Using the Whole Whale - A Nonprofit Podcast

024: Tales from Giving Tuesday and adventures in crowd giving with Givkwik

Givkwik.com talks about throwing the first live streamed Giving Tuesday event and the power of crowd giving. They discuss the importance of visual story telling and developing your organization's 'baseball card' that can quickly tell the story of impact to supporters.  

23: Panel - Maximizing Your Fundraising Return on Big Data

Recording of the Wake Up Your Fundraising Breakfast: Maximizing Your Return on Big Data hosted by Joe Boland from FundraisingSuccessMag.com. 

An interesting panel discussion about using data inside nonprofits to boost fundraising with:

 Emily Moyer, VP, Marketing and Digital Strategies at The Michael J. Fox Foundation

John Mix, Director, Digital Fundraising and Marketing at The IRC

George Weiner, Chief Whaler, WholeWhale.com

022: The importance of workplace giving with America's Charities

Workplace giving enables companies to setup reoccurring donation systems for their employees and support a culture of corporate giving and purpose. Steve Delfin, the CEO of America's Charities discusses the importance of unrestricted funds for nonprofits and how a change to an all online system will harm giving in the federal campaigns. 

021:How Kiva.org deals with barnacles and loan bias

The Kiva.org platform has to deal with many challenges. One of them is how to support the platform over time as it collects 'barnacles' or bugs that come from time and the other is how they avoid playing favorites on the platform. 

020: How impact goals are tested and used at Kiva

We talk with the CTO of Kiva.org, Sam Mankiewicz about how digital goals are measured and used in the development process. Kiva.org, a leader in the micro finance world, has loaned over $60 million to date and they are still growing. With this growth come many challenges that must be balanced by the tech team to manage an aging platform with increasing demand for innovation and measurement. 

019: Get to school or else Kinvolved will text your parents

How text messages are being used help school attendance with amazing results. 

Kinvolved is helping schools and teachers change the game around attendance. Find the resources around text messaging for nonprofits from this cast

018: Crisis Text Line is saving lives with text messages and data

CrisisTextLine.org is a text message hotline that connects teens with counselors at any time of the day. 

They are now opening up their data to help professionals and politicians understand more about teen crisis. 

017: How Greatnonprofits.org deal with courtesy (bias)

016: How DonorsChoose.org drives classroom donations through email

How DonorsChoose.org drives classroom donations through transactional emails. Get the nonprofit podcast resources.

015: Text messaging to prevent deportation with United We Dream

United We Dream digital director talks about how they are using text messaging to help US immigrants keep up with DACA changes and registration requirements.