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Hosted by Sheela N. Mahajan · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 85 episodes
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Universities study the exact problems nonprofits face every day. Almost none of that research reaches you.The Nonprofit Science Podcast brings the best academic research on nonprofits out of the journals and into your work. Every week, host Sheela Mahajan finds rigorous, peer-reviewed studies on the questions nonprofit leaders actually wrestle with, then translates them into plain language and practical steps you can use right away.If you run, fund, or work inside a nonprofit, this show is built for you. Episodes dig into the challenges and questions you face every day. On the fundraising side, that means what the latest research says about individual giving, donor retention, major gifts, and building a revenue base that lasts. On leadership and management, it means research on motivating teams, board governance, staff retention, and steering an organization through change. And on programs and operations, it means findings on program design, impact measurement, and resource planning
Sheela N. Mahajan hosts The Nonprofit Science Podcast, a non-profit show with 85 episodes published.
Nearly nine in ten nonprofit workers say they’re passionate about their job. So when almost everyone has it, what is that word actually telling you, and what should a leader watch for instead? New research followed nonpr
What counts as a volunteer? Research into fifty years of Australian volunteering data shows the answer has been rewritten again and again, and that what gets counted tends to lag well behind what the sector says it value
Your executive director comes back from a conference convinced the nonprofit should run more like a business. You roll your eyes and think “we’ve been down this road before.” We know the argument. Yes, nonprofits are tec
Most board packets are full of numbers boards don't act on. New research looked at a decade of financial data from the largest nonprofits in the country and asked a simple question: which financial signals do boards resp
Is your organization as ethical on the inside as it is on the outside? Most nonprofit leaders answer yes without hesitating, and they're usually thinking about the mission. But a workplace isn't ethical just because the
Two nonprofits start out nearly identical. Both survive the 2008 crash, both pivot through the pandemic, both make it through every shock for twenty years. So why is one thriving in 2026 while the other is winding down?
Sitting in a budget meeting defending your numbers can be brutal, especially when the honest answer to "how did you land on these?" is "last year's budget, adjusted by feel." You run a lean operation, but the same patter
What if the storytelling practices you were trained on are quietly causing harm and you don't even know it? In this episode, host Sheela Mahajan sits down with Diana Farias Heinrich, founder of Habra Marketing and host o
How do you know your program is working? You know it works and you see it every day. But translating that into evidence that satisfies stakeholders? That's where things get complicated. In this episode, we dig into peer-
"Collaboration" has become one of the most diluted words in the nonprofit sector. Funders push for it, grant applications require it, and yet most partnerships are coordination at best, administrative burden at worst. Dr
We talk a lot about best practices in this sector, but what if the better question is: how do we keep getting better? In this episode, I sit down with Leah Kral— author of Innovation for Social Change: How Wildly Success
What does it really mean for a nonprofit to succeed? How do you build trust with funders, and does celebrating wins help as much as we think? In this year-end reflection, I share five research articles that genuinely cha
As the year winds down and your finance team fields last-minute reports, board meeting materials, and budget questions, it's worth asking: is your organization's relationship with money working? In this episode, I sit do
You send thank-you letters. Your acknowledgements go out like clockwork. But are those thank-yous actually working? In this episode, we dive deep into the research on donor appreciation- and what we find may surprise you
Is Giving Tuesday worth it, or will your appeal just get lost in the noise? It may feel like you're competing against thousands of other organizations for a fixed pool of charitable dollars on Giving Tuesday- there's a r
You know GivingTuesday as this massive global day of generosity. But, alongside leading this movement, GivingTuesday’s research team has been building a powerful data resource for the entire nonprofit sector. On this epi
What if your donors' most valuable contributions aren't their checks? Research reveals that nonprofits tracking only financial donations could have a blind spot. Other forms of capital- such as social capital, relational
Donor-advised funds represent a $250 billion opportunity that's transforming modern philanthropy- and new research shows how nonprofits can prepare to be perfectly positioned to benefit. Drawing from studies including in
In this data-packed episode, we dive deep into the psychology of default donations and behavioral nudging, revealing how seemingly tiny changes like a checkbox here or a specific word there can swing your revenue by 30%.
Why do people really donate to nonprofits? It turns out, it's not just about generous donors but about the complex relationships between donors, beneficiaries, and the organizations that connect them. In this episode, Dr
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The Nonprofit Science Podcast is hosted by Sheela N. Mahajan. The show is categorised under non-profit (business) and has published 85 episodes.
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