Seeding Social Good Katrina VanHuss

AI is all over the news lately, causing CEOs and organizations to assume they know everything they need to know about AI. Assumption is dangerous.    We don’t want to be left behind. We are eager for our organizations to use AI quickly, often with little accountability from stakeholders to question or press pause. We may be putting our missions at risk as a result. Combined with a lack of direction and little to no structured training, use of AI could be high risk.    What to do? We’ve never been here before. Our guests help us explore how we can identify and address the risks, while still enjoying the benefits of AI.    With guests:    - Nathan Chappell, Senior VP of DonorSearch and Co-Founder of Fundraising AI, and author of "The Generosity Crisis"   - Darren Winter, AI Ethics Expert and a PhD Candidate in AI Ethics  Need somewhere to get immediate help from experienced peers, without judgment? Here you go!

In a rare experience as the interrogatee and not the interrogator, Katrina VanHuss is interviewed by old friend and legal expert Wayne Zell, Managing Member and CEO of Zell Law, on his Blueprint for Wealth Podcast. In a wide-ranging interview, Wayne and Katrina discuss topics as varied as:
 Brand – nonprofit versus for-profit, what’s the same and what’s the difference? The success of the Pan Mass Challenge under CEO Jarrett Collins A comparison of volunteer-led versus staff-led initiatives CEO Paula Schneider’s re-engineering of the Susan G. Komen organization Early Race For The Cure versus early Relay For Life The female experience of the double bind and how it impacts work life Why grocery stores are not like nonprofits What happened to make Katrina quit selling water bottles and tee shirts Insufficient justification and why it matters The impact of the social validation feedback loop How al-Qaeda works    Yes, Wayne Zell is THAT good of an interviewer, keeping Katrina on the rails and focused for an entire podcast. He is the master, and not just at preserving wealth for his clients through Zell Law.
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The design of a nonprofit event has a profound impact on participants. It influences how much they donate or raise, and, most importantly, if they return the following year. In this episode, Blue Sea Foundation CEO, Brian Carney, describes how his organization designed Canada’s largest fundraising event, Coldest Night of the Year. Lessons learned by Brian and his team regarding things like swag and creating community make up the secret sauce behind the event’s success. 

A veteran of board management and strategy, Anne Marie Forbes helps to identify, name, and address the most prevalent foibles of dysfunctional boards. We help you see the ways to reach a better place, and even show you some tools that can assist. Whether you are a board member, an Executive Director or CEO, or a staff person responsible for preparing for board meetings, this will be helpful.  
Discussion points:  
Bad recruitment—How to stop doing that.  
Bad onboarding—Helping board members understand their job.  
Connection to the strategic plan—Helping board members see and understand the connection.  
Board meeting preparation by staff—Prepping for the meeting without shutting down all other work and avoiding demoralizing staff when their work is not even read by the board members.  
Board meeting preparation by board members—Helping board members show up prepared.  
If you want to see the full demo of Zeck software, you can watch the webinar here: https://www.turnkeyforgood.com/webinars/boards-five-fixes-to-get-to-great 

Events were once called “walk-a-thons,” then “peer-to-peer,” and now are considered to be “social fundraising.” What’s unique about this way of getting small-dollar donors engaged? Join us as we talk to industry veteran Randi Corey (Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, JDRF, and others) about the relationship of social fundraising revenue to a nonprofit’s total revenue. 

In this episode Katrina interviews the CEO of the Pan Mass Challenge, Jarrett Collins, who became CEO 17 days before the interview. It’s hard to call him a newbie however, as he served as both president and chief operating officer prior to taking the role. The Pan Mass Challenge is one of a small set of organizations that funnel monies directly to another entity, in this case the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Given that, focus is entirely on fundraising, which Jarrett and team do well having raised $72 million in 2023 through careful stewardship of long-time riders and volunteers.