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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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25:20

How to Capture the Full Attention of a Decisionmaker...

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2026/04/15

What if you only had 60 seconds to capture the attention of that decisionmaker? You're in the room with somebody important and you need something from them. From the moment you walk in the door, the risk that they’re not going to engage goes up for every second that you’re not actively engaging them. 60 to 90 seconds is not an exaggeration. And you know, it's not that they won't be polite and listen. Of course they will. But there's a huge difference between polite listening and

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21:38

My Three Favorite Shortcuts to Faster Advocacy Results

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2026/04/09

Right now, maybe more than ever, it's so important for Nonprofit leaders to be as effective in our advocacy work as possible, while dealing with the fact that we have super-limited bandwidth. So anything we can do to be faster and more efficient and more effective getting to those results, the better. I had a call with a client a few days ago that was a case study in all the things that can make us crazy when we're advocating with government decisionmakers in particular. Whether we're

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16:06

How the Power of Collective Action is Creating Great...

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2026/04/02

We have reason to celebrate this week! And I want to celebrate with you. We all just experienced a profound demonstration of the power of collective action. I hope you were able to participate in one of the thousands of No King's events this past weekend. I was there for the event in my community and it was awesome. Fantastic energy, lots and lots of people. A wonderful collection of friends and neighbors and people I'd never met before. All of us gathered together in common cause, and to

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30:15

What it Really Means When You Fall Short of Expectations

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2026/03/25

One of the biggest challenges that we deal with is what happens when we inevitably fall short of expectations. The reality is it's going to happen. It happens to everybody now and again. It could be expectations set by others for us, or expectations we set for ourselves. Either way, when we fall short of those expectations, that tends to carry a lot of emotional weight. And it's that emotional weight, and the stuff that unfolds from that, that can cause a whole lot of problems for all of

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26:59

How to Clear One of the Biggest Obstacles to Your...

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2026/03/19

We all deal with the same essential obstacle to our greatest results. And the aggravating thing about it is it's an obstacle we tend not to be aware of. Here's the thing. The expectations you set really matter. They will basically determine your outcomes. Think about it. When have you ever gotten great results by setting low expectations? Of course, most Nonprofit leaders don't go around deliberately setting low expectations. But they can happen in the background without us realizing

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20:54

Three Big Mistakes that can Turn Your Great Policy...

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2026/03/11

I know how much work it is to score a big policy win. If you're working toward one right now, I am cheering you on. And I'm affirming that you're gonna get that policy win. So the last thing I want to see happen is for you to make one or more of three common mistakes that can wind up greatly diminishing that win. Whatever you're working on that's a policy change at whatever level of government. Getting that legislation or other policy that you've advocated for,

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27:15

How to Turn Every Conversation with Decisionmakers...

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2026/03/04

When it comes to successfully engaging decisionmakers and getting them to invest fully in our work, it's all about skills. Of course, no matter where you are in your messaging and engagement skill-development journey, there’s always a next level to master. But the real test of how urgent it is for you to increase your skills, is the results you're getting. If every time you go talk to a decisionmaker, they're leaning in, they 100% get the value of your work and they can't wait

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23:33

How Your Modesty May Be Costing You Serious Money

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2026/02/23

A lot of us, especially Gen Xers, were taught a lot of things about how important it is to be modest. Don't brag about yourself. Heck, don't even talk about yourself. We were taught to regard modesty as a great virtue. But there's a serious problem with that when we're talking about getting decisionmakers to invest in our work. Because they need to know how great our work is, and how great we are at making a huge impact through that work. They need to know how we're leading

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27:19

Is Your Storytelling Built for Results?

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2026/02/17

We hear all the time about how important it is to tell client stories. But we seldom get much more guidance than that. And the truth is that number one, client stories are only a small part of the overall storytelling toolkit for Nonprofit leaders. And number two, even with client stories, simply telling them does not guarantee any sort of a result or impact. Storytelling can be an incredibly powerful tool in your advocacy toolkit, IF you build your stories for results. Like every other part of our

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22:07

How to Get Decisionmakers to See Your Services as the...

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2026/02/10

How many times have you dealt with a funding decisionmaker who is tempted by the low-cost alternative to your services? And how many times have you been challenged on your prices? This is a really common problem and it came up in a session with one of my coaching clients last week. As we were talking, it became clear they were missing a critical ingredient in their messaging that’s essential for dealing with this specific problem. Here’s what was going on. My client was dealing with a group of

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22:23

Powerful Lessons from Minnesota on How We Can Help...

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2026/02/03

We're all witnessing some truly devastating and distressing actions against our immigrant neighbors. We may be watching this from afar, or we may be seeing it up close and personal. There are almost two reactions that happen at the same time. One is we are tempted to recoil in horror and push it away. And the other is to step forward and help. What is awesome about Nonprofit leaders is that generally we're wired to step in and help. It's what we do. But it would be easy to look at

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20:45

The Number One Advocacy Skillset You Absolutely Need...

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2026/01/27

As a Nonprofit leader/advocate, you already know that information alone doesn't engage. But here's what I see as a flashing red signal. AI is transforming the information ecosystem. It's now easier than ever to get just about any information you might want or need, in fairly complex form, just by asking. The bottom line is that if decisionmakers just needed information, they would no longer particularly need us. They can get that on their own. They can just ask their favorite AI tool

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23:21

How to Find the Messaging Winners in a Sea of Details

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2026/01/20

There's a mistake that every Nonprofit leader makes from time to time. In fact, we all make this mistake, not just in our work, but in multiple aspects of our lives. And if we can be attentive enough and fix it, we can absolutely transform our results and massively reduce our level of frustration. Here's what I'm talking about. It's the curse of the expert. We know way too much about every aspect of the work that we do and the impact it has. And we correctly recognize that all

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25:03

Are You Making Enough Mistakes?

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2026/01/13

One of my New Year's resolutions for 2026 is to make more mistakes. And I gotta tell you, it's been very interesting to see the reaction it gets when I tell people that. A few people get it and cheer me on. But a lot of folks look at me kind of funny and ask, why on earth would you wanna do that? That got me thinking about how much energy people put into trying to avoid mistakes and what that can wind up costing us. It also got me thinking about how this applies inside Nonprofit

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28:08

What is Your Relationship with Power, and How is it...

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2026/01/06

As Nonprofit leaders, we all have a relationship with power. But it's not something that we tend to take a look at much. And I think perhaps the reason for that is what a lot of Nonprofit leaders tell me – that they're not super comfortable with the concept of power. Today I want to really dig into some questions that will help us all understand our relationship with power a little bit better, and perhaps begin to shift that relationship a little bit. The thing is, our relationship with

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15:12

A Totally Different Take on the Year-End Review

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2025/12/22

As we're coming right up on the close of 2025, I think it's always important to do a review and take stock of the year that's just gone by. And it might be more important than ever in this particular year, given what a wild ride it's been. There's a lot of different ways you can come at a year-end review, and you probably already have a process in place in your organization. But I'd like to call out something specific that I think is especially important at the close of

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32:34

Why is There So Much Dumb Public Policy and What Can...

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2025/12/15

Why is there so much dumb public policy and what can we do about it?There's government money to address a service need in just about every arena, which is great. But the flip side of that is the rules that are attached to that money. The rules about who can be served, how they can be served, under what circumstances, how money can be spent. All those rules, more often than not, get in the way of Nonprofits’ ability to provide a high-quality service that is going to actually solve the

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27:00

The 3 Biggest Messaging and Engagement Mistakes that...

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2025/12/09

I see three major mistakes that get made all the time among Nonprofit leaders when they're engaging decisionmakers. These mistakes will invariably cost you influence and results, especially funding results. Now more than ever, especially in this environment, you need both your existing funders and potential funders to be investing in your work at the highest level. But lately, when you go to talk to elected officials or government agency people or foundations, a lot of times you hear things

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23:38

The Two Most Essential Ingredients to Getting a...

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2025/12/02

What I suspect is true for you is what I'm hearing from a lot of my clients – there's just too much noise in the world. And more and more, we want to be able to focus on the essentials of what's going to work. When we're talking advocacy, there are two essential ingredients. If you don't have those two fully dialed in, your results are going to be disappointing. You'll keep finding yourself in that place where the decisionmaker doesn't fully get what you do. And

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19:43

My Five Most Powerful Sources of Gratitude

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2025/11/24

At the beginning of this Thanksgiving week. I wanted to take just a few minutes to share with you my five greatest sources of gratitude right now, and a little bit about why they’re so significant. We're living in a time when it feels really hard to operate from a place of gratitude. There's a lot going on that is just not good for humans. And it's hard. Nonprofit leaders in particular are feeling super stressed and under attack in a lot of ways, and we're watching attacks on

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