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With over half-a-million downloads, the Successful Nonprofits Podcast shares insights, tools, and tips to help you and your nonprofit thrive. Our incredible content is the reason we're ranked in the top 2% of podcasts globally. Each week, Dolph interviews nonprofit experts and leaders who share their experiences and wisdom on a wide range of topics relevant to the nonprofit sector. From fundraising and board development to leadership and strategic planning, and more! We also offer shorter Bonus Break episodes you can listen to while taking a tea break – and get the added bonus of making you and your nonprofit stronger. These Bo...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Dolph Goldenberg turns nonprofit leadership advice into concrete questions about governance, fundraising, workplace trust, and financial decisions.
Dolph Goldenberg keeps Successful Nonprofits Podcast close to the decisions that determine whether an organization functions: how boards govern, how leaders build trust, how fundraisers maintain donor relationships, and how staff think about their own finances.
A lunch with the board chair clarifies who decides what; Dolph Goldenberg makes you want one.
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The grant matters less than the message, the ask, and the page behind it.
The episode uses Google Grants as a starting point, but the real value is the plain stuff that often gets missed: knowing who the message is for, making the ask clear, and sending people to landing pages that do some work instead of wasting the click.
A grounded ethics conversation that keeps nonprofit leadership tied to real tradeoffs.
Dolph Goldenberg and Andrew Cooper anchor the episode in practical nonprofit concerns: pay, hiring, moonlighting out of necessity, and the strain created by thin budgets.
Equity-centered fundraising, grounded in lived experience.
Fundraising and justice are the thread running through this discussion. Dolph Goldenberg asks whether the sector can actually meet its stated commitments to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and Kia Kroon answers from more than two decades in the field, including work…
A practical guide to starting a remote volunteer program with small, manageable wins.
Remote volunteering comes across as a practical operating choice for nonprofits, not a side project. Dolph Goldenberg and Michelle Wisner focus on how remote volunteers can take on work that is not getting done, and Michelle recommends starting with manageable tasks like data…
A clear retention reset for nonprofit leaders who want a better way to think about why people stay.
This episode treats retention as a leadership problem, not a headcount problem. Dolph Goldenberg and Joe Maul return to a plain but uncomfortable point: people tend to stay when the job fits their life, the work feels worth doing, and the boss matters more than managers like to…
Donor journeys get clearer when fundraising follows behavior instead of habit.
Gabe Cooper makes a plain case for stopping the habit of treating every donor the same and matching the ask to how people actually behave. The discussion moves from personas to donor journeys, with a useful split between advocates and activists, and it keeps its feet on…
A practical case for leadership that makes room for honesty, not just polish.
Dolph Goldenberg frames Mohan Sivaloganathan's conversation as a challenge to the old nonprofit leadership script: stop assuming yesterday's habits will fit tomorrow's work.
A straightforward look at a nonprofit benefits package that says a lot about workplace culture.
FoodCorps comes across as unusually generous here, with Dolph Goldenberg and Kurt Ellis laying out benefits that many for-profit teams would envy.
Where mission meets operating reality.
Black enterprise, strategy, and community power.
Nonprofit consultant Dolph Goldenberg presents five time-sensitive fundraising tasks to implement in the five weeks between Thanksgiving and December 31st.
Dolph Goldenberg interviews Joe Mull about his book 'Employalty,' focusing on how nonprofits can improve employee retention by shifting from expecting employee loyalty to practicing employer loyalty through humane practices.
Host Dolph Goldenberg interviews high school seniors Jake Grotonsky and Alec Bansal, co-founders of the nonprofit Souls to Souls, which provides shoes to those in need.
Dolph Goldenberg opens on the need to commit to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in fundraising.
Dolph Goldenberg opens by introducing Gabe Cooper and his book, Responsive Fundraising.
Dolph Goldenberg and Mickey Desai start with a nonprofit myth-busting conversation.
Dolph Goldenberg talks with Manish Shah about how nonprofit teams build and repair relationships.
Dolph Goldenberg talks with Stephanie Wagner, director of learning and development for Healthy Minds, about why saying yes too often can create stress, resentment, and chronic overwhelm.
Dolph Goldenberg talks with Michelle Wisner about virtual and remote volunteering, and the hidden capacity nonprofits leave on the table when they do not build a real program around it.
Successful Nonprofits Podcast host Dolph Goldenberg talks with Kevin Greer, New Profit’s Chief Administrative Officer, about a seven-day organizational rest period called a “radical reset.” Kevin says New Profit started it in August and September 2021, about 18 months into the pandemic, when staff were dealing with burnout, exhaustion, and overwhelm.
Dolph Goldenberg asks Adam Snipes whether a 501(c)(3) nonprofit should create a 501(c)(4) for issue advocacy, and Snipes answers by separating IRS rules, lobbying limits, and direct election activity.
Dolph Goldenberg interviews Andrés Tapia on the Successful Nonprofits Podcast about “driving results as an inclusive leader,” with chapter five of Tapia’s book The Five Disciplines of Inclusive Leaders as the main focus.
Dolph Goldenberg uses a COVID-era performing arts client to show how a nonprofit can plan for a 15-month shutdown, create two digital shows, and later move to an outdoor venue in spring 2021.
Dolph Goldenberg sits down with Kurt Ellis to talk about world-class benefits for nonprofit teams.
Small habits are the point.
Dolph Goldenberg speaks with Andrew Cooper about the ethical imperative for nonprofit leaders.
Dolph Goldenberg talks with Griff Bohm about major donor traits, behavioral psychology, and AI in fundraising.
Dolph Goldenberg talks with Rob Acton about his book, Becoming a Causey.
Dolph Goldenberg opens the show by admitting he knows very little about Google Grants.
Dolph Goldenberg opens with a warning.
Dolph Goldenberg opens by arguing that the leadership of the past will not carry the nonprofit sector into what comes next.
Dolph Goldenberg talks with Tucker Miller about her book, The First Four Words, and the idea that many hard conversations fail because people “didn’t know what to say.” Miller says four words became the sweet spot after years of coaching executive leaders who avoided conversations about performance, conduct, support, and feedback.
Dolph Goldenberg and Lisa Fernandez focus on email sequencing for nonprofit donor retention, using a Southern mobile meditation center as the main example.
Leslie MacKrell joins Dolph Goldenberg to talk about how an operating model helps turn strategy into results.
Successful Nonprofits Podcast centers on the Atlanta Community Food Bank’s board liaison role, with host Dolph Goldenberg interviewing CEO Kyle Waide and inaugural board liaison Xavier Roberts.
Dolph Goldenberg and Dr.
Successful Nonprofits Podcast producer Lexi Linger frames this year-end montage around one question: "What is one thing you started doing or stopped doing that had the biggest impact on your career?" Guests answer with specific shifts, including Dolph moving from transactional work to relational work and Adam J.
Dolph Goldenberg talks with Nate Wong, a partner at Bridgespan Group in Washington, D.C., about leadership transitions for nonprofit leaders of color and the extra barriers that show up in chief executive roles.
Donna Peters argues on Successful Nonprofits Podcast that a personal board of directors should be three to five people chosen for a specific goal, not a social group of friends.
Successful Nonprofits Podcast host Dolph Goldenberg uses a mailbag episode to answer two questions about board members behaving badly, including one from “Ted” about refereeing conflict and one from “Jen” about repairing damage after a destructive board president.