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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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21:22

How to Equip Your Team to Successfully Communicate...

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2024/05/23

Even when you've figured out the most effective messaging in the world, sharing that with the rest of your team and helping them to use it to produce the results you want can be a huge challenge. What definitely does not work is to simply provide all those talking points and say, here's everything in our messaging that works. Go do it. That's valuable information to have, but it is not enough. You may already have in your head all the details about when and where and how to most

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31:15

Why Your Carefully Prepared Information May Be...

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2024/05/17

Tell me if this sounds familiar. You've identified what you want from a decision maker and you're ready to make your case. You got your facts all lined up. Your logic flow is great. You’ve got your slide deck and your one-pager all set. Your infographics are brilliant. And then you lay it all out for the decision maker. And it falls flat. They don't buy what you're selling. They don't engage. Maybe they don't even fully pay attention to your whole pitch. And

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27:01

How to Influence Critical Decisions About Your...

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2024/05/12

If your nonprofit receives any sort of program-specific federal funding, you are likely subject to at least three levels of decision-making about that money and possibly more. If you don’t know exactly what the decision-making process looks like at all three levels – and how to influence it – you could be at risk of losing funding or having adverse decisions made about your funding without your knowledge or input. Here’s a case where knowledge really is power. In this episode, we reveal:The two

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28:51

How Right Wing Messaging is Damaging to Your...

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2024/05/03

The right wing is generating and amplifying a lot of fear-based, demonizing messaging that is driving polarization. And for many of the purveyors of this messaging, polarization is part of the point. It's one of the strategic objectives. It can be very tempting as a nonprofit leader to say that doesn't have anything to do with us. We're a nonpartisan organization, that's all political stuff and it doesn't affect us. But the fact is it does affect all of us in a number of

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24:16

How to Use the Power of Vision to Achieve Your...

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2024/04/25

One of the most underrated and underappreciated tools in the toolkits of the most effective nonprofit leaders is vision. The truth is whether it's in nonprofit land or anywhere else, nothing big ever happens without a vision. Whether it's at the community level or worldwide, big ambitious things take vision in order to bring them about. And it also requires the ability to transform that vision into reality.Chances are you have a vision of how you want things to be. But if you want that

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24:56

How To Add Client Voices to Your Advocacy Messaging...

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2024/04/18

You probably already know that client voices can be a key part of influencing decision makers. But it's not automatic. How that messaging is structured has a huge impact on how effective it is and whether it helps cause decision-makers to take action. For your client voices to be as impactful as possible, that messaging has to be as strategic and targeted as all the rest of your advocacy messaging. In this episode, we reveal:Critical strategy questions to answer before you begin gathering

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24:48

How To Build a Strong Cadre of Influential Champions...

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2024/04/11

Having a strong cadre of powerfully influential champions is a huge asset that can dramatically accelerate your advocacy success. And when you have a key decision maker themselves operating as your champion, that takes things to a whole other level of impact. Imagine how powerful the impact would be if you had an entire cadre of money and policy decision makers who are operating at champion level on your behalf.In this episode, we share:Powerful examples of nonprofits who have developed true

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30:26

Should We Join (or Start) that Coalition? Top...

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2024/04/05

Anyone who's been part of the coalition knows that it can be a complicated set of relationships. Some coalition experiences are fantastic. Others not so much. The best thing is when you and your coalition partners are fully aligned and everyone is pulling their weight and working together to get the results you've all agreed you want. The worst is when you get involved in a coalition and it becomes a huge headache without any of the results you wanted. To keep your coalition experiences in

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35:04

What if You had Unlimited Advocacy Resources? -...

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2024/03/29

If you’ve ever said to yourself, “If only I had a paid advocacy person/team, everything would be great,” you’re in good company. But you might be surprised by the path you need to take to get there. It’s not as intuitive as it might seem, and there are some common mistakes that often block that path. In this episode, we share:The three things you must already have in order for paid advocacy staff to succeedWhat funders look for when deciding whether to invest in your advocacy workThe biggest

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33:37

What To Do when You Have Too Many Competing Advocacy...

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2024/03/22

I frequently hear from nonprofit leaders that they feel overwhelmed by the amount of strategic relationships they're trying to build. And they get both frustrated and exhausted trying to move them all forward at once. And it just feels like an endless hamster wheel. It doesn't ever feel like there's an end in sight. You don't have to live there, and I want to help you get out of that.In this episode, we share:The first thing to get clear about with each of your competing

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34:51

Design Your Capitol Hill Visits with Members of...

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2024/03/15

Whenever you have the opportunity to meet with your US Representative and Senators in Washington DC, you want to make sure that you get the greatest possible impact for your efforts. A lot of time and expense goes into that trip, and too often folks come away disappointed in the results. There’s a handful of things that can make or break your visit with congressional offices. Let’s make sure you get them right, so you can get the results you’re looking for. In this episode, we share:The two

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26:25

How Parts of Your Messaging May Be Sabotaging Your...

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2024/03/08

If I told you that up to 85% of your overall messaging may be undermining your goals for engaging key decisionmakers, you might be alarmed, or you might be skeptical. But many nonprofits are in this situation and don’t realize it. The good news is, there are some simple things you can do to identify and rework any counterproductive messaging, and ensure that all of your messaging and communications are supporting your effort to engage decisionmakers and get them to take action on your behalf. In

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38:14

How to Accelerate and Maximize Know, Like and Trust...

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2024/02/29

To achieve your advocacy goals, you need decision makers to work with you to get that done. They're not going to do that if they don't know you, don't like you and don't trust you. So our number one job in strategic relationship building is to build that know, like and trust factor with decision makers. There's no way around the fundamental work of building a strategic relationship. But there are plenty of things you can do to reach a higher level of know, like and trust,

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30:29

The 5-Point Test to Determine How Well Your Advocacy...

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2024/02/15

A key driver of advocacy success is the effectiveness of your messaging. If your messaging isn't landing, the decision-maker won't engage. It's that simple. But when your messaging is dialed in to that decision maker, they're leaning in, they want to know more and they're excited to work with you.There are five major tests of messaging effectiveness. Today we take a look at each of those, and get into how you can adjust your messaging to address any areas of

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39:34

The Best Ways to Address Objections from...

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2024/02/09

Whenever you're engaging a decision maker to get them to agree to do something, usually something around money or policy, you're likely to encounter some resistance or objections along the way. You can't make this not happen. But you can plan your messaging to anticipate objections, and address them quickly, sometimes even before they've been spoken. So that you reduce any potential friction on your pathway to getting that decision maker to yes.In this episode, we share:The

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41:40

How One Nonprofit is Generating Millions in...

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2024/01/31

I had the opportunity to interview Dorella Walters, who is the Chief Business Development Officer for God’s Love We Deliver in New York. Her job is basically to prospect for, and develop revenue-generating partnerships that do two main things: they diversify the organization’s funding portfolio, and bring in the dollars that allow them to serve a substantially greater number of people who desperately need their services. She’s facilitated well over $10 million in revenue-generating partnerships for

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40:49

Successful Strategies for Negotiating with...

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2024/01/26

Whether you love it or hate it, negotiating with decisionmakers is part of the job of a nonprofit leader. You have to negotiate with funders, contracting partners, policymakers, and more. Like most things, negotiation is a lot more enjoyable when you get good at it. The secret of those who love negotiating is they’ve learned the keys to success, and developed the skills to use them well.In this episode, we share those keys, and show you how you can rapidly improve your negotiation skills and

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35:18

How to Get Maximum Results from a Decisionmaker’s...

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2024/01/18

If you've ever invited policymakers and other decisionmakers to visit your program, and then been disappointed that it didn't lead to any tangible results, it may be that your design for those visits needs an upgrade. In today’s episode, we do a deep dive on how you can strategically design a decisionmaker’s visit to your program to have a powerful impact on that decisionmaker, and move them closer to becoming a champion for your organization.In this episode, we share:The critical first

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37:01

How to Create Powerful and Empowering Advocacy and...

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2024/01/10

I had the opportunity to interview Gilda Nardone, who shared how she built a leadership and advocacy training and support system that helped her organization’s program graduates become powerful advocates on issues they care about. A few of them even went on to run for and win local elected office, where they now influence policy as decisionmakers themselves. Gilda recently retired from her role as the long-standing Executive Director of New Ventures Maine, and she was kind enough to share the many

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How to Plan Your Breakthrough Advocacy Year - Episode 29

Nonprofit Power Podcast ·

2024/01/04

If you’re ready to have a breakthrough advocacy year, 2024 can be that year. To make it happen, you need to apply four main keys with your advocacy team. Today we dig into each of those keys and lay out how you can set yourself up to have that breakthrough year. In this episode, we share:Four key moves that will set you up for your breakthrough advocacy year How to identify the most impactful goals for your 2024 advocacy workHow to make sure you don’t get blindsided, either by problems or by

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