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Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership is a weekly conversation with the leaders who run, fund and advise nonprofits. Host Dr. Patton McDowell, a nonprofit consultant with more than 30 years in the sector, helps emerging, mid-career and senior leaders build their careers, strengthen their boards, raise more money and lead with clarity. Each week, Patton talks with executive directors, CEOs, foundation leaders, board members and sector experts about the decisions that shape a nonprofit career: stepping into your first leadership role, leading through change, building a strong board, raising money, and developing the people around you. He is also the author of the book Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership. Listeners tune in from more than 130 countries for practical, honest stories they can apply the next week. Topics include nonprofit career development, executive transitions, board governance, fundraising and philanthropy, philanthropic leadership, strategic planning, and organizational culture. Whether you are an emerging leader, a mid-career professional preparing for what’s next, or a seasoned executive, you’ll leave each episode with something you can use. Hosted by Dr. Patton McDowell, MBA, CFRE, Senior Director of Leadership Initiatives at Armstrong McGuire and Director of the Institute for Philanthropic Leadership.
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- 3 days ago45 min
394: How to Lead When the World Is Watching (Deona Smith)
Episode #394: How to Lead When the World Is Watching Episode Summary Many capital campaigns treat the ribbon cutting as the finish line, but Deona Smith, Executive Director of the Emanuel Nine Memorial Foundation in Charleston, South Carolina, learned that the harder fundraising conversation starts after the building is funded. Smith is closing the final stretch of a $25 million campaign, $20 million of it construction, to open the Emanuel Nine Memorial on November 14, honoring the nine kil...
- 1 weeks ago49 min
393: What Surprised Me Most as a New Nonprofit CEO (Sarah Norris)
Episode 393: What Surprised Me Most as a New Nonprofit CEO (Sarah Norris) Episode Summary Plenty of capable people rule themselves out of the corner office because they are introverted, never planned to lead, or assume the job demands a personality they do not have. Sarah Norris, Chief Executive Officer of Crossnore Communities for Children in Crossnore, North Carolina, never set out to be a CEO, yet she has just completed her first year leading a century-old child welfare and mental health...
- 2 weeks ago1h 1m
392: What Funders Are Seeing, Funding & Prioritizing Right Now (Clark Casteel, Hal Cato, Darrin Goss, Sr., Rhett Mabry)
392: What Funders Are Seeing, Funding & Prioritizing Right Now (Clark Casteel, Hal Cato, Darrin Goss, Sr., Rhett Mabry) Episode Summary Most nonprofit leaders guess at a funder's real priorities until the rejection letter arrives. Recorded live from the Across State Lines webinar Patton moderated, this episode brings four voices at once: Clark Casteel (Danville Regional Foundation), Hal Cato (Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee), Darrin Goss, Sr. (Coastal Community Foundation), and...
- 3 weeks ago44 min
391: Deeper, Not Bigger: How to Make the Case for Capacity (Jimmy McQuilkin)
Episode 391: Deeper, Not Bigger: How to Make the Case for Capacity (Jimmy McQuilkin) Episode Summary Most capital campaigns fund something new, a building, a wing, more seats. Jimmy McQuilkin, Founder and Executive Director of UrbanPromise Charlotte, built a six-million-dollar campaign to fund something nonprofit leaders rarely ask for: getting better. McQuilkin traces his path from a Teach For America classroom to a summer running UrbanPromise Honduras, and the 2013 leap that became UrbanP...
- Oct 15, 202645 min
390: How People Work: 4 Things Every Nonprofit Leader Should Know (Nancy Bacon)
Episode 390: How People Work: 4 Things Every Nonprofit Leader Should Know (Nancy Bacon) Episode Summary Most nonprofit leaders assume that passion is enough, that a motivated team is simply a team that cares, and that a performance problem is a training problem. Nancy Bacon, Founder of Nancy Bacon Consulting and co-founder of the Nonprofit Learning Center in Seattle, spent this conversation taking that apart, one piece of research at a time. She walks through self-determination theory’s thr...
- Oct 8, 202644 min
389: How to Stop Being the Invisible Sector (Dr. Mariane Asad Doyle)
Episode 389: How to Stop Being the Invisible Sector (Dr. Mariane Asad Doyle) Episode Summary Ask a nonprofit leader about advocacy and you will usually hear one of two things: there is no time for it, or it is lobbying and therefore off limits. Dr. Mariane Asad Doyle, Executive Director of the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Charlottesville, Virginia, takes both apart. Advocacy, she argues, is simply legislative education, and the line that actually matters is a bill. If you are pushing ...
- Oct 1, 202639 min
388: Why Half of Your Week Isn't in Your Job Description (Cyril Jefferson)
Episode 388: Why Half of Your Week Isn't in Your Job Description (Cyril Jefferson) Episode Summary Most nonprofit leaders can feel that the week has gotten away from them, but very few can prove it, which makes the conversation with a board sound like complaining rather than evidence. Cyril Jefferson, Mayor of High Point, North Carolina, spent years on the other side of that problem as a consultant, and his fix is a four-week time audit: log every task in a spreadsheet as you do it, add a r...
- Sep 24, 202650 min
387: How to Build Something That Keeps Giving (William McNeely)
Episode 387: How to Build Something That Keeps Giving Episode Summary Most leaders build as though time is unlimited, and the idea that would matter most sits in a notebook waiting on money that never arrives. William McNeely, Founder and CEO of Do Greater Charlotte, stopped thinking that way in 2017, and six weeks after a double lung transplant, with no money and no staff, he was on a stage pitching an organization built around one sentence he had written himself: commit to doing something...
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About Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership
Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership is a weekly conversation with the leaders who run, fund and advise nonprofits. Host Dr. Patton McDowell, a nonprofit consultant with more than 30 years in the sector, helps emerging, mid-career and senior leaders build their careers, strengthen their boards, raise more money and lead with clarity. Each week, Patton talks with executive directors, CEOs, foundation leaders, board members and sector experts about the decisions that shape a nonprofit career: stepping into your first leadership role, leading through change, building a strong board, raising money, and developing the people around you. He is also the author of the book Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership. Listeners tune in from more than 130 countries for practical, honest stories they can apply the next week. Topics include nonprofit career development, executive transitions, board governance, fundraising and philanthropy, philanthropic leadership, strategic planning, and organizational culture. Whether you are an emerging leader, a mid-career professional preparing for what’s next, or a seasoned executive, you’ll leave each episode with something you can use. Hosted by Dr. Patton McDowell, MBA, CFRE, Senior Director of Leadership Initiatives at Armstrong McGuire and Director of the Institute for Philanthropic Leadership.
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