Using the Whole Whale - A Nonprofit Podcast

214:(news) Nonprofit Revenge Giving for Rush Limbaugh & Nonprofit Job Trends

Hosts Kariesha and Nick discuss nonprofit news highlights from 2/22/2021. 

 

Revenge is a powerful emotion when used for giving and forgiving?      Viral Fundraiser Highlights Real Impact of Revenge Giving Rage giving is all the rage. When Tommy Marcus, a 25-year-old University of Michigan graduate learned of Rush Limbaugh’s death, he felt it appropriate to donate to Planned Parenthood. After a screenshot of his donation to the organization went viral, the fundraiser generated more than $1.2 million from more than 44,000 donors. Read more ➝   Nonprofit Jobs Not Expected To Recover for Two Years According to a study released by Johns Hopkins University, it may take up to two years for the job market within the nonprofit sector to fully recover. Industry jobs are still short of February 2020 levels by more than 950,000. Read more ➝

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✅ The Summary... College basketball games on NBA TV to celebrate Black History Month Nonprofit innovates clear masks for people deaf, hard of hearing Dallas nonprofit provides inclement weather shelter for people experiencing homelessness Two pledges from South Korean billionaires to donate half of wealth Nonprofit Job Growth Flat in January

 

🙋‍♀️ Opinions & Resources Five For-Profit Practices That Philanthropy Should Avoid (SSIR) $20+/hour Nonprofit Minimum Wage Millennial donors don't matter -(Philanthropy Daily) Philanthropy’s Rural Blind Spot (SSIR)  7 Emerging Trends That Could Impact Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Strategies in 2021 (Nonprofit Technology) The #1 Secret to Get Board Members to Help with Fundraising (Amy Eisenstein)

😍 Feel-good stories from the Sector... Fueled by donations, nonprofit gives hotel rooms to Jackson homeless amid frigid conditions Helltown Brewing, nonprofit fire up Hellping Hops hazy IPA A nonprofit is trying to lift strangers' spirits through handwritten notes and cards

213: (news)GoFundMe Charity shutting down, CEOs resigned and removed

Nonprofit News Summary from NonprofitNewsFeed.com

 

Hosts Nick, Kariesha, and George from WholeWhale.com discuss a week in nonprofit news. 

 

GoFundMe Charity is being shut down

GoFundMe Charity will end support for third-party integrations and the public Application Programming Interface (API) after March 31, 2021. "The shuttering of GoFundMe Charity is concerning for many nonprofits, said Megan Anhalt, chief strategy officer at consultancy WholeWhale. The move “makes us question whether GoFundMe will be a reliable home for nonprofits moving forward,” she said."

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Open CEO positions

Following the sexual harassment allegations at United Way Worlded, CEO Brian Gallagher resigned and Bronx Parent Housing Network founder Victor Rivera was terminated last week.

And for very different reasons, Robin Hood Foundation's CEO Wes Moore announced that he is stepping down on a high note after leading the foundation to one of its best years in history raising over $230 million and supporting New Yorkers in their greatest time of need. 

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212: (news) Abuse At Homeless Shelter, Racketeering, and Puppy Bowl helps shelters

Weekly nonprofit new summary with hosts Kariesha and Nick from Whole Whale, a social impact digital agency.  

 

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Reminder: just because an organization is a 501c3, doesn't mean it is scandal-free.    New York Times Reporting Spurs Investigations Into Abuse At Homeless Shelter Nonprofit After a New York Times investigative report revealed allegations of sexual assault and harrassment against a prominent homeless shelter CEO, New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio has ordered a formal investigation. The allegations against Victor Rivera, CEO of the Bronx Parent Housing Network, come from ten women and are now being investigated by an outside firm. DeBlasio wrote on Twitter, “Victor Rivera must understand that no, he is not untouchable.” Read more ➝   Political Nonprofit Charged With Federal Racketeering Pleads Guilty In Bribery Scandal A political nonprofit has pleaded guilty to federal racketeering charges for its role in the largest bribery scheme in Ohio history. The organization, Generation Now, funneled more than $61 million in bribes to ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder. Read more ➝

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✅ The Summary... After Abuse Allegations, $2 Billion Shelter Network Faces Scrutiny A nonprofit will plead guilty to funneling $61 million in FirstEnergy bribery money, so what’s that say for F Giving through DAFS increased 29.8 percent in first half of 2020 NRA Bankruptcy Lets Critics Peer Into Gun Lobby’s Inner Workings Nonprofit with similar name to Robinhood benefits from attention on stock trading app United Way Worldwide investigation finds no 'actionable' harassment Activists Take On Prison Industrial Complex

211: (news) Nonprofit Job losses, Giving Blck and Money making mittens

NonprofitNewsFeed.com 

Hosts Kariesha and George talk through the top Nonprofit industry stories of 2/1/2021

 

Nonprofit Sector Still Seeing Net Loss of Nearly 1 Million Jobs The Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies has released a new report that shows that nonprofit employment is still well below pre-pandemic levels. While the sector has recovered from its losses of nearly 1.64 million layoffs last spring, the industry is still facing a deficit of 929,000 jobs compared to before the pandemic. In fact, nonprofits lost 50,000 jobs in December, signaling that recovery will be a long time coming. Read more ➝   $2B Gap Exists In Giving To Black-led Organizations Despite trends in increased levels of giving in both 2019 and 2020, the racial giving gap continues to remain large. In 2019, only 4% of grants and contributions went to organizations with a Black, Indigenous, or Latino/a/x leader. To further highlight this disparity, “combined funding to Black communities makes up 1 percent of all community foundation funding” representing an underfunding of $2 billion, according to the National Center for Responsive Philanthropy. Give Blck seeks to advance racial equality in giving. Read more ➝

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✅ The Summary... Charity Navigator: Why Give Black? Nonprofit Employment Remains below Pre-Pandemic Levels United Way CEO’s Fate Uncertain Amid Growing Crisis At The Nonprofit COVID-19 Exposes Mental Health Coverage Gap in Both US and Canada NewSchools Venture Fund launches new strategy, commits $100 million What we know about the nonprofits that received grants from MacKenzie Scott The New Face of Charitable Giving During the Pandemic

🙋‍♀️ Opinions Vaccines for major donors, and how our fundraising practices perpetuate unethical behaviors and inequity MacKenzie Scott, Melinda Gates, Priscilla Chan: On Women Philanthropists An Open Letter to Community Foundations from a Concerned Executive Director A more equitable charitable tax policy

210: Human-centered Design - teenyBIG

How do you strike the balance between  qualitative data and quantitative data for your marketing efforts? This week on the pod, we talk with Emily Taylor, Principal of teenyBIG, about how she defines human centered design and striking the balance between qualitative and quantitative data to make sure you're engaging your audience.

Emily Taylor, Principal of teenyBIG, coaches nonprofits to meaningfully engage their audiences. She uses her experience with both the nonprofit and for-profit worlds in human-centered design, a process that digs into a user’s experience and perspective, to turn their lackluster followers into passionate supporters. Learn more about Emily Taylor and teenyBIG, Webpage: https://www.teenybig.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-taylor-teenybig/
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209: Giving Tuesday results, Coercive Control language - NonprofitNewsFeed.com

This week on the podcast we talk about the most recent nonprofit news for the week of 1/25/2021. 

Whole Whale has created a weekly newsletter and article board for people in the industry interested in staying up-to-date with the sector's most important news. Pulling from over 100 sources, NonprofitNewsFeed.com is a free way to stay updated about nonprofit news.

 

Top articles:

GivingTuesday Generates Garganutan Giving

GivingTuesday saw its biggest single-day fundraising amount since its inception, generating $2.47 billion in revenue from donors. This represents a 25% increase from 2019, which saw $1.97 billion in total donations. Online giving in the United States, which B Corps Digital Agency Whole Whale predicted would surpass $605 million, actually came in at over $808 million. This represents a stunning increase of 58% compared to the previous year.

 

Updating Definition of Domestic Violence To Include “Coercive Control”

Lawmakers and activists alike are engaging in important conversations about “coercive control,” a new and critical way to describe patterns of domestic violence that are not physical, but cover a variety of behaviors related to “social, financial and psychological abuse.” While select countries and states have already started to introduce laws to address coercive control, experts also emphasize the need for “evidence-based training to identify and respond to coercive and controlling behaviours for police, lawyers, judicial officers, frontline health workers, child protection workers” and others.

 

208: How to Make Meaningful Media Content - FirstStage.org

Host Kariesha Martinez interviews Antonio L. Davis, Jr. Digital Marketing & Content Manager of FirstStage.org. Organic social can feel like the unsung hero of audience engagement. It feels almost random what content works and what doesn't. This week on the pod, we talk with Antonio Davis about how he is able to listen to his audience and create content that engages his audience and represents them at the same time. Listen as he walks us through his strategy for utilizing user-generated content for his organization while making sure the audience his organization serves is heard and represented. 

 

Antonio Davis is a content creator, who believes in the power of writing and digital marketing. 

As the Digital Marketing & Content Manager at First Stage, one of the nation's leading theaters for young people and families, he’s leading the organization’s digital growth efforts. Most notably the Google Arts & Culture collaboration, bringing 10 of First Stage’s plays to its global audience through immersive exhibits. He’s also a freelancer — providing multimedia content creation services to individuals, groups, nonprofits and agencies.

 

Org. website:

https://www.firststage.org/ 

Link to Google Arts & Culture webpage: g.co/milwaukee 

 

Org. social:

Facebook: First Stage ()

Instagram:@first.stage

Twitter: @FirstStage

LinkedIn: First Stage

YouTube: First Stage

 

Personal:

Instagram: @leandre_davis

Twitter: @Leandre_Davis

LinkedIn: Antonio L. Davis, Jr. 

 

 

 

First Stage
Founded in 1987, First Stage is one of the nation’s most acclaimed children’s theaters and the second-largest theater company in Milwaukee. 

First Stage strives to be the national leader and driving force behind the creation of the best and most innovative plays for family audiences, theater training programs for young people, and education initiatives for our schools and our community.  These three interwoven programming pillars are accessible to, and reflective of, our increasingly diverse community.  Through our exceptional leadership, dedicated team, and commitment to financial sustainability, First Stage will broaden the reach and impact of our transformational programs, thus enabling dreams to be fulfilled, hope to be fostered, and families to enjoy the lasting legacy of a profound shared experience.

207: Flexible Work and Job Sharing Strategy - Marathon Kids

Host Kariesha Martinez interviews Cami Hawkins, CEO of Austin-based non-profit, Marathon Kids, to talk about her experience creating a flexible workspace and how other organizations can implement one for their employees. 

Cami discusses:

• Job share: For increased flexibility, Cami has hired people on a job share basis which entails hiring two people to do one job, each working 20 hours a week.

• How she adapted during COVID: Marathon Kids already offered a flexible work culture, but she has made it even more flexible by letting people take off during the day to help their kids with school.

Marathon Kids engages kids in a positive, simple, goal-driven program that challenges them to run the equivalent of up to four marathons over the course of a season or school year. It allows kids of all abilities to unlock their potential, one mile at a time.

206: The V-Shaped Volunteering Outlook - VolunteerMatch

Our guest Greg Baldwin, CEO of VolunteerMatch discusses the historical drop in volunteering in 2020. Overnight listings and attendance to in-person volunteering events fell off a cliff as stay-at-home orders rolled across the country in March. VolunteerMatch has released Quarterly updates on the state of US volunteering that we discuss. 

There were some spikes in virtual volunteering but as Greg puts it "You can't build a house over ZOOM". There are many reasons to be optimistic for a V-shaped recovery as vaccines roll out and a potential surge of people ready, willing, and able are more motivated than ever to volunteer in the US. 

 

 

205: Building Small Homes for the Holidays - Smalltimore Homes

Host Kariesha Martinez interviews LaQuida Chancey, the founder of Smalltimore Homes. Baltimore, like many cities, struggle with housing insecurity which has been made even more dangerous during COVID and now the winter. LaQuida's solution is simple: build homes, small ones. These micro-shelters offer protection from the cold and allow social distancing for people experiencing homelessness.

Smalltimore Homes, is driven by a single goal; ending homelessness.  This simplistic goal can be reached by creating more affordable housing through micro shelters and tiny homes.  Their approach is informed by comprehensive research studies and high-quality data evaluation. They strive to build strong communities, productive relationships and make a positive impact on all of their pursuits.