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  <title>Episode 119: How can you create and use your vision, mission, and values?</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Get tips on how to define your vision, mission, and values and how to go about crafting a message that articulates who your organization is to the world. </itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Episode 60: Why should your Executive Director prioritize communications?</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Farra Trompeter and Sarah Durham discuss the many flavors of communications teams and how to help leaders understand what communications can—and can’t—do to advance the mission. </itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Episode 57: What should your nonprofit’s communications really achieve?</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Sarah Durham’s new book, The Nonprofit Communications Engine, explains what nonprofit communications teams can actually deliver and what they need to be successful.</itunes:subtitle>
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