Episode 32 - An interview with Dale Nirvani Pfeifer, Founder & CEO of Goodworld - Social Payments, Social Giving, and How Technology and Money Collide

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Episode 32 - An interview with Dale Nirvani Pfeifer, Founder & CEO of Goodworld - Social Payments, Social Giving, and How Technology and Money Collide

This week on The Philanthropy Podcast, Dale Nirvani Pfeifer, Founder and CEO of Goodworld, discusses how social payments and social giving. Dale touches on how technology is shifting the way that people interact with money, how that plays out in new forms of giving, how privacy and transparency are perceived differently by younger generations, how the giving patterns of these generations differ from previous ones, how our storytelling might need to catch up to new forms of content consumption and more.

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Episode 29 - An interview with Beathe Ogard, President of SAIH - Social Media Guidelines

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Episode 29 - An interview with Beathe Ogard, President of SAIH - Social Media Guidelines

This week on The Philanthropy Podcast, Beathe Ogard, President of Studentenes og Akademikernes Internasjonale Hjelpefond (Norwegian Students' and Academics' International Assistance Fund) or SAIH shares with us SAIH's newest social media guidelines for volunteers and travelers as well as some background on SAIH's efforts to raise awareness of stereotypical representations of the beneficiaries of nonprofits and aid organizations worldwide. SAIH's past successes include Africa for Norway and the RadiAid awards. This episode features essential considerations for any nonprofit in their marketing efforts and ideas that are important for all nonprofit employees, board members, and volunteers to consider in how the represent and speak about their program beneficiaries and partners.

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Episode 24 - An Interview with Tiffany Khan, Director of Sun Devil Giving at ASU Foundation - Online Giving Days

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Episode 24 - An Interview with Tiffany Khan, Director of Sun Devil Giving at ASU Foundation - Online Giving Days

This week on The Philanthropy Podcast, we're joined by Tiffany Khan, Director of Sun Devil Giving at the Arizona State University Foundation. Tiffany and I discuss giving days and preparing for the challenges of an online giving day, building communications tools that help distribute ownership and engagement, choosing the date of your giving day, considering how to give other departments notice to prepare for the load they'll see, providing instant recognition for giving day donors, and more.

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Episode 7 - Interview with Pete Cullen Conway, Misericordia - Major Gifts, Introduction Letters and Visits, Closing the File, and Twitter Advocacy

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Episode 7 - Interview with Pete Cullen Conway, Misericordia - Major Gifts, Introduction Letters and Visits, Closing the File, and Twitter Advocacy

Today, our guest on The Philanthropy Podcast is Pete Cullen Conway, Director of Major Gifts at Misericordia in Chicago. Pete shares with us some great major gift advice including how he utilizes introduction letters to open doors with benefactors, how he handles first visits, when and how to close the file on reaching out to a donor, and how he uses twitter to get supporters to start rowing the boat in the same direction. 

Our discussion with Pete reveals a lot about how Misericordia, an organization with some of the most diverse ways of reaching out to the community, utilizes relationships to explore these avenues. Pete's ideas are great for putting into practice right away and also for simply keeping in mind as we go about our work. Pete shares a sentiment that I believe many of us share "I'm in the development office, but I work for the families" (Click to Tweet) and much more.

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Episode 6 - Interview with Kara Buffardi, Craveity Marketing - Digital Marketing, Social Media, Email, and Websites

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Episode 6 - Interview with Kara Buffardi, Craveity Marketing - Digital Marketing, Social Media, Email, and Websites

Have you wondered where the right place is to begin your digital marketing efforts? Do you feel overwhelmed when trying to maintain a presence online? Have you ever felt like your digital marketing could be more engaging and more personal? Then today's show with Kara Buffardi of Craveity Marketing will provide some advice you can put to use right away.

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