The Nonprofit Syndicate Podcast
Welcome to The Nonprofit Syndicate Podcast—the podcast for fundraisers who are tired of polite advice, recycled tactics, and safe opinions.
This is not another nonprofit podcast that tells you to “build relationships” and “send better thank-you notes.”
This is the back room.
Each episode, we break down what’s actually working in nonprofit fundraising right now—digital acquisition, recurring donor programs, major gifts, messaging, offers, tech stacks, and the systems behind real revenue growth. No fluff. No platitudes. No sacred cows.
You’ll hear:
- Unfiltered conversations with operators, strategists, and fundraisers who’ve moved real money
- Tactical playbooks you can steal and deploy immediately
- Strong opinions and real disagreement—because growth doesn’t come from consensus
- Behind-the-scenes strategies most organizations never talk about publicly
We talk about the stuff that usually gets whispered in Slack threads or debated after conferences—why most donor funnels are broken, why “best practices” are killing results, and why many nonprofits are optimizing for comfort instead of cash.
If you want safe ideas, this isn’t your show.
The Nonprofit Syndicate Podcast
Latest Episodes
Episode 008: The Branding Mistakes Nonprofits Keep Making
Branding is not just your logo, your fonts, or your colors. It is the reputation your organization builds over time.In this episode, the team gets honest about nonprofit branding: what it is, what it is not, and why so many organizations...
Episode 007: Project Management Tools Won’t Save Your Team
Why do so many projects go off the rails, even when the team has the right tools?In this episode, the team breaks down the real reasons projects become frustrating, delayed, and messy. They talk about authority, trust, delegation, commu...
Episode 006: We Ranked Nonprofit CRMs So You Don’t Have To
Is your nonprofit using the right tech stack… or just the most popular one?In this episode of The Nonprofit Syndicate Podcast, we do something most people won’t: we rank nonprofit technology platforms as either “Solid” or “Trash Panda.”...
Episode 005: Nonprofits Are Addicted to New Donors (And It’s Killing Growth)
Nonprofits love talking about growth. New donors. Bigger lists. More campaigns.But what if the real problem isn’t acquisition… it’s retention?In this episode of The Nonprofit Syndicate, Matt Lombardi sits down with Jonathan, Rya...
Episode 004: Are Nonprofits A Scam? Fraud headlines, fake math, and the economics of doing good.
Are nonprofits really scams—or is culture getting the math wrong? In this episode of The Nonprofit Syndicate, the guys react to viral podcast clips claiming charities waste donor money and expose the biggest lie in fundraising: the “overhead my...