Christina Tzavaras Edwards
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Ready to stop fundraising the old way and start doubling results? Join nonprofit strategist Christina Tzavaras Edwards for bold, fast-action tactics that help you 2X your next fundraiser and build a community fueled by generosity. From leveraging the Social Street Team®: Influencer Marketing Method to mastering courageous fundraising asks, this podcast equips you with the mindset and strategies needed to spark deep engagement and sustainable growth—no extra workload required.Music by The Selmanaires, featuring "Selmanaire Rock." Visit http://www.splendidatl.com/podcast for more.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Concrete campaign postmortems make nonprofit fundraising feel like an operating discipline rather than a vague appeal for generosity.
Purpose & Profit Club - The Nonprofit Fundraising & Marketing Podcast turns fundraising advice into concrete operating choices. Christina Tzavaras Edwards moves between campaign postmortems, guest conversations, and solo guidance, asking how nonprofit teams set goals, involve…
Even the theater kid finds asking for money gross; your donor nerves have company here.
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A tight Giving Tuesday reset built on urgency, timing, and a sharper ask.
The episode lays out a practical Giving Tuesday playbook for nonprofit leaders and the teams around them. It argues for a shorter, tighter campaign window, with supporters warmed up in advance but not so early that the message loses force.
Monthly giving reads as the payoff for tighter fundraising, not the opening move.
Purpose and Profit Club® treats monthly giving as something built, not stumbled into. The episode works best when it connects recurring support to steadier fundraising and less dependence on events or grant cycles.
Familiarity can make "fine" feel like strategy.
Purpose and Profit Club frames a familiar challenge for established organizations: once a nonprofit has enough history, a sense of “fine” can start to masquerade as strategy.
A practical reset for nonprofits that treat email like sending instead of fundraising.
This one works as a practical reset for nonprofit fundraising teams that have started treating email like a chore instead of a revenue channel.
A practical year-end fundraising reset centered on momentum, belief, and closing strong.
The episode treats fundraising less like a slogan and more like a habit of motion. It leans on a record breaking year to make a simple point: waiting feeds fear, while action builds confidence.
Small-team fundraising gets clearer when the ask becomes a script, a plan, and a little nerve.
This episode follows a small nonprofit team trying to raise money for growth without dressing it up. Sharing Hope Africa's co-founders talk through the unease behind fundraising, the value of scripts, and the move from awkward asks to a repeatable system.
A blunt January reset for nonprofit leaders stuck between burnout and indecision.
For nonprofit leaders coming off a heavy year end, this offers a January reset aimed at getting back into motion. It is less about inspiration than about sorting what is truly urgent from what only feels that way, then making one clear call instead of carrying a stack of…
Five emails, one ask, and a practical lesson in using different voices to shape a fundraising campaign.
The episode stays with Missouri's National Veterans Memorial and the email fundraising work around it. Michael Murphy lays out how one appeal turned into five emails by changing point of view: an 82-year-old Vietnam veteran, the executive director, and volunteer voices.
Where mission meets operating reality.
Black enterprise, strategy, and community power.
Christina interviews Michael Murphy from Missouri's National Veterans Memorial about his success with email fundraising after taking her Easy Emails course.
This episode provides a mindset and tactical pep talk for non-profit leaders during peak fundraising season, emphasizing teamwork and overcoming hesitation in fundraising efforts.
This episode discusses the concept of 'CEO time' as a crucial leadership habit for nonprofits to break revenue plateaus by protecting time for growth-focused work instead of reacting to daily operational tasks.
This episode segment discusses the fundraising busywork trap, where non-profit leaders work long hours without meaningful progress, and explores why people default to busy work instead of taking decisive, courageous action to advance their mission.
This episode introduces a two-part series on 2026 fundraising trends for nonprofit leaders, emphasizing the importance of resetting and aligning goals with emerging strategies for greater impact.
Christina starts with a direct note for nonprofit leaders who feel spent after year end.
The host opens by treating GivingTuesday as a real deadline, not some far-off idea.
Christina welcomes Jamie Porzel and Sophia Caputo, the co-founders of Sharing Hope Africa.
Nathan Ruby returns for part two to unpack the micro events his organization uses to open doors with supporters.
The host argues that nonprofit influencer partnerships work better as ambassadorships than as one-off posts.
The host opens with the familiarity trap.
Nathan Ruby joins the show to unpack the fear that can sit underneath major gift fundraising.
Purpose & Profit Club® episode 174 frames year-end nonprofit fatigue as a “campaign hangover” that hits after Giving Tuesday, November fundraisers, and December appeals.
Purpose & Profit Club® episode 176 argues that donors give again at year-end because of donor momentum, identity, and staying visible instead of going quiet.
Record-breaking growth is not magic.
Christina Tzavaras Edwards discusses why reducing email frequency leads to fewer donations for nonprofits, arguing that email is a powerful, underutilized asset for fundraising.
Christina Tzavaras Edwards outlines five essential email types for nonprofits: story, gratitude, campaign, re-engagement, and invitation emails.
Part 2 goes straight at the tools.
Kim Ann Wardlow and Penn Street join the show to talk through a fundraising campaign that hit its $20K goal early and then went past it.
Christina argues that nonprofit revenue grows faster when leaders stop waiting for “a seat at the table” and start choosing rooms where decision makers, donors, and influencers already gather.
Purpose & Profit Club® focuses on the fear of 'bugging' donors and argues that silence usually protects the fundraiser’s ego, not the donor.
Purpose & Profit Club® episode 186 lays out six indicators that a nonprofit fundraising strategy needs to change, starting with the claim that “generosity follows momentum” and donors often need 15 to 17 touch points before deciding.
Monthly giving is treated as the outcome, not the opener.
Megan Enan brought in a win worth unpacking.
The host frames the start of the year as a reset for nonprofit leaders and fundraisers who feel overloaded.
The host explains why online fundraising is not inherently hard and discusses how to run effective sprint campaigns to increase donations.
The episode discusses GoFundMe's unauthorized creation of nonprofit donation pages and the implications for consent, compliance, and control.
Interview with Dana Snyder about her book on monthly giving strategies for nonprofits.
Interview with Abby Jarvis about the latest data on recurring giving for nonprofits.
Host Christina Tzavaras Edwards interviews Floyd Jones about building sustainable communities for purpose-driven leaders and funding Black-led nonprofits.
Interview with Jen Graham, founder of Inclusive, discussing how to create inclusive spaces for courageous conversations and community co-creation.