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Nonprofit Power Podcast

If you’re a progressive nonprofit leader who wants to build powerful influence with the money and policy decisionmakers in your world, but aren’t happy with your progress, help has arrived! Host Kath Patrick has been teaching and coaching leaders on these vital skills for 25+ years, and now she shares her secrets for advocacy success with you every week.

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18:11

The Best Way to Help Your Supporters Become Valuable...

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2025/03/14

This is a time when we need all hands on deck. There's so much need for nonprofits to advocate aggressively for the work that we do, and specifically for the government funding that supports our work. And nowhere is that more true than at the federal level. I’ve shared a lot of thoughts recently about the number of ways that federal funding for safety net services is under attack, and the importance of engaging members of Congress to get them to do the right thing.I'm also hearing from a

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15:35

The Essential 5-Point Messaging Framework for Your...

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2025/03/07

Nonprofit leaders have a lot going on in terms of advocacy we need to be doing with Congress. And I’m hearing from a lot of my clients and the folks in my coaching programs, saying “Just strip it down for me. What's the messaging we need to be using? Give me a framework so that I can keep this simple.”I totally understand the need for that, and I'm right here with you. We’ve got so much coming at us all the time that sometimes the best thing is to just keep it short and sweet and simple

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36:34

Where to Focus Your Federal Advocacy Efforts Right...

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2025/03/01

It can be really hard right now as a Nonprofit leader to know where to focus your attention, what to be spending your advocacy energy on and what's going to have the biggest impact.For the vast majority of direct service nonprofits, federal dollars make up at least some part of your total funding. And for any nonprofit in that situation, most of the critical action that's going to determine the long-term wellbeing of our organizations, our programs, our services, and the people we serve is

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23:19

How to Deal with the Right Wing's "Waste, Fraud &...

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2025/02/21

The right wing's "waste, fraud, and abuse" propaganda is being used to justify massive and indiscriminate slashing of federal funding for anything and everything. That propaganda is hurting nearly every nonprofit in this country right now, and it's hurting every single community that is served by those nonprofits. The good news is, propaganda only succeeds when it's not being countered effectively. So we have to find ways to counter it. The problem is, all the normal

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37:39

How to Defend Against Attacks on Your Federal Funding...

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2025/02/15

There is so much more still to discuss about how we can defend against ongoing attacks on your federal funding. In this week’s episode, we're focusing on the second key piece of the strategy, which is shaping public opinion and getting members of the community to start raising their voices in support of your funding. We need to make it deeply unpopular to cut funding for our work. To do that, we’ve got to influence public opinion about that work. We need the members of our community to grasp

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44:04

How to Defend Against Attacks on Your Federal Funding...

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2025/02/08

We have a lot to talk about with all of the threats that are aimed at federal funding for a critical array of safety net programs. We've had quite a rollercoaster ride in the last couple of weeks, but I believe that there are some very powerful lessons available in that experience, if we are willing to pay attention to them. And if we can sift through the chaos and the stress to get clear about what actually happened and how there is a hidden message in there that is really encouraging. Plus a

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32:21

The Top Three Things to Focus on First When Crisis...

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2025/01/31

It feels like we're having a crisis about every 20 seconds, and this week is no exception. Just at the beginning of the week we had another sudden, chaos-inducing announcement from the new administration that they were going to suspend all federal grant money for unspecified things for an unspecified period of time. I noticed that a number of nonprofit leaders started posting to social media almost immediately when this announcement was made, and they used words like “panic,” “terrified,” “this

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28:13

How to Combat the Right Wing Messaging that Could be...

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2025/01/24

If it wasn’t clear before this week, we now know that the entire suite of government-funded safety net programs is in the right wing’s cross hairs. The ambition to dismantle these programs isn't new. What is new is the level of aggressiveness and determination that seems to be accompanying this round.If your organization is like many direct service nonprofits, a chunk of your funding comes from government sources. And in a lot of cases that originates at the federal level. Even if you

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35:53

How to Access Confidence Even When You’re Way Outside...

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2025/01/18

Confidence is one of those things that so many people struggle with, and others seem to have no problem with. And neither group understands the other one very well. So I want to get into where does confidence come from, and how do we get more of it, more consistently? Where do you feel least confident? Is it public speaking? Is it in front of a powerful decision maker? Is it when the stakes are especially high and the consequences of error seem kind of terrifying? Is it when you're worried that

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23:44

Why Money and Policy Decisionmakers Rarely Receive...

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2025/01/11

There's a really big problem out there that chances are you're experiencing: Too many money and policy decisionmakers just aren't getting your core message. What I want to help you do today is shift what you're doing just a little bit, so that you can start to change that. You probably already know from painful experience that getting the attention of, and engaging and building a relationship with a money or policy decisionmaker that's new to you or relatively new, is

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28:10

Setting Powerful Intentions that Will Serve You Well...

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2025/01/04

What makes intention setting so powerful is that it is more about the being than about the doing. If we fail to attend to our intentions, we risk not only missing our goals, but missing out on the experience we want to have while we pursue them.I'm sure that your organization has plans and goals for the year. And I expect you to have some for yourself as well. We need those things. We need goals. We need plans. Or stuff would have trouble getting done. But the piece that we often overlook or

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24:12

How to Capture Your Most Valuable Lessons from 2024

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2024/12/22

Between the waning light and the kind of tucking in that happens around the solstice, and the anticipation of closing one year and opening a new one. It's the perfect time to do some reflection on how the year has gone for us, what it's meant for us. And to think about ways that we can carry our most valuable lessons into the new year. This year, maybe more than most, there's a lot to reflect on. For most of us in the progressive world, it's been a pretty mixed bag. You know, we

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37:12

When Professionalism Can Become a Liability

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2024/12/15

One of the most problematic tropes that gets emphasized over and over again for nonprofit leaders can wind up absolutely wrecking your ability to really connect with decision makers. That’s the belief that you must be ultra-professional in your approach when dealing with decision-makers, especially the higher up ones. The more powerful and influential the decision maker, the more you're supposed to show up in your super-professional approach. There's a big problem with that. Because what

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22:14

Two Marketing Secrets that will Help You Engage...

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2024/12/07

As nonprofit leaders, one of the many roles we have is that we are marketers. And if that's not part of the way you think about your role, or if that creates a little resistance for you, hang in there for a minute. Because this is a secret to success in engaging decisionmakers that is absolutely a critical core skill.It doesn't matter what context we're in. We're always marketing something when we're engaging a decision maker. Whether we're talking to funders or

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20:49

What I'm Most Thankful for, and Why I'm Leaning into...

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2024/11/29

It's Thanksgiving time and we're all reflecting on things that we're thankful for. I think that can be particularly challenging at this moment in time when we're dealing with a lot of challenges in terms of the political environment, and what that's going to mean for nonprofits, and for nonprofit leaders and the work ahead. And I think actually that it's during these times when things look most challenging and most worrisome, that the practice of gratitude, and finding

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26:40

The Most Undervalued Skill that Could be Your Key to...

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2024/11/23

Let me ask you this: When you’re in meetings with decisionmakers, what are you most focused on? If you’re like most advocates, you got a lot going on in your head. You’re thinking about your framing, and making sure it resonates with that decisionmaker. You're wanting to make sure you get your messaging delivered, that you cover the things you want to cover. All of that’s important. But it carries the potential danger of creating a huge blind spot that can cost you. We can get so busy in our

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23:28

Building Strategies for a New Threat Environment

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2024/11/16

We have a lot to talk about in this time following the elections. I understand that everyone is still processing, myself included. And yet, it is time to begin turning our attention to: What do we do now? There is some clarity that is beginning to emerge around that. And I wanted to share three things that I see emerging as top imperatives for nonprofit leaders as we enter a new threat environment. As it becomes clear that there will now be complete Republican control of the White House, the House

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13:35

A Few Early Thoughts About the Recent Elections

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2024/11/08

This is a really tough time for all of us in the progressive nonprofit world. And I wanted to share a few early thoughts, even as we don't have complete answers on all of the election results. But we have some very important information and it's not good. Many of us, including me, thought this election was going to turn out a lot better than it did. And given the results, we have a lot of challenges facing us in the next couple of years at the very least. There's going to be a lot to

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24:19

How to Stay Grounded in Your Messaging in Stressful...

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2024/11/03

In this week’s episode we're taking a look at two of the most common decisionmaker behaviors that frequently throw advocates off their game. It definitely doesn't have to be that way, but I see it all the time. So I want to give you a few concrete things you can do to put yourself in a position where you're just rock solid and it doesn't matter what they throw at you. You're ready. And because you know you're ready, you're able to stay in your groove and be fully

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23:35

How to Cope with Election Anxiety

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2024/10/25

The 2024 elections are less than two weeks away. And if your world is anything like mine, you and just about everybody in it are stressing out right now. There's a lot of anxiety. There's a lot of worry. There's a lot of fear. And those are very understandable states of emotion. There is so much at stake. And so yes, everybody is kind of scared spitless right now. But here's the thing. And I know you know this. All that anxiety and worry not only isn't helpful, it's

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