Using the Whole Whale - A Nonprofit Podcast

039: How to win online voting competitions

Nonprofit voting competitions are like fads that come and go. They pit nonprofits against each other to see you can get the most votes in order to win the prize. Mark Horvath, the founder of invisiblepeople.tv has participated and won some of these competitions but the greatest tip he has is actually not to play them at all. 

038: Stop apologizing and start volunteering with @NewYorkCares

New York Cares is the leading way to volunteer in New York City. This interview with Gary Bagley, the executive director, covers how they think about using data to increase meaningful volunteering in the city. 

037: Growing Change @Greenpeace with the MobLab

 Our conversation with Michael Silberman, the Global Director at the Mobilisation Lab discusses their approach and what has worked in their efforts to make change within a massive institution.

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036: Where to start with online course creation for your organization

The world of elearning and online courses is growing by the day, so how can your nonprofit begin to play with this growing tech? Here how Julie Leary, the digital strategy whaler at Whole Whale has created an online course that has trained over 200 students about the Google AdWords Grant in 3 months. 

035: Should you go out of business to achieve the greatest impact?

In depth conversation with the founders of ChangeBetter.org about their journey starting and how they approach the sector. Sometimes you need to merge with larger organizations to achieve the true mission of your organization. Founder Amanda Ashton and Ellie Zietlin discuss their approach to helping nonprofits discover their impact model. 

034: What should nonprofits stop doing?

Brian Reich speaker and author of Shift & Reset enters the rapid fire round with us to discuss what the nonprofit industry should stop doing. 

More resources for thinking about nonprofit impact. 

 

033: Shift & Reset your thinking about social impact

Author and speaker, Brian Reich discusses his book Shift & Reset. What does it mean to make a social impact? How should we think about our mission if we ACTUALLY want to change how the world works? 

This is part 1 of 2 of our in depth conversation with Brian.

032: How CauseIQ leverages Nonprofit big data

Hear the inside story of how Josh Hurd, Founder of Cause IQ got started and has built his product. CauseIQ provides information and tools to help companies discover new nonprofit clients. Their customers are consulting, financial services, accounting and IT firms that provide services to trade associations, foundations, charities, and other nonprofit organizations. 

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031: How do you design a game to kick cancer’s ass? Ask HopeLab

 Dr. Janxin Leu, Director of Product Innovation at HopeLab explains how their behavioral approach to game design led to ground breaking results in a game designed to fight cancer. 

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030: How to do MÁS with your Latino audience

Matt Addler, founder of MÁS strategies, a marketing firm that helps nonprofits reach and speak to the right Latino market discusses why we need to think differently about this growing audience. 

Resources on how to reach your Latino audience.