Giving Growth
Giving Growth
Podcast Description
Delve Deeper into Charities is a podcast that explores key leadership and strategic principles, helping nonprofit leaders navigate the challenges of balancing tradition with innovation, building long-term impact, and driving sustained growth in the charitable sector.
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Content Themes
The podcast concentrates on vital nonprofit leadership themes, including the integration of business strategies into nonprofit practices and donor engagement techniques. Episodes often cover topics such as the AARRR framework for donor lifecycle management, lessons learned from various nonprofits regarding long-term impact, and effective donor retention strategies exemplified in discussions with experts like crashonda Andrew and Chris Hoffman.
The Giving Growth Podcast is about confronting the uncomfortable truth facing nonprofits today:
The traditional donor pyramid is collapsing.
Older donors are aging out. Younger generations aren’t stepping in fast enough. And economic volatility is squeezing philanthropy from all sides.
Each episode, Giving Growth features candid conversations with nonprofit leaders, funders, and innovators who are rethinking how to engage donors, build sustainable programs, and scale impact in a radically changing world.
We dig into:
* Why legacy fundraising models are failing
* What’s working to attract and retain next-gen donors
* How to use data, technology, and storytelling to drive meaningful growth
* And how to future proof your nonprofit without losing your mission
It’s not about hype. It’s about hard truths, and bold strategies for what comes next.
If you’re a nonprofit exec or fundraiser looking to grow in a world that’s shifting under your feet, this is your show.
In this episode of Giving Growth, we sit down with Richard Kostro, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Share Our Strength (the organization behind No Kid Hungry), to unpack how fixing a decade of donor data unlocked new growth and collaboration across fundraising, finance, and IT.
Richard shares how a cross-department effort re-coded 10 years of donor data in just 90 days — transforming how Share Our Strength tracks restricted giving and opening new corporate funding opportunities. He explains why true data transformation isn’t just about clean systems, but about trust, teamwork, and a willingness to “get dirty” together to solve the right problems.
Richard discusses:
- Turning bad data into a growth opportunity
- Collaboration between IT, fundraising, and finance matters more than ever
- The business impact of clean, integrated donor data
- How Share Our Strength rebuilt 10 years of data in 90 days
- Leadership lessons from the Army that can strengthen nonprofit culture
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