614. Hold Fast: Your Blueprint for Building a Resilient Organization - Brooke Richie-Babbage
The world is changing—fast. As a nonprofit leader, how do you hold fast to your mission when everything feels uncertain? In this episode of our new Hold Fast series, we’re joined by Brooke Richie Babbage, founder of Bending Arc Consulting and host of the Nonprofit Mastermind Podcast, to break down what real resilience looks like in practice.Brooke introduces her powerful framework for building a resilient organization—one that doesn’t just survive uncertainty but thrives through it. She shares the three core elements of resilience (Strategic Clarity, Capacity, and Capital) and walks us through her 4-step process for designing organizations that are strong, adaptable, and built to last.If you’re leading a small team with limited capacity, feeling overwhelmed by uncertainty, or struggling to scale your impact, this episode is for you. You’ll walk away with practical, actionable steps to stabilize and grow your organization.Plus, Brooke’s “One Good Thing” will change the way you think about resilience in your daily work.Tune in to learn: ✅ What resilience really means for nonprofit organizations ✅ How to build clarity, capacity, and capital—even with a small team ✅ A step-by-step approach to designing a resilient, high-impact nonprofit ✅ How to move from feeling stuck to executing with confidenceLet’s build something that lasts. Listen now. 🎧✨What's your nonprofit's growth stage? Take Brooke's quiz to find out!Support the showBecome a Member and Get All-Access to Everything We Are For Good!Experience the Impact Uprising Membership by We Are For Good: an ecosystem to learn, connect + grow in the power of a value-aligned community. Members gather monthly with Jon + Becky at exclusive members-only meetups + get video access to all new podcast episodes in an ad-free experience + so much more! Learn more + join us at weareforgood.com.Say hi👇LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter
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Gather At The Well: Holding Fast + Staying Steady When You Need it the Most - Lindsey Fuller
How do we stay steady when we need it most?In this episode of Gather At The Well, Lindsey explores what it means to hold fast — to your values, your purpose, and your inner knowing. Through grounding somatic practices, personal reflections, and the rhythms that keep her team at The Teaching Well aligned, she offers a framework for leading with clarity and care.This episode is full of tools to help you slow down, tune inward, and lead from a place of steadiness. You’ll walk away with: 🧘♀️ Somatic practices you can use in real time 📅 Weekly, quarterly & annual rhythms for aligned leadership 🔁 The “Keep, Stop, Start” framework for intentional reflection 🫶 A reframe for what it really means to be resilientBecause holding fast isn’t about freezing — it’s about showing up, soft and steadfast, again and again. “You’re here in this moment. You’re holding fast.”✨Episode Highlights: Tone-setting: Staying steady when you need it most (1:00)Somatic Practice: Grounding Exercise (4:00)What does it mean to “Hold Fast”? (7:00)Strategies for staying grounded (10:11)Weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual alignment strategies for you and your team (13:00)Somatic Practice: Anchor yourself in moments of unrest (15:00)Creating collective resilience (19:59)Somatic Practice: Gaze stabilization (26:00)Self-Care and community support (29:46)Advice for the busy leader + personal resilience strategies (36:00)Homework: Find 3 ways to tend to self - one somatic, one self care, and one socialCritical Hope: Holding fast doesn’t mean freezing. It means showing up as the change leader that you are.Full Episode ShownotesSupport the showBecome a Member and Get All-Access to Everything We Are For Good!Experience the Impact Uprising Membership by We Are For Good: an ecosystem to learn, connect + grow in the power of a value-aligned community. Members gather monthly with Jon + Becky at exclusive members-only meetups + get video access to all new podcast episodes in an ad-free experience + so much more! Learn more + join us at weareforgood.com.Say hi👇LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter
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Hold Fast: A Guided Meditation for Social Impact Leaders with Jennifer Mulholland, Plenty Consulting
Everything is changing - fast. How do you hold fast to your mission while so much is uncertain? We'll be exploring this question at ImpactUp: Hold Fast this Thursday 4/10 from 10:00 - 2:00 CST with expert panels, a powerful workshop, and live coaching with legal, marketing, fundraising, and leadership experts. Bring your pressing problems and leave with a plan.To kick off our week and help us get grounded, Jennifer Mulholland, Co-Principal of Plenty joins us to share a 10 minute guided meditation. Come back here to recenter when feeling overwhelmed or stressed. As Jennifer teaches, "The more we choose ease, the more life meets us with ease."The world needs resilient changemakers—now more than ever. We Are For Good’s ImpactUp is here to help you navigate uncertainty, unlock funding, and lead with clarity.Join us this Thursday from 10:00 - 2:00 CST for ImpactUp: Hold Fast. Register for FREE today. Support the showBecome a Member and Get All-Access to Everything We Are For Good!Experience the Impact Uprising Membership by We Are For Good: an ecosystem to learn, connect + grow in the power of a value-aligned community. Members gather monthly with Jon + Becky at exclusive members-only meetups + get video access to all new podcast episodes in an ad-free experience + so much more! Learn more + join us at weareforgood.com.Say hi👇LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter
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613. A Community-Centric Approach to Philanthropy - Rachel D'Souza
What does it mean to truly center community in philanthropy? Meet Rachel D’Souza, Founder and Chief Purpose Officer of Gladiator Consulting. 🤝 A leading voice in the Community-Centric Fundraising (CCF) movement, Rachel shares her perspective on systems change in resource development, balancing donor expectations with equity, and how to drive long-term systems change over short-term solutions.In this moment of unprecedented challenge for social impact orgs, Rachel offers a roadmap for survival, collaboration, and meaningful change. Nonprofit leaders need a new approach—one that centers community, embraces vulnerability, and dismantles outdated systems. Listen in for bold insights, real talk, and a call to action for the future of fundraising. 🎧 Key Takeaways: ✔ What Community-Centric Fundraising is and why it matters ✔ How nonprofits can own their narrative in donor conversations ✔ Creative approaches to self-funding and collaboration in the sectorResources Mentioned: Community Centric Fundraising websiteFollow Rachel D'Souza's work through Gladiator ConsultingConnect with Tosha Phonix, Executive Director of A.C.R.E.S.Learn more: www.weareforgood.com/episode/613 Support the showBecome a Member and Get All-Access to Everything We Are For Good!Experience the Impact Uprising Membership by We Are For Good: an ecosystem to learn, connect + grow in the power of a value-aligned community. Members gather monthly with Jon + Becky at exclusive members-only meetups + get video access to all new podcast episodes in an ad-free experience + so much more! Learn more + join us at weareforgood.com.Say hi👇LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter
Meet Tes 🤝— The Founder + Chief Gathering Office at Gather Better.Join us for this episode where we dive into the art of intentional gathering with Tes. She’s passionate about creating meaningful spaces that spark impact and support well-being—and she’s sharing her roadmap to help us do it better. 🙌Tes shares her go-to approach for hosting gatherings with heart—from defining your “why” and setting a thoughtful agenda to adding special touches, guiding with care, and closing with intention. She reminds us that the world needs more reflective leadership and offers easy, meaningful ways to make people feel seen and connected. 💛Tune in and get ready to rethink how you gather people together. 🎧 💡Learn: Why traditional meetings often lack purpose—and the importance of intentional gatheringThe 5-step Gathering Framework and how to continuously improve your approach to bringing people togetherHow to embrace practices that foster reflective leadershipHow to explore practical innovations to create moments of real connection and insightEpisode HighlightsTes Cohen’s Journey and Philosophy (02:32)The Five Steps to Impactful Gatherings (06:01)The Power of Intentional Gathering (12:05)Transforming Nonprofit Events (19:55)The Essence of Authentic Team Building (24:37)Creating Meaningful Gatherings (30:05)Measuring Success in Gatherings (35:01)The Power of Storytelling (40:32) Have a weekly meeting with yourself where you can reflect (31:54) Tes’s One Good ThingEpisode Shownotes: www.weareforgood.com/episode/612Support the showBecome a Member and Get All-Access to Everything We Are For Good!Experience the Impact Uprising Membership by We Are For Good: an ecosystem to learn, connect + grow in the power of a value-aligned community. Members gather monthly with Jon + Becky at exclusive members-only meetups + get video access to all new podcast episodes in an ad-free experience + so much more! Learn more + join us at weareforgood.com.Say hi👇LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter
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Nonprofit professionals are faced with more challenges to accomplish their missions and the growing pressure to do more, raise more, and be more for the causes we hold so dear. Join Jon McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE as they learn with you from some of the best in the industry; sharing the most innovative ideas, inspiration and stories of making a difference. You’re in good company and we welcome you to our community of nonprofit professionals, philanthropists, world changers, innovators, and others to bring a little more goodness into the world. Get cozy, grab a coffee, and get ready to be inspired. We Are For Good. You in?--We Are For Good is an online media and education platform with an aim to revolutionize the nonprofit industry by equipping this generation of for-good leaders with the mindsets, tools and innovative ideas to make a bigger impact than any of us could ever dream to accomplish on our own. Our vision is to create an Impact Uprising. Learn more at www.weareforgood.com
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