176: Giving 2013 – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio

tony_martignetti_300x300-itunes_image2Tony’s guests this week:

Marcia Stepanek, founding editor-in-chief of “Contribute Magazine” and new media faculty at the New York University Heyman Center for Philanthropy. 

Ken Berger, CEO of Charity Navigator.

Rob Mitchell, CEO of Atlas of Giving.

Read and watch more on Tony’s blog: http://tonymartignetti.com

129: Some Raise Money While Some Raise Hell & Pinterest and SlideShare – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio

Tony’s guests this week:

Marcia Stepanek, founding editor-in-chief of “Contribute Magazine” and new media advisor to the New York University Heyman Center for Philanthropy.

Amy Sample Ward, membership director of Nonprofit Technology Network.

Read and watch more on Tony’s blog: http://tonymartignetti.com

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Hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio it’s that time again. Big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent i am your aptly named host. I very much hope that you were with me last week. Yes, i do, because last week was lead and matching gifts in your campaign to start professor john list from the university of chicago, chairs the economics department and founded the science of philanthropy initiative. There no longer must fundraisers rely on tradition and conventional wisdom in campaign planning because he shared a rigorous science to guide you around lead and matching gif ts also many matching corporate gif ts chuck longfield, chief scientist at blackbaud had lots of simple ways to increase your matching gif ts from corporations did you know that volunteer hours are also dollar matched by many? We started with sector benchmarking, and we went from there, and my interview with chuck longfield was recorded at blackboards bebe con conference last october this week, some raise money while some raise hell. I’m talking about women in philanthropy, with marshals to panic. She was founding editor in chief of contribute magazine and is the new media adviser to the new york university heimans center for philanthropy we’ll talk about limbong coleman leadership roles, traditional giving and how women are organizing themselves also, pinterest and slideshare amy sample ward returns she’s, our social media contributor and membership director of non-profit technology network and ten she shares how small and midsize non-profits can reap definite value from these lesser known social sites between the guests on tony’s take two, my podcaster on top i’ll tell you what i’m talking about, and i will thank you, my pleasure now, to welcome marshes to panic. She is new media advisor to the n u heimans center for philanthropy, and she also curates its annual speaker siri’s philanthropy three point oh, which explores disruptive innovation in the social good sector. It sounds like some organized anarchy. Anarchy pointed in the right direction. She teaches social media strategy. Yes, it may very well be totally okay. We’ll get teo talk about anarchy. I’m still trying to introduce you. Hold on there, marshal. She teaches social media strategy. You have a very lengthy bio. I was to get through this a cz well, a social enterprise. New media and cause video in the masters program at new york university she was, as i mentioned, founding editor in chief of contribute magazine, her upcoming book swarms. The rise of the digital antiestablishment published by little brown is due out later this year. And it’s actually because of that book that she couldn’t be in the studio because she’s interviewing someone for her book swarms very pleased to welcome marshes to panic. How are you? Thanks so much, tony. I’m just really delighted. Honored to be on yourself. Oh, it’s, my pleasure to have you. Thank you, marcia. Honored not too many people say that. Thank you. I hope you feel that way by the end you believe i’m sure you will. You believe that women are reshaping philanthropy? How is that what’s happening? Generally, you know, i didn’t use teo buy into claims that women somehow we’re you know, very different behaviorally and men in terms of their capacity for compassion and their willingness and generosity. But there’s some new research out and it’s very much triggered buy-in just in the economy and structural changes in the workplace that have given women a little more income over the last ten, twenty years, and since nine eleven, we’re we’re starting to see some measurable differences in the way women spend money in terms of the charitable contributions that they make, so that there are some differences that are starting to emerge here. There’s certainly other differences to in-kind of what those new income numbers are spawning in the non-profit industry, but armored and okay, and we’ll have time to talk about those, so you feel this is mostly economically driven? I think a lot of it is economically driven in terms of just the numbers with regard to the money uh given and how that those contributions different, for example, in the highest e-giving levels of people who give generally men and women, uh, baby boomer aged women are more likely to give them their male counterparts in all giving levels three percent or more, or they’re coming down to charity among people who do that. Male baby boomers and older, single headed households are nearly two times it’s, likely than men to give to charity. So that’s that says an age when most women are saving and have significant savings and disposable income and that’s even happening even as a result of women not getting paid is most statistically on the average than men. So it’s pretty significant. Okay, but there’s also interesting developments around organizing and advocacy. Yeah, very much so because of some of these economic trends, but also as a factor of globalization and particularly social media, technology and internet technology in general, we’re seeing some behavioral changes. First of all, it could be a simple as ah ah lot more charities targeting their solicitation campaigns more directly. Tau women. I know a lot of your listeners. Now, united way has now one hundred thirty seven women’s leadership councils that have raised something like nine hundred eighty five million dollars just over the left twelve years creating marshal those those leadership councils are our volunteers. They’re volunteermatch women supporters, yes, and doner groups. So what the united way has done? Uh, kind of piggybacking the general trend and women’s income and changing numbers and how much they’re spending on charity decided to tap into that trend and organize some of these councils. Teo, do more engagement around women’s not only volunteerism, but something like fund-raising as well and what’s. Interesting about that is, uh, this so called tiffany circle, which is an all female. Network created by the red cross, for example, another organization, uh hey has been started not just by the transport by social media networks that have popped up around some of these activities, so a lot of places they’re using a combination of social media and these economic trance really bolster their fundrasing activities, and we’re gonna have a chance to talk a little later on about women organizing themselves, not needing umbrella organization to do it. But, you know, around some of the controversies, like what happened to komen and rush limbaugh’s comments, and so we’ll get a chance talk about women organizing themselves, as i said, not even needing that kneading the big organization, but just coming together on the social sites let’s talk about some of the social change and social enterprises that you’re seeing women engaged in. Yeah, they’re concurrent with these other changes on certainly partly a factor of economic wealth. Growth among women is that a lot of women, particularly on wall street and other very in the financial services field, are really being a critical force behind the creation of pretty much a majority of social enterprises that are out there. The skull. Forum for, uh, global entrepreneurship has done on international study on this and seeing that at least half it’s not up to as high as seventy percent, and some regions of the new enterprises that have been started have been done by women, women who have earned independently of their thousands um uh, who are seeing that the needs community isn’t as fully developed as it ought to be around new issues of concern to these cohorts, such as women’s, self esteem, women and girls, self esteem, women, education issues. Now, these air getting much more focused thanks to a lot of the social enterprises on march for-profit businesses for good, if you will, that coming online. Also seeing a lot of female boomer women burned, creating films, getting into the social good film space and making some very interesting documentaries that are here about women helping women and trying to move the needle a little bit on education and their film initiatives that are also being used to raise a lot of money for certain non-profits abigail disney surely johnson, some of the big entrepreneurs are involved in these things on there, really successful in terms of measuring impact. Are there? Are there specific documentary titles? You khun you convention for us? Yes. Uh, shirley johnson made something about kicking the ball, which is about women’s basketball group. We’ve got abigail disney was working in liberia. Um, we’ve got some recent documentaries that are are being funded by again the women run fledgling fund, which is a foundation, and it’s about women and girls in the slums of calcutta being turned into activists and it’s a very compelling story. Uh uh, all sorts of new films i’m attending here to see for the first time i’m in washington, d c today as well, and i’m interviewing for the book as well as screaming some films that american university conference on social media that matters and this is focusing, i’m still making efforts. So again, you couldn’t you couldn’t be in the studio because you’re in washington, d c watching a movie that’s what you’re saying, i see a film, they have probably hard working the minute you’re seeing argo and lincoln, i’ll bet that’s why you’re in washington? Because they’re not playing in new york anymore, okay, we have just a minute before a break, so i don’t want to really get into anything brand new, too deep. But, of course, you’ll still be with me after the break. When and i want to make sure that what listeners understand, we talked about social enterprise, we’re talking about often cos right, that air, social, socially oriented, social good business is sort of. We’re talking about socially, social good enterprises that have been begun with the primary purpose now so much of raising money for stakeholders, but for raising the bar on social impact wielding an impact that’s measured first of those companies over organized to be accountable to those kinds of and our wii just very briefly before break, we necessarily talking about corporations or these could be not-for-profits also, these could be not-for-profits for-profit non-profit hybrid organizations and then for-profit organizations, but it’s the way that they’re organized on around what they promise to deliver, i understand what their outcomes are, not not necessarily one hundred percent profit, if there, if their profit mathos lately, okay, we’re going to take a break and when we return, of course, after this marchenese to panic stays with us, and i hope that you do, too, talking alternative radio twenty four hours. Are you confused about which died it’s, right for you? 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Marcia yeah, let’s, let’s, talk a little about the a new organisation called the girl effect they have on there on the opening page of their website that what they say exactly, that women are the most powerful force for change on the planet. You what do you think about that? No, i got this. Let me say that hyperbole is shared by by because i was wondering how about even like, like men, maybe i don’t know they’re not a good food what’s interesting about the girl effect, though, is kind of the structure behind it, and we were just talking a moment ago about social enterprise and so forth. What the girl fact represents is is a really progressive and very successful partnership. Example of great collaboration in the do gooder space between the noble foundation, which is run by the bucket children warren buffett’s, kids corporation, nike and it’s ah it’s foundation arm and ah partnership with hundreds of non-profits that have it’s part of their mission statement helping women and girls to achieve change, whether it’s in the education space of the art stays or healthcare. It’s a partnership where ah, a very good shorts film was funded, its animation, but it basically finally connects. The dots taking it from hyperbole to show why funding women and girls projects actually affects everyone ah, and affects everyone in a very local way. And so it’s in a very effective messaging tool that kind of breaks through the the problems that a lot of these issues had had in the past, where it sounds awfully one sided, the girl fact does a wonderful job of making this ah, great messaging, peace around thie economic impact on everyone of the lack of educating women and girls, and some of the status around the world. Dahna uh, the lowly status love women hold around the world. So it’s it’s a great burger, and what it does is it kind of lends this little short film to a lot of organizations that couldn’t otherwise afford to make it and lets them put on their websites and interface that helps them to raise micro cash, you know, ten dollars, twenty dollars, right after people to do the film online, they’ve done ability, teo, donate to some of the causes that have been vetted. And though it’s just a wonderful campaign that is now finally being copied in other parts of the sector so we hope to see more of that kind of collaboration in the future. In fact, we’re seeing a lot of micro giving among women organizing themselves around social enterprise. Yes, we are a aa lot of this thie evolution of social networks, social media still relatively, very new, but as people get together and now they found each other online and now they exchange, you know, kind of information about the trivia are the important bits of their lives. Now, the next evolution is the first getting people together to make change or around certain issues folks i care about and what we’re starting to see is on what we saw a lot of last year were the social network, some of them that are very strong, many of them led by women being able to make a difference, either in defense of, uh, an action taken by an organization or to bring up some concerns that hadn’t been brought up otherwise and holding some of these traditional non-profit organizations accountable. And, of course, the the leading edge that was the komen foundation controversy where coming foundation had decided to be fund-raising goods breast cancer testing on dh without telling a lot of its membership, and when it finally freaked out, a lot of folks got online a lot of women and started protesting thiss was an example of women organizing themselves through the social networks and very rapidly yes, absolutely, and it was a very successful protest, and it wasn’t so much the significance here isn’t so much whether you believe that that decision was the right or wrong one it was looking, and there are social networks out there holding traditional organizations and non-profits accountable for their actions and ways that has never been before. And the rapid response of some of these networks to some of these decisions has really encouraged a lot of organizations to start really getting serious about engaging your supporters and their networks in new ways so that everybody does feel that their part of the decision making process and there is a new level of accountability achieved not only holding organizations accountable but individuals for there flippant and ah antagonistic, i’d say, remarks rush limbaugh, when he accused you really accuse nobody eats cited a law student was a prostitute because she wanted funding for birth control to be included. In health care and there was a huge backlash. Yeah, there was an internet firestorm over that in just three days. That firestorm was ableto porcelain about to apologize, not once but twice to the woman he had called a flat was the one of the quotes, okay? Ah, and he lost nearly one hundred advertisers right in that in that, uh napor so we’ve seen that these swarms, if you will, of the social networks that have been highly developed and that have a riel sustainability to them, are able to work very quickly when they’re organized. One of my colleagues, a friend of emmett has called these accountability networks actually because they’re social networks and they are always there, but they can get into action very quickly. Uh, if one of them are influential, members of these networks decides to call them into action. So it’s somethingto watch it’s a phenomenon now, but it’s becoming replicable, and we’re seeing a lot of this kind of action over. Yeah, and so this is what you’re calling swarms of women in this case and it’s not women, are not the only ones active actively engaging but that’s that’s the third today, but one of those air swarms saw another one very well done stop sopa campaign, but to delay a vote by the u s congress that would diminish him internet freedom, at least for now. And, uh, it’s, really a new form of activism that is used social media to coordinate swift action around the specific goal. And it’s it’s it’s significant because it’s, uh, much more to do with the ability of new players and the advocacy sector toe work collectively and successfully kind of outside the non-profit sectors long established structures fired-up alternative goals. So it’s it’s something that all organizations want to start infusing more with their supporters in new ways but also so constructively trying to really be able to prove that they’re having an immeasurable impact. A lot of donors now are saying, what have you done for us? We’re the cause lately, and a lot of organizations are now using the social media tools to measure impact, or at least to get a more specific numerical handle on the work that they are doing so that they are able to not only convince people of their value, but to be able teo create partnerships on new levels to achieve more social impact over time marchenese to panic is the new media advisor to the n u heimans center for philanthropy, and her upcoming book is will be swarms. The rise of the digital anti establishment, and you can follow marcia on twitter. She is at claw cause pardon me at cause global ah, marcia let’s, let’s focus a little more on the on the actual, more traditional e-giving and the way women are being more generous essentially than men, it’s a it’s a little more about that. Yeah, even though women in general are earning less than men and have less money in retirement and are generally outliving their spouses, these recent studies on their standing for charity demonstrate that young women, certainly, and especially boomer women, older women in particular are just more likely to give and to give more to charities and then beyond that, there’s, also a behavioral that women in a recent survey by indiana university also said that they they want teo uh, not just have more impact on spending. They want to be more involved in the decision making and indeed, a lot of the rise of some of these new organizations on social enterprises, uh, is due to women wanting to bypass, too simply writing a check to existing organizations but setting up a kind of a bee metrics around specific initiatives that they themselves want to see. And as long as they have the means and some of these new networks, especially on wall street and elsewhere, to accomplish that, they’ve been racing to set that up. That slowed a little bit during profession, but still a very vital force. A lot of people are saying that this income situation for women and this this habit of giving mohr, especially among older women, is very likely to continue. By twenty thirty, for example, fifty four percent of american boomers will be women. And because of their sheer numbers and the social changes that have occurred as they grew up, they have a significant impact on society through their beliefs and attitudes and behaviors and have us already. And so now, as they get older and more charitable on dh, i think we’re seeing the start of some more further behavioral changes among women towards charitable organization. So i think that’s a little bit of good. News you said earlier that the social networks are relatively young, but i hear people say how sick and tired they are a facebook or or twitter sometimes are these are these social networks with us forever? I think some forms of them are, and certainly is they morph and evolve our use of them well, morgan of all hope, the more distinctive things about social networks and social platforms that we’ve seen over and over again is that the people using them tend to define how going tio improve them over time. Ah, facebook, for example, everybody’s kind of getting organizations on facebook now so much personal things now that but seeing how they used them toe left bitch events and, you know, do pr in a different way, certainly, uh, we’re also seeing a rise in the use of private social networks, kind of a private facebook that go under certain names like ning’s o r other certain other platforms that are being set up so that it’s kind of like a private, charitable, uh, type of facebook that’s membership only on some organizations and non-profits they’re using this to great effect, one in particular is the provocative understand veterans organization? Marcia, marcia, you broke up a little bit, say they say the name of the organization again. It’s called i a v stand veterans iraq, afghanistan veterans association a okay, i look, they’ve dahna they set up a peer-to-peer private social network, uh, that bear as long as you’re in that network, you know, they don’t want this isn’t like vietnam veterans or korean, more veterans for eighteen, nineteen, twenty year old folks just and this particular war and are facing some very unique challenges, thanks largely to the health care technology being used to save them from injuries that in previous years killed and so there are unique challenges for them coming home and a lot of challenges always for veterans coming home. So combined with their existing use murcott given their age and their experience before going off to war ah, they are very successfully putting together these private networks is veterans to talk to each other, and they’re subsets like women’s subsets like people who were injured from a certain type of injury and you get on them by giving a password. You are pre qualified so you you it’s not just anybody, is not your fourth grade teacher finding you it’s a private conversation that built trust and credibility among the members and as it moves toward a membership model it’s also proving to be a very sustainable non-profit kind of model using social networks to serve those in need buy-in involving an engaged, those in need not just writing checks, marcia, just just a minute or so left, i have to ask you, what is it you love about this work and the and the research that you’re doing go how people, uh, can hold power accountable in new and constructive ways. I love how this technology couples to be advocacy sector e-giving voice teo so many more people who otherwise were not involved. These full social media, the, uh, the internet has democratized philanthropy, and in such is turning traditional organizations on their beer. I think it all about here. Social change, enormous empowerment absolutely marchenese to panic is new media advisor to the n u heimans center for philanthropy. Look for her book coming out later this year, swarms the rise of the digital antiestablishment it’ll be published by little, brown and she’s at caused global on twitter marsha thank you so much for being a guest, my honor and pleasure. Thanks, tony it’s. Been a pleasure having you right now. We will go away for a minute or two, and when we come back, it’s, tony’s, take two, and then amy sample ward is with me, and we’re going to talk about pinterest and slideshare stay with me. They didn’t think dick tooting getting ding, ding, ding ding. You’re listening to the talking alternate network e-giving. E-giving cubine are you suffering from aches and pains? Has traditional medicine let you down? Are you tired of taking toxic medications, then come to the double diamond wellness center and learn how our natural methods can help you to hell? 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Hi there and welcome back. More live listener love! Montgomery, illinois. Tustin, california. Littleton, colorado. Atlanta, georgia. And two unidentified in somewhere in the united states of america. You’re masking your i p s we know who you are, i’m just since you’re masking, i won’t say who you are, but we know who you are. I’m just telling you that we know here you’re not you’re not you’re not hiding from us, but two unidentified on dh for our listeners in china, all those cities in china that are listening, i said earlier. Happy new year, gung hay fat choi also xero chou korea and seoul, korea on yo haserot it’s, time for tony’s take two, my podcasts are on top and i’m very grateful to you for that. This show was what’s hot in two categories on itunes very recently non-profits and government and organizations and my podcast that which is a monthly for the chronicle of philanthropy fund-raising fundamentals. That was a top podcast in non-profits the’s honors are enormously fleeting. I don’t know, maybe they last five minutes, maybe their last an hour, but they go fast, so i took screenshots and you could see the photographic documentary evidence is on my blogged at tony martignetti dot com. But more important than that, i want to thank you for rating the show. We had the five hundred stars campaign. Thank you very much for raiding the show on itunes more than doubled the number of ratings and i’m sure that’s what made the show trend in itunes. And there was some carryover effect to the to the other podcast to the fund-raising fundamentals that i do. So i thank you. Um, my next guest would caution me that there’s more to true social engagement than numbers and and bumps and and peeks in listenership. So i i take that seriously there there was a lot more to that than engagement. But i thank you for being engaged to the level that you have been so far, and hope to get you even further along mohr, that on my block at tony martignetti dot com. And that is tony’s take two for friday, february fifteenth, the seventh show of this year amy sample ward she’s, the membership director at non-profit technology network. And ten her she co authored social by social, but even newer than that her very new book, also co authored, is social change any time everywhere with forward by two time guest on this show, craig marko is the founder of craigslist he’s been with us twice amy’s blawg is that amy sample, ward dot or ge and she’s on twitter at amy r s ward on twitter. That’s right? I’m going to finish the sentence without without without twitter id, and we know that the army’s rene amy rinascente ward welcome back. Thank you for having me. It’s a pleasure every month. I’m always surprised you allow me back every time. No, you shouldn’t be. I make you feel that in secure. I assume that there’s like a jargon jail downstairs. No, no, no, you’re you’re you’re pretty good about it. You’re quite good were very conscious of jargon jail amy’s here with her little field notebook it’s, an adorable little yellow forty eight page notebook. It’s branded from the state of texas. I don’t know. What were you in texas lately? Is that where you got your little fuel? No. It was given to me as a thank you by a friend, david jnf, who lives in austin. And i don’t even know why he was thanking me, but he gave me this little field notebook and it’s the perfect size it’s about phone sizes, let me ask you, you have co authored or contributed to five books by my count, when you’re going to do one on your own? Yeah, i’m hopeful that maybe that one is next, okay? And then there’s none of the like, you know, trying to interpret someone else’s edits like, for better or for worse, i could just come out of my brain and we’ll see what happens. It will be very, very much better. We’re looking forward to the solo effort, but we’ll celebrate your book coming up. In fact, i’m going to you’re going to one of your book launch events, which we’ll talk about later on act for the end later this month for those who are in the new york city area, but right now we’ll talk about pinterest and and slideshare um, how did these how do these fit into social change and social engagement? Well, i think that they’re really great examples of platforms that actually have tons of use, but organizations haven’t, for the most part translated how individuals air using that tool to how they as an organization would use it. You know, facebook’s pretty straightforward, you have an individual profile, you have an organizational page like you know, how to get started. But with these tools where there’s there’s, no difference between who the the user profile is, organizations are a little bit more, you know, without boundaries, there’s too many options, so they don’t really know how to engage. But organizations that have tried or are using the tools in part of their content strategy are really seen engagement there. I don’t know which one you want to talk about for just let’s talk about why don’t you explain what pinterest is? Because maybe so little known to some people that they don’t even know that exactly what it is? Sure, so pinterest is free to use social platform just like facebook or anything else where it is free to use, but that means you are than the product on and it’s very visual driven so it’s all about collecting on a pin board that’s virtual, just like you would maybe, you know, in your office pictures, recipes, anything on the web so whenever you pull in a block post, whatever images associated that block post would be actually what people see on your board, they wouldn’t see the block video also yet exactly. I have a pin board for women leaders of non-profits excellent on video, but it’s video zoho contributor of them speaking so just a quaint listeners that video can be as well. And then what you’ll see on that pin board if it’s videos would just be a screenshot, right like this still like you would when you had a youtube page and the video isn’t played ok? Yep. On dso you, khun, even though you have this pin board, you can actually have unlimited pin board, so maybe i have a pin board for conferences i want to attend, but then i also have a pin board like the most frequent one i see is recipes that i’m going to cook one day, but i’m never actually gonna cook like that whole sentence isn’t the title, but it’s like recipes and you know this person’s never cooking next i wish list. Recipe list. Exactly. All right. So how are charities? Engaging? Constituents were around around pinterest. Yeah, their organizations have you. Know, as you can imagine, tried different things, short campaigns, longer standing content and something that’s interesting, and i know you have the links to some infographics to share on the block. Pinterest has about eighty percent of that content is repent content. So anyway, you know, if i went to your pinterest board say, if it was the average boring, you know, think about hypothetical i would never i would never dane never squander my precious time with tony’s interest account because of pin boards are so mundane and superficial and dull, but if you if you stumbled on it buy-in accidentally, you clicked on it stumbles away there. Um, eighty percent of the content across pinterest is repent, meaning someone else pendant first, and you’ve just, you know, reposted on your on board, so but like you said, you’re, you’re bored that’s all about interviews with non-profit women leaders, i’m sure that you were the one that did that interview are or were some of the original? Yeah, so they’re going to show up all over pinteresque, but it’s because you were the source and so thinking about that at, like, how much content is shared amongst the platform where is very little of that content for people? Time is spent clicking on things, and i’m going to read websites. You know, i think organizations naturally think, well, this is, you know what has put up a bunch of great images to our website and we’ll drive a bunch of web site traffic, but that’s not the case, people are using the platform within that within the place. Yeah, so eighty percent are re pens? Yeah, that’s enormous. Yeah, do you have a corresponding stat for any buy-in a chance for twitter. How much of twitter is re tweets versus i? I don’t have a twitter for tumbler, which is a more similar platform to pinterest because it’s ah it’s like blogging but it’s much, you know, micro style and it’s about nine out of ten temblor posts are re blogged so it’s very similar in that way where people that are on the platform or just, you know, following each other and finding great things and it’s more a matter of like, i want to have the best curated recipe board versus the on ly recipe board, you know, so it’s it’s much more shared eso organizations are taking advantage of that in different ways. One one example that i really like. Because it’s very clearly aligned with the mission is city of hope, which is an l, a based a hospital research center, etcetera. They have a campaign called mushrooms for hope because mushrooms are shown to have really great health benefits, especially for people at risk of or with cancer. So they have a mushrooms for hope board that’s. All great ways, you know, recipes to use mushrooms, because we know everybody in there. Mom has a recipe board on pinterest. So why not, you know, curate all those different ways to use mushrooms so that people will re share it again in the platform and ultimately it’s, not about them knowing who city of hope is it’s about them eating mushrooms, right? You know, but they’re using that for exposure exact recipe sharing community. Exactly. Here’s a great super great cream of mushroom soup recipe. Right. Very smart. S o just to make it explicit. So people follow your boards, right? People can follow your whole board. They could also follow just you. And then whatever board here pinning tio, they could get those. Notifications or they could just never follow you and find your your pin through someone else, you know, and then see, allow just a great mushroom recipe, you know, and then click through. And actually the original post was was from your account i love those clever ideas that yeah, that shit’s a smart one. Yeah, another example of maybe not a specific example, but a way that, oh, our strategy for charities to engage on pinterest yeah, a different take on that that i i think is on interesting one is n w f national wildlife federation has a campaign for, you know, getting outside and and has a big, like camping go the great outdoor camp. I’m goingto mess up the name of their campaign, but so they have ah, aboard all about that where they’re pinning other people’s content about campaign so it’s not even their content, but again, it’s it’s making those people in the community that are talking about the campaign feel like they’re in the spotlight because this is a board of all those other people talking three national organization has exactly exactly bored or my my my pen? Yeah, exactly. Engagement. Yeah, exactly. Two way street let’s. Talk about slideshare. Sure. Because always shoot. There was something i want to ask you about. Interest. It’s, overwhelmingly women. Yes. I see different statuses. Somewhere, anywhere between two thirds tow. The mashable said maybe it’s this high is ninety seven percent. So somewhere in there, overwhelmingly women. What should we be capitalizing on that? What should we be doing with that? Yeah, i think part of just to address the point, you’re making that all the numbers being a little different. And part of that is if it’s actual user sign ups versus active users and again, different platforms in different data. Analysts consider active user as, like logs in once a month or is on it for an hour a day like which one of those is active, you know? And once you get wherever you fall in that active definition scale that’s where it starts skewing much more women. So actual user accounts are a little bit more typical of social networks, but the active is much more female. Okay on. And so i think organizations can take advantage of that in those are, you know, the examples where two shared but also just remembering that, you know, even like marcia was saying women want to be making the decision of where money goes, women want to be, you know, figuring out the causes that they care about and engaging with them, so figuring out ways that isn’t just, um, you know, a generic call to action for everyone, but you’re figuring out, what are the the women boomers in your community interested in doing? And maybe it has it it’s not, you know, all about city of hope and all about all of the life saving measures and research ugo but it’s about mushrooms, you know, and you like, let that be the thing for them? S o i think really, figuring out who your community is back to some of the stuff we’ve talked about in previous months and then focusing really specifically and letting them either drive that content and you’re just re, you know, you’re collecting that o r just taking their lead? Excellent, we’re goingto take a short break, and when we come back, amy sample ward stays with me, we’re going to talk about slideshare stay with me, too. You’re listening to the talking alternative network. Schnoll are you stuck in your business or career trying to take your business to the next level, and it keeps hitting a wall? This is sam liebowitz, the conscious consultant. I will help you get to the root cause of your abundance issues and help move you forward in your life. Call me now and let’s. Create the future you dream of. Two, one, two, seven, two, one, eight, one, eight, three, that’s to one to seven to one, eight one eight three. The conscious consultant helping conscious people. 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So slideshare is ah ah, platform, where you can post content that you want to share and it’s called slideshare because it’s it’s most prominent feature is posting slides like a power point presentation or a slide deck that you would be using in a, you know, at a conference are in a board meeting or whatever for count for mac users, or use kino exactly like, you know. And then i translated over the power point, exactly little little parenthetical for mac users. Or what does whatever google aps calls there? Oh, yeah. Anyway, so that’s that’s, the most dominant features people posting slides and you can find them and review them and share them. But you can also embed them. And so you could post slides from your conference and then on your blogged have them embedded so people, you’re not just having to write out what you said. You khun embed it right there and people can flip through the slides. But what’s great is that you can also use it for all kinds of content. So do you use your organization? Is part of your new campaign launching, you know, with an infographic about why you’re running this campaign? Well, you could upload that info graphic, you know as a pdf or whatever to two slideshare embedded in your block. Have people share it just like they do. Slides and track track the shares that way. Okay, you know, if you wished you could also use that info graphic on pinterest. Exactly. Okay, on dh that and you know that goes for all kinds of other content. Maybe you have a new orientation, you know, to sheet that you give to your volunteers, will. You could post it there and then also post slides that you’re goingto review with them of this is how to be a volunteer for our organisation. This is what we do, this is why we have volunteers. This is what the volunteer job looks like, and that way you could just send them those two links they don’t have to download anything they don’t have to, you know, have have any special software, whether they’re on the phone or they’re you know, on a computer they could read or digest those materials ahead of time, show up and be ready to volunteer, and you don’t have to be emailing large files were about exactly top box or some other bright, just a link exactly. Now i’ve so in a few places slideshare called youtube for slide shows. Yes, it’s not as anyone here is popular as youtube. Well, yeah, definitely not as popular as you tube in that when you look at youtube stats, basically, you would think humans do nothing but watch youtube video that there really is a ridiculous thing. So so slideshare has about three billion views a month, so that’s still sized amglobal yeah, yeah, and and i think something social. Engagement is not just in the numbers, though, right? And i think something that’s interesting as faras actual of what the numbers say is that of all of the different social platforms facebook, youtube, whatever slideshare is foreign away, much more popular amongst business owners, organizational leaders, you know, executive level staff of different kinds of organization. So hyre go ahead. So i was just going to say, you know, if you want to make sure that you spent a lot of time preparing something for some funders that you were going to meet with, you know, you made the slide deck showing them who you are made it really clear the impact you make. Why not post that for free on a platform where other, you know, leaders in the sector could come across your sides and say that’s? Exactly. We’ve been looking for someone like you to partner with exactly, and what i was saying, slideshare is owned by linked in. Yeah. So not surprising that it’s i guess it’s gravitated toward business and you can you can embed slideshare content in your personal yet or your or your organizational linked in page yet? Yep. You khun just connect them on dh from from your linked in profile, and it’ll even just automatically pull in your most recent slides or uploads, you know, if you were doing something else so all a very easy way to embed large what maybe large files? Because especially if you’re doing power point or keynote and you have video and or there’s photos in each slide yeah, very large, you get those very large files other other ways, you know, just ask you generally other ways that charity’s could be using slideshare or other tips that you have for for engaging through slideshare well, i think that the training is really what what i’ve seen organizations do well with most often is there already creating training materials, whether it’s for volunteers, it’s for a certain department, you know, and using slideshare is away too. Put those up there, how’s them for free, you know, think about it like youtube, where even though you’re goingto use that video for your campaign or in your marketing and you’re going to embed that video on your website, you’re still going to post it on youtube so that all that organic traffic that could maybe come across it can still come in. And so posting those materials about, you know, the great things that you’re doing with social media at your organization and here’s, you know, kind of your overviewing training materials than other people that are interested in either your organization or social media in general could find that come to you and say, great, i want to get involved with your efforts, so i think thinking about it as the place you know, like youtube, where you, you how’s the content even though you’re using it elsewhere because you still just get the benefit from the other platform. And as google and other search engines index the the content that’s in your slides, it’s, sort of a wayto ona ona niche because you’re you’re slideshare going too, so dense with key notes that are just i mean, i’m sorry keywords that are necessarily embedded in there because it was part of your part of your presentation. Yeah, way of sort of owning a very narrow niche that your expert well and it’s it’s great for search engine optimization, you know, they’re one of their three highest sources is organic google searches so if i am, you know, working on a proposal for these are the five strategies for ending homelessness in new york city, and i’m pitching this to some thunders, and i want to find you know what? I’m going to start a coalition post it there because if someone else is looking just on a search for how do we end homelessness in new york city? And they get to my presentation now, i’m i’m creating credibility for myself and setting up our organization as the leader on that cause. Any sample ward should membership director at non-profit technology network and ten her new book is social change anytime everywhere, and i am going to a february twenty eighth book launch at five thirty at, which is at the planned parenthood federation quarters. 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052: So You Wanna Start a Nonprofit & A Conversation with Darian Rodriguez Heyman – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio

Tony’s guests this week:

Gene Takagi and Emily Chan of the Nonprofit & Exempt Organizations Law Group
Darian Rodriguez Heyman, former executive director of the Craigslist Foundation

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Welcome to the show, this is tony martignetti non-profit radio i’m your aptly named host. We’re always talking here about big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent reminder that this is our one year anniversary month. It was last july that we started the show. This is show number fifty two one per week, minus couple holidays, but this is our fifty second show. I hope you were with me for the fifty first show last week had the ceo as fund-raising mvp mindy dietz and karen pearl, both non-profit chief executives revealed their insights on how to motivate, engage and position your ceo to be a fund-raising m v p then it was the fine art of conversion. My guest was scott barnett, director of web communications for fairfield university, and he urged you not to be afraid of analytics because tools like google analytics can help you prevent. Sorry, help you convert website visitors into online donors and help you engage younger prospects who become donors. Last week’s interviews were from our media sponsorship of the fund-raising day conference in new york city in june. This week, we’re alive, i’m having a conversation with darian rodriguez. Heman first, we’ll talk about his book non-profit management one oh one and the nationwide social media for non-profits conferences that he hosts then. So you want to start a non-profit we welcome our new legal contributors, jean takagi and emily chan of the non-profit and exempt organizations law group in san francisco, and they’ll explain the ups and downs of starting a non-profit what are the alternatives to creating a non-profit how do you get five? Oh, one c three status and what you’re getting yourself into if you go ahead and create a non-profit between the two shows between the two segments, it’ll be tony’s take two again, this is our one year anniversary got new regular contributors to with him starting today and in august, we’ll have ah, additional contributor i’ll tell you about the first show is up for a new podcast, siri’s, that i’m hosting for the chronicle of philanthropy. It’s called fund-raising fundamentals. I’ll be up on the chronicle website every month, and i’ll say a little more about that on tony’s take two there. I’ll be interviewing experts each month to help you with your fund-raising and finally on tony’s, take two, it’ll be. You know, i’m doing stand up comedy now and have been for several months. So i’ll be weaving the comedy and this show and the chronicle of philanthropy monthly podcast altogether. I can’t help it. They all blend together and influence each other more on all of that on tony’s, take two. Right now, we take a break, and then i’ll be with with back with darian rodriguez, kayman so stay with me. You’re listening to the talking alternative network. Are you suffering from aches and pains? Has traditional medicine let you down? Are you tired of taking toxic medications, then come to the double diamond wellness center and learn how our natural methods can help you to hell? Call us now at to one to seven to one eight, one eight three that’s to one to seven to one eight one eight three or find us on the web at www dot double diamond wellness dot com way. Look forward to serving you. Is your marriage in trouble? Are you considering divorce? Hello, i’m lawrence bloom, a family law attorney in new york and new jersey. No one is happier than the day their divorce is final. My firm can help you. We take the nasty out of the divorce process and make people happy. Police crawl are said to want to nine, six four three five zero two for a free consultation. That’s lawrence h bloom two one two, nine, six, four, three five zero two. We make people happy. Xero hey, all you crazy listeners looking to boost your business? Why not advertise on talking alternative with very reasonable rates? Interested simply email at info at talking alternative dot com. Welcome back to tony martignetti non-profit radio, i guess now is darien rodriguez haman he’s calling from san francisco. Darian was executive director of the craigslist foundation from two thousand four to two thousand eight. He helped conceive the non-profit boot camps that the foundation sponsored he’s, the editor of non-profit management one o one, which is published by joe sea bass he’s, also a consultant and co founder of the social media for non-profits conferences throughout the country. And i’m very glad that darrin’s work brings him to the show today. Welcome, darien. Thanks, it’s. A pleasure non-profit management one. Oh one. What does the book add to the many books that are out there for non-profit leaders? Well, i mean, i think the when i looked out there what i start with, all the books that were in the marketplace for kind of fell into one of four categories. And so, you know, you had books that were basically textbooks. They were written by and for active combat. Yes. That book at that was focused on latto. Start in on social enterprise. There’s. Also about a career. Guys, you know how to get into sectors from there. But what didn’t kill him, you know, is that there’s no fish depict some fund-raising management, but what didn’t most back-up when that really hyre spectrum but did so from a very practical kind of practice will put into work. Daria, you don’t have to talk to you for a minute or you want a headset. Funny chance i’m not going out here, big guy. So, yeah, we’ll not only echo, but we don’t have a great we’re sort of getting you in bursts i hear about. Yeah, well, i don’t know if we can help all that. Yeah, why don’t you hang up and call right back? And i’ll do a little tap dance. In the meantime, please. Okay, so darren’s book is non-profit management one o one and it is actually he’s, actually the editor of the book. Because it is thirty three essays written by some pretty popular people in their subject areas. And interestingly, it covers areas that he just touched on. But it goes much further because it gives details of how to it’s not theoretical. Darian. You back with us? Yes. This sounds better. Yeah, thank you. I was just telling the audience there. There. Are thirty three essays in the book, but go ahead, why don’t you finish explaining what it contributes? Why why you felt this was important to write, no problem, and i’m and i’m not sure what you were before, but there’s the echo again anyway. So the point is that yeah, i hear you find and if the echo is bothering you, my suggestion is just take the phone away from your ear while you’re talking, and then when you’re done talking, put the phone back because you won’t hear my insightful questions, of course, certainly. Okay, so what i was going to stay is the book is really non-profit boot camp as a book, when i was executive director, craigslist foundation, i started a program that was very successful about non-profit boot camp, and i think the reason it was so successful is that it really covered the whole spectrum of all the different issues you need to know about in order to run an effective non-profit and it did so with a very practical focus, you know, wasn’t just enough to inspire people it’s about inspiring them action? What you going to do differently tomorrow? That’s going to make you more effective and the essays in the book yeah, the book have great detail there, you know, there’s textbooks that are buying for a day there’s career, guide’s, there’s, howto started non-profit or social enterprise, and then they’re sort of issue specific books on board governance or volunteermatch judgment or individual donor efforts or online fund-raising etcetera. And what didn’t just was something that was both comprehensive and practical, something i respect and that isn’t just kind of theoretical and conceptual, but is actually in geared for implementation, you know, it’s, a field guide for people that are professional change makers on brovey yeah, and i think a field guide or manual really is a very good way to describe because i noticed that all the essays have very practical, implementable steps and you have at the end of every essay there do’s and don’ts and there’s terrific resource section at the end of each chapter, which is the each chapter is an essay, so i i see the difference there as well. So they’re just a couple that i want to focus on, and we have just about a minute and a half before our first break. One of them is your say on non-profit career’s. Taking charge of your non-profit career happens to be chapter four in the book. Um, it points out something very interesting being comment on this. The non-profit sector is so diverse, which is a terrific attribute for it. But that makes career management complex. Darian yeah. So just can you comment on the double edged sword there of the non-profit community, it being wonderfully diverse, but no definitive career path since it is so diverse? Yeah. I mean, i think that there’s, you know, diversity in two areas because there’s lots of different causes represented within the sector. There’s also different lots, lots of organizations we’ve got over a mil and a half non-profits registered in this country alone. And so, you know, yes, that is both a good thing in a bad thing, you know, it does offer tremendous diversity, it offers lots of opportunity and you know anything you can think of his representatives enough offgrid in mental job, but at the same time, you have to be using a array of options other professionally. So i think that bill, the most important thing, kind of key to success at this fight i’m sorry dahna is really about, you know, a combination of two things. Do what you love, what’s your bet. And so really the question is, what are the what’s? The answer, those two questions, and that is and you know that russian life and that’s what we really should spend our time and energy thinking about not only on a nice body basis, but i’m an ongoing basis and the clearest that we have professionals get of. What are the causes that i most care about that make packed what are what kind of organizational environment and culture and for what kind of role want to? I want to be in a wreck, prevent upleaf or focused on development and fundrasing or, you know something on the market fighter program to look in the rear of the ant, get all of those questions, the more you’re able tto sort of, you know, put your desires out, you know, to the folks that you meet and the books that you served. 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Welcome back, come with darian rodriguez kayman we’re talking about his book non-profit management one oh one and we’re focusing on one of the thirty three essays in the book titled taking charge of your non-profit career out darian the the end of that chapter has networking, do’s and don’ts, but one of the one of the best networking tips i thought came from a mihdhar, the founder of idealist who wrote your forward and he said that he listed seven or ten things that he had learned in the past fifteen years in his forward, and one of them was, too treat people the way you’d like to be treated. I mean, isn’t that great networking advice? Yeah, i mean, i think that that’s a big part of now bombing has built up, you know, not only cecil career, but the organization would idealware bigot about a million people a month going to that website tto learn about all things not-for-profits idealist dot order, but, you know, for me i’ve seen this across several careers and different sectors is did extent a zoho helpful person that is genuinely concerned with the efforts advancing the success of the o z. From the contact it comes back, you know, a million nationally, so for me and, you know, basically any time on meeting with anybody at some point in the conversation, if even if i don’t say that word, i essentially asked the question, how can i help bond? You know, whether that’s just connecting them to re sources or yourself getting infections, being among them, you know, it’s, like books, conferences or what have you, you know, i think that the important thing to remember is that each and every one of the you know, of the non-profit country has the same owner, which is the public it’s, not the border, the executive director bye definite means to be a non-profit is that we’re publicly and our boardmember zehr just ensuring a public interest that’s why they’re trustees. So, you know, we are genuinely all in this together and it’s really crucial that we support each other’s work further that every one of us on i just think that some of the best networking advice that that you can you can find, yeah, i should actually mention that tommy denoting the social media for non-profits he’s going kicking and often it dork yeah, and we’re going to talk shortly. We’re going talk shortly about that about that series of conferences throughout the country and army has been a guest on this show that s a also makes the point of talking about a sustainable career where you’re, you know, you’re with the right organization are always learning and way always hear about sustainability for non-profits but i never thought of a sustainable career. Good? Yeah, i mean, i think so, too things. Well, first of all, i do want to just kind of point out that even though it’s the most romantic cities in court but these are not really tested their chapters because what you’ll see is to read the book there’s, a common chapter format s so i created a structure so that each chapter would yet have an introduction and a conclusion. But most importantly have, you know, the main section focused on critical skills confidences as well as that sidebar, do’s and don’ts that kind of pull out this salient points than us back that you mentioned, and then there’s also a resource review read chapter so it’s not because they’re just sort of, you know wandering as all in different formats on bitten by different experts, they are of the chapters are all contributed by different experts there’s fifty experts in thirty five different after inspections. But anyway, i wanted to make that because i think it’s important for the readability of the use of looking that died the back to your point about professional sustainability, what i would say is that, you know, i think two things because i also do a lot of environmental where you environment murcott duitz and i think first off sustainability has been even the words that we want to think about much maybe dr, right? Like, how many people would be a sustainable relationship, meaning that it can just keep going it’s not enough to just be able to keep the light, be enjoying what you’re doing, and that ultimately is the key to the ability of the key to being able to continue on. And so i think that as him into earlier such a diverse sector there’s so many opportunities that, you know, challenge happy and so you’re not break the work you’re doing, whether it’s that you’re not passionate about the cause or that you don’t like the people you work with role that you’re in, then you really owe it to the cause into the community to get fashion and whether that trying to wreck himself some things with, you know, the organization you’re working with or, you know, identifying and new places to go work and on put your skills to bear at a organization, what do you know if you can really do your best work? Yeah, the the authors make the point of always reflecting on whatever dissatisfaction you might have, you might be feeling and you’re and that’s that’s exactly what you’re talking to just, you know, this introspection and thinking about whether you’re happy and if not, howto latto make that change so that you can be happier. The other chapter i’d like to talk about is is called online peer-to-peer fund-raising i think that social media is something that non-profits struggle with. In fact, we had a poll for listeners to the show, and one of the question was what’s the your non-profits relationship with social media sites like facebook, twitter, youtube linked in and no one said we get it and we’re good at it and then the answers were pretty much between. You know, we see the value but aren’t getting the most out of it, and even a small percentage, you know, we don’t see the value, but i think, importantly, nobody said we understand it, and we’re good at social media. So the chapter is online peer-to-peer fund-raising it’s all about using social networks to engage your donors, to become fundraisers and engaging sort of friends to become donors. Darrien you have a lot of experience in social networks, these requires support right non-profit can’t just put up a facebook page. Well, actually, you know the non-profit can put up a facebook page just like anybody can, but the important thing to remember is when i called the store phenomenon because what you’re you’re better off not launching a facebook presence, they’re launching one and ignoring and letting it go stale. So what you don’t want to do is have a summer intern, and this happens all the time you’ve got, you know, a young volunteer or summer intern or something like that says, hey, i’m going to set up a facebook presents they put up a page for you and they, you know, maybe do one or two updates in and they go back home or they’re done volunteering or whatever the case may be, and the organization has no plan of how it’s going to keep that page fresh and lively. And so therefore all of a sudden, after couple posted just goes stale and it sits there, and it almost reflects more poorly on the organization and if you wouldn’t have launched a presence there to begin with. So the key is that, although yes, anyone can set up a paige if you’re going to send a social media presence on twitter, facebook, youtube or else where you want to make sure that you have a plan in place with resource, is that air dependable toe actually continue to put content up there, and i should tell listeners we are live today in the if you want to call and talk to darian, you can call eight seven seven four daito for one two oh eight, seven, seven for a tow for one to zero during they talk about leveraging pompel the personal social networks and there’s something very interesting about is a quote from a an executive director who thinks of his employee’s personal use of of social networks in the workplace as the twenty first century cigarette break. What do you think of that? I love that i love that comment by nicki noble who’s, one of the two office of that chapter uh, she actually used to work at the salvation army. What about e-giving? So it wasn’t a small, you know, organization with a lot of flexibility that was hurt looking policies in a very large, well established organization. And i think, you know, this is kind of vindictive of social media in general, which is, you know, one of the concerns a lot of organizations have is lovely. What if it gets out of control what people say things we don’t want them to say, etcetera and it’s kind of the better the devil, you know, than the one you don’t type thing where, you know, control is an illusion to begin with only more so now that we live in this world of social media and so you know, people are going to be doing this anyway, the idea is instead of trying to bend folks from doing stuff they want to dio, how can you rent us that and turn it into an asset for the organization? So whether that’s creating guidelines so that they have a sense of what’s appropriate and what’s not to be posting, you know, helping seat topics, etcetera on then actually encouraging them to, you know, take a couple minutes out of their daito put up, you know, a tweet on twitter or to put a facebook, etcetera, and that can actually be a good thing, and i think that what a lot of folks don’t realize is that you know, people don’t know how many people have logged into facebook in the last month, and the answer is about seven hundred million, so that makes facebook the third largest country on the planet, and you don’t have to have a presence there, but you can’t ignore it. You can’t ignore social media and the fundamental paradigm shift that represents to this bottom ofthe world. So how can you embrace that it with radical transparency and really get ahead of the curve? The authors of chapter twenty two make it explicit that the quid pro quo in that office was that the organization would be lenient with their employees, use of social media as well. A cz long as the employees were tweeting, posting facebooking about the organizations work to their own personal networks that there was a great exchange hyre we have just a couple minutes left, so let me just remind listeners that darrin’s book is non-profit management one o one, and you’ll find that at non-profits one o one dot or ge darian also is founder of the social media for non-profits conferences these aeryn seven different cities throughout the country this year. Darian what? What is sort of asked the same question asked about your book, what is this unconference siri’s contributing to the many conferences that are already out there for? Non-profits so then i mean, i think i like seeing you see, through all of my birth, the focus is on crack tips and tools, and so what you could clear, you know, there’s three chapters in the book focused on social media one my best cantor was amazing, the we talked that one from nikki noble and sean sullivan a peer-to-peer giving and then the folks it for good contributed the online fund-raising chapter and so, you know, even though there were three chapters out of thirty, thirty five submissions that that focused on media, which is quite a lot given, you know, the the significance of the issue, what became fear is now is that people were really creating more information about this topic and kind of like fund-raising where the thing people know they need and so we got a lot of books asking us to put on educational programming around social media and in particular, strategies fundrasing marketing and advocacy on so what we did is we leveraged a lot of the network i had for my work to craigslist foundation with the non-profit boot camps and some of the author’s for the book, actually, and we got folks like that cancer and geico sake and ami dar and the folks of charity water and a lot of the leaders in the social media field, and i wouldn’t call them experts because, you know, the field is changing so quickly that if anybody pretends to be an expert, you know, they’re lying or they have a big ego because it’s, you know, it’s, impossible to be an expert world students in world practitioner so how can we share our lessons learned with our fellow non-profit leaders so that they could be more effective in this funnel and landscape which maximizing their online presence so as you mentioned, were doing nine events across seven cities? Can francisco, los angeles, seattle, chicago, new york and washington d c in atlanta and we’re heading to new york next thursday on august fourth, and then from there to los angeles on august twenty seconds on, folks could learn more social media for non-profits dartboard, so social media and number four non-profits dot org’s and you’ve. You’ve hosted two so far in san francisco and washington daring we have just about a minute left before we have to go. How did those two go? They were gonna pompel they were both totally sold down, folks absolutely loved them. We had ninety plus an approval ratings on again this focus, i’m not just inspiring people, but inspiring them to action and equipping and more effective and efficient after work they’re already trying to do has been really successful, so we’re on track new york next week, and we’re very excited about how the, how the serious has been resonating with non-profit all right, i wish you luck with it, and especially on the new york city one on august fourth, again, to remind you that there’s more information at social media, the number four non-profits dot org’s darien rodriguez heman is the editor of non-profit management, one o one and founder of these social media for non-profits conferences darien, thanks very much for being a guest. Thank you for having me been a pleasure. Thank you. We’re going to take a break, and when we return, it’ll be tony’s. Take two and then welcoming our new experts in law, gene takagi and emily chan. After that, so stay with me. 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Buy-in hey, all you crazy listeners looking to boost your business? Why not advertise on talking alternative with very reasonable rates? Interested simply email at info at talking alternative dot com in-kind welcome back to the show, as i said earlier, this is our one year anniversary month, this is show number fifty two and i want to send a special thank you to people who have been listening who are listening, whether you’re listening live or you’re listening to the podcast from itunes very grateful i’m very grateful to all the listeners we have on this show at this one year anniversary month and also to the four hundred thirty plus people who are facebook fans and they get our stream on facebook. Thankyou. So to sort of celebrate, we have new regular contributors toe ad tio scott, keg alors monthly technology for non-profits segments and jean takagi and emily chan is going to be joining me very shortly, and then we also are going to be welcoming maria simple in august she’s the prospect find er she’s, a popular speaker and consultant, and she’ll have regular prospect research advice for your non-profit her first show is august twelfth. I started last week a monthly podcast interview show for the chronicle of philanthropy. It’s called fund-raising fundamentals we kicked off with gayle perry gale has been a guest on this show. She’s, the author of fired-up fund-raising turned board passion into action. 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That’s tony’s take two for friday, july twenty ninth, and i’m really pleased now to welcome jean takagi and emily chan as our new regular legal contributors, jean is a principle of neo ennio, the non-profit and exempt organizations law group in san francisco, he edits to popular non-profit law block, which you’ll find at non-profit law blawg dot com emily chan is an attorney at the non-profit and exempt organizations law group. They’re based in san francisco, and she is a principal contributor to the non-profit law block, jean and emily big. Welcome to the show. Three. Thank you so much, tony. We’re thrilled to be a part of non-profit radio. It’s called very glad to have you. So i think we’re starting with a fit topic. So you want to start a non-profit. I know your office gets calls on this subject, people who are passionate about a cause and want to do something. I want to start a non-profit and what’s the first advice that you give them in thinking about that. This is family, i think, a threshold questions that we do ask for when they call it really why? Non-profit so there are individual, better, very past about fun, but sometimes that translates into also happy that would be too private evidence as a few of the public in addition to that it’s important to think about the plan who’s going to be on the board, what is the business going to look like? And funding as well? The costs involved with the initial startup and the ongoing operations? We also like to find out what’s going on with the mission and the core activities and anticipating any kind of challenges, like a conflict of interest compensation issues and thinking about who else is going to be involved in helping to run this organization. So emily that’s a ton of stuff to be thinking about, and in your experience, do you find these air, these air, new things that people haven’t have not thought through? Is that? Is that the case? Usually i think so in many cases, because sometimes that passin for the cause overtakes the practical considerations. Additionally, i think sometimes are unaware how much the law and it’s pettus upon these problems, for example, recently with the irs, there was this issue of a list of two hundred and seventy five thousand organizations have had their past six status revoked for failing to file an annual returns with three years straight. This was a change in the law that happened in two thousand six, and many small organizations simply didn’t know about it. So kind of thinking in advance. You know what air the practical things we need to do and be aware of? What are the kind of mechanical steps involved? Well, the challenges we’re going to face, sometimes things that take a backseat to that initial passion and excitement about having starting in non-profits yeah, they were definitely ongoing compliance requirements and your example, is a great one of almost three hundred thousand non-profits that weren’t complying with filing requirements with the irs, jean, what about some alternatives? There are other things that might achieve the same objective that the person has but would be a lot less onerous for them. Absolutely, tony think one of the things one of the messages that emily brought forward was that good intentions aren’t enough there’s a lot. Of administration and fund-raising involved in starting your your own non-profits i’m sure all the listeners know the alternatives that they might want to think about first is working with an existing non-profit organization, there are nearly two million non-profits out there even after the nearly three hundred thousand that were revoked with tax income status, and there are a lot of great non-profits out there doing great work and just simply to duplicate their work, i may not be the most effective and efficient way to use charitable assets, so working with existing organizations is one way another is called fiscal sponsorship, which is similar to working with another organization, but it allows you to become a project of theirs with a right to spin off. Should you later decide to form your own five o one the three on dh that’s a great way to incubate a new non-profit project see if it works, see if he can raise funds they’re going to take care of you administrated been back office ends on dh then should you become a viable ongoing concerned, then you khun later spin off and you’ve got all the benefit of learning from that. Physical sponsorship. Arrange jean notice. Ah, jean quickly defined fiscal sponsorship because i wanted to keep himself out of jargon jail. So, congratulations. You. No, no, no sentence in jargon jail, at least not for the phrase fiscal sponsorship. We’ll see what comes up. But what types of organizations would a person approach to look for a fiscal sponsor? There’s a community foundations that offer physical sponsorship, so that might be the first place to look. But there’s, also a great website called the fiscal sponsorship directory and that’s, a national directory of fiscal sponsors all over the country, and you can choose your state location to see who’s offering physical sponsorship in your area. Another great thing to look at is the national network of physical sponsors website. They provide guidelines as to what would be on appropriate form were effective form a physical sponsorship, because while there many ways to do it right, there are also many, many ways to do it wrong. Okay, excellent resource is thank you, thank you for that gene. We had a couple of poll questions for the show, and one of them was for those thinking of starting a non-profit are you aware of the alternatives that can help you reach the same goals? And no one said yes, but i want to start my own non-profit hyre a few people said yes, and i’m considering them. Most people said no, i’m not aware of the alternative, so i think this is very worthwhile discussion that was yeah, two thirds no. Sorry, about eighty five percent of people said no, not aware of the alternatives and the alternatives gene could be just as easy as giving right giving to an organization absolutely right, buddy that’s a great point that he simply wanted to contribute at your funds and volunteering another organization that may be the best thing to do instead of farming your own non-profit and having all of the administrative and filing obligations that go along with that. But of course we’re talking about ego to write. If you don’t have your own organization and you become sponsored by another, maybe a community foundation, then you have to sort of play by their rules and for some people, maybe that just doesn’t work. You get sort of ego lorts issues at all in the in these conversations, absolutely, and emily may want to jump in, but definitely there a lot of people who want to form non-profits that really have good intentions about the public, but almost as important as those good intentions is their own intentions of creating a job for themselves or creating opportunities for their family, or maybe creating opportunities for related business? No, andi okay, so we’re talking about jobs for themselves and their families. Now. Now we get into those things emily talked about, like conflicts of interest and excessive compensation rules. What about the donor advised fund has a way of as another one of the alternatives as a way of giving to a charity that does work very similar to what you want to do. How does it donor-centric for that? They would really like emily. Emily, could you speak a little louder, please? Yeah. It’s much, but yeah. Please. That’s better. Thanks. So, what donorsearch vice fund that the individual would i talked to? Was sponsoring organizations such as the public charity or a private foundation on dh set up this fund that is going to be designated by their own name and they have advisory privileges so they can advise the organization how they would like to see those funds distributed. It would be the organization, depression, how they ultimately do that. Generally, this relationship works well, because organizations aren’t goingto have individuals. These donors advice sons if they don’t take those at recommendations and advisory privileges with some weight. Okay, so, again, there’s a little ego issue there because the charity gets the final word. But in most cases, charity is wants to work with the donor, right? Right. And the donor gets to have a little bit of their egos stroked as well, because they feel like they have more say and input after what happened to these funds as opposed tio, you’re normal donations, that organization can decide where they put it within their programs and in furthering their exempt labbate and gina want to go back to something that you said just in a minute we have before a break, working with an existing charity. I mean, you might be able to just achieve what you’d like to do by volunteering. No, absolutely, if you if you have a passion about the mission, you could just volunteer for the organization. If you have a leadership goal in mind, you may be able to offer to that organization that you can raise some funds and bring it into launch a program within that organization, and they may be very happy to let you do that. If you’ve got a little bit of a working relationship with them, we’re going to take a break now with jean takagi and emily chan when we returned. You know, it’s? Not that we’re tryingto talk you out of starting a nonprofit, but jean and emily just want you to be fully informed. So when we return, we’ll talk about what the process of creating a non-profit is all about. So please stay with us. E-giving didn’t think dick tooting getting thinking thing. You’re listening to the talking alternate network. E-giving things. Good. Looking to meet mr and mrs wright, but still haven’t found the one i want to make your car relationship as fulfilling as possible. Then please join us, starting monday, may second at ten am for love in the morning with morning alison as a professional matchmaker, i’ve seen it all. Please tune in and call as we discuss dating relationship and more. Start your week off with love in the morning with marnie alison on talking alternative dot com. Talking alternative radio twenty four hours a day. 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Emily, can i ask you to please remember to speak? Speak a little louder. Sorry. I’m getting a little bit of an echo on buy-in trying. Teo pulled the head that strategically here? Yeah, yeah, we hear you. Ok. Ok, great. So there are quite a few mechanical steps involved. And this is assuming that the individual has already thought about those important discussion points that we raised in the beginning. So these kind of steps can include taking out the name of the corporation, filing the articles. Of incorporation if it’s incorporating the state obtaining a federal employer identification numbers, then you’ll want to appoint the board of directors. Drop the by-laws important policies, such a conflict of interest policy. I have your first board meeting to adopt those government documents, then you may need to file with state, especially if this is a public charity for your trip napor stations file any other state filings, like a statement of information, then we’re going to move over now the federal level of applying for tax exemption and in california after that, you can attach your determination letter from the irs if you obtain it and file for your state tax exemption, so this generally can be described in ten steps just did. But, you know, there’s a lot of thinking that goes along the way and it’s a process that you don’t really want to start unless you’ve thought it through because you may get your tax exempt application and realize, oh, no, our mission doesn’t really fit with the exempt purpose that we’re applying for. So they are mechanical steps, but they still need to be thought about as you go through them. Okay, so that’s a ton of stuff, let’s, let’s, break it down a bit. So there were state requirements, and there were also some federal requirements. So starting with the state that i mean, you have tio incorporate in a state, right you’re you’re you’re not-for-profits corporation offgrid yes, and so there’s everything that goes along with being a corporation, those things that you mentioned, you have to appoint the board, et cetera back-up that’s all important in in order to avoid things like potential personal liability of the members if they operate is an unincorporated association, which is a possibility on dh, usually a practical possibility if it’s a very small non-profit going to operate for a limited period of time for most non-profits that tony, i think it’s important to think about inc if they’re going to be an ongoing okay, let’s, you’re treading very close to jog in jail with unincorporated association. What does that mean? It basically means you’re running as a group without filing any articles of incorporation with the secretary of state of your state. So what? What that usually means is just like in the for-profit world, tony, if you start a business and you don’t incorporate their operating is a sole proprietor or possibly the partnership trying to avoid jargon jail again, but it’s running without the formal legal entity around it to protect you from personal liability of the members and of the director’s. Yeah, and that’s and that’s. Really? Your concern is that there is the potential for personal liability if something goes wrong our what kinds of things could somebody end up being personally liable for if they’re if they’re not incorporated and they’re working as a association? Sure, what went one of the big things that you could be a lot before you hold an event and somebody gets hurt? It’s your event there is no formal entity to do like a corporation they may just decide to do. All of the members are all of the directors of that unincorporated association. In many states, they’re not protected against those lawsuits and they’ll have to defend them with their their own personal funds. Emily let’s, let’s, go back now. So we talk about the state requirements, you know, incorporating and everything that goes along with inc like you mentioned. But then there’s there’s an irs requirement to get that tax exempt. Status that five o one c three on dh we pulled the listeners and about half we’re not aware a little more than half we’re not aware of how to get five o one c three status. So first emily, why don’t you tell us what that is? Why it’s important? A five one seat status refers to dissection in the internal revenue code that gives the tax exemption for organizations public charities in order to get that discriminate. Then the organizations to file was called a form ten twenty three on dh this can be quite scary for individuals to look at it it’s quite long and asked for a lot of information is going to ask for a financial projections, the contemplated activities of the organisation, any kind of relationship that would trigger these conflict of interest issues there, you know, it’s, excessive compensation issues um, and then just general information about the organization wants an organization submits that ten, twenty three applications, the irs can take quite a while to get a determination back. It may be about three to four months assuming that the irs does not have additional questions sometimes if the application doesn’t really answer the questions fully or seems to raise some concerns that show that maybe this organization doesn’t really fit with five, twenty three, they may come back with more questions, and then you’re going to end up in the back and forth for her, who knows how long until they give you a determination of either obtaining tax exempt status or being rejected. And one of the big advantages to getting that recognition is that donors to your organization will earn a charitable income tax deduction when they give to your organization and they and they won’t before you have that status, right? Can you repeat that? Just that one of the big advantages of getting that five o one c three statuses donors earn a charitable income tax deduction? No, and they don’t have that if you’re not five o one c three recognized, right? Yeah. And, you know, a big area of your expertise, you know, that’s important organizations to realize, too in that pending time, val, the application has been filed, but they haven’t yet heard from the irs that they don’t actually have five o one c three status, even though if you file it within twenty seven months of being formed. It will go back to your formation, but until you know you can’t go out there and say, i’m a five, twenty three organization because you really don’t know yet. Excellent, we have to leave it there. Jean takagi is principal of neo, the non-profit exempt organizations law group in san francisco, and he edits that very popular blawg non-profit law blogger and emily chan is an attorney. Neo-sage she’s, principal contributor to the law block. Emily jean. Welcome to the show. Look forward, having you back next month, thanks so much for being on. 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