NPA 095: How to Track Grants, Donations and Program Expenses
The Nonprofit Ally Podcast
Keep track of your nonprofits funds can be tricky. Tracking grants, donations, program expenses and other revenue means organizing your dollars into trackable categories. Have you ever wondered if there was a system that made this all easier? What is the "right" way to track grants? Should I track each fundraiser separately? If so, how?
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NPA 094 - How to Use Video Effectively
The Nonprofit Ally Podcast
Are you scared of video? No, really... if I told you to make a video for your Facebook page, would you panic?
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NPA 093: Making Change with Video
The Nonprofit Ally Podcast
Everything is "video, video, video". Really - 80% of all internet consumption is video. So, if you are not using video you are behind the game.
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NPA 092: How to really RAISE MONEY with AUCTIONS
The Nonprofit Ally Podcast
In this episode I talk with Adam Capes from GetAway2Give about how he helps nonprofit raise $10,000's with auctions. Adam Capes is the Co-Founder and President of Getaway2Give, a company changing the way non-profits raise money and people think about vacations.
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NPA 091: 911 Funding for Nonprofits
The Nonprofit Ally Podcast
In this episode, we talk about how to obtain emergency funding for your existing programs. I talk with Caroline Bressan from Open Road Alliance. They are a private philanthropic initiative that serves the social sector by keeping impact on track in an unpredictable world.
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NPA 090: How to be an Innovative Nonprofit
The Nonprofit Ally Podcast
My guest on this podcast is Jesse Lane with Pure Charity. Jesse talks with us about nonprofit "innovation" and how it can be used to spark new ideas and build sustainable programs that grow through changing times.
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NPA 089 - Smart Start Your Nonprofit
The Nonprofit Ally Podcast
In this episode, I talk with Michael Rivera from Jee Foods. Michael is part of a group of high school students who started a nonprofit to help the hungry in their area. The program is an initiative to discover new models for alleviating hunger throughout the world.
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NPA 088: An Audio Board Training
The Nonprofit Ally Podcast
In this episode, I talk with Kate Hayes from Echoing Green. We talk about the importance of creating diversity on your board as well as how to help your board work better as a team.
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NPA 087: The Journey to Sustainability
The Nonprofit Ally Podcast
In this episode I speak with Rosenna Bakari from Talking Trees. It is a nonprofit she started back in 2010 and just recently devoted full-time hours to help the organization become sustainable.
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NPA 086 - How to Fundraise without Asking for Money
The Nonprofit Ally Podcast
The reason most people hate fundraising is because they hate asking people for money. But this assumes that "asking" is all we do when we fundraising. And this is where the problem lies. It's not so much that we hate asking for money... it is that we think that asking for money is what funding raising is about. And this is just not true.
info_outlineIn this episode, we talk about how to obtain emergency funding for your existing programs. I talk with Caroline Bressan from Open Road Alliance. They are a private philanthropic initiative that serves the social sector by keeping impact on track in an unpredictable world.
Open Road Alliance provides short- and long-term solutions to unexpected challenges that arise during project implementation, so that impact and finite resources can be maximized across the social sector.
To meet immediate needs, we offer fast, flexible funding to nonprofits and social enterprises facing discrete, unexpected roadblocks during project implementation. We fund via two portfolios, Charitable Grants and Loans. Open Road Loans are below market-rate and disbursed via our loan fund, Open Road Ventures.
Open Road sees every grant and loan it makes as an investment for social impact. Our funding model is based on speed and financial leverage.
In addition to our investment portfolio, Open Road promotes the long-term, sector-wide adoption of better risk management practices. In collaboration with peers, we conduct research, develop tools, and generate data on approaches to financial and non-financial risk management. By disseminating learnings and advocating for the adoption of best practices, Open Road is working to make risk management as commonplace in philanthropy as monitoring and evaluation; ultimately, preserving finite resources and social impact in our sector.
RESOURCES
Website: openroadalliance.org
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/open-road-alliance
Risk Management Resources: openroadalliance.org/advocacy