Nonprofit Mastermind Podcast

Most AI output for nonprofits reads like it was written by someone who has never met the organization, because it was. Brooke Richie-Babbage opens the final installment of her three-part micro-series on getting real leverage from AI with the story of an executive director who spent an hour trying to turn her financials into a board-ready analysis and got back something structurally fine and strategically useless. The problem was not the prompt, and it was not the platform. The missing piece w...

Every leader has been told to document their processes. Almost nobody has done it — not because they didn't believe it mattered, but because writing it all down took longer than just doing the work themselves. That math has changed. In part two of her AI micro series, Brooke picks up where part one left off: AI is the smartest new hire you've ever had, and when its work comes back generic, the problem is usually that nobody onboarded it. This episode gets practical about closing that gap. She...

Two nonprofit leaders open the same tool on the same day. One of them hands it a pile of notes and gets back an SOP she can use, and a task that used to take two hours takes twenty minutes. The other corrects the draft, re-explains the context, tries another prompt, and quietly concludes the whole thing is more trouble than it's worth. The difference between them is almost never the prompt. In this episode, Brooke Richie-Babbage makes the case that the second leader is sitting on an onboardin...

A board can be overreaching, newly energized, or quietly checked out — and on the surface those look like three different problems. One board won't stop approving things that belong to staff. Another has finally leaned in, except every bit of that engagement now routes through the executive director. A third is ready to think strategically but keeps sliding back into execution. Brooke Richie-Babbage argues these are one organizational development challenge wearing three faces. As a nonprofit ...

If a genie handed you $2 million or five new team members today, would it really solve your organization's biggest challenges—or reveal them? In this episode, I unpack a myth that keeps many nonprofit leaders stuck: that more money or people will automatically fix what's hard. Spoiler alert—it doesn’t. Instead, growth amplifies what’s already fragile. I share real-world examples from organizations that scaled quickly and struggled, and help you ask the right questions to prepare for sustainab...