[Trends] 5 Things Leading to Nonprofit Innovation - Mark Miller

Future Nonprofit

“Your leadership might be a burn victim of failed innovation, which is: we want to say that we're for innovation, but we want 99 percent of all of the things that we try to work at 10, 000%. And that's just not how it works.” - Mark Miller

Innovation is a big buzzword in the nonprofit space right now. But it doesn’t have just to be a buzzword. While the word feels new and trendy, the act of innovation has always been what drives the industry forward. And any organization can be at the forefront of that drive into the future if they’re intentional about it.

Over the past seven episodes of Future Nonprofit, we have brought you various stories of innovative nonprofits and organizations and learned from their paths, but in this episode, we’re going to slow things down and go right to the basics.

Mark Miller, producer and co-founder of Historic joins host Ted Vaughn to break down five of the biggest trends in the nonprofit space and gives you practical tips on how to move with those trends.

Trends

1 - Taking Bigger Risks Through Structured Testing (1:29)

2 - Branded Monthly Giving Programs (6:02)

3 - Taking Gen Z Seriously (10:03)

4 - Leveraging Your Brand to Diversify Revenue (13:25)

5 - Workers Leaving the Nonprofit Sector (17:31)

Links

• Historic Agency
• Culture Built My Brand
• More Insights

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