Nonprofit Diaries
The stories that don't make the newsletter.
Nonprofit Diaries
Latest Episodes
"The advice I stopped giving after I became the executive director...”
Advice feels different when you're the one living through it.That's what JB learned when she transitioned from nonprofit consultant to the executive director seat. She shares the realization she made around best practices for board engag...
“"The awkward wardrobe conversation I wasn’t trained to have...”
🫣 It was an awkward conversation no leader wants to have...Early in Jamie’s career, an unexpected wardrobe issue at a fundraising event meant sharing deeply uncomfortable feedback with an employee. Jamie explains how she appr...
"The firing that made me build better leadership...”
The plan was to spend her career and retire at the nonprofit she loved. But after an unexpected separation, Elizabeth Vahey Smith lost her job, home, community, and sense of direction. 💔She shares how processing that experien...
"The donor experience livestream that didn’t go as planned...”
In fundraising... should you go big or go home?David’s team traveled to Thailand with an expensive satellite to give donors a live window into a community celebration. Then the local internet outperformed the equipment, the...
"The choices I made between mission, marriage and motherhood...”
🛑 "I just had to stop apologizing for who I was and what I was trying to do."As a military spouse, mother of three and nonprofit founder & executive director, Michelle is a case study on feeling pressure to be everything to everyone....
