"Funding the Future NOW" Podcast
Jun 25, 2026 · 1 min · 1 segments
In the nonprofit world, we so often cast ourselves as the hero — *look how many homes we built, how many meals we served, how many wells we dug.* But your real job is to be a confident philanthropic…
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You see, so often in the nonprofit, we position ourselves as the hero of the story, the organization.
But really, in the whole process of being a confident philanthropic advisor, you are the advisor, and it is, in this case, the donor, that is the hero of the story.
And to do that, you need to understand the other person's values, what's important to them, what is it they want to be able to achieve, rather than who you are, who your organization is, and all the wonderful things that you are doing.
Come along and build a bridge between the interests of the donor, the values, the goals, the aspirations, and the dreams, and what your particular organization is able to deliver.
You see, so often in the nonprofit, we position ourselves as the hero of the story, the organization.
But really, in the whole process of being a confident philanthropic advisor, you are the advisor, and it is, in this case, the donor, that is the hero of the story.
And to do that, you need to understand the other person's values, what's important to them, what is it they want to be able to achieve, rather than who you are, who your organization is, and all the wonderful things that you are doing.
Come along and build a bridge between the interests of the donor, the values, the goals, the aspirations, and the dreams, and what your particular organization is able to deliver.