The Good Journey Pod

Rich Johnson is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Ignite Journeys — a startup social business that provides experiences that benefit humanity & the planet — and also the Co-Founder of Spark Ventures — a nonprofit that builds partnerships that lift communities out of poverty. In part 2 of our chat, Rich discusses the decision to start Ignite, what it's all about, and how they work with and for both companies and nonprofits to effect change. And in addition to being a neat guy, Rich was also my first boss, a fantastic mentor, and a great friend so I hope you enjoy the discussion. Learn more about Ignite Journeys: www.experienceignite.com/ Learn more about Spark Ventures: sparkventures.org/

Rich Johnson is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Ignite Journeys — a startup social business that provides experiences that benefit humanity & the planet — and also the Co-Founder of Spark Ventures — a nonprofit that builds partnerships that lift communities out of poverty. In part 1 of our chat, Rich talks about starting Spark, working with a board, attracting staff, fundraising, and celebrating their 10 year anniversary. And in addition to being a neat guy, Rich was also my first boss, a fantastic mentor, and a great friend so I hope you enjoy the discussion. Learn more about Ignite Journeys: https://www.experienceignite.com/ Learn more about Spark Ventures: https://sparkventures.org/

Sarah Durham, author of the book Brandraising and founder of Big Duck total communications nerd — her words — is on the pod. In this episode, Sarah talks a bit about her starting Big Duck and being a certified Woman Owned Business, what brand means and its value to nonprofit organizations, as well as how to measure brand and Big Duck's Brandraising Benchmarks. More on Big Duck: https://bigducknyc.com/

In this episode, I'm joined by Ann Rosenfield to discuss fundraising for startup and young nonprofits, monthly giving, and old school and new school fundraising among other things. Ann has been in the sector for 20 years, is an editor of Hillborn Charity eNews, and works as a major gift fundraiser. She also does a lot of volunteer work, like chairing the Association of Fundraising Professionals Congress, working with Imagine Canada, and serving on the board of Rainbow Railroad — a neat organization that she shares more about in this episode — so I hope you like it.

In this episode I'm joined by Kathleen Janus, author of Social Startup Success and lecturer at Standford University. Kathleen shares 5 key insights from her book and over 100 interviews with nonprofit leaders, discusses what it means to scale and why some nonprofits shouldn't try to scale, and gives one great tip to people starting or scaling a nonprofit… I won't tell you what it is so now you have to listen. Enjoy! Get the book at http://www.kathleenjanus.com/