Podcast & Articles
Our podcast episodes and articles both contain tips and tales of non-profit success in fundraising, board development, and doing good.
Each of our podcast episodes feature an interview with a non-profit about the tactics used to raise funds and create impact. Click here to ask a question or be a guest on our podcast.

Season 3, Episode 7 of the How We Run podcast covers the importance of employee engagement and how to put meaningful engagement strategies into place.
In this episode, Trent Stamp and Julie Lacouture are joined by Kelly Bruno, CEO of the National Health ...

Season 3, Episode 6 of the How We Run podcast covers operations and fundraising for program pivots.
In this episode, Trent Stamp and Julie Lacouture are joined by Mike Lansing, Executive Director of the Boys and Girls Club of Los Angeles Harbor, to talk about how ...

Season 3, Episode 5 of the How We Run podcast takes a look at a drastic program pivot.
In this episode, Trent Stamp and Julie Lacouture are joined by Alan-Michael Graves, the Director of National Programs at the Good+Foundation, who shares how his organization ...

Season 3, Episode 4 of the How We Run podcast is a crash course in social media.
In this episode, we’re talking to Nick Carranza, a multi-faceted content producer and senior strategist at UCLA Health. A photographer and art director, Webby Award winner and Emmy ...

Full disclosure: I have cried at my desk. Sometimes it was because the nonprofit I was working at had a hard case or a bad day, but a lot of time I was crying big sloppy tears of frustration.
Frustration at how much money we needed to raise. Frustration over the ...

Thrilling Adventure Hour - a virtual event raising funds for food banks
On March 22, 2020, we cobbled together some technology to do a live streaming fundraiser based on the long-running scripted stage show and podcast The Thrilling Adventure Hour.
We ended up ...

Season 3, Episode 3 of the How We Run podcast shows how one organization is moving quickly to respond to the emerging needs of their community.
In this episode, we’re talking to Porter Gilberg, Executive Director of the LGBTQ Center Long Beach about how his ...

Season 3, Episode 2 of the How We Run podcast examines how one organization is continuing to deliver essential services in this time of crisis.
We're joined by Angela LoBue, the COO of the Coalition for Responsible Community Development who takes us through the ...

Season 3, Episode 1 of the How We Run podcast covers something that is on everyone's minds these days: canceling your fundraising event. Many fundraising events will not be able to go on, leaving organizations that count on event revenue in a tough situation.
But ...

Season 2, Episode 6 of the How We Run podcast we follow up on Trent's advice that organizations need to be using their 990s as marketing documents. So we followed up with an organization that caught his eye as “telling a great financial story.” We found much more ...

Season 2, Episode 5 of the How We Run podcast revisits volunteer management and specifically how organizations can be strategic in recruiting, valuing, and engaging their volunteers.
A few episodes ago we talked about volunteer management and this episode goes ...

Season 2, Episode 4 of the How We Run podcast takes a look at Social Enterprises.
Trent Stamp and Julie Lacouture are joined by Vivienne Lee from REDF who talks about her work investing in social enterprises that create jobs. This episode covers the right time to ...