Nonprofit Fundraising & Marketing Podcast by Pursuant
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Go Beyond Fundraising, a podcast brought to you by the Allegiance Group + Pursuant, seeks to find the sharpest minds in the fundraising, nonprofit marketing, and organizational leadership and create conversations that spark positive change. We exist to help determined nonprofits make an even bigger impact in the world through smart strategy, cutting-edge technology, and actionable data. Learn more at https://teamallegiance.com/go-beyond-fundraising-podcast/
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It translates nonprofit fundraising into concrete decisions about donor behavior, stewardship, technology, and sustainable revenue.
Go Beyond Fundraising turns donor retention into an operating question: how should a nonprofit use data, communication, and technology to build durable support?
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A grounded nonprofit discussion of sustainability, messaging, and mission support.
The segment treats nonprofit sustainability as an operating problem: keeping programs, revenue, and messaging aligned as funding shifts. It works best when it separates the case for support from the case for impact, and when it shows why grantmakers and monthly donors may need…
A practical AI discussion for fundraisers who want efficiency without losing donor relationships.
This episode looks at artificial intelligence as a practical tool for nonprofit fundraisers, with a clear eye on where it can save time, sharpen decisions, and where people still need to stay involved.
A practical case for treating repeat giving as a long-term growth priority.
Donor loyalty sits at the center of this discussion, framed by practical questions about what happens when acquisition softens, which repeat behavior matters most, and why donors with seven or more gifts matter as a different kind of asset.
Refreshing the right pages can beat publishing more of the wrong ones.
This episode frames nonprofit SEO as a discipline of restraint. Rather than pushing for more volume, it makes the case for getting more from pages that already have traction.
A grounded case for nonprofit video that keeps the audience, not the speaker, at the center.
Pat Taggart makes a plainspoken case for nonprofit video: the point is not to smooth over a speaker's nerves, but to help an audience understand a mission, a need, or the next step.
A practical case for treating direct mail and digital as one donor path.
The piece treats fundraising as a both-and choice rather than a false either-or split: nonprofits can grow digital channels while still sharpening direct mail.
A practical reset for nonprofit teams trying to make digital advertising useful again.
This episode gives nonprofit teams a practical reset on digital advertising, with Leah and Laura Hendrickson moving from common misconceptions into advice that can actually be used.
Stewardship works better when marketing and fundraising treat it as shared work.
It treats donor stewardship as a shared job rather than a back-office chore, and the exchange between Trent Ricker and Sue Citro of Best Friends Animal Society keeps that point grounded.
Fundraising evidence for working nonprofit teams.
Fundraising advice with operational backbone.
Practical leadership conversations for the social profit sector.
Clear talk for the charity sector.
Leah revisits the show’s video conversation.
Leah and Matthew Mielkarik use Go Beyond Fundraising to unpack journey mapping, touchpoint audits, and the “donor vortex” as a way to study the donor experience across email, social media, websites, and offline mail.
Go Beyond Fundraising: The Podcast for Nonprofits focuses on how USAID cuts are forcing some organizations to lay off staff and rethink budgets, with Erin Robertson and JC Bouvier from Allegiance Group and Pursuant describing clients in international aid and EPA-linked funding.
Go Beyond Fundraising turns to generational giving with Alyssa Boger, Allegiance Group plus Pursuant’s EVP of Client Strategy, and focuses on Gen X and Gen Alpha as donors and volunteers.
This special-series conversation revisits a pre-merger episode from Go Beyond Fundraising.
Kevin Hagan, President and CEO of the Patient Access Network Foundation, uses a Ukraine Airbnb example to show why direct person-to-person aid can feel powerful but cannot match nonprofit scale.
Leah talks with Alyssa, EVP of client experience at Allegiance Group + Pursuant, and Jennifer Lomax, senior executive director of direct response at City of Hope, about hospital annual funds and why they matter before year end and fiscal 2026.
Cynthia Round, a brand strategist and culture evangelist with leadership roles at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, United Way Worldwide, and Ogilvy, argues that nonprofits should treat brand as a strategic asset.
Matthew Mielkarik and Joe McLaughlin frame omnichannel attribution as a measurement problem for nonprofits that cannot be solved by email alone.
Go Beyond Fundraising focuses on SMS messaging as a nonprofit tool, with Leah and guests Stephanie Drahan and David Cicchetti from Allegiance Group plus Pursuant.
Debbie returns to the Go Beyond Fundraising podcast to discuss public media stations facing federal funding cuts that remove 8% to 20% of expected revenue, with FY26 and FY27 money clawed back through a rescission package.
The episode looks at what omni-channel fundraising means for nonprofit teams.
Go Beyond Fundraising: The Podcast for Nonprofits focuses on omni-channel fundraising and how nonprofits can unify data across systems to build a fuller view of donors and constituents.
The hosts focus on the first gift and what comes next.
Ryan Carpenter and Trent Ricker return to a donor experience conversation with a simple but useful question: how should nonprofits guide new donors and existing donors into the relationship that fits their affinity best.
The episode centers on one practical question: how nonprofits can expand digital channels while also making direct mail work better.
Leah hosts Laura Hendrickson for a conversation about five myths that can keep nonprofits from using digital advertising well.
Leah opens the conversation around a straightforward choice for nonprofit teams: build more content, or get more from what is already there.
Krista Stelzmuller joins the show to talk through how Charity Water uses technology and transparency to build stronger donor relationships.
The conversation opens in late March 2025.
Laura Hendrickson and Trent Ricker talk through how digital fits into modern nonprofit growth.
The episode looks back at relationship fundraising a decade after the original research.
Exponential change is the premise.
Ryan Carpenter from GivingDNA joins the podcast to discuss strategies for nonprofits to maximize impact from donor-advised funds (DAFs).
Leah interviews Amelia Bauman from Double the Donation about maximizing corporate matching gifts for nonprofits.
Go Beyond Fundraising: The Podcast for Nonprofits focuses on how nonprofits should choose a CMS, with Mark Letta, Ren John, and Russ Chetier comparing WordPress, Drupal, Sitefinity, Sitecore, and Kentico.
Go Beyond Fundraising discusses how nonprofits can spread ad dollars across the year instead of concentrating everything in November and December.
Leah and Trent Ricker focus on artificial intelligence and the decisions nonprofit fundraisers are beginning to confront.
Host Leah and guest Trent Rickert discuss strategies for building donor loyalty in nonprofits, emphasizing the shift from transactional to relational fundraising.