Podcast Episode
Navigating the Ethical Use of AI in Nonprofits
Navigating the Ethical Use of AI in Nonprofits with Sondra Dellaripa
Navigating the AI Frontier: Opportunities and Challenges for Nonprofits
Navigating the AI Frontier: Karen Boyd is an economist and director of research at the Policy and Innovation Center. She is also the co-founder of the Our AI Futures Lab, focused on helping mission-driven organizations use AI effectively. Her expertise covers the responsible use of AI, particularly in the nonprofit sector.
The Role of Civil Society and Nonprofits in Democracy
The Role of Civil Society and Nonprofits in Democracy: Mickey and Steve discuss the unique role that nonprofits play in fostering civic engagement and community-driven problem-solving.
Navigating Capital Campaigns with Fundraising Sol
Navigating Capital Campaigns with Fundraising SolL In this episode, host Mickey Desai speaks with Frances Roen, CEO and Lead Strategist of Fundraising Sol, about best practices for preparing and executing a successful nonprofit capital campaign.
Race is Visible, Class is Not; with Steve Dubb
Race is Visible, Class is Not: Mickey talks with Steve Dubb about structural racism, how issues of race and class are deeply intertwined, and what nonprofits can do.
Practical Donor Management: Erin Straza
Practical Donor Management: Erin Straza does a second SnapCast episode to talk about practical, usable systems for donor management.
Guiding Your Adolescent Nonprofit: Stacy LeBaron
Guiding Your Adolescent Nonprofit: guest Stacy LeBaron unpacks her decades of nonprofit leadership, using the lens of animal welfare to illustrate how organizations evolve from scrappy, all-hands-on-deck startups into strategically focused, governance-driven institutions.
Donor Engagement Strategies: Erin Straza
Donor Engagement Strategies: Erin Straza explains the difference between basic fundraising tactics and a true donor-engagement strategy, emphasizing that nonprofits often exhaust themselves with endless low-ROI tasks
Financial Confidence for Nonprofit Leaders: Stephen Newland
Fractional CFO Stephen Newland joins to break down what financial confidence for nonprofit leaders actually looks like inside a nonprofit—and why it doesn’t need to be complicated.
Building Donor Communities with Vitalcy: Gustavo Zylberberg
Building Donor Communities with Vitalcy: Gustavo Zilberberg, CEO of Vitalcy, visits the SnapCast to introduce the company as a web-based platform that helps nonprofits build long-term financial stability by re-engaging and maintaining relationships with their community of supporters, including former members, staff, volunteers, and donors.
Recent Episodes
- Leadership Is Lonely
- Burnout Is a Fundraising Risk
- Who Holds the Pen? Boards, CEOs, and the Quiet Mechanics of Power
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- Learn to Love the Roller Coaster
- Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Protecting Your Mission-Critical Data
- Evaluation as a Leadership Tool with Kayla Meyers
- OFS Insights Podcast April 2026
- Critical Moral Reasoning: An Applied Empirical Ethics Approach
- Normalizing Feedback in Nonprofits
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