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Heather is a Partner in the Nonprofit Practice at ThinkingAhead. She recruits nonprofit professionals nationwide, connecting high-caliber mission driven professionals and leaders with meaningful organizations.

Heather graduated from the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, MN, with a B.S. in Business Administration: Marketing and Management. Prior to ThinkingAhead, she gained sales experience with Great American by consulting, marketing, and promoting fundraising programs in schools and other non-profit organizations. Heather also has many years of experience consulting franchisees as they open their businesses. She coached on management, processes, and developmental strategies to ensure their success.

Heather lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. During the short Minnesota summers, you can find her road biking, camping and hiking, but she does appreciate the winter months and will be outside snowshoeing or snowboarding. Heather also really enjoys cooking and playing with her dog Leah year round.

Awesome discussion with Maria Bryant on NPO marketing, branding and storytelling 101.  Maria is a nonprofit marketing strategist who works with purpose-driven people seeking purposeful marketing for their nonprofit. She provides practical strategies and empathetic mentorship to nonprofits ready to amplify their mission and message. She has over ten years in marketing communications in the public sector, a master’s degree in public administration, and a bachelor’s degree in journalism. Maria is a firm believer that storytellers make the world a healthier, safer, cleaner, and happier place.  Maria's awesome website: https://www.mariabryan.com/  Follow Maria on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mariabryancrtv Alex and FRN on socials: https://twitter.com/dalexsimon https://www.instagram.com/fund_raise_now https://www.linkedin.com/company/fund-raise-now/

Alex talks to Teddy Schleifer, an investigative journalist at Puck News writing about the mega-rich. 

"Just as reporters cover poverty in America, reporters must cover and uncover wealth in America — offering the scrutiny that informs essential debates about income inequality, money-in-politics, and the role of private philanthropy," says Teddy. 

In Philanthropy and Nonprofit work, we spend so much time working on the "how?" to get in front of major donors we don't often think about the bigger picture. How do Billionaires use philanthropy to drive a more extensive agenda? 

Teddy operates out of Silicon Valley. Follow him and his incredible Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/teddyschleifer. Sign up for his free newsletter (I highly recommend) https://thestratosphere.news/teddy-schleifer. And Puck the affordable subscription base platform https://puck.news/. 

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Kristen Faith has been a digital marketing and advertising expert for more than a decade. She is the Creator behind The Nonprofit Makeover and the award-winning nonprofit Break The Silence Against Domestic Violence. Kristen has helped nonprofits and companies like Sephora engage their community on social change initiatives.

In this episode, we talk about her new agency, being a founder of a startup NPO, and advice for survivors of domestic violence.

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I was honored to have a conversation with two Senior Philanthropic Advisors, Bleu Blakslee and Marty Dutch. Both of these incredible people have a deep understanding of how to build relationships and deliver measurable outcomes for both nonprofits and major funders.

One of the ways to work with major funders is by cultivating relationships with Family Offices. Family offices are private asset management advisory firms that serve ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) investors. For example, many family offices offer money management, insurance, charitable giving, run family-owned business, wealth transfer to the next generation, and tax services.

The Family Office space has grown with the development of tech over the past 20 years new families have emerged with Ultra High New Worth assets, and a FO continues to be an easy solution for managing complex business affairs.

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Alex Simon and Dan Hanley from Alturi Consulting hosted a Clubhouse with Heather Campbell, Nonprofit Recruiter at Thinking Ahead Executive Search, Erika Pinheiro Director at Al Ortro Lado, and Vu Le from Nonprofit AF.

Find out more about the incredible people on the panel

• https://thinkingahead.com/
• https://alotrolado.org/
• https://nonprofitaf.com/

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Alex spoke with the legendary visionary accountant, Germeen Guillaume.   Germeene has a decade in accounting for some of the biggest firms and banks in the world and over the last 5 years, she's been helping NPOs get their finances in order and remaining compliant.   I wanted to do this conversation because so many times the fundraising arm and the finance arm are in a silo.  How can we bridge that relationship?  

Follow Germeen here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/germeen-guillaume-b764b458/ 

Her website: https://www.visionaryag.com/ 

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It was an honor to talk to Alex Wilson, Co-Founder of The Giving Block, a company that allows Nonprofits to accept crypto donations. This type of money becoming is more mainstream and tax incentives are in place for donors, why not add this capacity to your NPO?

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Alex spoke with Hannah Brown, Director of Communications at ActBlue, the fundraising juggernaut with Democrats, and progressives. We spoke about ActBlue's history, how they are leveling the playing field with major donors and super PACs, and some of their secrets in capturing online donations. Will their next move be in the NGO space?

Find out this and more in this episode.

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Jon-Stephen Stansel is a social media professional with almost a decade of experience managing and creating content for higher education, small business and government social media accounts. He has worked for the University of Central Arkansas, Texas State University, the Texas Department of Transportation, as well as consulting for many small businesses.   In this episode, we discuss managing brand social media in 2020, managing yourself in 2020, and how marketing and fundraising can work together.  

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In episode four, Alex Simon talks to Shane O'Rouke founder of www.weliftup.org a nonprofit that matches donors to projects so they invest and feel Returns on Investment immediately. Shane also has been able to follow the 100% model. One of the biggest objections supporters might have; "how much of my donation actually goes to those individuals actually in need of my donation?" Because Shane and We Lift Up secured corporate and major donor support 100% goes to the project. We lift up also has excellent branding and user experience on their site. How did all of this get done in just a short amount of time? We explore that and more.

Ashley Budd digital strategist and designer at Higher Ed Live and Director of Digital Marketing at Cornell University talks about the rebirth of your organization's website at the north-star of truth in the post-truth world, encouraging senior staff to take on designated gifts, and our favorite topic... storytelling!