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747. How One $14,410 Fundraiser Became a Global Movement - Jeremy Vallerand, Atlas Free

2026-10-0727:52

Jeremy Vallerand and a few friends turned a Mount Rainier climb into a fundraiser: $1 for every vertical foot, $14,410 total. It was supposed to be a one-off. It wasn't. Today, Atlas Free is a global network of 160+ organizations in 67 countries fighting sex trafficking, still fueled by the community hikes and climbs that started it all. 🩵 In this Possible in Practice episode, you'll hear: How one climb became hundreds of community-led hikes and climbs every year, and the simple idea that mad...

746. 1 in 2 American Adults Struggle with Social Connection. Nonprofits Are Part of the Solution. - Aaron Hurst

2026-10-0527:58

1 in 2 American adults is struggling with social connection, and fewer than 20% are thriving. Aaron Hurst, the social entrepreneur behind the Taproot Foundation and the pro bono movement, says that's why volunteering and giving are collapsing, and why nonprofits hold the key to reversing it. Guest co-host Susan McPherson, author of The Lost Art of Connecting, joins us to dig into the U.S. Chamber of Connection's Six Points of Connection report, the first national index of its kind. In t...

745. 3 Case Studies on Using Data + Storytelling to Grow Your Org's Impact - Urina Harrell

2026-09-3024:02

A pandemic relief territory that grew 39% while every area around it went red. A fund that deployed capital fast and couldn't prove what it did. A 55-year-old nonprofit still running on paper. Urina Harrell, founder of Vox Pop Branding, walks through all three — what was broken, what she built, and what happened next. 🩵 In this episode, you'll hear: Case study 1 — Long Beach: Why workshops and education stopped moving the needle, and how rolling up sleeves alongside founders produced the only...

744. Make the Problem Bigger: A Different Way to Build Community - Greg Tehven, Emerging Prairie

2026-09-2841:01

Greg Tehven runs a $5.5 million nonprofit with 40 teammates in Fargo, North Dakota — and his advice to leaders is to stop working on problems they can solve alone. That instinct built Emerging Prairie into the heartbeat of a region's entrepreneurial ecosystem, launched Grand Farm, and turned TEDx Fargo into an event 1,000+ people build their year around. Guest co-host Stacy Huston, CEO of SixDegrees.org, brings Greg on to talk about what it actually takes. 🩵 In this episode, you'll hear: Why ...

743. Unlock the Full Potential of Your Peer-to-Peer Program - Victoria Vighetto, ZERO Prostate Cancer

2026-09-2318:41

When ZERO Prostate Cancer's peer-to-peer program started slipping, Victoria Vighetto didn't tell her field staff to make more calls. She walked the constituent journey herself — and found the problem sitting in an email. The call-to-action button was too far down. The sends were landing at the wrong time for open rates. Registration was where people were falling out. 🩵 In this Possible in Practice episode, you'll hear: Why a fundraising dip is almost never a motivation problem — and the diagn...

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