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The full library of Unscripted Green & Non-Profits interviews. More added regularly. Latest: Paul Pape on turning strategy into a game your team will actually play.
Paul Pape: Turning Strategy Into a Game Your Team Will Actually Play
Paul Pape of Gamify Business turns strategy and operations into role-playing game mechanics — a planning format built to hold linear thinkers and cloud thinkers, staff, volunteers and a board, in the same room.
David Wilson: Findability Everywhere, and Why Cause Partnerships Are Defensible
David Wilson of Zozimus on search everywhere optimisation — being findable wherever the decision gets made — and why a cause partnership is the one advantage a competitor cannot copy by outspending you.
Mike Montague: Use AI Like Iron Man, Not the Terminator
Mike Montague of Avenue9 on wrapping a person in the technology instead of sending an agent out alone — including teaching questioning skills to border-crossing agents for an anti-trafficking charity.
Benjamin Behrooz: Community Involvement as an Actual Growth Strategy
Benjamin Behrooz of Branding Los Angeles on community involvement as a real growth strategy — toy drives, beach cleanups and donations — and the honest version of why a corporate partner shows up.
Rebecca Prejean: Accessibility Is a Retention Problem, Not a Compliance One
Rebecca Prejean of EBGC on selling accessibility as productivity and retention rather than compliance — the version of the pitch that actually moves a board at a volunteer-heavy, under-resourced organisation.
Only 24% of C-Suite Executives Are Women. 94% of Them Played Sports.
Melyssa Jaskiewicz of Leveling the Fields on the girls’ sports pipeline in South Carolina — and why she hires the school’s own teachers as paid coaches instead of recruiting volunteers.
Connecting Communities Through Live Classical Music: Megan Ihnen of The Live Music Project
Megan Ihnen of The Live Music Project on building real software in-house on volunteer labour, automating a programme only after years of running it by hand, and sponsorship that is not extractive of the field you serve.
Giving Gen Alpha the Tools to Regulate a Dysregulated World
Retired 27-year educator Queen D. Michele on Generation Alpha, generational healing, and 52 Insights for Gen Alpha — a free AI-adaptive SEL pilot starting September 8.
Andy Choi of Do Good Points: Profit with Purpose
Andy Choi of Do Good Points on “profit with purpose” and why non-profits need a more profitable mindset.
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