Nonprofit & Philanthropy Podcasts

First Day Podcast, from The Fund Raising School, is the most classroom-like show here and wears it lightly. In How Great Fundraisers Ask Donors for Transformational Gifts, host Bill Stanczykiewicz puts the question beginners keep asking: how do you know it is time to discuss a very large gift? The reply is usefully unglamorous. Check whether the donor has relationships across the organisation, including the executive director and the president, all hearing the same account of the mission. As the episode puts it: "Is somebody just talking with you? That's probably not 50 million."

Nonprofit Lowdown is coaching with its sleeves rolled up, as a title like #402 - Your board isn't lazy. They're uninstructed. suggests. Its pair, #404 - The DAF Money You're Probably Missing and #403 - DAF Donor Targeting Playbook, approaches donor-advised funds from the fundraiser's side of the desk. Weigh the advice knowing that near the end of its March 2026 interviews discussed here, the host promotes her own big-gift programme.

Using the Whole Whale - A Nonprofit Podcast gives those funds a cooler hearing. In Are you asking for the right asset? Fundraising Secrets with the Philanthropy Guy, the guest, just back from a DAF summit, is asked whether they are good or bad: "They are a tool. They are a container." The same episode includes a story about someone trying to donate zebras to Dartmouth. The Sales and Marketing pages cover neighbouring craft.

From the ask, the scale widens to the organisation that has to spend the money. The Discovery Pod, hosted by Douglas Nelson of The Discovery Group, is the calmest listen here and the most revealing about how foundations actually work. Transforming Healthcare Philanthropy With Mary McPherson, CEO, Oakville Hospital Foundation is rich in operational detail, from those calls to endowed-fund donors to a last gala held in November 2019 under the theme of "doors closing one last time." In Shaping The Future Of Mental Health Leadership With Akela Peoples, CEO, Mental Health Research Canada, closing an office becomes a lesson in governance: it stayed a live board conversation for two years, so nobody was surprised.

Go Beyond Fundraising: The Podcast for Nonprofits, from Allegiance Group + Pursuant, earns its place with Think Like an Entrepreneur: Revenue Growth & Sustainable Programs for Nonprofits. The episode's best moment is a warning. It describes workforce programmes that promised jobs to people who found "there was no job at the end," because employers were never at the table. The same conversation says the business tripled while cutting 15 employees, a claim listeners may want tested. Nonprofit Lowdown's #381- Building Trust and Psychological Safety in Fundraising with Marcia Beckner lands on the phrase "clear is kind." The Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Workplace Culture pages go further.

Third Sector Podcast, a weekly from the UK publication of the same name, brings reporting to the field. In Small charity infrastructure, donation decline and an AI fundraising experiment, Emily Burt walks through the debate that followed after the National Council for Voluntary Organisations cut most of its practical support team. The episode also examines Zozia, an autonomous AI agent built by Ben Cohen to fundraise for his London Marathon run for Dogs for Good. It has its own email account and pitched itself to Third Sector. How to approach safeguarding concerns is sterner. One guest argues that a charity reporting no concerns is not living its safeguarding, because "it's what you see as opposed to what you read."

Nonprofit News Feed Podcast and Using the Whole Whale share hosts named George and Nick, and both give AI plenty of airtime. 🚨 Our Shocking Discovery: Everything Nonprofits Need To Know About AI & Server Costs (news) covers UN researchers' experimental AI avatars of a Sudanese refugee. One host is uneasy about even low rates of hallucination around people in crisis. On Using the Whole Whale, Avinash Kaushik forecasts organic search traffic falling 16 to 64 percent. Treat that as his projection, since he also says the field is too early for standards. The latest listed episodes of both shows date from 2025, so hear them as recent history.

Nonprofit Power Podcast, hosted by Kath Patrick, coaches progressive nonprofit leaders on influencing money and policy decision-makers. In How to Get Decisionmakers to See Your Services as the Best Possible Bargain, she warns against getting defensive when asked to cut a price. She then walks through how a $25 price anchor gives way to $300 and $600 options. She also describes a client who phoned taxi companies to price medical transport before putting numbers into a pitch. How Your Modesty May Be Costing You Serious Money is blunt about credentials: "They care about, do you know what you're talking about and can you help them?"