Pat Taggart is the Founder and Chief Creative of SkyBlue Creative, helping many nonprofits effectively use video as part of their communications portfolio. He visits the SnapCast to talk about the right way to create and use video. Among the things we cover:
The biggest hurdle to promoting a non-profit on video is often the reluctance of leadership to put themselves on camera
Tell vs. Compel
What can you film yourself vs. getting help from a pro
How/where to share
Video FAQs for non-profits
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Nonprofits and AI with Colleen Cook
Colleen Cook of High Tide returns to the SnapCast to talk about AI. Our conversation covers a wide breadth of knowledge regarding AI, its use and utility to the Nonprofit Sector. Among the things we discuss:
Why nonprofits may be fearful of AI
How my team is using AI
Considerations to make when selecting and using AI
Potential of AI for nonprofit capacity building
Generative AI
Predictive AI
Natural Language Query
Use cases of AI in an organization
How we're thinking about deep AI integration for the nonprofit sector in HighTide
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The Prepared Organization with Michael Randel
Michael Randel makes his second recording with the SnapCast. This time we talk about how to determine if an organization is really prepared for growth. Among the things we cover:
Insights from studying Mackenzie Scott grant recipients that led to the concept of "the prepared organization."
Consequences for organizations that are not prepared for growth opportunities.
The importance of Purpose and Identity as the foundation of the framework.
The necessity of having a plan for growth.
The impact of leadership alignment on successful growth strategies.
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Five Critical Mistakes with Michael Randel
Michael Randel is the founder and director of Randel Consulting Associates, a consulting firm that leads organizations through change and growth. He visits the SnapCast to talk about how to make organizational change less challenging. In our conversation, we talk about five common problems organizations experience as they navigate change. Among the things we discuss:
Is it true that 70% of organizational changes fail?
Emphasizing mistakes that happen early in a change process
Three Levels Of Resistance
Advising leaders on how to lead change initiatives that are more likely to be successful
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Technology Won't Do The Work For You with Paul Morris
Paul Morris of Foundry Fundraising visits the SnapCast to talk about your technology and making the right technological investments. Among the things we discuss:
Technology won't do the work for you and doesn't solve all your problems. No matter how shiny it is
Nonprofits are woefully underinvesting in the technology tools needed, especially for development
Nonprofits don't have to invest wildly, they can and should be smart about it
The right tools supports the work
The impact of this underinvestment? Wasting a ton of time - staff, stakeholders, volunteers, donors.
The risk to not investing has short-term and long-term impacts
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