We Are For Good
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The We Are For Good Podcast brings nonprofit professionals + everyday changemakers into conversations with the most innovative, heartwired leaders in social impact. Hosted by Jon McCoy + Becky Endicott, each episode unpacks fresh mindsets, practical skills + inspiring stories designed to help you work smarter, build healthier cultures + accelerate our collective impact.Join our value-aligned community—it’s free—at weareforgoodcommunity.com.About We Are For GoodWe Are For Good is a storytelling, learning + activating community built for nonprofit professionals + everyday changemakers. Through our podcasts + media, purpose-driven activations + global gatherings, we equip for-good leaders with…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It translates nonprofit ideals into concrete decisions about staffing, capacity, volunteer leadership, organizational power and narrative investment.
Jon McCoy and Becky Endicott turn nonprofit management into candid, practical conversations about how organizations handle change, capacity, power and public narrative.
John and Becky make you price a resignation before you promise another growth year.
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A warm case for nonprofit work as essential to the community.
The episode treats nonprofit work as central to community life, not something appended at the edge. Analia Weber and the hosts return to how language confers legitimacy, from the way a nonprofit describes its impact to the trust it builds with donors, partners, and community…
A practical look at the digital donor gap and the case for more human nonprofit storytelling.
Josh Burns frames the digital donor gap as a simple but stubborn problem: many donors now research causes online before giving, while many nonprofits still operate without a clear digital marketing strategy.
Rest is treated as part of the work, not a reward.
The episode settles into a steady case for peace in nonprofit life, with John, Becky, and Lindsay Fuller circling the same ground from different angles.
A practical case for treating narrative as infrastructure, not decoration.
Carolina Garcia-Jairam and the Elevate Prize Foundation make a steady case for story as infrastructure, not decoration. The episode connects visibility to fundraising and stays focused on the practical work of helping a leader be seen, heard, and resourced without turning that…
A candid case for trust that treats nonprofit leadership as messy, human work.
The conversation treats trust as a leadership habit, not a slogan. It stays close to the hard part of nonprofit work: telling the truth, bringing people in, and choosing integrity even when the curtain would be easier to keep up.
Recurring giving starts with how an organization welcomes, thanks, and keeps showing up.
Recurring giving and donor stewardship are the center of this conversation, and the main point lands fast: the way an organization welcomes people says a lot about what it really values. Dana Snyder and Mike Dirksen keep it grounded.
Transitions are costly, personal, and easier to handle when teams plan for them early.
Naomi Hadaway argues plainly that people leave, and that organizations need to plan for that instead of acting surprised when it happens. The episode keeps its focus on what healthy systems have to do with people and uncertainty, which gives the conversation some real shape.
Hope lands best when stories point toward action.
The episode sits in the narrow space between despair and hope, and it treats culture and storytelling as a way to bridge that gap without sanding down the hard parts.
Where mission meets operating reality.
Black enterprise, strategy, and community power.
People leave.
What question needs solving?
This episode explores how nonprofits can scale impact through mergers and collaborations, featuring Ananya Poder from C-Change Capital Partners.
Leona Christy, founder and CEO of Catalyst Exchange, connects her upbringing in India and immigration to the U.S.
Glenda Testone, CEO of the Nonprofit Leadership Lab and co-host of Nonprofits Are Messy, talks with John and Becky about trust-based leadership shaped by 14 years running New York City’s LGBT Community Center.
Ori Carmel, founder and CEO of Soin, argues on We Are For Good Podcast that nonprofits need “metrics with meaning” instead of performative reporting.
TWLOHA’s Kathyrn Baccash says nonprofits should treat creators like donors and fundraisers: a core relationship group that can move a mission further than a brand can alone.
Seth Godin tells We Are For Good that nonprofits do not have a risk problem so much as a “feeling of risk” problem, and he pairs that with examples from airplanes, AOL, Yahoo, and GeoCities.
Dana Snyder and Mike return to talk through the modern fundraising conversation.
Julia Campbell says a small nonprofit can build a week or two of content in one hour by starting with goals, audience, and platform choice.
Mirror for Good examines the volunteer strategy gap: nonprofits universally claim volunteers are vital while systematically failing to invest in infrastructure, budget lines, or strategic planning integration.
John and Becky open by naming Jacob Adams as a guest they both wanted on the show.
This working session focuses on practical storytelling techniques for nonprofits, covering frameworks like empathy-connection-action and the impact arc, while emphasizing ethical principles and community-building.
AI fluency is the new digital literacy - understanding what AI can do, what it can't, and how to verify results.
Brooke Ritchie Babbage joins the conversation to talk about stability as a leadership choice.
Susan McPherson, author of 'The Lost Art of Connecting' and CEO of McPherson Strategies, discusses the epidemic of American loneliness (41% extremely lonely, 75% see friends twice monthly or less) and challenges nonprofits' reliance on mass communication and technology.
Carolina García Jayaram, founding CEO of the Elevate Prize Foundation, argues that story is "infrastructure" for nonprofits because visibility drives fundraising and culture.
Carmen Patlan of the Center for Immigrant Progress says the immigration system has been “intentionally been broken,” then gives a concrete example: a sister from Mexico could face a 26-year wait for petition review.
Rhea Wong joins We Are For Good for a working session on activating boards before December 31 and turning year-end signals into a 2026 pipeline.
Namaste Direct and the Women's Justice Initiative describe a transition built around “sunsetting is not failure,” with Desiree Lyons and Kate Flatley explaining why a microfinance model in Guatemala needed to change.
At year-end, We Are For Good hosts John, Becky, and guest Lindsay Fuller reflect on 2025 and set intentions for 2026.
Amir Samandi says a London study-abroad trip at St.
Gloria Dixon, Director of Philanthropy at BECU and Executive Director of the BECU Foundation, argues that “not all money is good money” and that nonprofits should turn down funders that are a bad fit.
Eliza Blank, the new CEO of the FarmLink Project, describes why she sees the organization as a startup-like response to food waste and food insecurity rather than a traditional nonprofit.
Nakia James-Jenkins says boards are "culture carriers" only when executive directors and CEOs make space for that role, and she ties that idea to her board work at STEM from Dance.
Analia Weber joins the hosts to talk about reclaiming the nonprofit sector as essential, not supplemental.
Abby Falik, co-founder and CEO of the Flight School, joins We Are For Good Podcast to argue that "trust is the work now" as institutions, tech, and communities strain under rapid change.
Becky and the team bring Josh Burns into a Working Session centered on the digital donor gap.
Afdhel Aziz argues that the gap between hope and despair has widened from 4% in 2010 to 27% today, citing the Yale Center on Climate Change and calling hope “galvanizing.” He says culture and storytelling are the only things big enough to fill that gap, and he points to a 2016 book, Good is the New Cool, as the start of his second-half career.
Jennifer Sirangelo says nonprofits leave volunteers out of funding, board, and strategic-plan decisions, even though they can act as an accelerant in all three.
The hosts celebrate 700 episodes by reflecting on lessons learned about generosity and community in the nonprofit sector.
An interview with Jeremy Bowman, founder of Rise, discussing nonprofit leadership, board engagement, and centering lived experience in mission-driven work.
This episode introduces a series on building movements for social change, focusing on mobilizing with purpose and turning belief into action.