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A Modern Nonprofit Podcast, powered by The Charity CFO, explores the most important business and culture topics in the nonprofit sector. Hosted by Tosha Anderson, each episode will feature an informative, lighthearted and insightful discussion about what’s trending in today’s organizations. This podcast is designed for nonprofit leaders and listeners alike, and we thank you for making this podcast part of your day!
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- 3 days ago39 min
Episode 170: Prove It or Lose It? Measuring Nonprofit Impact That Actually Matters
Nonprofits are great at counting things. But are those numbers telling you whether your programs actually work?Tosha Anderson sits down with Dr. Zuri Tau, LMSW, PhD, founder and CEO of Social Insights Research, to talk about measuring nonprofit impact that matters. They cover why evaluation should serve your mission before your funders, the difference between feedback and true program evaluation, how to include community voice without overwhelming your team, and how to budget for evaluation when resources are tight.Zuri also shares what leaders should do when the data says a program isn’t working, and the one question every executive director should ask their team on Monday morning.Connect with Dr. Zuri Tau and Social Insights Research:Website: https://www.socinsights.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zuri-tau-lmsw-phd-4783566/Social Insights Research LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/social-insights-research-llc/Subscribe for more conversations on nonprofit leadership, nonprofit financial management, grant management, and nonprofit strategy.Follow Us Online 🌐 Website: www.thecharitycfo.com 📸 Instagram: @thecharitycfo 📘 Facebook: /thecharitycfo 💼 LinkedIn: / the-charity-cfo 🎵 TikTok: @thecharitycfoJoin our newsletter: https://go.thecharitycfo.com/l/995872/2025-02-24/6ldn1Download The Charity CFO Financial Blueprint: https://go.thecharitycfo.com/financial-blueprintThis episode is sponsored by ActuallyFiActuallyFi helps nonprofits manage grant budgets with real-time data from QuickBooks Online. Your team can run scenarios to see how spending decisions speed up or slow down grant spend, stay on track with funder obligations, and share simple visual reports without logging into QuickBooks. New features for staff allocation, grant reporting, fundraising gap analysis, and allocation journal entries are in development now. ActuallyFi is onboarding early access customers.Book a time with their team at https://actuallyfi.comWant to hear the story behind the platform? Go back to episode 149 for our conversation with ActuallyFi’s co-founder.Chapters 0:00 Why growth can hurt a nonprofit 1:19 Sponsor: ActuallyFi 2:41 The “we’ll fix it when we’re bigger” myth 3:58 Warning signs your nonprofit isn’t ready to scale 4:51 The four-part growth readiness test 5:17 Reserves and runway 7:11 Compliance 8:25 Administrative capacity 10:13 Staff capacity and burnout 11:51 Reactive growth vs. responsible growth 13:34 Build in-house or outsource? 15:21 Monday Morning Moment 16:55 Free resource: the Financial BlueprintResourcesActuallyFi: https://actuallyfi.com
- 2 weeks ago30 min
Episode 169: When Should a Nonprofit Start Investing Its Cash?Messy Middle
Your nonprofit built its reserves. Now what?Tosha Anderson and Aaron Sheklin of Farther talk through how a nonprofit decides how much cash to keep liquid, how much to invest, and how the board sets guardrails before a single dollar moves. Aaron shares what he's learned from both sides of the table, as an advisor and as a board member.A practical listen for executive directors, finance leaders, and board members responsible for nonprofit financial management.farther.com/institutions | thecharitycfo.com
- Oct 14, 202617 min
Episode 168: The Million-Dollar Grant That Could Break Your Nonprofit
Growth is supposed to be good news. But for many nonprofits, a big grant or new program quietly exposes every weak spot in the back office.In this episode, Tosha Anderson, founder and CEO of The Charity CFO, shares the four-part growth readiness test we use with nonprofit clients: reserves, compliance, administrative capacity, and staff capacity. She covers reserve benchmarks, the hidden costs grant budgets rarely cover, why burnout is a growth risk, and how to decide between building infrastructure in-house or outsourcing it.You’ll leave with four steps to take this Monday and one question worth sitting with: if your organization grew 50% tomorrow, what would break first?Thanks to our sponsor, ActuallyFi. ActuallyFi connects to QuickBooks Online so nonprofit teams can manage grant budgets in real time, model spending scenarios, and stay on top of funder obligations. They’re onboarding early access customers now. Book a time at actuallyfi.com
- Sep 30, 202629 min
Ep. 167 Leading Through the Messy Middle: What Happens When Nonprofits Outgrow Their Structure
When a nonprofit grows faster than its structure, things start to break. Decisions slow down, roles blur, and good people get worn out. Most leaders assume it's a people problem. It usually isn't.Tosha Anderson talks with Dee Benno, VP of People and Operations at the Air Conditioning Contractors of America, about leading through the messy middle of nonprofit growth. Dee explains the early signs of an organization outgrowing its systems and walks through her five-part approach to restoring clarity. She also shares simple ways nonprofit leaders can reduce overwhelm, clarify decision ownership, and communicate better during change.Practical nonprofit leadership and operations advice for CEOs, executive directors, and anyone who has ever said, "We're working hard, but we're not moving forward."Connect with Dee Benno on LinkedIn for insights on nonprofit leadership, organizational structure, and people strategy. 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dee-benno-esq/Follow Us Online 🌐 Website: www.thecharitycfo.com 📸 Instagram: @thecharitycfo 📘 Facebook: /thecharitycfo 💼 LinkedIn: / the-charity-cfo 🎵 TikTok: @thecharitycfoJoin our newsletter: https://go.thecharitycfo.com/l/995872/2025-02-24/6ldn1Download The Charity CFO Financial Blueprint: https://go.thecharitycfo.com/financial-blueprint
- Sep 15, 202630 min
Ep. 166: Your Donors Can Tell: The Right and Wrong Ways to Use AI in Fundraising
Your Donors Can Tell: The Right and Wrong Ways to Use AI in FundraisingYour donors can tell when an email was written by AI. Cherian Koshy, VP at Kindsight and author of Neurogiving, returns to the show to talk about the right and wrong ways nonprofits are using AI in fundraising. Cherian shares data from his two year study of more than a thousand donors, why "human in the loop" has become a meaningless policy line, and what nonprofit leaders should actually do Monday morning if their team is already using AI without any rules in place. A practical, honest look at donor trust, nonprofit technology, and where the line should be.Cherian also shares his new Fundraising Judgment Benchmark study. Take it here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8ZNJMMWConnect with Cherian Koshy🌐 https://kindsight.io/💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/cheriankoshy/📘 https://www.amazon.com/Neurogiving-Science-Decision-Making-Cherian-Koshy/dp/1394370458/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0Follow Us Online 🌐 Website: www.thecharitycfo.com 📸 Instagram: @thecharitycfo 📘 Facebook: /thecharitycfo 💼 LinkedIn: / the-charity-cfo 🎵 TikTok: @thecharitycfoJoin our newsletter: https://go.thecharitycfo.com/l/995872/2025-02-24/6ldn1Download The Charity CFO Financial Blueprint: https://go.thecharitycfo.com/financial-blueprint#nonprofitleadership #donorengagement #nonprofitstrategy #thecharitycfo
- Sep 1, 202643 min
🔁 Rerun: Mastering Donor Engagement — Strategies for Nonprofit Fundraising Success
🔁 Encore episode — bringing back one of our most relevant conversations, because we keep hearing the same struggle from clients heading into budget season.Most nonprofits think they need to soften the story to keep donors close — don't share the crisis, don't reach out too often. Erin Straza, CEO and Chief Donor Engagement Strategist, says that's exactly backwards, and it's quietly costing orgs their donor relationships.In this episode, Tosha and Erin discuss:— Why a "safe," generic mission statement is invisible to donors— The two biggest fundraising myths killing donor trust— Why hiding your org's struggles makes donors more hesitant, not less— How to get your whole team aligned on your mission message🔗 Connect with Erin: https://erinstraza.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinstraza/📺 Watch next:Episode 154: Why Donors Don't Give Again: https://youtu.be/uEYFL-mPXLkEpisode 110: Engaging Donors Through Impact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJKxlKAAQoM📚 New on our website: AI Isn’t Replacing Your Nonprofit CFO. It’s Redefining the Job. — https://thecharitycfo.com/ai-nonprofit-cfo-role-change/🌐 www.thecharitycfo.com📸 Instagram: @thecharitycfo📘 Facebook: facebook.com/thecharitycfo💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/the-charity-cfo-llc🎵 TikTok: @thecharitycfoNeed help with your nonprofit's accounting? Book a free consultation: https://thecharitycfo.com/contact/#NonprofitFundraising #DonorEngagement #NonprofitLeadershipJoin our newsletter: https://go.thecharitycfo.com/l/995872/2025-02-24/6ldn1Download The Charity CFO Financial Blueprint: https://go.thecharitycfo.com/financial-blueprint
- Aug 18, 202635 min
Episode 165: Beyond the CFO: Fractional Leadership for Nonprofits—Strengthening Strategy, Operations, and Governance
95% of nonprofit leaders say they are burned out. Not tired. Not stretched thin. Burned out. And one in three is actively thinking about leaving the sector for good.In this episode of A Modern Nonprofit Podcast, host Tosha Anderson sits down with nonprofit executive and governance expert Annette Eros, founder of EROSolutions, to challenge the usual advice. More rest. Better boundaries. A calendar reset. Annette makes the case that nonprofit burnout is not a wellness problem. It is a structural one.Annette has raised more than $250 million for mission driven organizations, led a $47 million capital campaign, and managed budgets exceeding $60 million. In this conversation, she and Tosha unpack:-Why the overhead myth quietly punishes the exact systems and infrastructure that prevent burnout -How "strain masked by competence" hides organizational problems until they become a crisis -What actually separates a fractional leader from a traditional consultant -Why nonprofit capacity building often means funding real help, not more training -Annette's proprietary ANCHOR Method for moving from survival mode to sustainable leadershipIf you are a nonprofit CEO, executive director, or finance leader who feels like you are wearing five jobs at once, this episode will change how you think about burnout, staffing, and what real support actually looks like.#nonprofitleadership, #nonprofitburnout, #fractionalleadership, #nonprofitstrategy, #nonprofitoperations, #nonprofitboardgovernance, #nonprofitfinancialmanagementConnect with Annette Ero🌐 Website: erosolutions.co 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annette-r-eros/Follow Us Online 🌐 Website: www.thecharitycfo.com 📸 Instagram: @thecharitycfo 📘 Facebook: /thecharitycfo 💼 LinkedIn: / the-charity-cfo 🎵 TikTok: @thecharitycfoJoin our newsletter: https://go.thecharitycfo.com/l/995872/2025-02-24/6ldn1Download The Charity CFO Financial Blueprint: https://go.thecharitycfo.com/financial-blueprint
- Aug 4, 202621 min
Episode 164: Will AI Replace Your Nonprofit CFO? Here's the Honest Answer
Tosha lays out rule number one for nonprofit financial health: monthly reports, on a fixed schedule, every single time. At The Charity CFO, that means a strict 15-day reporting cycle — even when data is missing from a client's team, the report still goes out, flagging what's incomplete and what it could mean financially. Tosha shares a real example: an organization spent three to seven years' worth of planned capital improvements in just two years — the kind of overspend a proper budget-to-actual analysis would have caught early, before it became a crisis.#NonprofitFinance #BudgetToActual #FinancialReporting #NonprofitLeadership #CapitalPlanningFollow Us Online 🌐 Website: www.thecharitycfo.com 📸 Instagram: @thecharitycfo 📘 Facebook: /thecharitycfo 💼 LinkedIn: / the-charity-cfo 🎵 TikTok: @thecharitycfoJoin our newsletter: https://go.thecharitycfo.com/l/995872/2025-02-24/6ldn1Download The Charity CFO Financial Blueprint: https://go.thecharitycfo.com/financial-blueprint
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