Creating Community for Good

Real conversations to inspire, inform, and evolve.

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Welcome to Creating Community for Good, a podcast dedicated to philanthropy—the love of humankind. We bring together voices from across the nonprofit ecosystem to share perspectives, decode motivations, and explore strategies in the business of generosity. Your host, Lindsay Simonds, invites you into candid, inspiring conversations with nonprofit leaders, changemakers, and everyday people doing extraordinary things.

We talk about the wins, the challenges, and the lessons learned along the way—so you can walk away informed, inspired, and ready to make your own impact.

Our episodes are designed for nonprofit executives, donors, fundraisers, program directors, impact investors, and beneficiaries.

Your Questions, Answered

Join us for friendly conversations with influential experts on a variety of important topics, including:

  • Courageous fundraising
  • Donor retention and aquisition
  • Peace, love, and having fun
  • Employee giving campaigns
  • Reframing your dialogues for higher quality donor relationships

Episodes

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50: Jordan Langer | The Mentality that Makes a Nonprofit Mission Undeniable

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49: Julie Ordoñez | Courageous Fundraising For Bigger Donations

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48: Choice in Aging | How to Make An Ask For Our Future

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47: Rick Happy | The State of Philanthropy and Key Lessons From The Pandemic

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46: Bill Tortorici and Ryan Marshall: Pandemic Layoffs & Job Seeking

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45: Shanti Brien | Radical Empathy From a Criminal Defense Attorney

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44: Ashley Dittmar | Activating Technology for Donor Retention

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43: Mallory Erickson | A New Way to Fundraise

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42: Tiffany Williams | Behind the Scenes of a Fundraising Consultant

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41: Camera On | Not your Typical Zoom Room with Dana Snyder

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40: We Are For Good | Employee Giving Campaigns: From Staff to Ambassadors

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39: The Giving Block | The Skinny On Cryptocurrency for Nonprofits

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38: Lisa Greer | Re-framing your Dialogues for Higher Quality Donor Relationships

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37: Jacob Martinez | The Power of the Collective

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36: Leti McNeill Light | How to Influence and Empower Teams

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35: We are For Good | Making the Ask & the Five Fundamentals of Fundraising

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34: Alana Karen | Flood the System to Change It

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33: Khafre Jay | Hip Hop: Peace, Love, and Having Fun

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32: Jen Risher | We Need to Talk… About Wealth

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31: Eric Heininger | Ethics Month: Gift Acceptance Policies and Harassment Prevention

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30: Sara Lomelin | Giving Circles: Educational, Democratic, Accessible and FUN!

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29: Mike Spear | End of Year Giving (Everything you Need to Know)

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28: Darcie Champagne Wells | Celebrating $100 Million Milestone

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27: Tracy Vogt | Farm Animal Rescue Sanctuary

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26: Brad Black | Do Good by Doing Good Business

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25: Troy Alexander | Becoming the Best Version of Ourselves

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24: Celia Tejada | Design and Creativity Build Communities

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23: Kelley O’Brien | Being an Event Planner During a Pandemic

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22: Corey Newhouse | A Shift from Monitoring and Evaluation, to Learning and Quality Improvement

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21: Ryan Oliver | How to Re-enliven a Dormant Advisory Board

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20: Jim Becker | The Impact of COVID on Philanthropy

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19: Andrew Kaufteil | Career Transition from the Non-profit Industry to For-profit Sector

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18: Michaela Colbert | Millennials Rely on Meaningful Community Engagement

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17: Richie Kendall | The Revolution of Philanthropy

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16: Capital Campaigns | Extraordinary Fundraising for Bold Visions

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15: Mary Hiland | Unleashing the Potential of Nonprofit Boards

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14: Nathan Chappell | Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of Philanthropy

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13: Stewardship is the Strategy | A webinar

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12: Quentin Wheeler-Bell and Liza Fox | Black Lives Matter

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11: Jaime-Alexis Fowler | Listening via SMS: How to Make Others Feel Truly Heard

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10: Renee Rubin Ross | Running Inclusive and Interactive Virtual Meetings

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9: Sterrin Bird | Major Gifts Fundraising

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8: Rick Happy | Philanthropy During a Time of Crisis

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7: Tim Sarrantonio | Giving Tuesdays, CRMs and Building the Future of Philanthropy

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6: Nikole Collins-Puri | Techbridge Girls

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5: Kevin Nichols | Building Your Social Media Presence

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4: Diana von Welanetz Wenworth | Philanthropy and Giving Back to Society

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3: Maria Cristini | Maximize Impact with a Big Picture Focus and Goal Setting

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2: Bart Skorupa | Start Something Good

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1: Aila Malik | Taking a Stand for a Culture of Kindness

Listen, Share, and Engage

We invite you to listen, share, and explore the episodes that resonate with you. Join our community of changemakers and help spread the word about the important conversations happening in the nonprofit sector.