501(c)3(b)(s): Deprogramming For Organizational Growth

Episode 50: This podcast is the audio version of a Zoom workshop held on April 9, 2020 with information on SBA emergency loans for organizations, Orange County’s Funder’s response to the crisis including information on grants, and stories of organizational success through crisis. Presenters include: Victoria Torres, Director of Community Impact, Anaheim for the Samueli Foundation Taryn Palumbo, Executive Director of Orange County Grantmakers Craig Russom, Business Consultant for the Finance Center for the Orange County/ Inland Empire SBDC Network, Hosted at California State University, Fullerton, Mihaylo College of Business and Economics Links to Resources: EIDL Loans Resources from SBDC: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5j3ivhlqnbltuzu/AACGkOvhY3EGKDtMMSK8NCfra/Resource%20Materials?dl=0&subfolder_nav_tracking=1 SBA Disaster Loan Assistance: https://covid19relief.sba.gov/#/ Link for the OC Community Resilience Fund: http://charitableventures.org/resiliencefund/ Send your OC “feel good” stories of g

A rebroadcast of our interview with May Harris of For Purpose Law, who dispels many of the legal myths of our Social Sector. Are raffles legal? Can governments appoint board members? Should 501(c)(3)s incorporate in Delaware? These are just a few.

This rebroadcast examines a Bureau of Labor Statistics study done in 2012 and 2016, showing that public benefit corporations have pay equity with for-profit corporations dispelling that old myth that we make less. We talk to the BLS researcher who did the study.

A rebroadcast of one of our favorite episodes on the mythology around fundraising events. Do you really make money on these events when everything is calculated? Would your staff make the organization more money in other ways if they didn't have the event? Listen and decide for yourselves. Help us by following us, sharing us in social media, and rating us with a 5-star review.

This is a rebroadcast of our first episode dealing with the BS around the word "Nonprofit" with guest Heidi Gottlieb.

A brief look into our fourth season.

What is innovation that transforms organizations? Peter Drucker defined innovation as "change that creates a new dimension of performance." But how does one do that? It is not what most people think it is. It is not some creative new thought and some wild idea that just happens to work. It is not thinking outside the box. It is eliminating the box, using the scientific method on a small scale to find what works, and then scaling it up. Zoot and the Gianneschi Center are in the middle of a research project on real innovation in small organizations. The G3X Conference this year is centered on the idea of innovation. Zoot discusses true innovation from his research and his own experience growing an organization 400% during the recession.

There is much BS around the use of interns: "They are a waste of time," "They are there to get coffee," "They are hard to get," "They are hard to keep." In my position as CEO of a cultural center, we hosted about 60 interns each year which did a great deal of work on our behalf. Of our 17 staff positions, 15 were filled by volunteer interns. Today we are talking with Robert Pierce and Andrew Gonzalez of the Center for Internships & Community Engagement at California State University Fullerton. Together we are going to clear up the myths around internships.

(Part 2 of 2) In the vein of Reddit's "Ask Me Anything," a panel of esteemed experts at the 2018 G3X Conference took questions from the audience and dropped some pearls for the audience and you! Experts for the two days of panels include: Zoot Velasco, Gianneschi Center Director Sally Lawrence of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Orange County and a professional fund development Officer Victoria Torres of OneOC, a local training, and volunteer recruitment organization Jan Masaoka, CEO of California Association of Nonprofits and our 2018 keynote speaker Frances Phillips, co-author of theNonpfoit Kit for Dummies (who will return as a keynote speaker for G3X in 2019).

(Part 1 of 2) In the vein of Reddit's "Ask Me Anything," a panel of esteemed experts at the 2018 G3X Conference took questions from the audience and dropped some pearls for the audience and you! Experts for the two days of panels include: Zoot Velasco, Gianneschi Center Director Sally Lawrence of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Orange County and a professional fund development Officer Victoria Torres of OneOC, a local training, and volunteer recruitment organization Jan Masaoka, CEO of California Association of Nonprofits and our 2018 keynote speaker Frances Phillips, co-author of theNonpfoit Kit for Dummies (who will return as a keynote speaker for G3X in 2019).

In part 3 of our trilogy of Jan Masaoka, Jan returns to discuss all the BS surrounding board issues based on another well-known book she wrote, "The Best of The Board Cafe: Hands On Solutions for Nonprofit Boards."

Since so many enjoyed last week's podcast with Jan Masaoka as keynote at the 2018 G3X conference, we thought we would rebroadcast the two podcasts she did with us in 2017. The first is based on her book on planning which redefines how organizations should do their plans.

As we prepare for the 2019 G3X Conference on Aug 9-15, we look back at last year’s keynote by Jan Masaoka, best-selling author, advocate and CEO of California Association of Nonprofits. Jan gives some great information and surprising facts about our sector in her own inimitable style!

We have been counting down our top 10 episodes and today we reach #1, the most downloaded episode of our podcast: This is a rebroadcast of our 2018 conversation with Todd Hanson, Vice President of the Center for Engaged Philanthropy at the Orange County Community Foundation, recognized as a “center of gravity” for philanthropy in Orange County. Since this administration came to the Foundation, their assets have increased from $43 million to $378 million, and OCCF has now awarded more than $510 million in grants and scholarships since its inception in 1989. (These are 2018 numbers.) This dramatic growth has placed the Orange County Community Foundation as a stand-out among more than 780 community foundations across the nation, placing OCCF as the 8th most active grantmaker among its colleagues, and in the top 10% in total assets. For more than 16 years Todd has provided support to some of Orange County’s most generous families, helping them achieve their philanthropic goals and inspiring effective and impactf

In counting down the top 10 episodes of our podcast, we get to #2! This is a rebroadcast of our 12th episode, in which Zoot Velasco, our host, gave the keynote speech on mentorship at the Utah State Poverty Conference for Utah Community Action Partnership this week. He explained the importance of our work and how it affected him personally... no BS.

This week, as we count down the top 10 podcasts of all time, we reach the #3 most downloaded podcast on Collaborations. In this rebroadcast, we talk about the importance of a local collaborative in developing community, dovetailing our mission with more general community benefit, creating collective impact, and using a "high tide to raise all ships." As our example, we talk with Fullerton Collaborative CEO Debra Stout and Barry Ross, one of the founders of this collaborative and several other collaboratives in Orange County CA. 

This is #4 on our Top 10 list of most popular episodes: A rebroadcast of our seventh podcast, We talk Millennial Marketing with the Pied Piper of Youth Marketing,Tar Rakhra.

We are counting down our Top 10 most listened-to podcasts of our first two seasons. This week we arrive at #5 on our all-time list, a rebroadcast from May of 2018. Dr. Linda Lausell Bryant, of NYU Silver School of Social Work discusses with Zoot the problems that can happen when leaders treat their staff as a "family".

A rebroadcast of Nonprofit Ally Podcast #078 Panel Discussion on growing a small, newly formed nonprofit. Nonprofit Ally is a top podcast on our sector and one of the few (besides this podcast) designed for small organizations to grow.  

This is a rebroadcast of #7 on our list of the ten most popular episodes of our program.  Today we take a break from our normal format of interviews. Instead Zoot will give a master class on best practices of board development for community benefit organizations... No BS.