In episode 19 of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, some of the topics that Carol and her guest, Nancy Bacon discussed include: learning in nonprofit organizations; the best methods nonprofits or associations can use to train their staff; how habits and accountability help people follow through on behavior change.

In episode 16 of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, Carol and guest Rosalind Spigel discuss defining organizational values and strategies for enhancing board diversity. They address practical methods to reduce microaggressions and emphasize the need to integrate core values into daily operations, ensuring they influence team behaviors and decisions.

In episode 14 of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, Carol and her guest, Keisha Sitney, discuss the importance of leaders as role models, starting equity efforts with individuals, and building leadership capacity for underrepresented staff. They emphasize the need for professionals in diversity, equity, and inclusion to cultivate unique leadership styles rather than conforming to traditional norms, address the fatigue experienced in educating others about racism and oppression, and highlight the significance of leaders openly sharing their mistakes and lessons learned.

In Episode 8, we’re talking to Becca Bartholomew. We talked about ensuring all voices are included in planning processes, why it is important for leaders to not only have intelligence but also have emotional intelligence and somatic intelligence and what the buffering sign on your computer has to tell us about today’s work environment.

In Episode 6, we talk to Arielle Goodman, Jenny Hegland and Jessica Srikantia about what this uncertain moment in history could mean for the systems that we live in and take for granted, how we are born into a collectively traumatized culture that has a domination logic built into its systems, how a systemic analysis can divorce ourselves from our part in that system and what this means for nonprofit organizations.

In Episode 5 of Nonprofit Mission: Impact we talked to Beth Sperber Richie.  We talked about what is burn out is and why burn out is so prevalent in the nonprofit sector, what the research shows about rest and productivity for organizations and what vicarious trauma is and how it impacts nonprofit staff and an organization’s culture.  

In episode 1 of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, Carol Hamilton and Tip Fallon discuss: the masks many people feel forced to wear or personas they assume in the workplace, why we need to do some preventative work to make things easier for people with targeted identities, and how we are the product of the history that has created systems of oppression, as well as creating history ourselves.