Empowering Nonprofits: Insights from a Veteran Leader

Join us in the dynamic world of nonprofit leadership with a seasoned expert who shares the ins and outs of organizational growth, retention challenges, and collaborative solutions. From scaling operations to forming strategic partnerships, get actionable insights that empower mission-driven executives to amplify their impact. Here are a few topics we’ll discuss on this episode of the Scaling Impact Podcast. Retention and recruiting in modern nonprofits Automation's role in nonprofit evolution Corporate partnerships bolster nonprofit missions Strategies to address nonprofit funding decreases The importance of mission-driven leadership Resources: Rob Harter Coaching and Consulting DevNoodle Podcast Chef NxtStep Connect with Rob Harter: LinkedIn Connecting with our hosts Josh Hoffman - LinkedIn Alex Garashchenko - LinkedIn Sean Boyce - LinkedIn Quotables: 31:44 - I'm a big believer that every organization, it either rises or falls based on their leadership. So if you want an organization to improve, and this could be a company, a business, a nonprofit, deal with that to improve you, improve the leadership. So if you improve the leader, you're gonna improve the entire organization. So that's kind of my, what drives me and what gets me excited too is that if I have some time to meet with that leader and or the leadership team or the board who has the really can move the needle for an organization, that organization gets healthier. When that leader gets healthier, that organization gets better when that leader gets better. And so that's a lot of what drives me in my consulting business 16:05 - We didn't have this in our budget to provide all this rent assistance. And so really it was a community thing. So it was mostly individual gifts, but the more people got excited about, Hey, I could do something, I'll send a check. And, and it literally just came in and we just sent it right back out. So it was an in-and-out gift. And so the more we were able to report back on that, on who we were helping, who we were serving, and Park City's not that big of a community, even though we have a two county region, the word spread pretty quickly, I guess is what I'm saying. And so people found out real examples of, oh, that's my friend, or that's my people that normally I employ. Those are the people I just, I can't employ anymore. We had to let 'em go or temporarily furlough them because we, there's no work to be had. So they knew that we were helping their, you know, helpers and their employees and whatnot. So the money was not hard to ask for, I guess, long story short. 39:07 -  I've had some people on the show that actually are part of these corporate foundations, right? And they, I've actually asked that exact question, and what they tell me, and so I'll pass that on. 'Cause I think it's really good advice is when it comes to corporate donors, and let alone, this is the same for state, you know, government, federal government, and local government. It's all about relationships. It's really building an honest and like a positive relationship with folks that are decision makers when it comes to potential funding, potential collaboration, getting in front of the right people to ask, Hey, would you think about collaborating on this project or supporting this project through your finances? You know, so I think that relationship starts the whole process. So if you just only go to corporate partners or if corporate foundations just go to nonprofits and it's just a money transaction, it's not gonna go very far. 24:08 - And I know it sounds so simple, we all know that. But if you don't put that literally into how you make decisions, it needs to become a funnel. So when things come at you, you run it through your, okay, does this match your mission? Yes. Does 'cause it matches your vision? Yeah. Is it according to of values? That's where I think sometimes people miss or organizations miss. When you make decisions, you start realizing and d