critical because typically they’re inheriting their husbands, their husbands, states or a portion of yeah, yes, that’s that’s true, we don’t deal a lot with plant giving within our women’s group, and i think as our core group of members ages and we start looking broadening, i guess t younger populations, we might start making plans with four plan giving with them, but because of how we’re able to engage them and draw them closer to the organization, they really i thing translate into perfect prospects for for major get for plant gifts in the future. So, michelle, you mentioned different donor motivations women versus men. What are some of the differences that you see? I think that women as a whole, obviously only one particular woman relies right, but that if you look at women as a whole, very often they’re motivated by things that they can connect with and be involved with, so they’re motivated by family, they’re motivated by making a difference. We’ve noticed that it’s not usually being on a donor list or being on a donor wall, they also want to be a part of a community that’s doing something that has results so there really is a motivation about doing. Good in the world and what? What? That accomplishment iss okay, and how do you find that different than than the male donor? I think that it’s not as driven in terms of the connection. So seeing something and seeing what it’s doing hasn’t been as much of a motivator for men in that same when you can have more of ah here’s here’s the information this is what it’s going to do? Of course they want to know what the results are but it’s not as much of a desire to be engaged in the process. Okay, yeah, michelle, your work does include working with older donors seventies and eighties women in those ages. I would say that it’s across the board. So we’re looking at ultra high net worth individuals and that’s really are deciding factor. There are certainly maura’s. You get up towards those hyre age groups of people that have accumulated that type of wealth. I think you spoke earlier with some of my colleagues who were talking about the younger generation twenty one to forty, right? And so we’re looking, really hoping towards getting most of the people to million dollar giver is a leadership. Gifts for us is one hundred thousand, but if we’re looking at that group, they are going to be, you know, tend towards the older end of it, but the representation of what portion of that is seventy to eighty, you know, i wouldn’t know off the top of my head, but there are certainly some people in there that would be in that age group, okay? And when you’re dealing with women of that age, i’m trying to focus. We’re talking about dahna motivations what’s your experience with when the husband was the primary donor on dh he’s, now deceased, you’re going to the you’re going to the surviving wife, what’s your experience around their willingness to teo continue to give, i think i mean it’s so individual if they’re very defined and what they’re giving is it’s, you know, very often on lee really about honoring someone’s memory, but if in order to engage them personally is the only way that i think that you’ll be able to get to that larger gift on dh to be able to do that, we’ve had it in a couple of instances, but getting back to even what the data is. Is that women are making more of the decisions while they’re alive. We know, with the married spouses well, i think travis actually was talking about what i was yeah, yeah, don’t you want to, travis? I mean, there there have been some recent studies out that are really showing that women are making about eighty percent of all of the sort of household financial decisions, whether that be philanthropic decisions, just what they buy, what goes into the household there there really the decision makers and i i feel like as fundraisers, we’ve really been led to believe that they are making it in tandem as a couple on dh in some cases that’s, true, but what we’re really finding through some new donorsearch audis that that is that the female is thie number one sort of decider in that position, okay, even when do we know if that applies? Even when the the husband is the person with the primary relationship to the organization, you know, i’m not sure that it goes that the research goes that deep. Um and i think that anytime you have any part of a couple that’s, the primary relationship, you sort of deal with that primary relationship, but also tried to to engage the other spouse in any way that you can with the work because you really want to see that couple as, ah, holistic entity, you know, it’s it’s, not just one person, yeah, excellent and applies all the more if, if the if the husband is the primary relationship, you certainly do want to bring the wife in because, on average, she’s going to be surviving her husband? Yeah, yeah, you know, and i have to say that being at united way were somewhat unique because a lot of our donors give through workplace campaign, so we’re really dealing with one half of the couple we’re really dealing with the female leadership donor xero followers, or mohr and electing to do that through payroll deduction. So it’s really her decision of what she’s doing with her paycheck? So it really involves her more and what she’s interested in and getting into. I sort of heard interest areas, so that has been very interesting for us, especially in trying to branch out and look towards more individual donors who aren’t sitting in the workplace and developing strategies to get to those people on dh and people that are part of a couple and engaging both of them in the work that we’re doing and we’ve definitely found that. So you know, a number of our male board members and with our particular woman in philanthropy initiative it’s been female board members who have led the charge, but a couple of male board members who have really founded a great opportunity and excuse to engage their wives without them. S so where they’re not just dragging them along to an event that they’re like that’s your cause, but that they’re able teo to feel and ask the questions that they want to ask. Without that, what do you call it? A arm, candy or whatever, however you want to call it in either direction, but that there’s no one there to hold them back or push them forward to engage and it’s been a really good opportunity for us to have some good open conversations with the spouse without the key driver, the ky connection president, they didn’t think dick tooting getting ding, ding, ding ding you’re listening to the talking alternate network e-giving e-giving cubine. 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 conscious people. Be better business people. Dahna looking to meet mr or mrs right, but still haven’t found the one. Want to make your current relationship as filling as possible? Then please tune in on mondays at ten am for love in the morning with marnie allison as a professional matchmaker, i’ve seen it all. Tune in as we discuss dating, relationships and more. Start your week off, right with love in the morning with marnie gal ilsen on talking alternative dot com hey! Are you feeling overwhelmed in the current chaos of our changing times? A deeper understanding of authentic astrology can uncover solutions in every area of life. After all, metaphysics is just quantum physics, politically expressed, i and montgomery taylor and i offer lectures, seminars and private consultations. For more information, contact me at monte m o nt y at r l j media. Dot com talking alternative radio twenty four hours a day. Oppcoll zoho do either of you or maybe both of you work around getting volunteer engagement from from females? Is that a part of your work? Or was it all just related to financial giving? Our entire program is volunteer related thie group that i manage is called women united in philanthropy on dh it is managed by a group of volunteers who come in volunteers steering committee that really charts the course of everything that that does so how do you start to get people engaged in that volunteer steering committee? Well, it really has been through the work of other steering committee members, we’ve been around for nine years, and this is a women’s this women’s group. Yes, it started from a conversation we were challenged by a female donor, two who asked us what we were doing to engage female donors, and we didn’t really have an answer for her. So we had a female boardmember who was very interested in getting to an answer. So she opened her home. We took a look at our lists of donors and sent out invitations to a number of our female donors to come together for a round table conversation and what came out of that conversation was very core group of dedicated women who really wanted to build something, and from that, we’ve been able to build a program that really engages women in the topic area that we’re raising money for, which is youth empowerment, and we are able to really talk about the issues that were that that we’re working towards. We give them opportunities to volunteer in the programs to see their dollars at work. Andi have educational forums that bring together some some thought leaders in the areas of education and health so that they really feel like they’re a part of the philanthropic process and that’s really what we tried to do to engage our female donors. Travis foster fraser sorry is a director of major gifts for united way of new york city and michelle walsh’s, director of leadership gif ts for united states fund for unicef and you’re listening to tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of fund-raising day two thousand eleven earlier, i said next-gen charity because we were because michelle, when we’re talking about a twenty one to forties it’s next-gen so it got me saying next-gen which way also be at the nextgencharity conference, but today we’re not they weren’t fund-raising day two thousand eleven, travis, do you see a difference in the willingness of male donors versus female in terms of the the time commitment, willingness to spend time? You know, i think that’s an interesting question, and, you know, i a lot of my work is with our our female group, but also with our young professionals group, okay? And i would say that in our young professionals group there’s really not that discrepancy between the amount of time to volunteer, the males and females of that generation are really wanted to eat together, and i would say that with with people that i’m working with on the women’s group there it is a little bit easier to get women out to volunteer opportunities because i think they just really want to see there the work in the fields, and and i think a lot of times, men, i can take it from you as the fundraiser to hear about what their work is doing. Our work is doing it. Michelle, do you see a difference between men and women in terms of their their desire for understanding outcomes? And what the impact of their gift is, is there a difference across the genders there? There probably is i think that women are often underestimated and their willingness to really want to do dig into the data and the financials and all of those pieces. And of course, if your stereo tell you, you know that they wouldn’t get it or that they don’t want to really spend time with a balance sheet or that they’re more emotionally driven or whatever the some of the negative stereotypes are on. Some of them were positive, but does though, right? But i think that women do want to understand what what the back end thinking is, and particularly as you deal with the higher end givers and the more sophisticated philanthropists, they know what they’re looking for, and there are certain delivery bols that they expect, and there are certain organizational structures they expect to be in place with their financial or otherwise, and they ask those questions, and they think very seriously about where they’re going to give their money, you know you’re going through, i can piggyback on that, you know, we have a group of our committee that comes in and meets with our program’s staff to really talk about what they’re doing and and what the investment that women united has made in united way is really is doing, and they ask the toughest questions they want to know exactly what the budget is. They want to know what the money is being spent on, and i think that that is the thinking that you were alluding to earlier is completely backwards. I think they really want to understand the entire issues they want from from costs of services to then what the services are actually doing, that they really want the whole full, holistic three sixty view of initiative. Michelle, you’re experienced. Yeah, and i would say that we’ve sound found more different is between sectors and where people worker identify themselves and professional sectors than male female. So, you know, sort of the hedge fund circle has a certain way of thinking about a problem, and they’ll come at you with a set of questions that are almost predictable, and lawyers have a certain way of approaching it more so than a cross gender lines. I’m not going to ask you to comment on your own individual situation is that united way or united states fund for your staff? Generally, do you see women adequately represent went on boards? So from where i said, i think there’s a couple of key pieces, one is that our ceo is an amazing female leader, and that has really set the tone and a lot of ways for not only supporting our initiative with women philanthropists but inboard leadership. So the four, therefore women, all board members, that air chairing our women in philanthropy initiative and the strategy around engaging ultra high net worth individuals to support the u s from for unicef, and they have all stepped up phenomenally, and i think it’s been critical in having those female representatives on the volunteer level onboard leadership roles, and they represent really influential rose rolls and the rest of their lives, and they’ve brought that to bear on this effort. It’s been absolutely critical about your travis do you worry about again? Not necessarily united way, but do you worry about there being inadequate representation of women on boards? I think there’s there’s more work that needs to be done, but i think that a lot of organizations are realizing that women make very, very strong boardmember is there much more thoughtful about the issues? They really want to understand the full picture of what is going on, and they don’t just sort of make those knee jerk reactions that sounds like an ideal boardmember and and, you know, i can say for the united way system, we recently did a survey of the one hundred and twenty different women’s leadership groups that united way has across our system, and what we have found, which is astounding, is that from the year two thousand seven to two thousand nine, which had the huge financial meltdown united ways that had boards with that were made up of thirty percent or more female participation, their women’s group grew about twenty eight percent in fund-raising and fund-raising and dollars contributed just versus those united ways that had less than thirty percent makeup of women on their board grew their fund-raising grew one percent. So really shows the power i think, of women to really come together, rally around a cause and get people to contribute at very, very critical times, i have to say credit to the person who thought toe look att that variable female representation on the board that’s not that’s, not a very and its outcome in fund-raising that’s, not by any means a typical variable that you would see and look at the outcome of the correlation with interesting let’s. See michele, in terms of let’s, talk a little about, like nuts and bolts. I don’t want to spend a whole lot of time on soliciting women, but we’ll spend a couple of minutes you have advice that’s particular to women about asking, you know, your your work is an ultra high net worth but not necessary, you know, generally soliciting women advice? I don’t think it’s any different than soliciting a man because i mean ideally still stations at that level happened face-to-face one on one and it’s doing good fund-raising and reading people’s faces and listening to the cues and paying attention to what they’re interested in and compassionate about or passionate about. Rather, i think in that regard, it’s all the same, some of the messaging and the way that we engage them leading up to that is where the differences okay and that’s, the stuff we’ve been talking about. Exactly travis, how about for you closing thoughts, i think, really, the only thing that i would add is just making sure that there is a really good next step for them to be involved in a substantive way beyond writing the check, whether that is taking them out on a program visit to go see see the work, whether they they’re volunteering at a school, whatever it is, just make sure that there there’s a really solid next up for them to get involved because they really want to get involved, okay? I just realized we have a lot more time than i than i thought you’ve done yourself. You had your seminar already today or it’s coming up, we had any provocative questions from the audience that you want to share around the subject. We’re interesting, yeah, i was talking to some of my colleagues and some of the other sessions and comparing notes on questions, and i think the one that i heard that came up in all the questions was sort of how to say no, no to a gift, no to the wrong gift or no to a donor who wants to direct very specifically, in a way, that’s. Not in line or give them right. They want to make a decision. That’s not really their decision to make and navigating that. What was your what was? Did you have that in your session or what? Wait. Okay. I know. I mean, i have one of the most important things. Is the fundraisers to know when to say no? And how does they know? And it’s? Not always easy and not everyone’s. Good at saying no, but giving people what we talked about is creating option so people feel like they’ve made it legitimate choice, but not beyond what your realm of possibilities are. So a multiple choice question as opposed to an open ended question where people can say, this is really what i want to dio bye still not creating the program from scratch and tweaking the little details, but giving them real opportunity to be a part of the experience as well the experience of of whatever the program is. So if it’s, you know, for us, it’s obviously in the field and international development. But, you know, even if it’s the question came from someone who was working in parks, even if it’s a parks project making them a part of how that plays out. How about you, travis? Any questions that came up in your program that you want to share one? Well, i think that that my group is able to direct the money at the end of the year that they raise, and that can create a lot of nervousness, i think, among program staff and really, you know, and i know it’s something that unicef does as well, we don’t just open it up and say, okay, you’ve got this big pot of money, where do you want to put it? You know, we we really bring them in so that they can meet with our program staff and give them sort of a menu of options of where we think they could have the most impact and take it from there because we’ve really been able to develop relationships where they understand that we’re going to give them what we think is bad that’s for the organization as a choice, and it really allows them to feel like they’re making a choice and have an investment in what we’re doing. But then, at the end of the day, we get what we need you at the same time, so the organization obviously has a role in setting expectations, managing expectations, sort of, and michelle is, you suggested the multiple choice question, constraining things so that people are not out out in left field success stories got women donors as thie seminar topic for travis frazer, director of major gif ts for united way of new york city, and michelle walsh, director of leadership gif ts for united states fund for unicef, travis michelle, thank you very much for joining me, thinking it’s been a pleasure to have you. This is tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of fund-raising day two thousand eleven. That was my pre recorded interview from fund-raising day last june in new york city. Now we’ll take a break after the break. Tony’s, take two, and then, after that, linked in for prospect research, so stay with me. Talking alternative radio twenty four hours a day. 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 hunters. People be better business people. Dahna this is tony martignetti athlete named host of tony martignetti non-profit radio non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent technology fund-raising compliance, social media, small and medium non-profits have needs in all these areas. My guests are expert in all these areas and mohr. Tony martignetti non-profit radio friday’s one to two eastern on talking alternative broadcasting do you want to enhance your company’s web presence with an eye catching and unique website design? Would you like to incorporate professional video marketing or mobile marketing into your organization’s marketing campaign? Mission one on one media offers a unique marketing experience that will set you apart from your competitors, magnify your brand exposure and enhance your current marketing efforts. Their services include video production and editing, web design, graphic design, photography, social media management and now, introducing mobile market. Their motto is way. Do whatever it takes to make our clients happy. Contact them today. Admission one one media dot com. Talking. Welcome back to the joe it’s time for tony’s take too, but first a reminder that we are live tweeting today, the hashtag is non-profit radio please join the conversation on twitter on tony’s take two this week. My block post is a test of google plus for your non-profit i was interviewed by new york enterprise report for an article on using google plus in small business, and i thought my ideas might help you to evaluate google plus for your non-profit now, of course, caveat, i’m not a social media guru expert thought leader, a small business owner. And so with that caveat, i’ll tell you what i’m doing with google plus and how i’m evaluating it, and you can see if that makes sense for your office or not. I’m really looking at the people who become my friends on google plus and the features that it ends up offering for the business profile pages, which is, you know we know them in facebook as a fan page. Google plus doesn’t have business profiles yet, but we all expect him to be coming, and google says they are coming within the next couple of months, so i’m going to be interested in who the people are, who joined me on google plus either because i invite them or they’re inviting me if they’re the same as the people i know on facebook, i’m probably going to be less likely to spend a lot of time, you know, keeping up a very active profile page on google. Plus, i would certainly have one, but how much time i devote to it is really what the issue would be on the same thing with the features. If it’s pretty much the same features as a facebook fan page, then i don’t really see advantage, but if it has some things that i’m looking for that i don’t see in facebook like for me, it’s ah good calenda ring application and a good, solid polling application like we can do in surveymonkey but built in facebook doesn’t have those things and it has polling, but not really a strong one, so if it has good features, i’ll be again more likely toe spend more time keeping a very active business profile page on google plus, so those are my ideas around evaluating whether to do that for my business, i don’t know if that’s of value to you, it might be in looking at google plus for your small non-profit um, you can see more detail about that on my block at m p g a d v dot com, and that is tony’s take two for friday, august twelfth with me now is maria simple. Maria is our newest regular contributor to the show. She’ll be on once a month. She is the prospect finder. Maria is an experienced trainer and speaker on prospect research and consults with organizations interested in finding and connecting with their best prospects for long term relationships. Her website is the prospect finder dot com, and i’m really pleased to welcome maria to the show. Welcome, maria, thanks so much. I’m delighted to be here. It’s a real pleasure to have you were going to be talking about linked in today. Lincoln has some new initiative for non-profits you want to explain what what’s up there? Yeah, absolutely so what’s kind of interesting about it is that linked in a little earlier this year, actually in may, haddon i po and so now they are actually deciding they’re going to dedicate some resource is in terms of against money, but as well as human resource is to the non profit sector now on ideo aipo means means what jargon jail mary-jo actually started issuing stock, they became a public company, so initial public offense and they actually launched something called lincoln non-profits solutions, and so what they’ve decided is that they have three point six million individual members who actually identify themselves as either employees or board members of a non-profit so they realize that there’s a tremendous amount of potential to help the nonprofit sector and they are actually i’m going to be helping people they back, they’ve launched a page called learned dot lincoln dot com forward slash non-profits, where they actually give the non-profits both as non-profit professionals, but also as organization’s best practices on tips and tools for how to make the most out of the lincoln for non-profit so they’re looking at both individuals and organizations, you say, and that that three point six million, i’m sure there are a lot more than that because there are one hundred million linkedin users, isn’t that right? Yes. So, yes, you are. But you know, what kind of interesting is that? They somehow been able to identify that there, there are, you know, the three point six million who are somehow connected to the non profit sector, right? Because i’m sure, based on keywords in their profile or just the way they what they identify their employer as, but i’m sure that’s low. I’m sure there are more than three point three and a half percent of the lincoln community working for non-profits but so maybe this initiative will will draw out some more. But even with that three point six million, yes, so they have this the the u r l you gave that’s the learning center, right? Yes. That’s correct. They have a specific learning center set up now for the nonprofit sector. And when you’re on that page, if you scroll all the way to the bottom, they actually have a contact a cab. So their interest sted in hearing from non-profits selves non-profit professionals and organizations and board members as to how lincoln can best serve the specter. So they are open to feedback at this point in their formulating this as they go along and you spoke with someone who’s in charge of this non-profit initiative. That lengthened in you? Yes. Somebody who has recently joined linked in his name is brian breckenridge. And he is heading up the new program there. And he’s, you know, he’s very excited and he’s very open to learning from the nonprofit sector. About what, how they convinced serve the non-profits and so since you had a spoke to him recently, any inside track about what we might be seeing the into the future? Well, i don’t have any specifics to share with you, but i do know that they are planning some interesting changes, hopefully that they’re rolling out in the next, you know, in the next couple of months so it’s, you know, they’re they’re formulating this, they’re looking, they’re taking in and looking for feedback at this point and anything that they can do the best help a non-profit sector they’re looking for that feedback at this time, and then they’ll be looking to roll out some new initiatives, i think okay, and you see value in the lincoln non-profit solutions for prospect research. Absolutely i do, you realise linked in for prospect research and for prospecting. So i utilize it in both, eh? Proactive sense as well, as in a reactive okay, let’s distinguish between prospect research and prospecting. What do you mean, weird? When you say those two different things differently? What do you mean by both? By each? Okay, so if i’m doing research on a potential major donor potential boardmember for the for a non-profit and i have the name of that individual lengthen is definitely one of the places that i go to to try and formulate my profile on that individuals. So that is what i would call reactive research. I have the name of someone, and this is one of my tools that i use to do prospect research. Now proactively you, khun, take linked in and use their advance people search feature to find people who might be suitable for your non-profit for connections in a variety of situations, they have a keyword search. You can focus your search down to within a radius of your zip code of where your non-profit is located, you can focus your search down to specific industries, so if you are looking, if you are let’s, take the example of a on environmental group, right let’s say they are looking to connect with more individuals in their community who are involved in some sort of environmental services so they would be able to conduct this search. Now, obviously, when you conduct a search on lincoln, first of all, you have to have your own lincoln personal on dh. This is using the advanced certain advanced search. Is that right? That’s? Correct. Have on the right on the upper right hand side called advance. Okay, you quick, matt. It opens up an entire new search screen that most people haven’t really access, you know, realize it’s there. And the more rich your own network is, the more people you are connected to, the richer the search results will be for you right now. If i were, let me give you two very contrast examples. I actually happen to have over five hundred connections in my lengthen network. So my search results would be drastically different from somebody who is a very new to lincoln and only has a network of, say, twenty, thirty, fifty people. Because you’re always shown how many degrees you’re separated from someone. So the more people i have in my network, greater search results going so so you mean when? You’re doing this advanced search you’re searching all the hundred million people in linked in and it’s telling you which of those are in your first degree, meaning you’re connected to them directly, which are too removed from you, which are three removed from you. Is that what you think you were searching the whole population of linked in? You can. Yes, but you can ask lincoln to just focused down the search results for you to the people you might be first degree connected to second degree or perhaps where you share a group membership. Because there you’re going to be ah, lot closer. You have a lot closer of an affinity and making the one toe one connection may be easier for you. Ok? Suppose you that’s really rich that you can search the whole hundred million. Suppose you find somebody who’s two degrees removed from you and they seem like a very good i don’t know. Maybe maybe we’re provoc betting for board members. Let’s say, for this, for this environmental group that you suggested you see somebody to removed from you. What? Explain what that means. And then how can you try to meet that person? Okay, tony let’s say we come up with let’s say, i do this search and i’m looking for environmental people who and i come up with a guy named oh, i don’t know john smith. And you and i are first degree connected on lengthen that much i know, but let’s say, john smith eyes second degree connected to me through you. That means he is both first degree connected to you. And i am first degree connected to you. So you are the common link between us, right? Ok, so that would mean john is a second degree. So, like those, like those kevin bacon seven degrees from kevin bacon movie. Right? Because he’s been in so many popular movies. Okay, so you can get to him through me, in other words, that’s. Right. So what did you do? How do you do that? Well, lincoln actually provide you with the the there’s a form that you can fill out so that a message would be sent to both john and to you. Looking for that introduction. I could look to be just connect with john directly and say, john, in my my request to connect, i might say john, you and i both know tony. Andi, i think we have a lot in common. I’d love to be able to connect with you here on lincoln. Always modify that that’s that standard introduction that lincoln provides to you never just go ahead and just use the standard intro, you realize those defaults aren’t aren’t very friendly, really there’s really bare bones, but so you’re allowed to your lot to connect with john smith your lot to contact john smith, even though you’re not directly connected to him. That’s correct. I could just send him an invitation to connect and just mention your name in my little intro is toe. Why? I think he and i might want to connect, you know, it’s up to him to accept my connect. Ction request? Sure. Okay, i see what you’re doing it through the request to connect. Okay. I see. On dh. Then the alternative is you could ask me to connect you to him. That’s. Right? I could ask you directly. I could go the old fashioned way. Tony, i could pick up the phone and call you and say, tony, you know, how well do you know john is? This somebody you know very well can you make some sort of a personal introduction even outside of lincoln through an email system. But at least lincoln’s provide you with the opportunity to identify potential boardmember potential donors in very specific sectors. Yes, the phone. You could pick up the phone and do it that way. And that way we don’t have to communicate through linkedin using their default messages or which we would really like. Anyway, i never thought that you could pick up the phone, imagine it could even have lunch and we could talk about it that way. Way. Imagine. See what? See what the web can do. Encourages you to pick up the phone. How do we had we operate without linked in years ago? I don’t know. So let’s, go back to the learning center. Um, yes. So they have. They have suggestions there for individuals and non-profits maria, we have just like a minute before a break. What are a couple of the not for profit? The organizational suggestions on unlinked in. And then after the break, we’re going to detail. Well, you could create a company page at no cost. So corporations, companies. Small businesses are doing this. We i highly recommend that a non-profit create a what they call a company page for their own. Non-profit, and they actually give the example of the american red cross that has attracted thousands of followers on lengthen and so other non-profits may want to check out what they have done. And, you know, look, learn from that and not reinvent the wheel. Ok, well, look att, the company profile and other things. After this break with maria simple, the prospect finder. Stay with us. You’re listening to the talking alternative network. Duitz are you feeling overwhelmed in the current chaos of our changing times? A deeper understanding of authentic astrology can uncover solutions in every area of life. After all, metaphysics is just quantum physics, politically expressed, i and montgomery taylor and i offer lectures, seminars and private consultations. For more information, contact me at monte m o nt y at r l j media. Dot com are you concerned about the future of your business for career? Would you like it all to just be better? Well, the way to do that is to better communication, and the best way to do that is training from the team at improving communications. This is larry sharp, host of the ivory tower radio program and director at improving communications. Does your office needs better leadership, customer service sales, or maybe better writing speaking skills? Could they be better at dealing with confrontation conflicts, touchy subjects all are covered here at improving communications. If you’re in the new york city area, stop by one of our public classes, or get your human resource is in touch with us. The website is improving communications, dot com, that’s, improving communications, dot com, improve your professional environment, be more effective, be happier, and make more money improving communications, that’s the answer. You crazy listeners looking to boost your business? Why not advertise on talking alternative with very reasonable rates? Interested simply email at info at talking alternative dot com lively conversation top trends, sound advice, that’s, tony martignetti non-profit radio and i’m ken berger from charity navigator. Oh! And i’m tony martignetti and i’m with maria simple, the prospect finder we’re talking about using linkedin to find and connect with people who could be boardmember sze donors, employees, volunteers. So, maria, the advice that you were giving before the break is that a new organization could create a ah profile page that’s correct, and i would highly recommend that they do that and the reason tony is and and i’m not suggesting that they should set aside any of their other social media strategies and presences like that they might have on facebook or twitter, but what you want to be able to do here is this is lincoln is the professional network, so you want to be able to, of course, capture the attention of people who are in the business community. You don’t want to exclude this, so this is free, you know, obviously whoever is maintaining your presence on other social media’s would want to be able to set this up and you can upload your logo. You would be able to give a nice description about the organization, provide your website, there’s, even a mapping feature where they tie it right into google maps. So that people will be able to see precisely where your non-profit is located. So, you know, it’s free, and i think that they should take advantage of that. I think the lincoln says there about one hundred thousand non-profits that have company pages, there should be many more that’s, a that’s, a good number, but there should be a lot more. How specifically does this one do they? I mean, how do you create a a company profile or non-profit profile versus creating a personal profile? Well, of course, the help affection of of lincoln is going to be very, very helpful to you, but they also have here they give you some steps on how you might be able to do that right on the non-profit learning center that we talked about earlier, okay? And again, the girl for that is linked in dot com slash forward slash non-profits actually, it starts off with the word learn ellie, are there yet i left. Yes, thank you very much. Learn dot linked in dot com forward slash non-profits thank you. And now groups are very popular and non-profits can create their own non-profits can create their own groups and you couldn’t decide if the group is going to be a closed group, meaning that everybody has to be first approved by some sort of a group moderator thatyou’re going to appoint at your end or it could be an open group. And keep in mind that if it’s an open group, all of the discussions are open and searchable and people can just join the group without any type of moderation. That and what’s the value for having creating your own group after you’ve created your profile. Well, they might. It might be in an interesting way to host certain conversations around specific topics and, uh so they, you know, if you have, if you’re a large enough non-profit and maybe you are hosting even conferences around your specific topic, that is something that you can use the group for if you want to engage people in discussions, much like you might see discussions in other types of groups that people are on on linked in, but it would be very specific to the time of organization that you are in the population that you serve, and after you create the groups than you invite people to join is that how it works. Well, you can’t invite people to join. Yes. You definitely can do that and invite people who are already in your linked in world to join the group. But people are going to be able to find you once you are set up in a group on lengthen. You are now searchable as well. So i remember i was telling you about the search functionality. The groups are a way that people, you know, look for like somebody might look for a live networking group to join. Somebody might be looking for a group around this specific area that you serve. Okay, so yeah. So if your work is for the m r d d community, the mentally retarded, developmentally disabled, you might create a group around the service around dahna discussion around the needs about that for that community in your own communities, you could make it a very localized group. Yes, you can. Some groups are geographically localized as well. But you may not want to limit it to that. I mean, lengthen is a worldwide a phenomenon, if you will. So why not? Why not? Just open it right up and allow people? To tto learn more and you never know where that relationship is going to lead. Okay, um, they also have something called linked in recruiter for for job, for organizations looking for employees, how does that work? So what they’re doing is lincoln does have a recruiting solutions portion, which is a fee based portion to their service that’s kind of steep, isn’t it? Well, yeah, for some non-profits mean, what they’re saying in an article that i read is that they are starting as low as four hundred dollars a month when you could be a little steep saw non-profit but they are, you know, offering these recruiting solutions, if you will, at a discounted price for what they would offer the for-profit world, okay, and that’s, if you’re looking for employees that’s correct, if you look nufer employees, they have they have sort of three separate sections, one is called lincoln recruiter one is called jobs network Job slots and the other 1 is called career pages. Okay, let’s, talk a little bit just in a couple minutes we have left about the offerings for individuals who are in non-profits what what’s the advice that that the learning center gives for individuals. Well, you definitely want to make sure that your profile is as one hundred percent complete as possible. So you want to make sure that your profile itself is rich so that as you go out and try and make connections with people, you will be able tio look like somebody, obviously, that other people really want to connect with that you are a thought leader within your own community, if you will. And so it’s really like a resume on steroids, you know, your opportunity to really shine and stand out from other people, so why not make it that way? Using the status updates, i’s a great way to let people know sharing articles, having to do with sector that you serve if you are a speaker, it’s a great way to let people know where you’ll be speaking, especially as it relates to your subject matter area on dh, especially if you do a lot of speaking on behalf of your non-profit it will let people know where you’re speaking either virtually and webinar format or, you know, live format if people are looking by the way tony and forgot to mention earlier fremery we have just about it, we have just about a minute left. Ok, on the resource is page of my website of the prospect finder dot com i do have a downloadable maria samples top five tips for prospecting with lincoln, so if they’re interested in some general tips about lincoln for themselves on a personal level, this will help them. I think you also learn how to use some of the more advanced features, all right, thank you for sharing that resource page that’s really all the time we have that is maria, said pompel the prospect finder again, you’ll see her at the prospect finder dot com, and she’ll be joining us once a month to talk about her advice for prospect research. Maria, welcome to the show as a regular contributor and thanks for today. Thank you, tony it’s been a pleasure next week, we’re going to lead the leader’s motivating your board to fundraise. Another interview from the fund-raising day conference last june, the consultant, andy robinson and carry kruckel, whose vice president for development and communications at w n tv reveal how to move your board to be the best fundraisers they can be. And the second half of the show explaining earned income are legal contributors jean takagi and emily chan from san francisco. Breakdown what earned income is why it can be good white-collar be bad, why you need to understand it to protect your non-profit and keep it out of trouble that’s what’s coming up next week, you can keep up with with what’s coming up week after week by signing up for our insider email alerts on the facebook page. While you’re there like us and become a fan of the show, please, you can listen to tony martignetti non-profit radio on the device of your choice. Any time you like. By subscribing on itunes getting the automatic download, you’ll find that at non-profit radio dot net on twitter. You can follow me always use the hashtag if you want to talk about the show and the hashtag is non-profit radio on twitter, our creative producer is claire meyerhoff, our line producer and the owner of talking alternative broadcasting his sam liebowitz. Our social media is by regina walton of organic social media. This is tony martignetti non-profit radio. I hope you’ll be with me next friday one to two p, m eastern, on talking alternative broadcasting right here at talking alternative dot com cerini. Do you think that shooting getting dink, dink, dink, dink? You’re listening to the talking alternate network, waiting to get you thinking. Cubine looking to meet mr or mrs right, but still haven’t found the one. Want to make your current relationship as filling as possible? Then please tune in on mondays at ten am for love in the morning with marnie gal ilsen as a professional matchmaker, i’ve seen it all. Tune in as we discuss dating, relationships and more. Start your week off, right with love in the morning with marnie gal ilsen on talking alternative dot com. Are you suffering from aches and pains? Has traditional medicine let you down? Are you tired of taking toxic medications, then come to the double diamond wellness center and learn how our natural methods can help you to hell? Call us now at to one to seven to one eight, one eight three that’s to one to seven to one eight one eight three or find us on the web at www dot double diamond wellness dot com. We look forward to serving you. Are you fed up with talking points, rhetoric everywhere you turn left or right? Spin ideology no reality, in fact, its ideology over in tow, no more it’s time for action. Join me, larry shot a neo-sage tuesday nights nine to eleven easter for isaac tower radio in the ivory tower will discuss what’s important to you society, politics, business and family. It’s provocative talk for the realist and the skeptic who want to go what’s really going on? What does it mean? What can be done about it? So gain special access to the ivory tower. Listen to me. Very sharp. Your neo-sage tuesday nights nine to eleven new york time go to ivory tower radio dot com for details. That’s ivory tower radio dot com every tower is a great place to visit for both entertainment and education listening tuesday nights nine to eleven it will make you smarter. Do you want to enhance your company’s web presence with an eye catching and unique website design? Would you like to incorporate professional video marketing mobile marketing into your organization’s marketing campaign? Mission one on one media offers a unique marketing experience that will set you apart from your competitors magnify your brand exposure and enhance your current marketing effort. Your services include video production and editing, web design, graphic design photography, social media management and now introducing mobile marketing. Their motto is. We do whatever it takes to make our clients happy. Contact them today. Admission. One one media dot com. Talking all calm. Hyre

Nonprofit Radio for August 12, 2011: Got Women Donors? and Lovin’ LinkedIn for Prospect Research

Big Nonprofit Ideas for the Other 95%

You can subscribe on iTunes and listen anytime, anyplace on the device of your choice.

Tony’s Guests:

Travis Fraser
Michele Walsh & Travis Fraser: Got Women Donors?

From the Fund Raising Day conference in NYC in June, we talk about successful initiatives to expand your female donor base through targeted and appropriate cultivation, solicitation and stewardship.

My guests are Michele Walsh from the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and Travis Fraser from United Way of New York City.

 

Maria Semple
Maria Semple: Lovin’ LinkedIn For Prospect Research

Our new regular contributor, Maria Semple, The Prospect Finder, is with me to share strategies for using LinkedIn to find people and organizations who can be your next employee, board member, donor or sponsor.
 

 

Here is the link to the podcast: 054: Got Women Donors? & Lovin’ LinkedIn for Prospect Research.


Top Trends. Sound Advice. Lively Conversation.

You’re on the air and on target as I delve into the big issues facing your nonprofit—and your career.

If you have big dreams but an average budget, tune in to Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio.

I interview the best in the business on every topic from board relations, fundraising, social media and compliance, to technology, accounting, volunteer management, finance, marketing and beyond. Always with you in mind.

When and where: Talking Alternative Radio, Fridays, 1-2PM Eastern

Sign-up for show alerts!
View Full Transcript


Transcript for 054_tony_martignetti_nonprofit_radio_08122011.mp3

Processed on: 2018-11-11T22:44:52.665Z
S3 bucket containing transcription results: transcript.results
Link to bucket: s3.console.aws.amazon.com/s3/buckets/transcript.results
Path to JSON: 2011…08…054_tony_martignetti_nonprofit_radio_08122011.mp3.487503655.json
Path to text: transcripts/2011/08/054_tony_martignetti_nonprofit_radio_08122011.txt

Welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio on friday, august twelfth. I’m your aptly named host tony martignetti hope you were with me last week when it was wild woman fund-raising i had mazarene treyz consultant and author of the wild woman’s guide to fund-raising she was with me for the full hour to share her thoughts about career social media grants, manship and mohr. We did our live first tweeting last week, and we’re going to keep that up this week when it is got women donors from the fund-raising day conference in new york city this past june, we talk about successful initiatives to expand your female donor base through targeted and appropriate cultivation, solicitation and stewardship. My guests are michelle walsh from the us fund for unicef and travis fraser from united way of new york city second half of the show linked in for prospect research i’ll be joined by our new regular contributor maria simple the prospect find her, she’ll be sharing strategies for using linked in to find people and organizations who could be your employees boardmember sze volunteers and donors. As i said, we’ll be live tweeting this week the hashtag is non-profit radio we’ll take a break, and then we’ll start with god. Women donors you’re listening to the talking alternative network. Neo-sage you suffering from aches and pains? Has traditional medicine let you down? Are you tired of taking toxic medications, then come to the double diamond wellness center and learn how our natural methods can help you to hell? Call us now at to one to seven to one eight, one eight three that’s to one to seven to one eight one eight three or find us on the web at www dot double diamond wellness dot com way. Look forward to serving you. Is your marriage in trouble? Are you considering divorce? Hello, i’m lawrence bloom, a family law attorney in new york and new jersey. No one is happier than the day their divorce is final. My firm can help you. We take the nasty out of the divorce process and make people happy. Police call a set to one, two, nine six four three five zero two for a free consultation. That’s a lawrence h bloom two, one, two, nine, six, four, three, five zero two. We make people happy. Zoho hey, all you crazy listeners looking to boost your business? Why not advertise on talking alternative with very reasonable rates? Interested simply email at info at talking alternative dot com durney durney welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of fund-raising day two thousand eleven at the marriott marquis in times square in new york city. My guests now are travis fraser and michelle walsh. Travis is director of mate gif ts for united way of new york city and michelle walsh’s, director of leadership gif ts for the united states fund for unicef. Welcome, thank you, thanks pleasure to have you, they’re seminar topic is success stories got women donors, and so we’re all about talking about female donors. Michelle, why are female donors important? Why are the important they’re important? Yeah, i mean, if you look at research even to start, which is where we were talking earlier today, it’s, they’re making up a larger part of the e-giving population than ever before. So i was just referencing an article earlier where in two thousand five was the first year that the irs had records that women were actually out giving men as a whole. I think it was sametz twenty one billion as compared with about sixteen or seventeen billion so and that’s already, you know, six years old at this point, but they have huge giving power and very often that they make their decisions differently, and we need to be aware of that and that they also are motivated differently, so i think they’re important because they do give and when they do give, they tend to mobilize people, so not only did they give their own funds, but they’re also generating additional support very often and travis. Of course, in the upper ages, women survive men on average, yes, moflow closer tonight. So? So if we’re talking about deferred or planned gift, women become critical because typically they’re inheriting their husbands, their husbands, states or a portion of yeah, yes, that’s that’s true, we don’t deal a lot with plant giving within our women’s group, and i think as our core group of members ages and we start looking broadening, i guess t younger populations, we might start making plans with four plan giving with them, but because of how we’re able to engage them and draw them closer to the organization, they really i thing translate into perfect prospects for for major get for plant gifts in the future. So, michelle, you mentioned different donor motivations women versus men. What are some of the differences that you see? I think that women as a whole, obviously only one particular woman relies right, but that if you look at women as a whole, very often they’re motivated by things that they can connect with and be involved with, so they’re motivated by family, they’re motivated by making a difference. We’ve noticed that it’s not usually being on a donor list or being on a donor wall, they also want to be a part of a community that’s doing something that has results so there really is a motivation about doing. Good in the world and what? What? That accomplishment iss okay, and how do you find that different than than the male donor? I think that it’s not as driven in terms of the connection. So seeing something and seeing what it’s doing hasn’t been as much of a motivator for men in that same when you can have more of ah here’s here’s the information this is what it’s going to do? Of course they want to know what the results are but it’s not as much of a desire to be engaged in the process. Okay, yeah, michelle, your work does include working with older donors seventies and eighties women in those ages. I would say that it’s across the board. So we’re looking at ultra high net worth individuals and that’s really are deciding factor. There are certainly maura’s. You get up towards those hyre age groups of people that have accumulated that type of wealth. I think you spoke earlier with some of my colleagues who were talking about the younger generation twenty one to forty, right? And so we’re looking, really hoping towards getting most of the people to million dollar giver is a leadership. Gifts for us is one hundred thousand, but if we’re looking at that group, they are going to be, you know, tend towards the older end of it, but the representation of what portion of that is seventy to eighty, you know, i wouldn’t know off the top of my head, but there are certainly some people in there that would be in that age group, okay? And when you’re dealing with women of that age, i’m trying to focus. We’re talking about dahna motivations what’s your experience with when the husband was the primary donor on dh he’s, now deceased, you’re going to the you’re going to the surviving wife, what’s your experience around their willingness to teo continue to give, i think i mean it’s so individual if they’re very defined and what they’re giving is it’s, you know, very often on lee really about honoring someone’s memory, but if in order to engage them personally is the only way that i think that you’ll be able to get to that larger gift on dh to be able to do that, we’ve had it in a couple of instances, but getting back to even what the data is. Is that women are making more of the decisions while they’re alive. We know, with the married spouses well, i think travis actually was talking about what i was yeah, yeah, don’t you want to, travis? I mean, there there have been some recent studies out that are really showing that women are making about eighty percent of all of the sort of household financial decisions, whether that be philanthropic decisions, just what they buy, what goes into the household there there really the decision makers and i i feel like as fundraisers, we’ve really been led to believe that they are making it in tandem as a couple on dh in some cases that’s, true, but what we’re really finding through some new donorsearch audis that that is that the female is thie number one sort of decider in that position, okay, even when do we know if that applies? Even when the the husband is the person with the primary relationship to the organization, you know, i’m not sure that it goes that the research goes that deep. Um and i think that anytime you have any part of a couple that’s, the primary relationship, you sort of deal with that primary relationship, but also tried to to engage the other spouse in any way that you can with the work because you really want to see that couple as, ah, holistic entity, you know, it’s it’s, not just one person, yeah, excellent and applies all the more if, if the if the husband is the primary relationship, you certainly do want to bring the wife in because, on average, she’s going to be surviving her husband? Yeah, yeah, you know, and i have to say that being at united way were somewhat unique because a lot of our donors give through workplace campaign, so we’re really dealing with one half of the couple we’re really dealing with the female leadership donor xero followers, or mohr and electing to do that through payroll deduction. So it’s really her decision of what she’s doing with her paycheck? So it really involves her more and what she’s interested in and getting into. I sort of heard interest areas, so that has been very interesting for us, especially in trying to branch out and look towards more individual donors who aren’t sitting in the workplace and developing strategies to get to those people on dh and people that are part of a couple and engaging both of them in the work that we’re doing and we’ve definitely found that. So you know, a number of our male board members and with our particular woman in philanthropy initiative it’s been female board members who have led the charge, but a couple of male board members who have really founded a great opportunity and excuse to engage their wives without them. S so where they’re not just dragging them along to an event that they’re like that’s your cause, but that they’re able teo to feel and ask the questions that they want to ask. Without that, what do you call it? A arm, candy or whatever, however you want to call it in either direction, but that there’s no one there to hold them back or push them forward to engage and it’s been a really good opportunity for us to have some good open conversations with the spouse without the key driver, the ky connection president, they didn’t think dick tooting getting ding, ding, ding ding you’re listening to the talking alternate network e-giving e-giving cubine. 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 conscious people. Be better business people. Dahna looking to meet mr or mrs right, but still haven’t found the one. Want to make your current relationship as filling as possible? Then please tune in on mondays at ten am for love in the morning with marnie allison as a professional matchmaker, i’ve seen it all. Tune in as we discuss dating, relationships and more. Start your week off, right with love in the morning with marnie gal ilsen on talking alternative dot com hey! Are you feeling overwhelmed in the current chaos of our changing times? A deeper understanding of authentic astrology can uncover solutions in every area of life. After all, metaphysics is just quantum physics, politically expressed, i and montgomery taylor and i offer lectures, seminars and private consultations. For more information, contact me at monte m o nt y at r l j media. Dot com talking alternative radio twenty four hours a day. Oppcoll zoho do either of you or maybe both of you work around getting volunteer engagement from from females? Is that a part of your work? Or was it all just related to financial giving? Our entire program is volunteer related thie group that i manage is called women united in philanthropy on dh it is managed by a group of volunteers who come in volunteers steering committee that really charts the course of everything that that does so how do you start to get people engaged in that volunteer steering committee? Well, it really has been through the work of other steering committee members, we’ve been around for nine years, and this is a women’s this women’s group. Yes, it started from a conversation we were challenged by a female donor, two who asked us what we were doing to engage female donors, and we didn’t really have an answer for her. So we had a female boardmember who was very interested in getting to an answer. So she opened her home. We took a look at our lists of donors and sent out invitations to a number of our female donors to come together for a round table conversation and what came out of that conversation was very core group of dedicated women who really wanted to build something, and from that, we’ve been able to build a program that really engages women in the topic area that we’re raising money for, which is youth empowerment, and we are able to really talk about the issues that were that that we’re working towards. We give them opportunities to volunteer in the programs to see their dollars at work. Andi have educational forums that bring together some some thought leaders in the areas of education and health so that they really feel like they’re a part of the philanthropic process and that’s really what we tried to do to engage our female donors. Travis foster fraser sorry is a director of major gifts for united way of new york city and michelle walsh’s, director of leadership gif ts for united states fund for unicef and you’re listening to tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of fund-raising day two thousand eleven earlier, i said next-gen charity because we were because michelle, when we’re talking about a twenty one to forties it’s next-gen so it got me saying next-gen which way also be at the nextgencharity conference, but today we’re not they weren’t fund-raising day two thousand eleven, travis, do you see a difference in the willingness of male donors versus female in terms of the the time commitment, willingness to spend time? You know, i think that’s an interesting question, and, you know, i a lot of my work is with our our female group, but also with our young professionals group, okay? And i would say that in our young professionals group there’s really not that discrepancy between the amount of time to volunteer, the males and females of that generation are really wanted to eat together, and i would say that with with people that i’m working with on the women’s group there it is a little bit easier to get women out to volunteer opportunities because i think they just really want to see there the work in the fields, and and i think a lot of times, men, i can take it from you as the fundraiser to hear about what their work is doing. Our work is doing it. Michelle, do you see a difference between men and women in terms of their their desire for understanding outcomes? And what the impact of their gift is, is there a difference across the genders there? There probably is i think that women are often underestimated and their willingness to really want to do dig into the data and the financials and all of those pieces. And of course, if your stereo tell you, you know that they wouldn’t get it or that they don’t want to really spend time with a balance sheet or that they’re more emotionally driven or whatever the some of the negative stereotypes are on. Some of them were positive, but does though, right? But i think that women do want to understand what what the back end thinking is, and particularly as you deal with the higher end givers and the more sophisticated philanthropists, they know what they’re looking for, and there are certain delivery bols that they expect, and there are certain organizational structures they expect to be in place with their financial or otherwise, and they ask those questions, and they think very seriously about where they’re going to give their money, you know you’re going through, i can piggyback on that, you know, we have a group of our committee that comes in and meets with our program’s staff to really talk about what they’re doing and and what the investment that women united has made in united way is really is doing, and they ask the toughest questions they want to know exactly what the budget is. They want to know what the money is being spent on, and i think that that is the thinking that you were alluding to earlier is completely backwards. I think they really want to understand the entire issues they want from from costs of services to then what the services are actually doing, that they really want the whole full, holistic three sixty view of initiative. Michelle, you’re experienced. Yeah, and i would say that we’ve sound found more different is between sectors and where people worker identify themselves and professional sectors than male female. So, you know, sort of the hedge fund circle has a certain way of thinking about a problem, and they’ll come at you with a set of questions that are almost predictable, and lawyers have a certain way of approaching it more so than a cross gender lines. I’m not going to ask you to comment on your own individual situation is that united way or united states fund for your staff? Generally, do you see women adequately represent went on boards? So from where i said, i think there’s a couple of key pieces, one is that our ceo is an amazing female leader, and that has really set the tone and a lot of ways for not only supporting our initiative with women philanthropists but inboard leadership. So the four, therefore women, all board members, that air chairing our women in philanthropy initiative and the strategy around engaging ultra high net worth individuals to support the u s from for unicef, and they have all stepped up phenomenally, and i think it’s been critical in having those female representatives on the volunteer level onboard leadership roles, and they represent really influential rose rolls and the rest of their lives, and they’ve brought that to bear on this effort. It’s been absolutely critical about your travis do you worry about again? Not necessarily united way, but do you worry about there being inadequate representation of women on boards? I think there’s there’s more work that needs to be done, but i think that a lot of organizations are realizing that women make very, very strong boardmember is there much more thoughtful about the issues? They really want to understand the full picture of what is going on, and they don’t just sort of make those knee jerk reactions that sounds like an ideal boardmember and and, you know, i can say for the united way system, we recently did a survey of the one hundred and twenty different women’s leadership groups that united way has across our system, and what we have found, which is astounding, is that from the year two thousand seven to two thousand nine, which had the huge financial meltdown united ways that had boards with that were made up of thirty percent or more female participation, their women’s group grew about twenty eight percent in fund-raising and fund-raising and dollars contributed just versus those united ways that had less than thirty percent makeup of women on their board grew their fund-raising grew one percent. So really shows the power i think, of women to really come together, rally around a cause and get people to contribute at very, very critical times, i have to say credit to the person who thought toe look att that variable female representation on the board that’s not that’s, not a very and its outcome in fund-raising that’s, not by any means a typical variable that you would see and look at the outcome of the correlation with interesting let’s. See michele, in terms of let’s, talk a little about, like nuts and bolts. I don’t want to spend a whole lot of time on soliciting women, but we’ll spend a couple of minutes you have advice that’s particular to women about asking, you know, your your work is an ultra high net worth but not necessary, you know, generally soliciting women advice? I don’t think it’s any different than soliciting a man because i mean ideally still stations at that level happened face-to-face one on one and it’s doing good fund-raising and reading people’s faces and listening to the cues and paying attention to what they’re interested in and compassionate about or passionate about. Rather, i think in that regard, it’s all the same, some of the messaging and the way that we engage them leading up to that is where the differences okay and that’s, the stuff we’ve been talking about. Exactly travis, how about for you closing thoughts, i think, really, the only thing that i would add is just making sure that there is a really good next step for them to be involved in a substantive way beyond writing the check, whether that is taking them out on a program visit to go see see the work, whether they they’re volunteering at a school, whatever it is, just make sure that there there’s a really solid next up for them to get involved because they really want to get involved, okay? I just realized we have a lot more time than i than i thought you’ve done yourself. You had your seminar already today or it’s coming up, we had any provocative questions from the audience that you want to share around the subject. We’re interesting, yeah, i was talking to some of my colleagues and some of the other sessions and comparing notes on questions, and i think the one that i heard that came up in all the questions was sort of how to say no, no to a gift, no to the wrong gift or no to a donor who wants to direct very specifically, in a way, that’s. Not in line or give them right. They want to make a decision. That’s not really their decision to make and navigating that. What was your what was? Did you have that in your session or what? Wait. Okay. I know. I mean, i have one of the most important things. Is the fundraisers to know when to say no? And how does they know? And it’s? Not always easy and not everyone’s. Good at saying no, but giving people what we talked about is creating option so people feel like they’ve made it legitimate choice, but not beyond what your realm of possibilities are. So a multiple choice question as opposed to an open ended question where people can say, this is really what i want to dio bye still not creating the program from scratch and tweaking the little details, but giving them real opportunity to be a part of the experience as well the experience of of whatever the program is. So if it’s, you know, for us, it’s obviously in the field and international development. But, you know, even if it’s the question came from someone who was working in parks, even if it’s a parks project making them a part of how that plays out. How about you, travis? Any questions that came up in your program that you want to share one? Well, i think that that my group is able to direct the money at the end of the year that they raise, and that can create a lot of nervousness, i think, among program staff and really, you know, and i know it’s something that unicef does as well, we don’t just open it up and say, okay, you’ve got this big pot of money, where do you want to put it? You know, we we really bring them in so that they can meet with our program staff and give them sort of a menu of options of where we think they could have the most impact and take it from there because we’ve really been able to develop relationships where they understand that we’re going to give them what we think is bad that’s for the organization as a choice, and it really allows them to feel like they’re making a choice and have an investment in what we’re doing. But then, at the end of the day, we get what we need you at the same time, so the organization obviously has a role in setting expectations, managing expectations, sort of, and michelle is, you suggested the multiple choice question, constraining things so that people are not out out in left field success stories got women donors as thie seminar topic for travis frazer, director of major gif ts for united way of new york city, and michelle walsh, director of leadership gif ts for united states fund for unicef, travis michelle, thank you very much for joining me, thinking it’s been a pleasure to have you. This is tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of fund-raising day two thousand eleven. That was my pre recorded interview from fund-raising day last june in new york city. Now we’ll take a break after the break. Tony’s, take two, and then, after that, linked in for prospect research, so stay with me. Talking alternative radio twenty four hours a day. 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 hunters. People be better business people. Dahna this is tony martignetti athlete named host of tony martignetti non-profit radio non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent technology fund-raising compliance, social media, small and medium non-profits have needs in all these areas. My guests are expert in all these areas and mohr. Tony martignetti non-profit radio friday’s one to two eastern on talking alternative broadcasting do you want to enhance your company’s web presence with an eye catching and unique website design? Would you like to incorporate professional video marketing or mobile marketing into your organization’s marketing campaign? Mission one on one media offers a unique marketing experience that will set you apart from your competitors, magnify your brand exposure and enhance your current marketing efforts. Their services include video production and editing, web design, graphic design, photography, social media management and now, introducing mobile market. Their motto is way. Do whatever it takes to make our clients happy. Contact them today. Admission one one media dot com. Talking. Welcome back to the joe it’s time for tony’s take too, but first a reminder that we are live tweeting today, the hashtag is non-profit radio please join the conversation on twitter on tony’s take two this week. My block post is a test of google plus for your non-profit i was interviewed by new york enterprise report for an article on using google plus in small business, and i thought my ideas might help you to evaluate google plus for your non-profit now, of course, caveat, i’m not a social media guru expert thought leader, a small business owner. And so with that caveat, i’ll tell you what i’m doing with google plus and how i’m evaluating it, and you can see if that makes sense for your office or not. I’m really looking at the people who become my friends on google plus and the features that it ends up offering for the business profile pages, which is, you know we know them in facebook as a fan page. Google plus doesn’t have business profiles yet, but we all expect him to be coming, and google says they are coming within the next couple of months, so i’m going to be interested in who the people are, who joined me on google plus either because i invite them or they’re inviting me if they’re the same as the people i know on facebook, i’m probably going to be less likely to spend a lot of time, you know, keeping up a very active profile page on google. Plus, i would certainly have one, but how much time i devote to it is really what the issue would be on the same thing with the features. If it’s pretty much the same features as a facebook fan page, then i don’t really see advantage, but if it has some things that i’m looking for that i don’t see in facebook like for me, it’s ah good calenda ring application and a good, solid polling application like we can do in surveymonkey but built in facebook doesn’t have those things and it has polling, but not really a strong one, so if it has good features, i’ll be again more likely toe spend more time keeping a very active business profile page on google plus, so those are my ideas around evaluating whether to do that for my business, i don’t know if that’s of value to you, it might be in looking at google plus for your small non-profit um, you can see more detail about that on my block at m p g a d v dot com, and that is tony’s take two for friday, august twelfth with me now is maria simple. Maria is our newest regular contributor to the show. She’ll be on once a month. She is the prospect finder. Maria is an experienced trainer and speaker on prospect research and consults with organizations interested in finding and connecting with their best prospects for long term relationships. Her website is the prospect finder dot com, and i’m really pleased to welcome maria to the show. Welcome, maria, thanks so much. I’m delighted to be here. It’s a real pleasure to have you were going to be talking about linked in today. Lincoln has some new initiative for non-profits you want to explain what what’s up there? Yeah, absolutely so what’s kind of interesting about it is that linked in a little earlier this year, actually in may, haddon i po and so now they are actually deciding they’re going to dedicate some resource is in terms of against money, but as well as human resource is to the non profit sector now on ideo aipo means means what jargon jail mary-jo actually started issuing stock, they became a public company, so initial public offense and they actually launched something called lincoln non-profits solutions, and so what they’ve decided is that they have three point six million individual members who actually identify themselves as either employees or board members of a non-profit so they realize that there’s a tremendous amount of potential to help the nonprofit sector and they are actually i’m going to be helping people they back, they’ve launched a page called learned dot lincoln dot com forward slash non-profits, where they actually give the non-profits both as non-profit professionals, but also as organization’s best practices on tips and tools for how to make the most out of the lincoln for non-profit so they’re looking at both individuals and organizations, you say, and that that three point six million, i’m sure there are a lot more than that because there are one hundred million linkedin users, isn’t that right? Yes. So, yes, you are. But you know, what kind of interesting is that? They somehow been able to identify that there, there are, you know, the three point six million who are somehow connected to the non profit sector, right? Because i’m sure, based on keywords in their profile or just the way they what they identify their employer as, but i’m sure that’s low. I’m sure there are more than three point three and a half percent of the lincoln community working for non-profits but so maybe this initiative will will draw out some more. But even with that three point six million, yes, so they have this the the u r l you gave that’s the learning center, right? Yes. That’s correct. They have a specific learning center set up now for the nonprofit sector. And when you’re on that page, if you scroll all the way to the bottom, they actually have a contact a cab. So their interest sted in hearing from non-profits selves non-profit professionals and organizations and board members as to how lincoln can best serve the specter. So they are open to feedback at this point in their formulating this as they go along and you spoke with someone who’s in charge of this non-profit initiative. That lengthened in you? Yes. Somebody who has recently joined linked in his name is brian breckenridge. And he is heading up the new program there. And he’s, you know, he’s very excited and he’s very open to learning from the nonprofit sector. About what, how they convinced serve the non-profits and so since you had a spoke to him recently, any inside track about what we might be seeing the into the future? Well, i don’t have any specifics to share with you, but i do know that they are planning some interesting changes, hopefully that they’re rolling out in the next, you know, in the next couple of months so it’s, you know, they’re they’re formulating this, they’re looking, they’re taking in and looking for feedback at this point and anything that they can do the best help a non-profit sector they’re looking for that feedback at this time, and then they’ll be looking to roll out some new initiatives, i think okay, and you see value in the lincoln non-profit solutions for prospect research. Absolutely i do, you realise linked in for prospect research and for prospecting. So i utilize it in both, eh? Proactive sense as well, as in a reactive okay, let’s distinguish between prospect research and prospecting. What do you mean, weird? When you say those two different things differently? What do you mean by both? By each? Okay, so if i’m doing research on a potential major donor potential boardmember for the for a non-profit and i have the name of that individual lengthen is definitely one of the places that i go to to try and formulate my profile on that individuals. So that is what i would call reactive research. I have the name of someone, and this is one of my tools that i use to do prospect research. Now proactively you, khun, take linked in and use their advance people search feature to find people who might be suitable for your non-profit for connections in a variety of situations, they have a keyword search. You can focus your search down to within a radius of your zip code of where your non-profit is located, you can focus your search down to specific industries, so if you are looking, if you are let’s, take the example of a on environmental group, right let’s say they are looking to connect with more individuals in their community who are involved in some sort of environmental services so they would be able to conduct this search. Now, obviously, when you conduct a search on lincoln, first of all, you have to have your own lincoln personal on dh. This is using the advanced certain advanced search. Is that right? That’s? Correct. Have on the right on the upper right hand side called advance. Okay, you quick, matt. It opens up an entire new search screen that most people haven’t really access, you know, realize it’s there. And the more rich your own network is, the more people you are connected to, the richer the search results will be for you right now. If i were, let me give you two very contrast examples. I actually happen to have over five hundred connections in my lengthen network. So my search results would be drastically different from somebody who is a very new to lincoln and only has a network of, say, twenty, thirty, fifty people. Because you’re always shown how many degrees you’re separated from someone. So the more people i have in my network, greater search results going so so you mean when? You’re doing this advanced search you’re searching all the hundred million people in linked in and it’s telling you which of those are in your first degree, meaning you’re connected to them directly, which are too removed from you, which are three removed from you. Is that what you think you were searching the whole population of linked in? You can. Yes, but you can ask lincoln to just focused down the search results for you to the people you might be first degree connected to second degree or perhaps where you share a group membership. Because there you’re going to be ah, lot closer. You have a lot closer of an affinity and making the one toe one connection may be easier for you. Ok? Suppose you that’s really rich that you can search the whole hundred million. Suppose you find somebody who’s two degrees removed from you and they seem like a very good i don’t know. Maybe maybe we’re provoc betting for board members. Let’s say, for this, for this environmental group that you suggested you see somebody to removed from you. What? Explain what that means. And then how can you try to meet that person? Okay, tony let’s say we come up with let’s say, i do this search and i’m looking for environmental people who and i come up with a guy named oh, i don’t know john smith. And you and i are first degree connected on lengthen that much i know, but let’s say, john smith eyes second degree connected to me through you. That means he is both first degree connected to you. And i am first degree connected to you. So you are the common link between us, right? Ok, so that would mean john is a second degree. So, like those, like those kevin bacon seven degrees from kevin bacon movie. Right? Because he’s been in so many popular movies. Okay, so you can get to him through me, in other words, that’s. Right. So what did you do? How do you do that? Well, lincoln actually provide you with the the there’s a form that you can fill out so that a message would be sent to both john and to you. Looking for that introduction. I could look to be just connect with john directly and say, john, in my my request to connect, i might say john, you and i both know tony. Andi, i think we have a lot in common. I’d love to be able to connect with you here on lincoln. Always modify that that’s that standard introduction that lincoln provides to you never just go ahead and just use the standard intro, you realize those defaults aren’t aren’t very friendly, really there’s really bare bones, but so you’re allowed to your lot to connect with john smith your lot to contact john smith, even though you’re not directly connected to him. That’s correct. I could just send him an invitation to connect and just mention your name in my little intro is toe. Why? I think he and i might want to connect, you know, it’s up to him to accept my connect. Ction request? Sure. Okay, i see what you’re doing it through the request to connect. Okay. I see. On dh. Then the alternative is you could ask me to connect you to him. That’s. Right? I could ask you directly. I could go the old fashioned way. Tony, i could pick up the phone and call you and say, tony, you know, how well do you know john is? This somebody you know very well can you make some sort of a personal introduction even outside of lincoln through an email system. But at least lincoln’s provide you with the opportunity to identify potential boardmember potential donors in very specific sectors. Yes, the phone. You could pick up the phone and do it that way. And that way we don’t have to communicate through linkedin using their default messages or which we would really like. Anyway, i never thought that you could pick up the phone, imagine it could even have lunch and we could talk about it that way. Way. Imagine. See what? See what the web can do. Encourages you to pick up the phone. How do we had we operate without linked in years ago? I don’t know. So let’s, go back to the learning center. Um, yes. So they have. They have suggestions there for individuals and non-profits maria, we have just like a minute before a break. What are a couple of the not for profit? The organizational suggestions on unlinked in. And then after the break, we’re going to detail. Well, you could create a company page at no cost. So corporations, companies. Small businesses are doing this. We i highly recommend that a non-profit create a what they call a company page for their own. Non-profit, and they actually give the example of the american red cross that has attracted thousands of followers on lengthen and so other non-profits may want to check out what they have done. And, you know, look, learn from that and not reinvent the wheel. Ok, well, look att, the company profile and other things. After this break with maria simple, the prospect finder. Stay with us. You’re listening to the talking alternative network. Duitz are you feeling overwhelmed in the current chaos of our changing times? A deeper understanding of authentic astrology can uncover solutions in every area of life. After all, metaphysics is just quantum physics, politically expressed, i and montgomery taylor and i offer lectures, seminars and private consultations. For more information, contact me at monte m o nt y at r l j media. Dot com are you concerned about the future of your business for career? Would you like it all to just be better? Well, the way to do that is to better communication, and the best way to do that is training from the team at improving communications. This is larry sharp, host of the ivory tower radio program and director at improving communications. Does your office needs better leadership, customer service sales, or maybe better writing speaking skills? Could they be better at dealing with confrontation conflicts, touchy subjects all are covered here at improving communications. If you’re in the new york city area, stop by one of our public classes, or get your human resource is in touch with us. The website is improving communications, dot com, that’s, improving communications, dot com, improve your professional environment, be more effective, be happier, and make more money improving communications, that’s the answer. You crazy listeners looking to boost your business? Why not advertise on talking alternative with very reasonable rates? Interested simply email at info at talking alternative dot com lively conversation top trends, sound advice, that’s, tony martignetti non-profit radio and i’m ken berger from charity navigator. Oh! And i’m tony martignetti and i’m with maria simple, the prospect finder we’re talking about using linkedin to find and connect with people who could be boardmember sze donors, employees, volunteers. So, maria, the advice that you were giving before the break is that a new organization could create a ah profile page that’s correct, and i would highly recommend that they do that and the reason tony is and and i’m not suggesting that they should set aside any of their other social media strategies and presences like that they might have on facebook or twitter, but what you want to be able to do here is this is lincoln is the professional network, so you want to be able to, of course, capture the attention of people who are in the business community. You don’t want to exclude this, so this is free, you know, obviously whoever is maintaining your presence on other social media’s would want to be able to set this up and you can upload your logo. You would be able to give a nice description about the organization, provide your website, there’s, even a mapping feature where they tie it right into google maps. So that people will be able to see precisely where your non-profit is located. So, you know, it’s free, and i think that they should take advantage of that. I think the lincoln says there about one hundred thousand non-profits that have company pages, there should be many more that’s, a that’s, a good number, but there should be a lot more. How specifically does this one do they? I mean, how do you create a a company profile or non-profit profile versus creating a personal profile? Well, of course, the help affection of of lincoln is going to be very, very helpful to you, but they also have here they give you some steps on how you might be able to do that right on the non-profit learning center that we talked about earlier, okay? And again, the girl for that is linked in dot com slash forward slash non-profits actually, it starts off with the word learn ellie, are there yet i left. Yes, thank you very much. Learn dot linked in dot com forward slash non-profits thank you. And now groups are very popular and non-profits can create their own non-profits can create their own groups and you couldn’t decide if the group is going to be a closed group, meaning that everybody has to be first approved by some sort of a group moderator thatyou’re going to appoint at your end or it could be an open group. And keep in mind that if it’s an open group, all of the discussions are open and searchable and people can just join the group without any type of moderation. That and what’s the value for having creating your own group after you’ve created your profile. Well, they might. It might be in an interesting way to host certain conversations around specific topics and, uh so they, you know, if you have, if you’re a large enough non-profit and maybe you are hosting even conferences around your specific topic, that is something that you can use the group for if you want to engage people in discussions, much like you might see discussions in other types of groups that people are on on linked in, but it would be very specific to the time of organization that you are in the population that you serve, and after you create the groups than you invite people to join is that how it works. Well, you can’t invite people to join. Yes. You definitely can do that and invite people who are already in your linked in world to join the group. But people are going to be able to find you once you are set up in a group on lengthen. You are now searchable as well. So i remember i was telling you about the search functionality. The groups are a way that people, you know, look for like somebody might look for a live networking group to join. Somebody might be looking for a group around this specific area that you serve. Okay, so yeah. So if your work is for the m r d d community, the mentally retarded, developmentally disabled, you might create a group around the service around dahna discussion around the needs about that for that community in your own communities, you could make it a very localized group. Yes, you can. Some groups are geographically localized as well. But you may not want to limit it to that. I mean, lengthen is a worldwide a phenomenon, if you will. So why not? Why not? Just open it right up and allow people? To tto learn more and you never know where that relationship is going to lead. Okay, um, they also have something called linked in recruiter for for job, for organizations looking for employees, how does that work? So what they’re doing is lincoln does have a recruiting solutions portion, which is a fee based portion to their service that’s kind of steep, isn’t it? Well, yeah, for some non-profits mean, what they’re saying in an article that i read is that they are starting as low as four hundred dollars a month when you could be a little steep saw non-profit but they are, you know, offering these recruiting solutions, if you will, at a discounted price for what they would offer the for-profit world, okay, and that’s, if you’re looking for employees that’s correct, if you look nufer employees, they have they have sort of three separate sections, one is called lincoln recruiter one is called jobs network Job slots and the other 1 is called career pages. Okay, let’s, talk a little bit just in a couple minutes we have left about the offerings for individuals who are in non-profits what what’s the advice that that the learning center gives for individuals. Well, you definitely want to make sure that your profile is as one hundred percent complete as possible. So you want to make sure that your profile itself is rich so that as you go out and try and make connections with people, you will be able tio look like somebody, obviously, that other people really want to connect with that you are a thought leader within your own community, if you will. And so it’s really like a resume on steroids, you know, your opportunity to really shine and stand out from other people, so why not make it that way? Using the status updates, i’s a great way to let people know sharing articles, having to do with sector that you serve if you are a speaker, it’s a great way to let people know where you’ll be speaking, especially as it relates to your subject matter area on dh, especially if you do a lot of speaking on behalf of your non-profit it will let people know where you’re speaking either virtually and webinar format or, you know, live format if people are looking by the way tony and forgot to mention earlier fremery we have just about it, we have just about a minute left. Ok, on the resource is page of my website of the prospect finder dot com i do have a downloadable maria samples top five tips for prospecting with lincoln, so if they’re interested in some general tips about lincoln for themselves on a personal level, this will help them. I think you also learn how to use some of the more advanced features, all right, thank you for sharing that resource page that’s really all the time we have that is maria, said pompel the prospect finder again, you’ll see her at the prospect finder dot com, and she’ll be joining us once a month to talk about her advice for prospect research. Maria, welcome to the show as a regular contributor and thanks for today. Thank you, tony it’s been a pleasure next week, we’re going to lead the leader’s motivating your board to fundraise. Another interview from the fund-raising day conference last june, the consultant, andy robinson and carry kruckel, whose vice president for development and communications at w n tv reveal how to move your board to be the best fundraisers they can be. And the second half of the show explaining earned income are legal contributors jean takagi and emily chan from san francisco. Breakdown what earned income is why it can be good white-collar be bad, why you need to understand it to protect your non-profit and keep it out of trouble that’s what’s coming up next week, you can keep up with with what’s coming up week after week by signing up for our insider email alerts on the facebook page. While you’re there like us and become a fan of the show, please, you can listen to tony martignetti non-profit radio on the device of your choice. Any time you like. By subscribing on itunes getting the automatic download, you’ll find that at non-profit radio dot net on twitter. You can follow me always use the hashtag if you want to talk about the show and the hashtag is non-profit radio on twitter, our creative producer is claire meyerhoff, our line producer and the owner of talking alternative broadcasting his sam liebowitz. Our social media is by regina walton of organic social media. This is tony martignetti non-profit radio. I hope you’ll be with me next friday one to two p, m eastern, on talking alternative broadcasting right here at talking alternative dot com cerini. Do you think that shooting getting dink, dink, dink, dink? You’re listening to the talking alternate network, waiting to get you thinking. Cubine looking to meet mr or mrs right, but still haven’t found the one. Want to make your current relationship as filling as possible? Then please tune in on mondays at ten am for love in the morning with marnie gal ilsen as a professional matchmaker, i’ve seen it all. Tune in as we discuss dating, relationships and more. Start your week off, right with love in the morning with marnie gal ilsen on talking alternative dot com. Are you suffering from aches and pains? Has traditional medicine let you down? Are you tired of taking toxic medications, then come to the double diamond wellness center and learn how our natural methods can help you to hell? Call us now at to one to seven to one eight, one eight three that’s to one to seven to one eight one eight three or find us on the web at www dot double diamond wellness dot com. We look forward to serving you. Are you fed up with talking points, rhetoric everywhere you turn left or right? Spin ideology no reality, in fact, its ideology over in tow, no more it’s time for action. Join me, larry shot a neo-sage tuesday nights nine to eleven easter for isaac tower radio in the ivory tower will discuss what’s important to you society, politics, business and family. It’s provocative talk for the realist and the skeptic who want to go what’s really going on? What does it mean? What can be done about it? So gain special access to the ivory tower. Listen to me. Very sharp. Your neo-sage tuesday nights nine to eleven new york time go to ivory tower radio dot com for details. That’s ivory tower radio dot com every tower is a great place to visit for both entertainment and education listening tuesday nights nine to eleven it will make you smarter. Do you want to enhance your company’s web presence with an eye catching and unique website design? Would you like to incorporate professional video marketing mobile marketing into your organization’s marketing campaign? Mission one on one media offers a unique marketing experience that will set you apart from your competitors magnify your brand exposure and enhance your current marketing effort. Your services include video production and editing, web design, graphic design photography, social media management and now introducing mobile marketing. Their motto is. We do whatever it takes to make our clients happy. Contact them today. Admission. One one media dot com. Talking all calm. Hyre

Work-At-Home Moms Rock

Working Mom by rankun76 on Flickr

During Women’s History Month, I want to salute and commend a group of women who have helped me considerably: work-at-home moms.

WAHMs are energetic, motivated, serious and fun to work with. It’s been my pleasure to work with Cary, Tracey and Kristine. They help me build my Charity Registration practice, pitch me and promote me.

Cary has a seventeen-month-old and was worried about her son crying or fussing in the background while she’s on phone calls, which is often. Maybe having to excuse herself. I told her my company isn’t merely friendly to families, we embrace families. That if anyone ever hints (because they probably wouldn’t say) that she or the company is in some way unprofessional because there’s a child crying in the background, I want to know about it and I’ll speak to the person. It’s never happened, and she’s been back with me since her son was 3 months. We also worked together before and during her pregnancy.

Tracey and Kristine have older children. That means different but no less significant issues. Nothing insurmountable. I just have to be flexible. In exchange I get committed, exemplary workers.

My suspicion is that if someone in an office hears a child in the background of a phone call, they’d be envious; wishing they could be home with their kids. If it’s someone who doesn’t have kids, they’d be hopeful that if they do, they can work at home. Really, though, it doesn’t matter to me what someone might think. I know how good we are.

Maybe I’m more tolerant because I don’t have children. Whatever my initial motivation was, it’s now clear that work-at-home moms are good for my business. I want to make it as easy as I can for work-at-home moms to work for me.

They’re rock solid, and they rock.