SUMMER SERIES! (3/4) Ensuring Organizational Relevance and Building Organizational Resiliency
Release Date: 08/08/2019
The Big Rethink Ep. 5/5
The Ask
Our thanks to Erin Sargeant Greenwood of Saint Mary’s University for participating in KCI’s The Ask podcast, and for sharing her insights, advice, and thoughtful list of “must do’s” for charities as they move forward with fundraising during and after the pandemic.
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Le grand repenser - Épisode 4/5
The Ask
Dans le baladodiffusion de KCI, Lili-Anna Pereša, Présidente et directrice générale de Centraide du Grand Montréal prédit les effets de la pandémie : un virage vers des approches ultralocales ; une consolidation et augmentation de partenariats des divers secteurs ; meilleure utilisation des données et des faits.
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The Big Rethink Ep. 4/5
The Ask
In KCI's The Ask podcast, Lili-Anna Pereša, President and Executive Director of Centraide of Greater Montreal predicts the effects of the pandemic: a shift to hyperlocal approaches; sector consolidation; more public, private, non-profit partnerships; and better use of data, facts, and knowledge to inform decisions.
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The Big Rethink - Ep. 3/5
The Ask
In this episode of @KCIPhilanthropy The Ask, Eva Friesen President and CEO of the Calgary Foundation offers her thoughts about mission relevance, mergers, and doing things differently in both service delivery and grant making.
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The Big Rethink - Ep. 2/5
The Ask
Thanks to Ted Garrard, Chief Executive Officer of SickKids Foundation for sharing his wisdom and guidance! In this episode of KCI's The Ask, Ted offers thoughts about the impact of the pandemic on fundraising in Canada.
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The Big Rethink
The Ask
Unprecedented. Uncharted. Uncertain. These are just a few of the words being used to describe the times we’re navigating as we deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and its fallout. It’s hard to know exactly what this will mean for Canadian charities.
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Moving from Defence to Offence: Practical Tips for Planning in a Period of Uncertainty
The Ask
The attention of organizations over the last weeks and months has been almost exclusively focused on how to adapt, adjust, and frankly survive these unprecedented times. It’s now time to start to think ahead. But since we will need to navigate volatility and uncertainty for a while yet, the biggest challenge in the next while will be to find the right balance between addressing immediate challenges with starting to plan for the future.
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Collaboration: Stronger Together
The Ask
Many non-profit organizations are considering new and innovative ways to remain viable, including collaborating with like organizations. In this episode, we hear from Jennifer Ritter, Co-CEO of Make-A-Wish Foundation Canada which was recently formed as part of one such collaboration.
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Top 10 Reflections from KCI’s What’s Next Interview Series
The Ask
Throughout our What’s Next Interview Series, Nicole Nakoneshny, KCI’s Lead, Knowledge + Insights conducted in-depth, one-on-one interviews with each member of our Philanthropic Trends Advisory Board who are some of the most thoughtful and successful people involved in fundraising and philanthropy today. Via those conversations, we explored how fundraising is evolving, what it takes to be successful in today’s environment.
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SUMMER SERIES! (4/4) Are You Ready for a Leadership Position?
The Ask
“Are you ready for a leadership position?” In this episode, KCI’s Tara George and Nicole Nakoneshny get personal about our own journeys and Tara shares some thoughts and advice about what is required to be ready take on a leadership position.
info_outlineIn this special four-part Summer Series of KCI’s podcast The Ask we share snippets from some of our favourite recent conversations that we weren’t able to include in an episode. Some quick, easy listening for those long summer days where we might have better things to do than listen to full-length podcasts about fundraising. Enjoy!
In this episode, we revisit the need to “make the case for our sector”. In the same way that the sector overall needs to adapt and respond to a changing philanthropic environment, many specific charities are finding the need to do the same thing, something particularly true of long standing organizations that need to ensure their ongoing relevance in the minds of today’s donors. One organization that’s been undertaking this work over the last number of years is United Way of Greater Toronto. In a conversation with its President and CEO Daniele Zanotti, we hear about the adaptations and responses they’ve put in place to respond to their changing environment…as well as about the organizational resilience that is being created as a result.