The Smart Communications Podcast
The Smart Communications Podcast is a useful resource for all nonprofit leaders looking to boost their communications chops on the go.
About the show
The Smart Communications Podcast helps busy nonprofit leaders build their communications skills and develop their organization’s voice. Every episode shares insights and practical tips to help you leverage strategic communications to advance your nonprofit’s mission.
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Episodes
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Episode 115: Why does belonging matter in the workplace?
June 22nd, 2022 | 20 mins 28 secs
inclusivity, nonprofit, teams
Listen to this podcast to learn how to make your workplace more inclusive as well as how to understand and mitigate exclusions and microaggressions.
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Episode 114: What can white managers do to reduce racial harm?
June 8th, 2022 | 31 mins 14 secs
equity, nonprofit, racism, teams
Listen to this podcast to learn how your team can better understand how we hold power, privilege, and bias, and what individual accountability looks like in working toward equity and justice.
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Episode 113: How can you use research to understand your brand perception?
May 25th, 2022 | 19 mins 13 secs
brand, community, nonprofit, research
What kind of research can an organization conduct if they want to understand their brand perception? How can you engage your community and center equity in the process?
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Episode 112: How can you facilitate inclusive conversations?
May 11th, 2022 | 18 mins 30 secs
communication, nonprofit, teams
Facilitation. How can you do it well? This podcast explores how to engage in group discussions and intentionally create space for participants to feel heard.
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Episode 111: How can your organization stay human-centered in an artificial world?
April 27th, 2022 | 24 mins 5 secs
nonprofit, teams, tech
Learn how you can use smart tech tol take over the tasks that make work feel overwhelming and endless, and that can lead to staff burnout and a lack of forward progress.
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Episode 110: How can technology create an equitable world?
April 13th, 2022 | 23 mins 54 secs
communications, nonprofit, teams
Technology can strengthen our ability to communicate across society, across communities, across families, and across individuals. Listen and learn how to shift our relationship to technology.
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Episode 109: How can workers tap into their own power and voice?
March 30th, 2022 | 27 mins 30 secs
co-op, cooperative, nonprofit, worker-owned
Farra Trompeter, co-director, talks with Esteban Kelly, executive director at the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, to discuss how cooperatives work and aspects of worker democracy.
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Episode 108: How can you promote legacy giving?
March 16th, 2022 | 10 mins 57 secs
campaigns, fundraising, nonprofit
Farra Trompeter, co-director, and Lori Kranczer, founder and CEO of Everyday Planned Giving, talk about legacy giving and provide tips on how to proactively market this way of giving to your donors
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Episode 107: How can you approach succession planning?
March 2nd, 2022 | 22 mins 59 secs
communication, nonprofit, teams
Farra Trompeter talks with NTEN CEO, Amy Sample Ward, about succession planning and how creating continuity plans for everyone can support a people-centered culture that centers staff.
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Episode 106: Protecting one's time: How can wellbeing play into decision-making?
February 16th, 2022 | 22 mins 52 secs
communications, nonprofit, teams
Learn the value of starting with why, self-care, and the art of delaying with Big Duck’s Hannah Thomas and Fatima Jones, senior director of marketing & comms at the Apollo Theater.
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Episode 105: Why do government agencies need strong brands?
February 2nd, 2022 | 21 mins 38 secs
Find out the importance for government agencies to be focused on branding and communications work.
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Episode 104: How can you embrace the challenges of changing your name?
January 19th, 2022 | 15 mins 2 secs
branding, brands, nonprofit
Learn more about what a good name can do for organizations–and how to navigate the process of changing it in the episode of the Smart Communications Podcast.
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Episode 103: Tiny Habits: How can small changes change everything?
January 5th, 2022 | 22 mins 34 secs
communications, nonprofit, teams
Get tips on how to take five days to learn about yourself and learn about the tiny habits that you chose.
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Episode 102: How can you create a healthy workplace in remote settings?
December 16th, 2021 | 25 mins 46 secs
nonprofit, nonprofit communications, teams
What can you do to embed wellness into how your organization works? Meico Marquette Whitlock shares his knowledge about how we have to take care of ourselves so that we can do good work better over time.
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Episode 101: How do you know when your nonprofit has a jargon problem–and what can you do about it?
December 1st, 2021 | 22 mins 31 secs
nonprofit, nonprofit communications
How do you know when your organization has a jargon problem? Listen to this podcast to get helpful tips on how to tackle this issue.
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Episode 100: How can nonprofits apply the principles of Emergent Strategy to their communications?
November 17th, 2021 | 38 mins 26 secs
nonprofit, nonprofit communications
Hannah Thomas and Priscilla Hung, co-director at Move to End Violence, discuss adrienne mareee brown’s Emergent Strategy and how to apply it to nonprofit communications.