544: Nonprofit Partnerships & Partnerships With African American Churches – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio

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This Week: 

Nonprofit Partnerships
Our 21NTC panel reminds you: You don’t have to do your work alone. You can increase your exposure by promoting the work of other orgs, and even fundraise in partnership with other nonprofits. They’re Taylor Leake with Corporate Accountability and Jack Valor at Mal Warwick Donordigital. 

Partnerships With African American Churches 
Now that you’re motivated to partner up, look to Black churches. Aneta Lee and Oliver Richmond help you understand the idiosyncrasies of church culture and how to cultivate a relationship. Aneta is from Aneta Uplifts and Oliver is with Kingdom Partners. This is also from 21NTC.

There’s more at tonymartignetti.com 

373: New Tax Law & Your 2018 Plan – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio

tony_martignetti_300x300-itunes_image2Tony’s guest this week:

Gene Takagi, our legal contributor and principal of NEO, the Nonprofit & Exempt Organizations law group. 

There’s more at tonymartignetti.com

312: LinkedIn Volunteer Marketplace & Stop Talking At Me! – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio

tony_martignetti_300x300-itunes_image2Tony’s guests this week:

Alison Dorsey, social impact manager at LinkedIn.

Also Christine Hughes, director of individual giving and external relations at Westchester Medical Center Foundation and Vikki Jones, planned giving officer at Weill Cornell Medical College.

There’s more at tonymartignetti.com

284: Pay Attention To NTEN and NTC & Volunteer Training Long Distance – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio

tony_martignetti_300x300-itunes_image2Tony’s guests this week:

Amy Sample Ward, our social media contributor, CEO of Nonprofit Technology Network and co-author of “Social Change Anytime Everywhere.”

Also, Chad Leaman, director of development at Neil Squire Society and Ashleigh Turner, communications manager at Options for Sexual Health.

There’s more at tonymartignetti.com

275: Volunteer Giving & Wounded Warrior and Overhead – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio

tony_martignetti_300x300-itunes_image2Tony’s guests this week:

Greg Cohen, senior associate at Cause Effective.

Also, Gene Takagi, our legal contributor and principal of the Nonprofit & Exempt Organizations Law Group.

There’s more at tonymartignetti.com

237: On Your Tech Horizon & Volunteer Issues – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio

tony_martignetti_300x300-itunes_image2Tony’s guests this week:

Amy Sample Ward, our social media contributor, CEO of Nonprofit Technology Network and co-author of “Social Change Anytime Everywhere.”

Also, Gene Takagi, our legal contributor and principal of the Nonprofit & Exempt Organizations Law Group.

There’s more at tonymartignetti.com

201: Engagement: Motivating and Measuring & Facebook Strategies – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio

tony_martignetti_300x300-itunes_image2Tony’s guests this week:

Lauren Girardin, marketing & communications consultant.

Shari Ilsen, director of engagement at VolunteerMatch.

Drew Bernard, CEO of ActionSprout.

Read and watch more on Tony’s blog: http://tonymartignetti.com

153: Fermentation Fascination & Volunteer Matchmaking – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio

Tony’s guests this week:

Sandor Katz is a fermentation revivalist

Scott Koegler is editor of Nonprofit Technology News

Read and watch more on Tony’s blog: http://tonymartignetti.com

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Metoo hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. I’m your aptly named host. Oh, i hope you’re with me last week why i would suffer atrial fib relation if it came to my attention that you had missed the event leadership puzzle from fund-raising day twenty thirteen our panel solved the puzzle for honorees, chairs, hosts and committees, from goal setting and recruitment to motivation and thanks and back to board basics. Jean takagi are legal contributor was here he talked about who belongs on your board and for how long should you ceo be on the board? Is it okay if your ceo chairs? What about vendors? Jeanne and i differed on vendors actually show, so i shut off his mike he’s, the principal of non-profit and exempt organizations law group in san francisco, and we’re going to continue that conversation in a couple of weeks very shortly this week out of the blue fermentation fascination. This is a brand new feature this week we’re going to bring in people who have unusual and interesting jobs and in some ways support non-profits and our inaugural out of the blue guest. Is sand or cats he’s a fermenter? He calls himself sandorkraut we’re going to talk about the history, the benefits and the methods of fermenting foods, and sandra is going to share his simple sauerkraut recipe cool and volunteermatch making scott koegler is our monthly technology contributor and the editor of non-profit technology news this month, we’re talking about tech that matches willing volunteers with seeking charities between the guests on tony’s take to my non-profit bootcamp interview. I’m really excited, teo introduce our first out of the blue guest sandor alex katz is a fermentation revivalist. Newsweek called his first book, wild fermentation the fermenting bible. The new york times said that he has become for fermentation with timothy leary was for psychedelic drugs a charismatic we’ll see about that, i hope so. Consciousness raising thinker and advocate who wants people to see the world in a new way. End quote his latest book, the art of fermentation, received a james beard award and you’ll find him in rural tennessee as well as wild fermentation dot com sandorkraut its welcome to the show. Thanks for having me on tony it’s good it’s a real pleasure. I’m really you know. People say i’m excited to introduce, but i am excited because you’re our first out of the blue guest and i think fermentation is a fascinating thing. We’re going to learn a lot more about it, so i am excited that you’re on show. Thanks for being here. Thanks. Metoo um, how did you get into fermentation send or? Well, let’s see, i grew up, i grew up in new york city and, you know, for reasons i couldn’t possibly explain one of my favorite foods is a kid with some sour pickles, garlic, dill, fermented pickles. So i’ve i’ve always been drawn, teo, you know, some of the flavors of fermentation, but what really got me to begin practicing fermentation is twenty years ago when i moved from new york city to rural tennessee and started keeping a garden, you know, there was just a moment when there was a whole row of cabbages, and i decided to learn how to make sauerkraut, you know, really with based on this sort of practical dilemma, what do i do with all these veggies that are ready at the same time? Um, and then, you know, you know, one thing led to another, i started exploring all sorts of realms of fermentation started making yogurt in a little bit of cheese. I started doing some, uh, bread making using a sour dough, i started making wine sort of elderberries and blueberries and other kinds of berries and, you know, i just, uh i just got kind of obsessed with fermentation and, you know, spend a decade indulging that obsession and learning, learning about it, um and, you know, really everybody lives fermented foods and beverages cool, and if you walk into a gourmet food store, most of what you see are products of fermentation, and they’re just part of people’s lives in all parts of the world in lots of ways that i think we don’t recognize. The other reason that i’m excited today is because our creative producer, claire meyerhoff, is in the studio with me from north carolina. Hi, claire. Welcome. Hi, tony, how are you today, it’s a party it’s a privilege to have you? So i’m excited that sanders are first out of the blue guest, and i’m excited that a long time creative producer from the beginning, this is not this is not new krauz meyerhoff is with me in studio help tony with his very first show that’s very true helped him ferment the show very good. So it has come. Yeah, you have a question for science. You have a question for you in your first remarks. You you said something about that you started practicing fermenting and that caught my attention because it’s like saying you practice yoga, you don’t do yoga, you practise it. So tell me a little bit about the fermenting. What i mean by that is that, you know, for my entire life since i’ve been, you know, eating food, i’ve been eating products of fermentation, and everybody does. You couldn’t possibly not. If you eat bread, you’re you’re eating something that’s fermented. If you’re eating cheese, hearing something that’s fermented um, you know, if you’re putting any kind of condiment on your sandwich well, that’s based on something that’s, fermented vinegar if it’s not directly fermented, self like soy sauce or or fish sauce. But you know, really, what i’m saying is that, you know, fermentation is everywhere everybody eats products of fermentation every day until seventy five years ago, it was just part of what people did. In every community it was part of producing food was was fermenting some of it. But as food production has, you know, disappeared from the fabric of our lives in fermentation has disappeared with it. But at the same time we’ve developed this fear of bacteria, so people assumed that, you know, fermentation is, you know, potentially dangerous or highly technical. So so for me, that’s the significant thing there that’s the moment that that significant in my story is when i began a practice of fermentation doing it for myself. Well, there is a bit of a meditative quality to it because you have to let it let it sit. And you have to kind of think about it. It doesn’t happen right away. It’s. Not like stir frying. Exactly. Exactly. There’s there’s. Always a time component. Joes have tto wait. Whether it’s a few hours, a few days, a few weeks or in certain cases a few years fermentation. Can i get a word in claire? I don’t know. You brought me into the studio, you know, you get what you wish for. I got screwed. Fermentation goes back. There’s there’s. Records of fermentation in our inn in archaeology, right? We’re going back thousands of years. Yeah, sure. I mean, you know, the earliest archaeological evidence that we currently have goes back nine thousand years. But, you know, of course, you know, foods and microorganisms, you know, don’t don’t leave lots of trace is it’s sort of the pottery is the traces. So, you know, we can surmise that the desire for vessels for fermentation was the incentive for figuring out pottery and that people have been practicing fermentation for longer than we’ve had pottery vessels, but yes, for at least thousands of years. And i would point out it’s just a natural biological phenomenon that happens without us. So, you know, i think that our our primate ancestors were, to some degree familiar with fermentation. My niece’s husband, they live in vermont. And he’s a scientist he sends this whole day doing scientific research. But his hobby is pickling things. And you, if you open any any closet in their house, you see these jars with different vegetables in there, and they’re pickling. Do you see this is like a new trend for millennials? Well, i mean, i i mean, i would say the people, i mean people have been have always pickled things. You know, people who’ve had gardens have always had a reason. Teo pickle things to put things up, and the word pickling covers a lot of ground. You know, most contemporary pickles involved just pouring hot vinegar over vegetables and essentially sterilizing them in the jar. But you can also pickle things like a sauerkraut or kimchi could be called in a pickle. The kosher deals that i grew up loving, our pickles and those air basically just vegetables in a saltwater brian where fermentation creates lactic acid that preserved vegetables. So all the, you know, micro microbial activity is very sort of present and alive in those stiles pickles on fermentation is going on in our bodies do, isn’t it, sander? Yeah, sure. I mean, the cells of our bodies are capable of fermentation. And when we sort of call upon particular muscles to do more work than there were providing them oxygen for the reverts to this ferment a tive mode of metabolism where they produce lactic acid is a byproduct. And that the source of the feeling of a muscle burns, you know, also women’s bodies actually produced a carbohydrate. Glycogen that supports ah population of lactic acid bacteria that creates an acidic environment that facilitates human reproduction. Who, you know there’s, a huge amount of fermentation going on. So in a number of different ways, you know, in our bodies there’s, lots of fermentation, that’s, exciting. Andi, i have felt that when i’m when i’m working out, you feel like burning pain in your legs after a run. That’s ah that’s, lactic acid, you’re saying, yeah, that that that’s like to guess that that’s, basically, you know, the incredible sort of ingenuity and flexibility of of our bodies. If we’re not giving them enough oxygen for the oxidative mode, they have this other mode of energy production, the fermented mode outstanding. All right, we’re going to take a break. We go away for a couple seconds. 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California was always checking in north carolina, texas, new york, new york, washington, washington and oregon have been have been checking in, and of course i can. I was wrong. I can’t send podcast pleasantries to everybody listening to the podcast, especially our friends in germany. Lots of podcast listeners in germany, like over a thousand um, sander, you, uh you mentioned a love of ah early love of garlic pickles. You prefer those over the naan garlic country? You’re kind um, my my favorite kinder with garlic and deal. And right now, in my garden, i have an explosion of cucumbers, and so i’m seeing some garlic dill pickles in my near future, you’ll be meditating about those as a squire said so. So for people who have an excess of cabbage, this could also be very valuable, right? Yeah, sure. I mean, any vegetable can be fermented, you know. Using pretty similar technique. Um, you know, the classic is definitely fermented cabbage, sauerkraut, but you can add, you know, different vegetables together. Often i’ll add carrots to the sauerkraut, but it’s a really very versatile process. And we want teo establish your bona fide these for being on this show, you’re you, you do work with local non-profits in western tennessee, don’t you? Well, i mean, for for my whole life, i’ve been involved in a, uh, different kinds of non-profits when i still lived in new york, i worked for some non-profits i did fund-raising you know, now now my involvement is much more let’s, say, casual and peripheral, but but, yeah, i think it’s important, tio um, you know, sort of support local charitable organizations and people doing good works. What was the occasion for your move from new york city, the western tennessee that’s that’s a pretty big move on and actually it’s, not western tennessee in middle tennessee where we’re looking, but, i mean, basically, it was a moment when i was trying to make a big change in my life and, you know, i met some people who were part of ah, um uh community here and i was very intrigued by the stories they told and decided to come visit and check out what they were doing, and i don’t know, i mean, as much as anything, just the idea of, you know, moving to a rural environment, getting involved in keeping a garden, you know, drinking fresh spring water, you know, those things were very appealing to me. Um, and, uh, so yeah, it was it was a big change of life moving from, you know, manhattan to a rural county with maybe ten thousand people in it. My wife recently started her first garden. She no longer lives in new york. City’s move teo, a suburb of indianapolis, and she has this beautiful garden is probably forty year, maybe even fifty five, forty feet long and about twenty feet wide, with lots of different varieties of lettuce and varieties of peppers. Broccoli didn’t do so well this year, but she sent me a picture of her just so proudly sitting at the garden with with little young sprouts like all the sprouts for, like, two or three inches, but the first, you know, the first time and she’s just so she just looked so pleased with herself in that little picture. It’s. Lovely, but i mean, it’s, it’s, very gratifying, you know, t grow food, and it puts you in touch with, you know, the land and the sort of incredible potential of the seeds and, you know, puts you in this sort of nurturing role and it’s very empowering, because you know this, you know, really limited amount of work you’re doing is producing all this wonderful fresh food, and you can just, you know, taste and feel how you know how healthy it is to eat such fresh food and and it’s incredibly fun and rewarding that’s. Then, claire, do you have a garden and, you know, i mean, people do it all over. I mean, you know, i’m in touch with people in new york. Were involved in, you know, urban community gardens, rooftop gardens. I mean, i think that, you know, lots of people everywhere are getting more interested in gardening and producing their own food. You know, in supporting local farmers, i think, you know, all these things are interconnected. You have a garden, claire. I think the extent of my gardening was pretty much. I’ll buy one of those basil plants or something and keep it on my windowsill in pluck from it. All right. I see that in the city a lot fresher than any baseball. You could possibly that’s, right? And you know that it doesn’t have besides. And fungicides and pesticides in your its little in this little pot, right? Yes. I think an herb garden is a good way to garden for the for the bow tannic ly challenged like myself. You know, sanders, you have a sauerkraut recipe that that’s really simple that i wanted to share with us. Please. Okay, sure. So i will tell you the short version. And let me tell you that if you look at my website, wild fermentation dot com, you confined a much more sort of fleshed out version of it. If you need more details, i always i always recommend fermenting vegetables, as you know, the best way to sort of make a first step into fermentation it’s a it’s a great gateway into fermentation because you don’t need any special equipment. You don’t need any special starter cultures, you know it’s really? Absolutely intrinsically safe. There’s. Never been a documented case of food poisoning from fermented vegetables in the united states. Um uh, you see results relatively quickly and it’s. Incredibly delicious and healthy. Um, you take some cabbage on dh, chop it up, you can augment it with other vegetables, carrots, turnips of the root vegetables, onions, garlic. You know, almost any vegetable you could imagine. Just chop it up and then lightly salted. You know, don’t get caught up on a sort of magic number of how much salt you need to use lightly salted taste it. Make sure it tastes. Ah, good to you can always add more salt. If you like it’s. Easier to add salt in it is to attract salt. Um, and then take your your shredded salted vegetables in a bowl and just spend five minutes with your hands just squeezing them on dh. What this does is it kind of bruises, the vegetables breaks down some cell walls. Our objective here is to get the vegetable submerged under their own juices and by squeezing them, you make them juicy. So it’s easy when you stuffed him into a jar to press them down and have their juices rise up over them. Then once you’re vegetables are nice and juicy, you take a jar. Aa wide mouth jar is easier than a narrow necked jar. You could certainly use a a beautiful ceramic crock if you have one. But a jar’s is something simple that everybody has. Ah, court jar will take about two pounds of vegetables to fill, and then you just stuff the vegetables into the jar. Um, uh and used some force and expel any air pockets. And as you press the vegetables down, you will see liquid rising up over them. Bilich um, andi, and then you just leave it for a few days. I like to leave it right on my kitchen counter world see it. Because if you seal the jar there’s going to be all this carbon dioxide that’s produced and it’ll pre-tax crate some pressure and it’s okay, to feel the jar, but you’ve got to be sure every day or so to release the pressure. Okay, um, now, you know, the big question of fermentation is, when is it ready? You know, window, i eat it. How do i know that? It’s ready and there’s. Just no straightforward answer to that question. I mean, if you were, you know, doing this on a homestead with with a seller, you would probably make enough to get you through the winter, and it would be fermenting for months and months on. Some people like it best after several months, but you really can start to eat it. After just a couple of days, the thie acids air forming, there’s dense populations of probiotic back syria. Um, um, you know, the textures changing. So? So what i recommend that people do is just tasted every two or three days, eat a little bit of it and then press it down. Make sure it gets submerged under under the juices again on dh. Then you get to see a progression of flavours and, you know, do you like it? Mohr and mohr as it gets more acidic? Or did you like it best after, you know four days and then it started to get too strong for you. The beautiful thing about fermenting yourself, like making anything for yourself is you can figure out how you like it and make it the way you like it. So many people prefer a milder crowd that’s fermented for a shorter period of time than what they’ve typically been exposed too. You can make it spicy. You could make it not bye. See you could ferment for weeks and weeks or just for a few days. There’s a lot of possibilities once you understand, you know the basic process, which is that simple, you know, charm, salt, squeeze stuff in a jar and wait a few days. What are some of the spices you could add if you besides the soul? I mean, some classic spicing ideas would be tearaway seed juniper berries in the korean tradition of kimchi, it would be hot chili peppers and garlic and ginger and shallots or onions. Um, but but people are doing a lot of non traditional vegetable fermentation these days, and i’ve had some excellent curry crowds that have, you know, turmeric and, you know, other curry spices in them. Um you could certainly do a deal. Flavored crowdster you can incorporate fruit that’s. Very popular eastern europe. You know, cranberries or little bits of other bits of other kinds of fruits in with sauerkraut. You know, there’s really infinite possibilities. And you know, your imagination is really the only limitation. Alright. You mentioned earlier that that ah, among all the foods that are fermenting or fermented there were not aware of chocolate. How is that? How is that a fermentation product? Well, chocolate and also coffee, um are fermented on the harvesting end. So this happens in the tropical places where cacau and coffee grow with with cacau it’s, the, uh, the pods after they’re harvested, you know, art are mounded and moistened with water. Um, to, uh, to facilitate a spontaneous fermentation. And this, uh, both digests the fibres that hold the cacau beans into the pods. And it also helps develop the flavour that we associate with chocolate. Um and, uh, and similarly a coffee it’s the it’s, the beans right when they’re harvested are mounted on the ground moistened and allowed to spontaneously ferment and that’s part of the flavor development. No, um, tell me something else. About fermentation that i haven’t asked you. What will would you like to share about it? Well, i mean, i think that was one thing that’s really on people’s minds a lot today, uh, is this idea of probiotics and a growing awareness of how important you know, bacteria are in our bodies, you know? And yet, because of antibiotic drugs, anti avectra cleansing products, chlorinated water way have, you know, quite a bit of chemical exposure that, you know, subjects the bacteria in our bodies to assault. So, you know, people are turning tio supplements er of probiotics and just thinking about, you know, how to, you know, replenish and diversify their bacterial populations in the gut, and i would say that really, there’s no better way to do this then with fermented foods, you have to understand that not all fermented foods contain live bacterial cultures. Um, a cup of coffee does not contain latto pectoral cultures aloof of bread, that’s been big, does not contain life bacterial cultures. It’s really, those ferment that have not been cooked after their fermentation. So yogurt is a classic example of a live culture food, but sauerkraut provided it hasn’t been canned is another one. What about beer? Is that? Is that a fermenting process? Oh, absolutely. Here and your wine sake. All alcoholic beverages are products of fermentation. Absolutely. Now, in terms of the life bacterial cultures that i was talking about, i mean, historically. Okay. In the natural world, microorganisms don’t do not exist singularly. You’d never find a single type of microorganism. So historically, alcoholic beverages have always also had lactic acid bacteria as well as a cz well as these. But, you know, really what? Louis pesters, you know, achievement that sort of spawned the field of microbiology was isolating a single organism yeast. So, you know you can in any supermarket you can buy a packet of pure yeast. No, you know, most commercial, you know, beers and wines are made with, you know, just pure yeast and don’t have you no other bacteria in with them. Sandorkraut is it? We have to wrap up just a couple minutes. What is it that you love about doing this work? Well, really, i mean, what, what, what? What got me interested in teaching and speaking about fermentation is the mystifying it. I mean, fermentation is just such a it’s. Such an important part of everybody’s life. I mean, on lee because, you know, so many of the foods that are central to every culinary tradition, you know, all around the world involved fermentation, um, you know, and yet because, uh, you know, fermentation has largely disappeared from, you know, our families and our and our households and our and our communities, and disappeared behind factory doors. People have become very intimidated by it. You know, we’re taught to be afraid of, uh, bacteria and microorganisms, and so there’s there’s, just all of this fear and with the food is simple and safe and sauerkraut. I mean, you know, everybody’s terrified, you know, how can i be sure i’m getting good bacteria growing and not bad bacteria? You know, we’ve just been taught to have so much fear about about bacteria, so so i got, you know, i’m interested in empowering people and, you know, helping people learn how to do this with, you know, with confidence and do it safely. Um, and effectively, sandora. Alex katz, sandorkraut he’s, a fermentation revivalist, and you will find him at wild fermentation dot com. Sandra, thank you very much for being our inaugural out of the blue guest pleasure. All right, tony. Well, it’s. A pleasure to be on your show out of the blue, thanks very much. Bye, sander. We go away for a couple seconds, and when we come back, it’s, tony’s, take two and then volunteermatch making with scott koegler and, of course, clear meyerhoff. Still here. Stay with us. E-giving didn’t think dick tooting getting ding, ding, ding ding. You’re listening to the talking alternate network e-giving. Dahna duitz are you suffering from aches and pains? Has traditional medicine let you down? 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Schnoll if you have big ideas and an average budget, tune into the way above average. Tony martin. Any non-profit radio ideo. I’m jonah helper from next-gen charity. Hi there. This week’s tony’s take two is what i blogged about this week, which is my non-profit bootcamp interview. Jamie bristowe lavoy from non-profit match one the number one dot com put together a series of interviews with consultants and some other people, and i was one of them in this non-profit boot camp. Another one was bob penna who’s, the author of the non-profit outcomes toolbox and he’s been a guest on this show so you can hear the two of us in any case. And about five other people were interviewed for the boot camp. And i talked about the importance and the timeliness of planned giving and charity registration on my thanks to jamie bristowe, lavoy at non-profit match one dot com for including me and also we have a couple of minutes. I wantto ask claire miree clair aside from being creative producer of this show, which is more than a full time job but she’s able to squeeze in being principal of the plant e-giving agency, which is marketing and communications for planned giving programs. What’s ah what’s happening in plan giving, marketing communications. Well, i think that aa lot of savvy clients thes tae’s air taking like a different look at their plan giving marketing maybe they’ve been at it for a few years. They have a website, they’ve been doing some mailings and things like that, but i found that some clients are asking me like, well, what else can we do? What’s something kind of different, so i’ll help them come up with a little project. I always call it like a special project and it’s about basically finding a group of niche donors that you might have that you’ve been kind of ignoring. And how can you drill down your list of your millions of donors down to a group of maybe, like, i don’t know, maybe two hundred so narrow your audience to about two hundred people and then asked them to do something for you, send them a letter and ask them some questions, maybe try to get some little bit of content out of them, but basically, what you’re trying to do is engage them and see what level of interest they have in your organization. So a little special letter, maybe to a small group of people now, if you don’t have a list of a million, which a lot of our listeners, if you have a list of a thousand, you can still ask twenty or twenty five people can’t exactly cause it’s about starting a conversation, the best plan giving people out there that have really, you know, robust plan giving programs, big universities and things, right? So what what’s their job? A za plan giving officer theirjob is mostly to try to get conversations with people so their their goal is tio identify someone that will sit down and actually have a conversation with them about how they’re supporting the organization, what their future plans might be? Are we in your will for how much are we in your will? So the goal is always to have a conversation with an individual’s, so if you don’t have a big plan giving department and a plan giving officer, wouldn’t it be nice to sort of identify a small group of people and have a conversation with them? Start the conversation that helps you identify who these really loyal, really interested people r thank you and letters. I’m a lot of people these days. They’re hiring me to write letters for them direct mail still. Does very well wreck male and very and again more specific letters. One letter i just did for an organization was was very clean. They had wanted to send out a big, fat request letter to a bunch of people and say, like, oh, it’s very important you give us a request for these reasons, and then we do this and we do that, and i got them to ditch that and to instead just send a letter from an existing plan giving donor a guy who says, you know, a year ago i did the best thing i ever did. I put this organization in my will have, you know, a story half tells you stories, even a story, just the fact that someone did it and have you done it to you and to see if people will respond to that letter and say, yeah, i’ve done it. So before you try to explain to people a whole bunch of stuff or tell them a big story, why don’t you just find out if they’ve just plain old put you in their will already? Okay, simple letters. My first my first guest, i think for tony’s take two. Never had i don’t think i’ve ever had a somebody else come into and give insight for on tony’s tech to take to take claire, take two to table tio tio car meyerhoff plan giving agency she’s saying that she’s not going anywhere, not that she’s going anywhere, but we’re going to bring in r monthly technology contributor scott koegler he’s, the editor of non-profit technology news, which you will find at n p tech news. Dot com scotty koegler how you doing? Good tony, how you i’m doing terrific, lee, thanks for being on the show today. It’s. Good to have you back. Problem. You were talking about the beer we’re talking about volunteers and matching volunteers. There’s ah there’s a boon in volunteerism. It’s, it’s critical for charities. Obviously, right? I mean, aside from volunteering funds and that kind of thing, that time is a big deal time and talents and you’re right. I mean, the boom. I was really amazed to read these statistics, and i just kind of re kapin here. These air from the corporation for national community service. Um sixty four point three million americans, which equates to about twenty six point eight percent. Of the adult population. Think about that more than a quarter of the adult population is actually giving of their time for free. Just amazing. Especially in these times when, you know, people really know that more than that, many people want work, right? Yeah, right. And that amounts to almost eight billion hours. Um, with the service it’s just that. That that’s just amazing. Number two may i just but it’s almost restores my faith in humanity that people actually, uh, you know, do care about the environment of people around him. Yeah, yeah. We’re ah, were a volunteer culture mean, we wantto we want to help each other right on dh and coarse. You know, with that kind of numbers becomes the question what? How do you deal with it? How do you put that together? How do you manage the people that obviously want to do something and match them up with things that are available to do and, you know, yeah. It’s like social media, right? I mean, you’ve got a lot of things to do. And how do you actually get to the people that not only are qualified to do that? I want to. Do it okay. And that’s, where the that technology is going to help us match the match, the willing volunteers with the charities that are in need. So what? And this is also good for employers as well, right? Right. Because, you know, when you have employees who are dedicated to the community probably means of just kind of a better all around person, but is a part of your staff so that’s on the internal side and then from the external side, i guess pr kind of thing if you have people that are being helpful, the community that’s exposed, exposing your organization, your for-profit organization as a do gooder organization as well. So that’s, always good and mix for ah loyal and productive employees, because we know that if people want to help and you’re giving them you as the employer are giving them a way of helping charity’s, then i think that also leads to a productive, happier employees, right, and possibly happier and more productive customers. No mean, every every company is looking for ways to get customers toe two do more business with them. And if part of that is that’s the whole point behind. Social media for for profit organizations is that you get people to, like you interact with them, show them something that is good about the company rather than just all the complaints that inevitably come up. So all right, so just another feather in the cap. So let’s, bring this to the to the technology. You’re the yeah, the technology contributor. Now we know the value of volunteerism all around. What what’s what’s the technology doing for us? Well, overall, what it’s doing is matching. I mean, if you think about the basic matching stuff, the one that comes to mind probably the most people’s match dot com where you’re taking individuals, uh, attributes and interests and talents and all those kind of things and locations, of course, and your matching them up with in terms of match dot com with other people with the same kinds of interests. This it’s the same kind of technology. I’m looking at one online right now. Is volunteermatch shot or ge? Yes, just like that volunteermatch that organ right on the front page here. I just brought it up when it says what, uh, what do you care about in and then it knows where i am? Of course. Traveller’s rest south carolina. So it right there, it’s helping me too find things that i mean, that i’m a like when they want to do in my local area. So the technology here is obviously on the very first part of it is knowing i just get a little bit technical here. Tony, um, it’s tracing my i p address my internet protocol address, which is the connection between me and the internet and those things are pretty much location based, so it knows my location that nose in this case, i’m in traveller’s rest, okay? And if i were accessing it on my phone, it would actually just do g p s ok. And so the interesting this is the same technology that that match dot com and christian mingle and i don’t know others other, uh, e-giving findings of them, but yes, exactly. Its interest and location based after at the very top level. Okay, so those interests, they’re going to match e guess your skills with a charity’s needs. Yeah. So let’s, just let’s. Just do a little experiment here. I’m on. This one here is volunteermatch dot org’s and first of all, it knows where i am, but it really doesn’t know anything about me because i’ve never logged in here before you, so i’ll just say i care about animals and see what comes up with, um, pets and people. Um, the hospital luthan hospice of south carolina, no volunteer foreign exchange student, pet therapy volunteers now that might be one cut therapy volunteers, which is a hospice. So i mean, there it is. Within about what, five seconds i found something that might match what i like to do so i could get my animal. You know, i got a friendly dog. I could take the dog down too. The pet therapy volunteers and held out no, pretty amazing, actually. Okay, now, of course, in volunteermatch has gotta be a place there’s a portal. I’m sure for charities to sign up as well. Well, yeah, i think you know, the hospice qualifies is charity, right? Right. But i’m saying you you entered as an individual they would enter is right. They will enter as a charity on dh. They’d be assuming, you know, i assumed they would be putting in what there they’re volunteer needs are what? What they’re what they’re looking for, right? Just the top of this one again, we’ll stick with volunteermatch they’re two things. One has find opportunities, which is obviously what i did right next to it is recruit volunteers. So in that case, see, they have volunteers connected since nineteen, eighty eight, seven million, so they, you know, they have done this a bit. Okay, another three to join. So so it’s free for the charities, claire, i’m so i’m sorry. No. Good. Yeah. So, yeah, i would assume. Well, i don’t know if it’s free. How does this website make make money? They’ve advertisers are well, i just scroll down a bit and it shows here this is built on the freemium concept, which is you get the basic level for free, which includes recruiting tools on on referral for fools from corporate partners, tracking and reporting in a photo manager. Then for for seventy five dollars for the year, you get this whole bunch of other stuff. So still a seventy five dollars that’s uh, that’s not bad. Okay, another one that i’m familiar with is catch a fire dot or ge. And i know that one because of rachel chung who’s. The ceo has been a guest, and you’ll find my interview with her on the youtube channel. Real tony martignetti dot com look for catch fire, or rachel chung, a young woman and very vibrant. And but doing the same type of work that that that we’re talking about, we’ll take a break. And when we come back, we’ll wrap this up. But also, i neglected to mention earlier, scott is goingto inaugurate. Another new feature, he’s goingto recommend bottles of wine, he’s, an oenophile, and that i don’t think that qualifies for jargon jail, because i think people know what file is. He’s got cinephile, and each month, he’s, going toe as a wind kind of sewer is going to recommend a bottle of wine, twenty dollars or under. So stay with us for all of that. You’re listening to the talking alternative network. Duitz are you stuck in your business or career trying to take your business to the next level, and it keeps hitting a wall? This is sam liebowitz, the conscious consultant. 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Welcome back to big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. Scott, what else? What else do you want to leave us with around this volunteermatch ing between charities and the willing volunteers? I you know, i mean, there’s. Plenty of web sites out there. The technology is available. And i think that if if they organization is not no really utilizing the volunteers it’s probably a matter of not trying because obviously people want to volunteer. They want to give up their time and talents, and they’re really looking for just the right place to put it. So, uh, advice. You know, just go do it. Find a one of these websites that is free or an expensive sign up for it and put it out there and see how it works. Because apparently it is working to put a lot of places. You have another one. That’s. Ah. Also mentioned in the in the article at n p tech news. Dot com. Besides, so we we talked about volunteermatch dot or ge catch a fire dot or ge you have another one or two. Uh, disaster ready. Dot org’s is the one that’s uh, mentioned in there. And so that that one is another one of these, and what they do is they specialize in having things preview pre-tax four disasters and its specialized for those kind of things, and they’re you know, how to get mobilized howto find people kind of put things together before things happened, so it’s, you know, well, well intentioned, and it looks like they do a great job, although i don’t have any personal experience with them, okay? And is disaster ready? Also for individuals who want to gain skills for a disaster? I think it is. I know that it’s it’s put together by cornerstone on demand foundation, and so they do a lot of these kinds of getting ready kinds of things they’ve got food for the hungry america cares, they’ve got a whole bunch of these. Ah, no, i’m not really sure which one of these is, uh uh, does what? For which organizations but it’s another one of those that’s worth taking a look at if you’re non-profit looking for ways to make the best out of your best efforts with your with your volunteers. Okay, well, let’s, move to your other expertise. Claire told me on the break that, you know, file actually does qualify for jargon jail. So i guess i shouldn’t have let you know. I mean, you know what? You know. All right. Well, first, i think, well, we want to spell it. It starts with an o o and o p h i l e in a file on dh claire would know who belongs in jargon jail because, claire, you you created george jargon jail. I branded jargon jael and i came up with the term jargon, jargon jail. And i don’t know if this qualifies for jargon jail, because it qualifies more for, like, just words you don’t know. Jail. Okay, well, that doesn’t sound his fundez drug in jail, though. All right, sort of just like vocabulary vestibule. Another alliteration is all right. All right, scott. So you’re goingto each time you come on, you’re going to recommend ah, bottle of wine. That’s. Twenty dollars or under. What? What? What do you have for this month? Um, i have one that this is actually one of my very favorites. And tony, this is right up your alley. This is an italian line and you know one of the things. About wines is the story behind them. I mean, the taste obviously, is one of the things that what’s attractive about it. But this this is a this is an italian line it’s a valve pulawski piela which is actually a great with riot allies they call it and, uh, this is from the territory northern end of italy called verona, which, you know, is romeo and juliet and all that kind of thing. So it’s a kind of ah very historical place. And so this is a what i’m recommending is a courtier majoli two thousand eight val pulawski piela and this is a different about bullet shell. You know, most of these wines are you take the grapes to squeeze him, you know, you let them ferment tulani stick him in a bottle. Falik the easy way. This one here is also there’s a second process to this is a really posso alright p a s s o ripoff, so i’m not sure it’s literally that means route to re pass. So what they do is they take the grape skins after they’ve squeezed them and they set them aside and then after the wind has run through its first fermentation, they actually pour the wine back through the skins and been doing that. It picks up a little bit more sugar, a little bit more fermentation. And this amazing flavor it’s uh, it’s not sweet, although it sounds like there’s a lot of sugar in it, but it’s not sweet at all. Um and it’s just it’s. Just one of those things that you see, you try to put your finger where you actually your tongue on the flavor and it’s it’s tough to do. Interesting. Now i’m notoriously although i i have tasted lots of lines. I’m just terrible at describing flavors but it’s a, uh it’s a semi typical italian valpolicella, which is a kind of a dry wine. It’s got notes of maybe some raisins and some plum and that kind of thing. But it’s, one of those you really have to experience and first price, you know, it’s it’s. Fifteen dollars, which is just phenomenal. Okay. Are our first guests of sandra cats and talked all about fermentation. So this makes this makes a lot of sense. Of course. Wine. He mentioned all the alcohol products we talked about. Um, do you have a. You have an online source for your wine, or do you buy it? Ah, local shop or what way buy-in around here in this in this area way come to know some of the distributors. This one here we actually get from a local distributor. So even if i told you it was, it wouldn’t be any good, because right now, he’s probably not where you are. But i will tell you one one thing i’d like to plug and it’s something called the vino, the i v i and o it’s an app for your phone, for your smartphone or your tablet. I think you can get it online on regular website as well. But it’s a great tool because what it does is it allows you to take your phone and take a picture of the label of the bottle, and it automatically stands with those all this fancy ocr conversion. And then it looks it up and it says, oh, you know, two hundred people scan this one and they said it’s really good and they they they founded that these places to buy, and it should cost you around this amount of money and then you can put your own tasting notes in it, so okay, so, it’s a good afternoon. I’m on there. So if somebody does download that i’m on their good and follow me on there as well, we can share notes about line. So you need to do that, honey. Okay. Vivino okay, um, we just have about two minutes left. You mentioned notes of raisins. And i mean, are you able to taste different things when you are you trained that way. Your tongue, khun denote these things, these flavors? Well, as i kind of mentioned, i’m really bad at it. I have a couple of friends who are master sommelier is, you know, someone is the guy at the restaurant that comes around. We’ll cup around his neck and taste the line and says, you know, if it’s good or not, but they actually are, you know, that’s. Part of their training is the expertise of saying yes, this has, you know, i could taste rust. I can taste pencil, lead some of the things they come up with, just my goodness hazing to me. I don’t know what kind of restaurant you go to. I never had a guy, come around with a with a little cup around his neck. I really had waitresses and waiters hold out their hands for a tip. That’s not what this cup is for. You don’t put money in it, do you? That’s what? Subway somebody’s holding a cup of tea. Just put a dollar bill in it, but that’s not what you’re talking about. No, not now. Okay. All right. We have to leave it there, you know file, which is wind connoisseur, wine expert and technologist. Scott koegler, the editor of non-profit technology news at n p tech news. Dot com scottie, thank you for talking about volunteers. And thank you for talking about val pola piela. Thanks, tony. Take care. My pleasure. Claire meyerhoff. Any any enclosing notes for the show? I just want to say that you do a fantastic job with your radio show. I’m so very impressed with your interviewing skills and your your, you know, knowledge of your subject matter. And you’re over the top. She’s an old radio galaxies. The greatest guy ever. She’s a pro she’s a pro, used to be a w t o p in washington, washington i’ve worked at x. And satellite radio is a talk show host. All kinds of stuff. Thanks for being on the run. 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152: The Event Leadership Puzzle & Back To Board Basics – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio

Tony’s guests this week:

Sheila Kelly, vice president of development at The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research

Pamela Mohr, executive director of FACES at NYU Langone Medical Center

Wendy Kleinman, president of WK Planning

Gene Takagi, principal of the Nonprofit & Exempt Organizations Law Group

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Hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent it’s july twenty sixth i’m your aptly named host. Oh, i hope that you were with me last week. I would suffer atrial fib relation if it came to my ken that you had missed maria cuomo cole on relationships miss cole, a philanthropist and board chair of help yusa, shared the professional value of all her relationships, including her mom and how they’ve helped her and help yusa succeed. We talked at the june meeting of executive women in non-profits part of new york society of association executives and tumbler tactics, amy sample ward, our social media contributor, co author of social change, anytime, everywhere and ceo of and ten, explained the value of tumbler, how to decide whether you should be in it and how to get started this week, the event leadership puzzle from the association of fund-raising professionals, new york city fund-raising day in june, our panel solved this puzzle for honorees, chairs, hosts and event committees, from goal setting and recruitment to motivation. And thanks, i was with sheila kelly, vice president of development at the michael j fox foundation pamela more executive director of faces at noon you langone medical center and wendy kleinman, president of wk planning also back to board basics jean takagi are legal contributors back this month. We’re talking about who belongs on your board and for how long should you ceo beyond the board? Is it okay if your ceo chairs? What about term limits? Jean is principal of the non-profit and exempt organizations law group between the guests on tony’s take two my block this week is women’s touching relationship stories my pleasure now to bring the event leadership puzzle to you from fund-raising day new york city last month here’s that interview welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of fund-raising day two thousand thirteen, we’re at the marriott marquis hotel in times square in new york city, and our subject now is event leadership with me r sheila kelly, vice president of development for the michael j fox foundation for parkinson’s research on in the middle is pam moore, executive director of faces at noon you langone medical center, and wendy kleinman, president of wk planning limited ladies welcome it’s a pleasure, wendy let’s, start down the other end. There what what’s the trouble with that non-profits have of the challenges that they have around event leadership. Well, i think there are a lot of non-profits today, everybody is vying for the same dollars and everybody’s buying for the same audience everybody would like to have the same leaders at the helm, many of whom have been over asked, and i think it’s also it’s identifying, you know, the right match when you invite somebody to take on the leadership role it’s important that you identify what the organization’s needs are and you try to find the right person teo approach that matches and believes in your mission and who feels that they can help you raise the funds you need. Okay, pam, these thes leadership positions can take a lot of different titles, right? A lot of a lot of possibilities. What a quaint listeners with what, what the scope is that we’re talking about. It could be anything from being an honoree to an event where you’re expected to bring in a certain amount of revenue, either giving it or getting it. It could be whether you’re chairing an event, it could be whether you’re sitting on a benefit committee vice chairing an event there are so many different titles, so many different forms of event leadership, but the most important common theme is that everybody needs to know what their expectations are in advance, so they understand what their role is in your event. Okay, making expectations very clear and i guess also gold setting, i guess. Sheila, for the event itself. Yeah, it’s, it’s, tremendously important to be very clear from the outset what your goals are for the event, both from a revenue perspective and also just what you’re trying to achieve for the for the organization and making sure that the people that have a leadership role with that event no, what what they need to do to help achieve that goal on dh, that i think when you find the right people and they know that they are part of something that, you know, there’s there’s a distinct goal for they’re going to be more willing to sort of step up to the plate and take on what you’re asking them to d’oh okay, now we just have about twenty minutes together. So why don’t we start at least our focus and maybe we’ll end there. We’ll see with the committee. Get your volunteer committees. What? What? What kind of what committees are we looking to recruit? First, i think it’s very event specific. It depends on the kind of event that you’re hosting. So if you’re hosting a golf event, for example, your committee could be helping you plan the event. They could be helping you with all the details. But if it’s your gala and, you know, we have a large gala, really? We look to our committee’s simply for fund-raising and for forgetting new people to come to the event and to help us expand our network. So i think it’s it’s about being sort of clear about with the specific events what you’re looking for, people to d’oh. Okay. And how do you start the recruitment process? A tte michael j fox foundation for us for bone event volunteered for event volunteers. Now we really do look within our network. We have so many amazing supporters who care about our work. I think that that’s key. You want to make sure that the people who are are involved have a direct connection to to your mission and to what you’re what you’re trying to achieve and so looking within first before going outside makes a lot of sense because there are people right there who are going be willing and able to get involved, and so that’s that’s typically where we start and also people self select, you know you will have people within your network who will who will raise their hand and say, please let me know how i could be of help and it’s if that person is, is the right fit. You know you should take them up on that for sure, pam, what wanted your quaint listeners what’s the work of faces at the gnu lango in medical center? So faces stands for finding a cure for epilepsy and seizures. We are an organization within and why you and go on medical center that raises funds for research, education programs, advocacy for patients with epilepsy and their families. Okay, and where do you start your recruitment process for event volunteers? So i’ve lived two very separate lives, one working for a major health care non-profit and the other one now it faces, which has only been eight months what’s so amazing to me. About my job now is that i’m dealing with a grateful patient fund-raising so i work directly for dr orrin devinsky, who is the director of the comprehensive epilepsy centre at n yu, and we work directly with the people that we impact every day. So where i’m looking for events, volunteers or donors or chairs or honorees, they’re all people that have been impacted some way by the comprehensive epilepsy centre and a recipient of some service that we’ve provided so it’s building relationships with the existing folks that have been involved and seeing who they know that they want to get involved and then being introduced to new people. One of the things that were actually looking to do with our board is to create a board event. We really want to get the word out. People don’t know enough about epilepsy, seizures and how common it is, and one of the ways that we want to do that is not just our gala, because not everybody wants to come to a gallon, so we’re working with our board to develop an event where they invite some of the individuals that they network with so they can hear. About what’s been going on in the world of epilepsy right here. When did you have advice for smaller and maybe midsize shops that that may not have the internal constituency? Teo look to first for event volunteer leadership. Well, every organization has somebody who is in charge, and that person is out in the world all the time. So what we do is we try to encourage every mind, whether it’s, the board or it’s, a executive director or the director of development, or even if it’s a small committee made maybe two or three people that they should always remain cognisant of of a good candidate is just in their travels through life, you know, in the workplace or in their social life. Oh, you know, we mentioned earlier in the panel, you know, everyone goes to cocktail parties and many people have jobs full time jobs in addition to the non-profit work they volunteer for so on, and then, you know, you talk about what you do, and if somebody expresses an interest in wanting to learn more that’s someone who could be a potential candidate to get involved in your organization. So that’s one way of looking at the outside to bring people in, they don’t have the infrastructure to pull from, like, a donor of strong donor-centric urging those conversations and basically that’s essentially good branding to yes, people should all your people well outside fund-raising should always be talking well about the organization and and know what it’s needs are, i think, and those needs might be event leadership volunteering. Exactly. And i think it’s it’s learning how to talk about what the organization was also in a very friendly, approachable manner on dh to make it interesting because people want to know who you are, what you like to do and where you spend your time what’s our next step, then wendy, you’re the consultant on the panel what’s the next step, after we’ve identified some people who are potential leaders of the event, how do we start to approach? What should we be talking about with them? Well, i think you can you can meet on a one to one basis. Maybe initially, teo, explain all the different areas where the organization might need some health. It could be joining the committee. There might be a greater interest in the board, which has a bigger picture approach, or the gala committee, which might be specifically for one event. Uh, and everybody has their different strikes. Some people are better at selling table. Some people are better at bringing an auction items. Some people are better at selling journal. Latto. So i think, it’s it’s, having that discussion and trying to find someone’s comfort zone and really assess their capabilities, where their strengths are, ok? And i think it’s a mutual decision sometimes, and that makes a lot of sense for all volunteer positions. Really? Yeah, from the board. Teo teo. Someone who’s, doing something, not his time consuming but way, want to be engaging people where their interests are. Okay. Talking alternative radio twenty four hours a day. 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And so when you find someone within your network, or or someone who’s new to you realising what they want to be involved in, there might be someone who is very interested in events. There might be someone who’s just interested in helping to to find new donors. There’s, you know, there’s lots of different ways that you can engage with people in it. What we what we refer to it, the fox foundation is giving someone a seat at the table, you know, having them feel that they are, they might. They have separate work outside of what, what they do with the foundation. But they are an extension of what we do and making sure that they feel that they’re armed with the right tools in the right messaging so that they can speak to the work of the foundation as well. I think that’s hugely important you want you want all the people who are associated with your foundation and with your mission out there talking about the things that are important and it’s the job of of the internal people to make sure that they have all the right information, that they’re on the support that they need? Absolutely what do we do now? So we’ve recruited suppose there are some committee members who aren’t quite pulling their weight, sam, i imagine that gets frustrating to those who are how do we how do we deal with that situation? I’ve dealt with that situation many times, so i think the first thing that actually needs to happen is and we had talked about this earlier is roles and expectations. I think that when you’re working with an event committee, the most important thing that you can do from the beginning is give them the rolls and expectations, so they understand exactly what’s expected of them this way. There’s really no question about what they’re supposed to be doing and what the result is supposed to be. These committee members need to be treated as leaders because most of them are probably leaders in their industry, they need to understand that the event that they’re working on, you know, the funds raised for this event are directly impacting the mission of the organization, and they have tto take ownership, and they have to own the actual event and understand that what we’ve, you know, and we’ve talked about this earlier during our session, what tends to happen is that if you do have individuals that aren’t pulling their weight on the committee, but you have people that are many times those people will almost self select away from the committee because they understand and recognize that they’re not doing what needs to be done in order to get to make it happen. Ok, in order to reach that goal, all right? That’s helpful? What if they don’t start self elected? Sometimes it could be it could be a problem, obviously, i you know, i’m a shoot from the hip kind of person if there’s somebody who’s not pulling their weight and they’re bringing the rest the committee down, it would probably be an individual conversation with that volunteer and letting them know that, you know, this is really what we expect for. The level of what this event is, perhaps this isn’t the right police for that particular volunteer, maybe there’s another part of the organization a lower level event, some sort of program we understand that they’re completely passionate about the mission and the cause, and they want to continue to remain involved. But maybe this particular event isn’t the right match for them and let’s identify what might work and as long as you know you can find that place for them, they’ll be happy. They don’t want to be a part of something where they feel like they can’t give what the other people are giving that’s also kind of, you know, it’s, it’s, it’s not a comfortable place to be. I would think. Sheila, what about having the committee organize themselves in terms of who’s going to be a leader? Who’s going to take on? What do you prefer to see? The committees decide that among themselves or you appoint people once they’ve agreed to be part of a committee, appoint them to certain certain positions we typically help with a structure. This is it’s really more apparent in some of our smaller events that are led through? Our community fund-raising armed with team fox way. Find that people really do want teo want to know what what we need of them. And as we were talking about in the panel, people that do this for a living, we would probably we were all on a committee. We would self select ourselves, right? And we would be able to divide ourselves up. But that’s not everyone’s, core strength. And so i think guidance in this area is key. And if you if you have a group of individuals that are passionate and they want to help and they want to get involved, helping them with the structure is very important in terms of the overall success of the event. Okay? Anybody want to add tio having the committee cam or wendy having the committee decide among themselves and versus lending structure? I think that there are some individuals, you know, much like sheila had said there are some individuals that might know, you know, if we were on an event committee, we would probably know what we would be good at. Whether i would be really great it’s sponsorships and shell. It would be really great. A ticket. Sales or whatever that looks like and every so often you obviously want to honor the request of a committee member that says, i really want to work on this, you know, and what i usually do with the committee when i am dividing them subcommittees, i give them a interest for him and they’re going to fill it out, and they’re going to indicate what theywant, obviously, i don’t want to put somebody in a role where they’re selling something if their strength might be planning, but most of my committees that i have formed, we’ll have some sort of fund-raising, you know, commitment to it, but that level might very depending on each individual person, so i don’t necessarily let them make their, you know, they can select what they want, but in terms of the overall leadership structure and setting that up and dividing them up and letting them know and, you know, i’ve handled that as a development professional, okay? I’m sorry, wendy, was there something you want to add to that? Well, as consultants, we’re we’re a little bit more objective, and sometimes we can observe a committee in a different way because we’re not. Dealing with them every day like hammond, sheldon might be in the sense that their internal so, you know, we’re asked for opinion about almost everything when it comes to putting an event together, so that includes sometimes helping to identify who we feel or who we would recommend to be the chairs, for example, who shows the strength. Dahna and because sometimes the committee members themselves were just too close to one another that they can’t single each other out, so we’re standing a little bit apart, we could say, well, we think that she would be a great chair and then and that person would be a great co chair, and this person probably shouldn’t leave the auction the auction chair, for example, because they’ve been so influential ins and busy obtaining auction item, so sometimes the strength or more apparent to us and they are even to them, to the committee members themselves, so we just helped them identify that guy. What else can we say about these events leadership committees? I haven’t i haven’t asked you about more more advice around. Go ahead, i think one of the things that also came up in our most in the most recent panel that we just had is the importance of treating the committee as as a leadership group on treating them like a professional group of individuals who are there to help move the mission of the organization forward giving them, you know, in addition to setting the expectations that i mentioned before making sure that they have all the tools that they need in order to be the best that they can be, whether that’s making sure they have a budget, making sure they have a timeline, they need to understand what this event needs to gross. We need to understand the expenses behind the event, what it needs to net at the end of the day as well. They need to have those clear Job expectations 1 of the best examples that i had given is making sure that, you know, if let’s say you have a committee and they’re actually submitting a list and there soliciting individuals, making sure at the end of each week there’s a spreadsheet that’s organized by solicitor, so every single person on that committee understands what money’s come in, who is responsible for bringing it in how much and where they need to be to do this on a weekly basis. I’ll do it on a weekly basis during events season. Absolutely. So i think, it’s, just the same way that you would handle it like a business. You want to handle your event committee the same way they want to understand, they need to understand that you’re taking this seriously. This is serious. Without this money, the mission of your organization is not going to move forward, and i think if you treat it that way, they will treat it that way and it’s a mutually respectful and professional relationship. More more you want, i couldn’t agree more. I mean, transparency is imperative when you’re dealing with planning of events, and when you’re working with the committee, they need to know exactly what expense structure looks like what the revenue expectations are so that they can feel a part of it, you know, events event fund-raising is expensive. It’s it’s, one of the more expensive ways to raise a dollar and anyone that does it for living knows that. And so there’s always that balance of making sure that you’re keeping your costs down, that you’re doing that. You’re maximizing your investments, and again, many of these committees air filled with people who run their own businesses who have great perspective in this area and and using them to there, you know, to the best of their abilities is actually makes your event even better. It sounds like this kind of work for ah volunteer could be great cultivation to be, be enhanced, enhance the they’re their own giving, or maybe expand their volunteer rolls in the future. I mean, if there’s that kind of transparency and they see that it is run like a business, as you say, sounds great cultivation from or more activity, whatever, whatever, yeah, whatever form that takes, we’ve seen people move at at the fox foundation from someone who just gets involved at the team fox level who running, running a marathon and fund-raising from their peers to then joining, you know, our leadership council, which is sort of a junior board of directors, and you know that that level of engagement just continues, but it’s about making sure that you’re cultivating that relationship from the beginning in the right way, especially for people who want to who want to have a greater involvement with your foundation and i think it’s giving him that experience too, you know, it’s making sure that they’re having a positive experience. One of the best feelings that i have is when i’ve transitioned a committee that might not have been functioning as well in the fund-raising side and giving them these tools and providing, you know, changing the structure of a committee so that it functions the way we’ve been talking about and then having them get so excited about it. And then when they come to the event and they see this, you know, seamless, amazing galla golf cocktail party, whatever it looks like, they want to get more involved, and then they want to recruit other people to get more involved so it in turn by doing it this way, it might be a little bit more work on errand, but in the end, it’s going to increase our revenue and it’s also going to expand our relationships within the whole community. We have to leave it there, ladies. Thank you very much. Thanks for having us. Thank you. Pleasure. All three. Thank you. Sheila kelly ceded closest to me. Is vice president for? Development. 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And that is tony’s take two for friday twenty sixth of july thirtieth show of the year and show number one hundred fifty two. Jean takagi is with me. He’s, principal of neo the non-profit and exempt organizations law group in san francisco. He edits the popular non-profit law blogged dot com and he is at gi tak on twitter. Hello, jean takagi. Welcome back. I’m tony, thank you for having me, it’s. Always a pleasure. Thank you for joining us from the west coast. We’re talking about cem cem board basics this month on dh specifically, who should be on the board. And maybe for how long? Let’s. Start with the well, let’s start before we get into individual people. Do you see trouble or or challenges a lot of times around who belongs properly on a board? Well, i think a lot of organizations right now, tony, are struggling with recruitment, trying teo attain diversity. Getting a different skill sets on the board. Different representations of populations. Um, at the same time, it seems that the boards are very underutilized asset of many organizations in terms of the valley that they’re adding, or at least in terms of how the ceo or the executive director perceives the value add of the board of directors. And i think i’m going back to some of the board basics. Is a good place to start and explore some of these issues about not only what that board could be doing. But what, what aboard should be doing. You since you mentioned the ceo and their role with respect to the board, we polled listeners before the show and asked if your ceo is a boardmember and forty percent said yes, sixty percent said no. Should a ceo be a boardmember great question, so i think they’re different stages of evolution of organizations where whether the ceo belongs on the border not may change, and i’m going to sort of give you kind of the lawyers disclaimer about that i’m dunaj unconscionable thoughts on this, but there’s always going to be some exceptions tease general rules, and my general thought is tony, is that once an organization is matured, having the ceo or executive director on the board of directors can be troubling because of the potential conflicts of interests that are involved. And the big one is that the board is responsible for overseeing, evaluating the performance of and determining the salary and compensation of the ceo at the same time. If the ceo is on the board that is overseeing himself or herself, you can see the inherent conflict that’s involved. What couldn’t they? Couldn’t they recuse themselves from any discussions off of those issues? Yeah. Absolutely, and i think that’s commonly how organizations treated so if they’ve got their ceo on the board, whenever it comes around, too evaluating performance or determining compensation, the ceo recuses themselves from the board and the rest of the board makes that decision. However, that seems teo sort of discount the possibility that decisions on programs and finance and budget don’t also affect the ceo personally and the ceo very may very well have a personal interest in all of those aspects of an organization that are very important for boards latto oversee and make decisions on, and if the c e o by virtue of being on the board, i can control the board discussion and analysis of these issues, then it really creates a problem and allows the board to sort of get away from from mid duties of acting as the check and balance to the ceo. So is it not sufficient than let’s? Say we have a boardmember i’m sorry, we have a ceo who’s a boardmember um if they can contribute, but they don’t vote sounds like i mean, they still could they still control the discussion, but then they don’t have final decision. Making authority because they’re not a voting member of the board. It’s a great question the night, you know, i see lawyers actually struggling with this idea in many states and in california, we actually recently made a change or a proposal to a change in in the statutes about what is a director, and i think for most lawyers, the idea they want to get across to their clients to their non-profit clients is that there really is no such thing as a non voting boardmember and the reason for that is because boardmember have fiduciary duties, and they’re ultimately responsible for the management of their organizations. So while they khun delegate duties, toe officers and executives and ceo, they ultimately hold responsibility for what happens with the organization, and you can’t really ultimately hold responsibility is a boardmember if you can’t vote on the issues ah, yeah, so there really is no such thing as a non voting boardmember nonvoting director. What you may have, though, is a ceo or executive directors that is invited to attend in and participate in all of the board meeting’s except when the board meeting go into executive session and determining when the board should go into executive session without having the executive director there so that they can actually tied it by themselves on independent of the director, determine what is necessary to direct the organization and the future toe oversee the organization, how it’s doing in the present and in the past and do a little of what i’m going to quote somebody else’s term that they coined the lucy markets is a governance expert out of the uk, and she calls a stargazing about planning for the future and trying to determine how teo look into the future and make sure that the organization is ready to be able to respond to future challenges and take advantage of future opportunities a great role of the board that they probably don’t do enough for most boards don’t do enough of this when the ceo is they’re trying to ground everybody to the present, sometimes that future stargazing aspect is lost. So those are some of the reasons why maybe the ceo just recusing themselves at certain times isn’t isn’t the best idea. Well, that kind of cells short, visionary ceos, i mean, every ceo is not going to be wedded. To what’s happening this quarter in or this year and i think a ceo could be visionary and be looking fifteen, twenty years ahead doing that stargazing also, yeah, absolutely. I think we would hope that that when when, as a nonprofit organization boardmember myself, we would hope that when we hyre are ceos that we are looking for somebody that that has that inherent ability to be able to stargaze and be a visionary and a champion of that vision. On the other hand, i think we know, especially for smaller organizations, tony, and you’re probably well aware of this as well. Ceos are so burdened by the work of the day to day management of the organization that sometimes they just don’t have the opportunities, even if they have the skills t able to engage in that type of stargazing and board members may be in better position to bring their valley. So that added value that we talked about that board may not be giving enough of to an organization that’s, a really strong air in which they could do it and having the ceo lead, that would be great if that’s possible and then having the board, you know, sort of be the counterbalance and check, uh, to the ceo. Perfect, but if if the board is just relying on the c e o to champion all of the vision and determine what the vision is of the organization, he may not have the healthiest organization around let’s, go back to something you said a few minutes ago, jean the that you can’t really have a nonvoting boardmember because that that abila gates, the fiduciary responsibility of a boardmember was that i’m sorry was that was that california law or that’s a california proposal? What? Well, that’s california law and i think, while it may not be stated explicitly in other statutes, are depending upon what state your urine, i think that’s the general idea of most, if not all, of the states, that we’re not really supposed to have somebody who is a boardmember with the fiduciary duties of a boardmember, but otherwise unable to to vote on any of the issues do corporations for-profit corporations struggle with this? Also mean, my sense is that it’s routine for a president ceo to be a board member of a corporate board? Do you do you know? Do they struggle with this the same way? Non-profits are they absolutely do? Tony, this is a major topic of controversy and has actually been hitting twitter a lot in the for-profit circles as well among the governance experts and it’s close to a fifty fifty split about whether ceos they’re going to serve on the board of directors neither mainly mainly for larger public organizations. Oftentimes again, yeah, that the board is supposed to be the check and balance to the ceo and to bring the ceo onto the board might start to facilitate this rubber stamp board that just sort of agrees with a ceo and sort of puts all of their trust and relies on the ceo’s opinion just too far rather than acting is the check and balance, but it goes both ways because, you know, we haven’t really talked about the benefits of having the ceo on the board, and there there are some benefits, especially in the early stages of an organization. Do you have a visionary ceo? The only way that that ceo and possibly that’s, the founder of the organization to recruit the best members onto the board? Maybe if the ceo is on the board himself or herself because they’re the draw. They may be the draw to the organization, and without that person’s leadership, that organization may not be able to evolve to the next stage where, you know, i’m talking about where hopefully a cz the organization mature a little bit that you can get to a phase where their partners, the ceo on one side and the board of directors led by chair of the board on the other side, rather than blending the two together. But that may take a little bit of time to get to that stage, especially for small organizations, really depending upon the champion of the organization and its mission being the founders ceo and the boardmember all, at the same time, another advantage to having the ceo on the board sounds like would be that the other board members would be not so likely to get intruding into management day today. Issues. Yeah, but that’s that’s actually a good point. So sometimes, while directors ultimately have the authority tio and the obligation to ultimately manage the the organization that’s collectively, as the board of directors individually, board members have no inherent powers. At all. So that’s that’s something to really think about individually, director’s really don’t have powers unless they’ve been delegated to them as possibly officers of the organizations are agents for some specific tasks, but it’s a boardmember just by virtue of being a boardmember shouldn’t start directing employees of the organization and telling them what to dio even the executive director or ceo because it’s the board collectively that that overseas that that and not individual directors so i’m good, really good point let’s move to having a ceo chair, the board? What what’s concerns there. So all of the concerns of having the ceo being on the board of directors as a director are amplified when the ceo is also the chair of the board, and interesting enough, this was a recent article in the non-profit quarterly where and author just took the opposite position not now, fairly advocating it in all cases, but sort of making us aware that, well, sometimes a compensated ceo cancer because the chair of the board and it may be perfectly appropriate because what they want to do is completely aligned with what the board wants to do, which is advanced the organization’s mission is effectively and efficiently as possible, and if again the board doesn’t have a champion to do that other than this is the ceo, the ceo is almost resigned, teo being a member of the board and leading it forward so that part of the argument that that that author made but they’re the cons are again is that you can really encourage a rubber stamp board, you can lose the checks and balances that you’ve tried to design for the board, and ceos can, even without knowing that they’re doing so, make decisions that are based not necessarily in the organization’s best interests, but in the ceo, you know, ceos best interests as well, and not in terms of sometimes in terms of making more compensation for themselves or protecting their own job status, but sometimes it can be for more innocent reasons. Just the ceo thinks a certain way about a particular project and wants to protect that project ahead of others, perhaps, or looks to the present more than to the future of the organization and again in wanting to protect everybody, all the employees from from facing layoffs or anything like that doesn’t want to make that difficult decisions that might improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the organization in future, and really holds to the status quo, because there’s so many personal interests that are involved as well that the ceo maybe, like, here she is safeguarding too. So that’s where the board you know, it’s kind of this objective party from the outside looking in, khun really provide this different perspective for an organization. If you have the ceo of the chair of the board, designing the agenda of the board, being responsible for the education of the board and orientation of the board and preparation of all the board members before every board meeting, everything can get planted in a certain way to sort of direct everybody else to just approve. But the ceo is recommending and that that’s the danger of having a ceo is the chair, the listener pole. If if your ceo is a boardmember does he or she chaired the board, only thirteen percent said yes, and the other eighty seven percent said no that they don’t have that. We have just about a minute before we go away for a couple of minutes um, you’ve seen cases where the there’s, a volunteer chair of the board, and they’re identified as ceo of the organization. Yeah, and and that’s that’s kind of an interesting fact pattern that that oftentimes takes place even if the by-laws don’t say anything. So if you’ve got an executive director hired but your state law says that either the president or the chair, the board is the ceo, unless the by-laws state otherwise, even though you haven’t executive director, the chair of your board, maybe the ceo just by default of the law because you’re by-laws don’t say anything else, and that may not be a great place for a volunteer chair of the board tow want to be in should anything ever go to court and that person be held responsible as the ceo of the organization for understanding and knowing what the organization is doing on a day to day basis? And aside from the legal aspect of it, i think that would diminish the authority of the paid executive director. Absolutely. Here you’re absolutely right, and i wantto point to something that was on the april twenty sixth, two thousand thirteen show the guest was eugene fram, and he and i talked a lot about the title ceo versus executive director and how that and how executive director tends to diminish the authority of what, what he recommends. B b the ceo. We have to go away for a couple of minutes. When we come back. Jean, i’ll keep talking about board a six. Hang in there, stay with us. Dafs you’re listening to the talking alternative network. Schnoll are you stuck in your business or career trying to take your business to the next level, and it keeps hitting a wall? This is sam liebowitz, the conscious consultant. I will help you get to the root cause of your abundance issues and help move you forward in your life. Call me now and let’s. Create the future you dream of. Two, one, two, seven, two, one, eight, one, eight, three, that’s to one to seven to one, eight one eight three. 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Tokyo, japan durney chua and we know that it’s francisco imbriano zara is francisco welcome. Lots of masked listeners in japan. Also bunch of mass listeners in japan, seoul, korea and goose on korea on your haserot and chung ching, guangzhou and shanghai, china. Ni hao, so happy to have all the live listeners. Love i love sending live listener love it’s, more like my live listener love, then love going out to you because i love doing it. Jean let’s see that’s ah, let’s continue with the possibility of having other paid employees or even contractors on the board. Seems to me this is getting messier the further we go, yeah, it can get messy hair as we go along and, you know, here in california, we actually have ah, state law that says for non-profit what we call public benefit corporations. So those air, the charitable organizations that are not not religious and focus, um, on lee up to forty nine percent of the board may be compensated or related to someone compensated and that’s, whether as an employee or an independent contractor, so a majority of the board essentially must be interested or not compensated or related to anybody confident no, jean, that still seems too high to me. Forty nine percent, i think, should be, like, ten percent. You know, most states actually don’t have that law at all in the vast majority of states don’t have that. So i agree with you that it would be great to have a small minority of the board compensated so the board can be can be the real checking balance in terms of making decisions that are not beneficial primarily for the employees directors, but primarily for the mission of the organization in most states don’t have those laws. And i think part of that is to accommodate some smaller boards where they may only be three or four board members to start out with. And you do have the founder, who’s compensated on the board and, you know, so e-giving ten percent, which would be very tough. Well, all right, well, then, say one out of force, you know, based on the size of the board. But but it seems risky tohave employees or even do you see this case where it’s it’s other employees or even vendors to the organization on the board? Yeah, way, absolutely, tio i don’t know, i don’t know, maybe i’m it just sounds crazy to me to have especially vendors on the well, no, actually, they’re equally bad to me vendors and and other paid employees aside from the ceo, i just don’t think they should be on the board at all. Yeah, you know, i for the most part again, generally, i would say i would agree with you, you really lose out on all the checks and balances that we talked about, even maur if you’ve got not only the ceo on the board but other employees or contractors as well, and then what about the situation, tony, if the ceo is not on the board but one of the vendors is on the board now, that creates, like this unusual situation where the ceo is really responsible for making sure that bender’s is performing under whatever contract that they have. But the vendors sits on the board that oversees the ceo and can affect the performance or even the retention of the ceo and that that’s kind of crazy, isn’t it? Yes, that’s, i can’t. I can’t see a case where a vendor or contractor to an organisation belongs on the board. I don’t care, even if they’re volunteering their time and the value of their services, or whatever, they, whether they’re volunteering or being paid, they just don’t belong and an employee’s equally bad. You know, some employees are on the board, but not other employees. I mean, what does that do to the peer-to-peer relationships, working relationships in the office? Yeah, they can’t create problems, but let me take the other side for just a moment. That lawyers love to do this right, then so let’s take the other side and say, well, what about a vendor who has been a great vendor paid vendor to the organization that’s been giving discounted rates to the organization all along knows the organization really well on dh if you continue to use that vendor, you just get far better value than you would by using any of her his competitors out there. And now you feel like the vendors so aligned with the mission of the organization, you actually value the perspective that this person could bring to the board and no one invite them onto the board. But you don’t necessarily want to take away this advantageous business kind of action that you have with this vendor, and you may be paying double if you go out and bring them on the board, but not continue to use their services. That may be a case where i say that’s, ok, you’ve to be very careful about this, but that may be okay to bring that vendor onto the onto the organization and in, you know, in a slightly different matter. What if you’ve got a board member? Who’s not a vendor right now, but he says, hey, i can leave my, you know, that’s, an extra business space, and we’re looking to expand i can offer you a lease that, you know, just half the price that you’ll find anywhere else, and you go ahead and have the all the independent board members of that that statement to make sure that what actually is much lower than when what fair market value would be for that space, and that may be another case where it’s okay, the boardmember eventually becomes the landlord of the organization, but that may be okay as well, but you do need the check and balance of independent board members to prove those type of transaction. So you’re not just relying on somebody saying that, yeah, we’re way cheaper than everybody else, you’re actually verifying that with the independent boardmember okay, well, i’m not willing to go that far with you. I think the the vendors perspective can be brought in by the by the ceo so that i think the perspective could be represented. And, you know, if the person loves the organization so much the way you’re describing it, i don’t think they would double the price just because, you know, way didn’t put them on the board. All right, i don’t need to do neither do i, tony, but, you know, it’s interesting board source, i believe, are no urban institute did a study of non-profits that have they’re they’re contractors on the board, and forty five percent said it would be difficult to terminate that relationship that contracting relationship and but only seventeen percent, haywood said it would be very difficult terminate that contract relationship and still keep that member on the board. So it’s an interesting thing, i think generally i agree with you, we don’t like the idea of having them on the board because of the conflicts of interest, but i can understand situations sometimes went when it might be appropriate. You’re more understanding than i am. Jean wait, we have to leave it there to be continued let’s do aboard basics again because we didn’t get to term limits. And then there’s also the question of, you know how often should the board meet? And i’ll bet you have some other topics. So let’s do board six again next time. Okay, that sounds good. I look forward to it. 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149: Dan’s Donor Retention Ideas & Tablet Apps – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio

Tony’s guests this week:

Dan Blakemore, assistant director of development for individual giving at International House

Scott Koegler, editor of Nonprofit Technology News

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Durney hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. I’m your aptly named host. Oh, i hope you’re with me last week why i’d be put into pyre xia if i heard that you had missed intuitive brainstorming, karen garvey, author, speaker, intuitive and coach described the why and how of her intuitive brainstorming process and the pelota paul parte do our legal contributor jean takagi principle of the non-profit and exempt organizations law group continued our discussion from may tenth on dan pallotti’s video the way we think about charity is dead wrong. Jeanne and i also talked about the overhead myth letter that’s been circulating this week dan’s donor retention ideas. Dan blakemore is assistant director of development for individual giving at international house. We talked at fund-raising day last month here in the city about how to hold on to your donors from phone to facebook this was supposed to be beth cancer, but this turned out not to be a good week for beth to be engaged online, so my fund-raising day interview with her will be next week. Also tablet aps scott koegler is back he’s our tech contributor and the editor of non-profit technology news he’s got info on tablet apse for fund-raising between the guests on tony’s take two. You know tony stick to is always between the guests die without a will and reduce your state’s deficit. There’s a sad story out there about a man with a forty million dollars estate i want to do some live listen love before we go to the pre recorded interview with with dan blakemore, nouma zoho yokohama in tokyo, japan. Konnichiwa, yonkers, new york in new york, new york welcome and argentina buenos our days ah, but that’s either. Alejandra oh, francisco ola whichever of you it is we need the other one to come in. Get the other one on the line, whoever you are, not allehanda or francisco let’s transition now to the interview with dan blakemore talking about donorsearch retention welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of fund-raising day two thousand thirteen or at the marriott marquis hotel in midtown new york city right in times square. With me now is dan blakemore. We’re going to talk about donor-centric. He is assistant director of development individual giving for international house dan blakemore. Welcome to the show. Oh, thank you so much for having me, tony. I’m really happy to be here. My pleasure. What? What is international houses work? International house were a residential community for international graduate students here in new york city. The residents can be studying pretty much anything at the graduate level. A ce moment. They’re doing it in new york city, and they’re eligible live at the house. We also house interns, trainees and visiting scholars from around the city. It sounds like a pretty dynamic place to visit you. You are you there? You’re sharing meals with them very often. Oh, yeah. There’s. A dime. I mean, there’s a dining room. I usually have lunch every day with other staff members and resident members. Gym facilities, study room’s, computer labs. I mean, we try to have as much in the house as possible for them. S so yes, they have to leave every now and again to go to class or something crazy like that. What? We really want them to stay in the community as much as possible learned as much from each other as possible. Our mission is really driven by leadership development in cross cultural understanding for the residents sounds like an incredible place to visit all over the world, studying all different kinds of things. Oh, yeah, here in new york, all right, your seminar, the topic is acquisition and retention of donors, but it’s a panel and your expertise is the retention definite. So i’m not going to hold you the acquisition part let’s talk about dahna retention. Well, what social media is a big part of that? But i don’t know, he’s, telemarketing a part of that where you want to start with attention before international house, at least in my experience, the attention has been much more focused around kind of really i i call it really the basics of good fund-raising good stewardship, everybody gets a phone call or an email before long before they get their acknowledgment from the president or the director of development. Um, we’re really trying to focus a lot around showing impact to people so that they are really clear on where their money is going, because when i started at our house, we were in the middle of a multi year, multimillion dollar challenge grant and i started i said, okay, well what are we doing to show impact to the people that have given already? Because it’s not gonna be much easier to get them to give us an extra hundred dollars an extra thousand dollars if they know we’re doing the right thing with their money and there’s really something good happening here? Then you have to be going out to other people saying, okay, you don’t know me, but international house is a great place give me some money. Yeah, widely recognized that it’s cost a lot more time and money to acquire a new donor than to keep one s i said, what are we really doing? And we weren’t doing as much. So i really one of the things i’ve been happy to do in my three and a half years there is really focuses on, ah, sustainable stewardship program so that we really engaging people, whether they are named room donors from twenty years ago to someone who set up a scholarship fund last year that they’re hearing from us that they know that the money they’ve given in the past is really having an impact and of course, encouraging them to continue giving because we we got to keep the doors open. We’re gonna keep the residents exposed to. There are all the programs were providing to encourage their leadership. You mentioned a telephone call who would make that telephone call toe donors to thank in the lion share of cases. It’s me? Since i mean, i’m assistant director development for individual giving. But there are some already i said your title once. Yes. You don’t need to drop names dropping yourself ridiculous already rolling. Not even five minutes into this thing. Already heard times. Thank you. Gonna keep things types up here, mike off. Okay. Ah, blood. There are some that i usually will say for the director, development or president. Especially kind of long, long gone generous loyalty donors, alumni that are much older and has been given to us for decades that i think should at some point here from the president, knew usually a much more of a nice treat for them to kind of hear, share their experience of what they remember from when they lived in the house, but also then know that the president is saying, really, we appreciate your support. We value it. Please keep giving and thank you. Okay, that’s important, i think the backdrop is closing in on us a little bit, so, you know, i don’t know if you have to move, but the backdrop is being encroached from from the other side. Oh, well, good, no, we’ll see what they’re trying to force me. They wanted eleven by ten, they were allocated a ten by ten, they wanted they wanted eleven by ten. Ah, all right, that doesn’t matter, way, continue. I mean, we’ve had earthquakes, we’ve had rappel going on. The lights have gone off today multiple times. I’m not surprised that are not our floodlights, okay? Do boardmember sze, what have you ever engaged boardmember for these, thank you calls occasionally, i mean, i’m working one of my many goals, probably in the next year or two calls it because our learned, a long serving president is retiring in the next few months, so i really want to try to get especially starting with the members of our development committee more involved with fund-raising just some have been very concerned or where about oh, well, i don’t have nearly as many friends who are rich, they could come to the gallo or can make a gift at five thousand dollars level every year, so i just can’t be helpful with fund-raising not true much more, so i’m working with them in-kind open their eyes to well, really, if you just make thank you calls and share your experience, why you share with the donors why you’re on the board asked them why they’re giving that’s easy way don’t you don’t need to write a check you don’t need to harass anybody else. That does not mean i don’t want you to get your wealthy friends to come to our special events or to come to speaker. Programs and meet residence. But it’s really about kind of opening up that fund-raising experience letting them see that there’s a lot more to the process, then just begging your friends to give you some money. Ok? All right, very much a personal touch. What you’re trying to bring hopeful. Okay, let’s, let’s. Go online, tio. Some social media. What? What do you what do you like to do on on facebook? Tio? Well, facebook keep donorsearch all social media for us is challenging, i would say, because by virtue of the kind of non-profit that we are, we are key audiences are always residents to currently live in the house. Alumni, donors trust these other people that know of our work. So it’s, we’re always kind of throwing different messages for different populations, all on the same channels because they’re all there falik it would be it would probably be nicer if we could say all the alumni are only on facebook or all the trustees are only on twitter that’s not realistic that unfortunately that is not going to go to them where they are exactly s o i think it’s been it’s been a lot of integration. To say the least, whether it’s the facebook groups like right now i know we have an alumni reunion coming up next weekend and kind of a lot of the mo mentum for it really started on facebook. Thehe lums, who are the co chairs of the reunion committee, released kind they started their own subgroup within our group. Yeah, that was okay, everybody who’s coming to make sure you’re make sure you get your registrations in, make sure you consider making a gift along with your registration. These are all the events we have going on. We hope to see you there, bring your kids if you if you there’s someone that you lost touch with, we’ll see if we can reconnect you with them. Is there someone you know who doesn’t hear from the house anymore? Make sure you two have them send us their new information. You’re happy to have them piggyback on. Oh yeah, international houses facebook poll that make not like, you know, it’s a violation of policy or something? No, i mean there it’s much better for us to have them out there doing it, getting the message to their friends who, while i’m sure, most the bulk of them live like tar page generally know what we’re talking about. But there it’s all. They’re always going to be much more responsive to someone that they know personally. Me or director development of the element i relations director putting something up saying, hope we see you at the reunion there. Are they all the other aliens happening? Okay, but i think the point is that that degree of flexibility, yes, that’s when someone wants to take the ball, including using your, you know, piggybacking on your organization fund-raising page, you allowed it. Oh, of course. I mean, you want that. I want them to feel comfortable putting those messages out because of those people who are pushing the message out are going to be much more effective in their outreach. Then we could be talking to their friends exactly as close as you get. You know, you won’t ever have the relationship that they have exactly with their friends, talking alternative radio twenty four hours a day. Do you need a business plan that can guide your company’s growth? Seven and seven will help bring the changes you need. Wear small business consultants and we pay attention to the details. You may miss our coaching and consultant services are guaranteed to lead toe. Right, groat. For your business, call us at nine. 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It will make you smarter. Hey, all you crazy listeners looking to boost your business? Why not advertise on talking alternative with very reasonable rates? Interested simply email at info at talking alternative dot com metoo i have other other online strategies, so well, we’re also wanted were dipping toes. I mean, we’re on twitter and a lot of the messaging there has been focused around current events happening at the house kind of as they’re happening, so there has been some live tweeting i know we did some live tweeting of our gala that was on tuesday because we were honoring big named more more i could do more name dropping if you if you so desire, go ahead, drop one that’s not your you know what my problem was? You’re promoting yourself it’s good thing you have written a book yet we would’ve heard that six times by now we’re ten minutes in, i would have it the title six times. I i’m a long way to go before i’m writing a book, but fareed zakaria is one of our trusty outstanding cnn and yes, fareed zakaria gps fundez he was one of the people we’re honoring he’s going on our board for ten years eso he got our award for promoting international understanding, so he was among the very impressive group that were there. S o i know there was some of the trustees were live tweeting, but also we were live tweeting for constitutional account, okay, just so that people could see oh, this is really happening over its cars, getting his award and all paul volcker speaking and okay, and how do you feel this all relates back to donor retention? I think it relates back because latto things like live tweeting, let people see things are actually happening, let them see that we brought a group of residents there to make sure that the special event donors really get a really a clear understanding of the house and what it is are really mission is all about because if you it’s one thing to have a special event, raise all this money and then everybody goes home and feels fine. But it’s it’s always been a priority for us to make sure that the residents were there so they can sew the donors can meet them because a lot of a lot of special event donors, by virtue of not being annual fund owners per se are not necessarily being alums do not come to a lot of our events, so we’re trying to capitalize on the opportunity of having them all in one space to say here, meet some of our impressive scholarship recipients here metoo of the residents have done really impressive things, and i have plenty more to do in their careers so that they can really start to see the value that they’re providing to our community. And for those who can’t come, you’re able to engage them. They think they can see it on twitter. They can book a cz more photos air coming in from the photographer were trying to push those right back out through links on our website on dh through facebook converters so people will, then they say all way or if you were there, you know, someone who was there, you could go through the photos and say, oh, oh, oh so until i got to talk to frieda cardio that’s impressive. So it’s, i think it meets a lot of different purposes without nearly as much effort as it could take. What is the international house doing? That’s ah, you think really exemplary in doner retention slideshare temporary dahna retention that’s a very good question. Well, that’s, that could be another opportunity for me to pat myself on the back so i’m going to seize on this because you did a perfectly tony, i would think thee one on one reporting we’re doing now for a scholarship recipients, because there are a lot of scholarship funds that have been created probably in the last forty years, some through capital campaigns, some kind of much more independently as someone gets to that point in the major gift cultivation process that they decide they want to create a scholarship fund that stewardship is also has really been really important for us because a lot of those donors again are not in new york city don’t get to come to our events or meet residents at all, and the residents are everything whenever in the spring is usually when i get to do all my interviews with scholarship recipients, and i really enjoy it for one just because in the development office there’s so few opportunities to just engage with residents and just kind of here about what are they studying? What do they want to do in their careers? But this is a great opportunity to come in, talk to them, get there, kind of get their story figure out. What it is, they’re really focused on and then be able to share that information with a donor who can say, oh, i made a gif five years ago, fifteen thousand dollars and its supporting great people like this so especially, i think, it’s i think it’s even more important for people who are not in the new york area than for those who usually do come to events and kind of have a feel for the people that live at the house cause i think we’ve gotten some really positive feedback from people about, uh oh, i had forgotten about this xero this has been so interesting and engaging, i feel like i’m really a part of what’s going on at the house, even if i live in another country and for us that’s that’s the heart of it because we have alumni spread out literally around the world and it’s hard to keep them engaged keep them feeling connected to the work that’s happening in new york while they’re also alumni that’s going on all over the world, but they don’t always get to meet the residence. This reporting lets you know it’s, broaden it for non-profits that may not have alumni and followship maybe in something different you’re essentially talking about outcomes reporting yes, little really see okay, you’re you’re fund of fifteen thousand dollars produced let’s say two thousand dollars in the last year that two thousand dollars supported two or three to three residents, and they’re thieves, they’re they’re what they’re going for in their careers. This is what they’re studying, and this is what they’ve done in the last two years while they lived at the house that has really changed, exposed them, open their eyes to different cultures, expanded their horizons and let them see a lot more potential in the areas they wantto work. Yeah, those are all valuable outcomes impacts that donors air now, you know, within the past four, five years, much more interested in that’s, right? Of course, other other methods of sharing impact at a place like international house way, we’ve been experimenting with some video. I’d like to do mohr video right now, of course. Well, but this is not that i’m not going teo sametz out any donorsearch they’re not going to be interesting. Yeah, it will hurt your i don’t want to hurt your e-giving thank you very much. Ah ah, but no it’s really more. In the last two years ago, some residents actually created their own video just kind of encapsulate there i house experience that we’ve been able to use from youtube. Okay, but i really like to do something probably every year, every two years that maybe some scholarship president’s talking about their experience way have a whole lot of some of the different artists it’s in the leadership programs just so that people can people outside of new york and don’t get to be there really just get to see and even for use at special events where people don’t know what it is we do it’s an easy way to say watch this for two minutes at least you’ll have a flavor for what it is we do the caliber of people that live there and the really impressive people that also have participated in our programs. How many residents are there in a given calendar year? It’s, usually between seven hundred and a thousand oh, my gosh is much bigger than i thought, and seventy percent of the resident population is always international we usually try to keep it to seventy percent international, thirty percent domestic on and they can stay for a short is thirty days and as long as three years. And is there just one location, or do you have multiple residences where? I mean, there are there are multiple international houses were the only one in new york. We’ve been open it. We will be ninety next year. Excellent. Where where is it? In new york, we are all on riverside drive. Almost diagonal from grant’s tomb and next across the park from riverside church. Come in view of the hudson. We have great. Some of some of the residents have amazing views across the river. Some have great views through secure a park and onto riverside church grants tomb s oh, there are it’s a nice views considering where you are and we one of them. Anything one of the many things we’re doing for the residents a za part of our operating support. In addition to found scholarships and fellowships that we provide help them put on programming for the community. We’re usually subsidizing residents by at least twenty five hundred dollars per resident based on what they would be paying to. Have to live in the same area, have the same amenities at their immediate disposal on dh that’s really important to us in addition to providing between four hundred, five hundred thousand dollars a year in scholarship and fellowships, so that it’s easier for them to participate in the community, because that’s there we really believe that they get the most out of their time, thereby being engaged in the community by attending program sam’s, getting to know other people from other parts of the world, because our alumni are always very proud too. Lee, go out and then say, oh, if i find myself in sri lanka, i’ve got five people i know. I find myself in djibouti i know three people i’ve been to srilanka, by the way colombo the capital, your and then i went north into the jungle, and tio advomatic fora long i spent about four foot now better part of a week, five days or so we’ll get more well traveled than i thought so. Let’s let’s, bring it back to dahna returned? Yes. How? How important do you think the annual fund is for us? I’m sorry. I don’t mean the annual fund. I meant the annual report, how important is that? Donor-centric attention, i’m probably going, i’m probably going to i’m going to have to say they’re on some levels very important, but to other people totally inconsequential. I mean to i think for the higher level donors, it’s i think with a higher level donors it’s going to be it’s always going to be of interest, to at least be able to have something tangible and see a while in a meeting. Oh, oh, this is this year. This is last year’s annual report, and this is what? Okay, we meet met thes three these big objectives, here’s, some photos, here’s, the important financials. We added these people to the board and they’re bringing all this extra capacity to what we’re doing. But i think also for the annual fund donor-centric dollars a year, i don’t think they are, in my experience, at least working with them. They seem to be less interested in that it’s much more. Okay, tell me about the residents and what they’re doing and much less of the hard core metrics. Hardcore financials. What what’s really actually happening, but that’s, that is obviously a generalization because we have thousands of dollars. What about the house website, the isles webster terms of not don’t just describe it, but in terms of donorsearch engagement in retention just because we’re recently released a new website unveiled it rather, andre were very intentional about providing and as one specific area where we are sharing quotes from residents. I don’t think we have any video clips up yet, but that’s one of my goals for the next fiscal year that’s really focused about how do your gifts impact this community? And how does it mean so that’s mean for us? I think it’s, i’m hoping for the future going forward. People will be able to go to the website and really get to be able to see very clearly if i give international house one hundred dollars, what am i supporting and to know reasonably ok it’s going to be supporting leadership programs, scholarships, fellowships, outings that we do all over the city and within the region for people to learn more about the city and the u s but also have those opportunities to get to know each other. That noise behind dan is a spinning wheel the booth adjacent. Ours is giving away either caps, t shirts, mugs or a chance to win an ipad, and you spin the wheel for the chance and that’s what you’re hearing. So so yes, we’re not we’re not having a dan does not have any kind of speech impediment have this ability to make a ah native american, i don’t clicking sound while he’s talking and speaking code. There was no code underlying what dan was saying strictly a raffle wheel thank you for that very talented man, but does not do the clicking sounds as he’s yeah, the otherwise i think you work for the national security agency if you were able to. Ok, i’ll take it all right, let’s say, well, let’s dahna retention let’s leave listeners with one mohr one more. One more thing they have advice for small and midsize shops, you know, not alumni related like international house, i would say be sure that you are tracking when you send out whatever sort of fund-raising appeals you’re sending out, whether they’re direct mail, email, web based, make sure you’re tracking who they came from what’s kind of the tone that you’re taking, whether you’re talking specifically about impact, or just really, about good works. And then kind of the basic metrics of response rates. So you, khun, be able to compare over maybe two to three years to say, okay, what do more are more donors responding to a message from a trustee? Are more donors responding? The message from the president of the board? Someone who’s actually benefited from our programs, and if we’re talking specifically about impact, do a certain kind of donorsearch sponsor that one, and because all of this information really will help you better cater your message to the various constituencies that you have, but if you know certain donors on a regular appeal will give you fifty dollars. But when you talk specifically about you provide a clear picture of one resident, one person who has benefitted from your cause, they are, they’ll go from fifty to one hundred dollars, then, you know you need to keep sending them impact pieces and not just generic asked pieces so that’s that that’s an easy ruling road we can and we can explore that a little bit more. We got a couple minutes basically talking about testing. Yes, right. So it’s a little more about how you how you conduct your test for me, it’s thus far, it’s really been been able to look back at i think i usually go at least four or five years back to say ok, which appeals? What was really the response rate? Let’s. See how many people were we mailing to? What did that mean? And then say how much money was raised? Obviously, every donor average gift bob, her donor on dh then kind of try to figure out, even though it is. Every appeal is always different. You can it’s hard to pin the differences on any one thing. But if you’re seeing a trend that people are responding mohr two appeals from trust members of the board of trustees. Theun. Then you know, that’s that obviously needs to be something you’re focused more on. But you have to set up a method of tracking these things. Well, yes, i mean, for me, i do something. I keep it very basic. Usually reckon all in excel brothers, the response rates, the author’s kind of the tone way have what other variables? D’oh, d’oh control for still average average. Give her donor the number of donors that actually responded the number of gifts just so that, you know, just it’s much more about having for me having as much information as possible because you could even see in the economic downturn. Yes, while we may not have received as many gifts, the percentage is still stayed reasonably around. What are averages have been okay, so it wasn’t. It was an opportunity to say yes, our totals are down like everyone else is in america, but people are still giving at or above the usual rate, so we really don’t have it. It’s not like we not like we lost fifteen percent of our donor base just because the economy was a mess. And then this way you also have this data that you can go to your supervisors with you’re bored with to justify perhaps increases. Yeah, in spending in certain ways by saying, you know, we’ve got the evidence that more money spent here is very, very likely to have more money bear more. Yeah, exactly. All right. We’re going to get their damned like, well, that sounds good to me. I appreciate the opportunity to be with you and get to your listeners to my pleasure. We’re connected in lots. Of different ways on the social networks. Oh, yes. Ok, it’s, good to see you in person. Blakemore’s. The thank you is the assistant director of development for individual giving at international house in new york city and we’re in new york city with live coverage of fund-raising day two thousand thirteen. Thank you very much for being with us. My thanks to dan blakemore, little quick live listener love before we take a break guangzhou, china, shanghai as well. Ni hao it’s francisco imbriano zara is francisco. Thank you for that tweet. Got you. Ah, we gotta try to we got to get the alejandro. Where is she? 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I want to get try to get all three of them to talk about that overhead myth letter tony steak to my block this week is die without a will and reduce your state’s deficit. A man from new york city died with a forty million dollar estate he was ninety seven years old didn’t have a will and has no family that has been found, and that combination means that his forty million dollars will be paid to the state of new york. I think that’s quite unfortunate lots of charitable good could’ve been done with that or a portion of the estate just very unfortunate that someone would be ninety seven and not have a will on, according to the new york times coverage which i have linked in my blogged he was about to, but his his accountant, i think or his attorney was was on vacation. And when that person came back, he was finally going to do is will but ninety seven is a long, long time to wait to do well. There’s a possible planned e-giving lesson in there. Maybe you can use some this or something like it for, you know don’t let this happen to you. And the story is more fleshed out on my blogged at tony martignetti dot com the post is die without a will and reduce your state’s deafness. Buy-in that is tony’s take two for friday, the fifth of july twenty seventh show of the year and show number one hundred and forty nine. Next week is the sesquicentennial but it’s going to be low key? Just a, uh, just a regular show. Not a dull show. Just a loki show. Not celebratory, necessarily. I mean, i’ll mention it, but that could be a big celebration. All right, that’s enough on what what’s planned. Scott koegler, are you there? I am here, tony. And you know what? I just heard that my great grandfather just died somewhere up there. And i think that i haven’t been in contact with him for a long time. Well, that and have to be on your mother’s side because his last name was bluhm. Okay, well, it was definitely on my mother. It was anybody’s side. Okay, well, congratulations, scott. Koegler, of course, the editor of non-profit technology news. Which you’ll find at n p tech news dot com and on twitter, you can follow scott he’s at scott koegler konigstein our and our regular tech contributor welcome back, scott. Thank you, tony. Good to be here again, like been forever. I think it has been we might have missed a month for some reason. I’m not sure why, but there has been a while, but you’re back and we’re planned for many months into the future. Oh, good. Yes. Let’s talk about tablets. What? Who? The ipad ipad dominates the tablet market. Isn’t that true? Um, well, it dominates in terms of maybe maybe numbers. I’m not really sure the of the domination at this point because the there’s so many versions of android, you know, because it’s a free operating system right now also, lots of tablet makers are able to do lots of things with it, and certainly the tablets have kind of taken over the world. I have a couple of i mean, between my wife and i, we have to wait for, well, almost anything that we you don’t need a keyboard for, you know? So they’re definitely all over and there’s the there’s, the microsoft surface, of course android also, um, this is their surface android. I know this microsoft windows eight be windows that’s, right? Of course would be window. Yeah, yeah, see, that’s, why that’s why i need you on more often, you know, of course, that would not be android that would not be the google offering that would be windows. But i know microsoft is in the is in that business and which is not that common. They don’t produce much hardware right then. And just as a kind of interesting point there. Did you know that the microsoft surface, not necessarily the tablet, but the surface was the very first kind of a tablet ish kind of thing was a table with multi touch technology that could actually recognize objects that was placed on it. And that was the very first generation of that kind of technology and wasn’t that long ago. Interesting. So it knew whether you had a a stein of beer or a cup of coffee, is that what you mean? It could do that? One of the things that they did that was very interesting was you could take a digital camera and just lay it on the on the surface and it would extract the images and display them across the table. And then you could kind of manipulate them around the table. Pretty interesting. Okay, i probably couldn’t distinguish between like, if you had a glass of sauvignon blanc and a glass of chardonnay. You probably wouldn’t know the difference between those, though. Well, there’s an app for that it’s called someone a app. Oh, yeah, you were wind. You are a your wine aficionado final? Yes, way. We’re talking about that. We’ve talked about that a long time ago on dh. Speaking of fine wines, we have we have someone listening from marseilles. Marseilles, marseilles? Yeah, sure. Yes. Welcome. I hope you come back marseille, but all right. But this is an app for that. But let’s, talk about tablet aps on mostly for fund-raising. You have some? You have some ideas there. Are and i think that there’s i think it really kind of those two directions here. One is tablets for just as an alternative to what you do in the office, you know, makes it, if you out about you want to have your tablet and you, khun really manage your basic activities, just threw a browser. So those are really aps, but it is a way to use it. But from what i can tell most, uh, up and coming used for tablets is in events. Okay, that makes sense, right? Because you can have multiple people of your multiple staff members at events with tablets, they can all be accessing the same applications or different applications, depending on what their jobs are so they could be walking around. Um, managing the the auction, the silent auction or the real option, they can be signing up people for their for their newsletter for their email. They can be doing interviews, you know, videos with the with the tablet and post them in real time onto social media or hang on to them for editing later. So you lot lots and lots of applications that may or may not require specific aps, you know, for fund-raising or her non-profits i like the tablet itself is certainly becoming a big deal. I like the idea of having people roving around. I mean, especially shooting video, it could be the shooting like testimonial videos that could be selling some things, or maybe even accepting donations because you can put a simple card reader, plug a simple card reader in and do cash transactions, right? Right on the spot, right? And i think that’s one of the easiest to get hold of is the taking donations, you know? You’re right either, at the point of the reason that the people showed up that’s for a lot of non-profits know, the event is the thing, right? I mean, that’s that’s, how they get a lot of their activity. Right? So having the tablet with, um ah, and the ability, tio, physical hit people up right there. Not just say yes, i will. I will be a sponsor. I will donate. Okay. Let’s, do it. Yeah. It’s, the old, you know, take out the check book except there’s. No checkbook, right? Yeah. It’s. That is in some constituencies that that may work the on the spot donation. So you have some have some sites for us. Some resources i do, and i were just talking about the ability to take donations on the spot, and they’re they’re three that i that i know of. I think there are many more. Obviously, they’re square, which is the ubiquitous little thing, that little square block that you stick into the earphone jack, um, and squares is one again the most widely known, probably okay, and that’s, the card reader. You slide it, use that card, were used to get into your phone, jack, but it’s, a card reader, and there are there three other card leaders that i’ll just mention, because everybody pretty much knows square there’s, one from paypal. And everybody knows paper may not have known that they also had a card reader. So paypal is great for donations because a lot of people have paypal accounts and they can donate from there that’s one of those abs? Well, we’re really well on the tablet, and then you can get the papal card reader. Teo, go directly to paper. There’s one called blue pay blu e p a y dot com that is another ah swipe leader for your tablet and then there’s into it into it, you know, the famous company for quickbooks and quicken in those things. Yes. So they also have away and i haven’t looked at it, but i have to believe that that card reader most likely interfaces directly with they’re they’re probably, um, with their application, you know? So if you swipe, it goes right into your accounting so that for an organization that already uses quickbooks or quicken, that might be a really good option right here. Ok. All right. So those are all the cash transaction ones. And i’ve even done this. I’ve bought books at aa book signing. And you you sign your name right on the on the line using your finger. Right? Right? Yep. Just draw your name, right? Yep. Well, i i’m accustomed to signing with a crayon. I had to make the transition to my fingertips, but i was able to manage wei have just about a minute before break aside from card readers and cash transactions. What, what what else have you got for us? Um, there’s one suggestion, and that is be sure that whatever applications that makes sense also integrate directly with your social media, facebook, twitter and google. Plus, whatever else you may be using two, but we can talk about a couple of things that do that so that you’re not doing double entry and double posting it disclosed immediately in to your social media, from whatever else you’re doing. Yes, you’ve got some apse that work within facebook very well. And when we come back in a couple of moments, we will talk about them. Hope everybody stays with us. Dafs you’re listening to the talking alternative network. Are you stuck in your business or career trying to take your business to the next level, and it keeps hitting a wall? This is sam liebowitz, the conscious consultant. I will help you get to the root cause of your abundance issues and help move you forward in your life. Call me now and let’s. Create the future you dream of. 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Welcome back to big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent even more live listener love, it’s, amazing stockton, california always appreciate the golden state checking in sucked in in the oakland san francisco area west east of there, of course, but stockton live. Listen love to you. Lots of people in seoul, south korea. Welcome south korea. Of course. Anya haserot up at quarter to two in the morning listening in seoul. Thank you. And many of you as well should jury japan konichiwa. And from south carolina. Scott koegler you’re in me. You’re in south carolina, right? Scott, i have that i am a doctor. Alana. Tony. Okay. What town? Where you were you calling in from my town is named traveller’s rest traveller’s rest. Oh, yeah, we’ve talked about that. Sounds like an insane asylum. Ah, sunday or a nursing home. Okay. Shoretz, i’m sure it’s. Very lovely. I’m sorry. I’m well, yeah, they called it traveller’s rest. I mean, they have to expect some some comments about that. Uh, one thing about it is there is only one in the country. Is that right? Okay. Okay. There’s. Only one new york city, too. That’s. True. What do you have for us that does? Fund-raising and works inside facebook? Um, there are a couple of them one that i’ve seen is called fund raiser that’s fun are ese, are if you just go on the facebook into search for you’ll find it it’s uh, it’s, an app that is actually within facebook and, of course, then facebook works on tablets pretty well. So it’s really not a nap. It’s really a facebook application, but, you know, since a lot of fund-raising and social activity goes on in facebook that it’s really a kind of a natural for for any kind of a non-profit trying teo integrate all the pieces together, okay? That’s yeah, they’re they’re also at ah, fundraiser, as scott said, r a z e r dot com i mean, as you said, scott yes, fundraiser don’t count as well. What do you what is it? What you like? You’re okay? So you like their social media integration? Any any fees around? Fundraiser? Do you know? Um, you know what? I’m not sure about feeds? I don’t i don’t believe there are. I’m not sure how the what their business, um, plan is in terms. Of back-up you know, making yeah, how they were living. Okay, okay, well, listeners can look att fundraiser inside facebook. What else is going on in facebook? Um well, there’s, a couple of there’s one called causes spelled just like you think it would be. I’m really less familiar with that even less familiar than i am with fundraiser, but i know that causes is one of those applications have been brought to my attention and it’s big, i mean, it’s got looks like almost nine million likes and so that’s much larger than fund-raising, which actually was only about ten, ten thousand, i think so. No ten thousand what? And ten thousand users, users okay, okay. Causes and causes was founded by a couple of friends of the facebook founder mark zuckerberg. I saw one was his former roommate from harvard and one was a former president of facebook, so they’ve got some ins face-to-face they’ve got a pretty high, high connection att facebook okay, causes anything else going on in inside facebook? Well, it’s probably a lot, but those are the only ones that i really know about, okay? I also found a site called inside facebook dot com, which has a bunch of different sites that that use well, operate within facebook, so obviously use, use that social media tool in conjunction with fund-raising and and other things well, inside facebook dot com. Okay, what else you got? Scott and there’s, one application that actually is a nap for for tablets, actually, little workout smartphones as well, but it works on tablets and that’s called razz mobile that’s r a z mobile dot com and on, you know, it’s one of those things. That’s. Uh, it does cost, although i let me see if i know how much it costs. But it is. It is one of those applications you could walk around with and use in an event you can also integrated into other applications. Facebook, twitter, whatever, whatever else you like, it allows you to basically running your you’re non-profit. I would say it could take a place of a blogged. For instance. Whatever you do on there can be posted as news. You can post it out to your social media. Uh, you’re gonna have your videos to it. All those kind of things plus believe it has a donor management function with it. Yep, it does. So you, khun making appeal, take a poll and ask people to donate when they don’t get it on their tablet or on their smartphone. They can interact directly with it by making donations right there. Okay, so it’s sort of a network unto itself? Yes. Yes. It’s. Uh, well, you know, it’s a cloud based application. So anything that you do connects with everything else. Okay, i did get a question from twitter from live listener. Lynette. Lynette, welcome to the show. Glad you listening. Um, she asked a question going back to the card readers. Scott today, do they allow you to capture the cardholders? Information for non-profits it would be helpful for follow-up communications. Do you know if if you can capture other like, contact info? Uh, that i don’t. I would expect that on the face of it. They probably do not because there’s there’s gotta be some privacy implications there, for instance, is definitely not going to it will capture the information from the swipe it will not save that much i know, and i would think that if you’re using the one that integrates with quicken there’s probably window that pops up, that allows you to, um, to capture additional information, although i’ve never used that, so i really can’t bounce for, but knowing how quick and works a, i would think that that’s probably one of those we’ll be there, okay? Lynette says that she likes the idea of using tablets and card readers for on site donations, but wants to be able to continue the conversation beyond just a donation. I guess in that case, if you’re not able to capture it through the transaction app, you no, get the get the person’s business card, and i always like to make notes on cards after him away from the person. So, you know, for that i would probably put, you know, donation or a dollar sign or something on the card just to remind me that it’s somebody who made a donation and that’s and that’s why i want to follow-up that’s a very you know, old world. Jeez, we’ve been exchanging business cards for for generations. I wish i had something more high tech for you, lynette, but i would say grab the person’s business card if you can’t get it inside the app, well, i can offer one thing on their you’re probably familiar with what evernote and have i ever knowed is a is one of those krauz based applications that will even capture almost anything in every note. But they have an app that you can install that connects with evernote, and i think it’s called people. And so what that allows you to do is bring up every note on your tablet, snap a picture of the person and then put in their contact information right there, so that actually would be a really good application for that. And then ever note, um, i will go into the description of every note because it will do so many, many things, but basically it’s a big storage cabinet for anything we want toe record. Okay, cool there’s a record that as proud of you are part of your event. You can then connect that into your your fund-raising applications as well. All right, lynette, thank you for for that message. That was a direct message from lynette, but of course you can always use hashtag non-profit radio if you want. Teo, connect with us and join the conversation on twitter. Scott, we only have about thirty seconds left. Regrettably went quick. What’s right what’s one more site that that you want to expose people to, uh, here’s one if you don’t, if you can’t find the after what you want and you want something specific, try i not for-profit i not-for-profits dot com. You could make your honor grayce non-profits okay. There you go. We you and i know that you and i have talked about creating your own app. Of course. You gotta make sure it’s, widely known after it’s created otherwise. Nobody’s gonna know that’s if you want to sell it, this would be just for your own use for your own. Whatever application you want to do for non-profit. So this is not a commercial thing that you’ll sell this just something you i got you using internally. Excellent. All right, scott. Thank you very much. Excellent. Scott koegler, editor of non-profit technology news at n p tech news. Dot com, and on twitter he’s at scott koegler. Good to talk to you. Thanks very much, scott. Take your time, lynette live listener lynette, thank you very much for your question and uh and you’re welcome live listeners everywhere over all over the world from new york, new york too where’s, the further star shoe jiri, japan welcome s so happy to have somebody live listeners today next week, beth cantor, author of the network to non-profit and measuring the network to non-profit will we’ll run that interview from fund-raising day next week? And maria semple is back she’s, our prospect contributor and the prospect finder google alerts may be going goodbye maria’s got alternatives for you and of course, next week the sesquicentennial but a low key sesquicentennial. Have you liked our facebook page? 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