EPISODE 7: If you’re wondering how to keep your board engaged and activate their fundraising gene, then you don’t want to miss out on my conversation with Teri Todd, the Director of Development and…
The Your Nonprofit Life podcast is dedicated to the folks who are working hard to have a positive impact in their communities and heal the world.
Join me, Laura Zielke, each week to learn from both staff and board members of not-for-profit organizations. Even if my guest’s mission is completely different than yours, you’ll be encouraged by their grit, vulnerability, authenticity, and generosity.
When you listen, you will feel less alone in your work, and you will be inspired to take your nonprofit from messy to thriving without burning out in the process.
EPISODE 6: When today’s guest shared that reports of child abuse have dropped by more than 70% in the last month, I was thrilled…until she explained why. Then, I was speechless. Listen to this…
EPISODE 5: Meet Heather Lojeski, the co-founder of Faith Hope & Love. Heather and Mark married soon after high school and before they began their family, they became foster parents. That experience, combined with…
BONUS EPISODE: Kayla Cares 4 Kids, under Kayla’s impressive leadership, is continuing to educate and entertain sick children in spite of COVID-19. Rather than pause her work with children in hospitals during the pandemic…
EPISODE 4: My guest, Andrea Pauls Backman, spent most of her adult life in investment management, but everything changed when her mother was diagnosed with A.L.S. — a rare disease for which there is…
EPISODE 3: Mindy Griffith is the Executive Director of BAG IT! Her organization educates, empowers, and connects cancer patients and their caregivers with the right information at the time when they need it…
EPISODE 2: Why would an introverted electrical engineer leave her successful and lucrative career in high tech to join the team at a small nonprofit, and how did she go from being part of…
EPISODE 1: It takes a special kind of person to take the helm of a nonprofit while simultaneously navigating her own personal trauma. That’s Jill.