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Hosted by Sarah Olivieri · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 445 episodes
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This podcast is a place for nonprofit leaders to gain insights, tips, inspiration, and encouragement to unleash their potential.
Sarah Olivieri hosts Inspired Nonprofit Leadership, a business show with 445 episodes published.
Lunch Is Leadership with Sarah Olivieri Lunch is the first thing to go. The calendar fills up, something has to give, and the hour in the middle of the day is the one that looks optional. Skip it enough times and you sta
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... Is Your Budget Killing Your Major Gifts Program? Many nonprofit leaders I talk to about major gifts describe some version of the same wall. They know the money is out there. They
Ride the Wave Already Moving with Sarah Olivieri Strategic planning gets treated like a decision you make in a quiet room, then hand down to the team. So leaders sit down to "set direction," invent something new from scr
Top 5 Episodes Countdown Five episodes rose to the top over the last two years of this show. Trauma. Cash flow. Starting a nonprofit from scratch. Health equity. Organizational design. On the surface they have nothing in
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Build Programs That Stick with Sarah Olivieri Most programs are built middle-out. Someone has an idea for a workshop, a curriculum, a service, and the design starts with the activities. The end result is fuzzy, the begin
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... "Run It Like A Business" There is a quiet belief inside a lot of nonprofits that running things like a business would somehow cheapen the mission. That budgets, product thinking,
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The Budget Layout Trap with Sarah Olivieri Money gets tight. The bank balance looks thin, or the bottom line slips into the red, and the first move almost everyone reaches for is the same one: cut expenses. It feels resp
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... The Trap of Being the Most Capable Person in the Room There is a particular kind of nonprofit leader who is very good at almost everything. They can build the budget. They can wri
Episode Description Most leadership books focus on the individual, their style, their skills, their presence. What rarely gets named is the leadership structure itself, the actual model your organization runs on. Sarah w
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... The Power Of Shared Infrastructure There is a quiet assumption baked into how most nonprofits operate. If you need something, you build it yourself. Need a fundraising event, plan
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... $20 Million in Grants, Suddenly Gone: How One Nonprofit Survived A year ago, a single nonprofit had $20 million in federal grants on the books. Three awards from three different a
Episode Description The right team is the thing nearly every organization comes back to, whatever else they're working on. Funding, scale, board questions, they all run through the people in the seats. And the way to get
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... When Retention Looks Like a People Problem And Isn't Nonprofits are full of weak signals. A weak signal is when the symptoms of a problem aren't very apparent, or when the symptom
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... The Resource Problem Most Nonprofits Mistake for a Funding Problem Ask any nonprofit leader what their organization needs most, and you will hear the same answer almost every time
Episode Description Most nonprofits are trying to ice a cake that has not been baked. The grants are going out. The Giving Tuesday campaign is on the calendar. The Facebook ads are running. And the foundation underneath
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... Why Your Nonprofit Can't Afford to Outsource Its Own Capacity There is a moment that arrives in almost every mission-driven organization. You build something that works. A program
Most nonprofits are walking into 2026 making the same three fundraising mistakes that quietly sank them in 2025. None of the three look like mistakes from the inside. They look like prudence. They look like stewardship.
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... Strategic Planning as a Rhythm Most nonprofits I talk to are not avoiding strategic planning because they don't believe in it. They're avoiding it because the process is heavy, th
Episode Description Most nonprofit leaders are running a calendar built out of obligations they accepted on autopilot. The board asks. The donor meeting. The standing call that has been on the schedule for so long nobody
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... The Underfunding You Accept Is a Design Choice, Not a Destiny There is a belief running quietly through most of the nonprofit sector. It says that being underfunded is just part o
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Inspired Nonprofit Leadership is hosted by Sarah Olivieri. The show is categorised under business (non-profit) and has published 445 episodes.
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