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by Brooke Richie-Babbage
This podcast offers nonprofit founders and leaders a deep-dive into the mindset and key strategies behind launching, scaling, and leading a high-impact nonprofit organization.
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- Yesterday14 min
The Answer To Your Funding Instability May Be Hiding In Plain Sight
"Once we stabilize the funding, we'll invest in systems." It sounds like responsible stewardship, and almost every leader running a $1M–$2M organization has said some version of it. But Brooke Richie-Babbage takes the belief apart, because she's watched it keep good organizations stuck in a loop that never resolves: the funding doesn't stabilize, and the missing infrastructure is one of the reasons it doesn't. This episode names the catch-22 directly — you're waiting for a door to unlock from...
- 1 weeks ago13 min
Why Pretending the Organization Is Simpler Than It Is Doesn't Work
You leave a leadership team meeting where everyone got their assignments and everyone nodded — and you still can't shake the sense that the real problem never got said out loud. That feeling isn't paranoia, and it isn't a sign your team is conflict-averse. In this episode, Brooke Richie-Babbage names a pattern she sees constantly in growing nonprofits: capable, mission-driven rooms shrinking a genuinely hard problem down to something manageable, because there's nowhere organizational to...
- 3 weeks ago33 min
3 Truths Every 7-Figure Nonprofit ED Needs to Hear
There's a version of nonprofit leadership that gets sold as authenticity, luck, and the right personality in the chair — and it quietly lets leaders off the hook for the hard redesign work that real growth requires. In this episode, Brooke Richie-Babbage delivers a direct message to CEOs running $1.2M to $2.5M organizations: you've crossed enough thresholds to feel institutional complexity, but you haven't yet built the structural architecture to carry it. Drawing on three themes that surface...
- 4 weeks ago18 min
Stop Apologizing for a Funding Model That Works
What This Episode Answers Most growing nonprofits aren't underperforming because their funding is too concentrated — they're stalling because they've adopted a borrowed script about what a "healthy" nonprofit funding model is supposed to look like. In this episode, Brooke Richie-Babbage challenges the prescribed funding hierarchy and explains why the organizations that scale don't diversify in the traditional sense. They identify the one funding model that fits their strengths and build deep...
- Jun 23, 202619 min
The Day Your Organization Starts Running on “Unspoken Agreements”
Most organizations aren’t just shaped by strategy, org charts, or job descriptions — they’re shaped by the unwritten rules everyone follows but no one talks about. In this episode, I walk through what I call “unspoken agreements” — the invisible patterns that quietly determine how decisions get made, who holds power, and what problems never actually get solved. I’ve seen how these agreements start as helpful shortcuts in early-stage organizations. They reduce friction and keep things moving. ...
- Jun 16, 202615 min
Designing the Future: How to Build an Institution That Can Hold the Next Stage of Growth
Growth should feel like momentum. For most nonprofit leaders between $1M and $3M, it feels like barely surviving — because the organization was built for a prior stage and never structurally redesigned for the current one. Brooke Richie-Babbage calls this the Design Deficit: the measurable gap between an organization's structural capacity and what its next stage of growth actually requires. In this episode, Brooke walks through why this gap exists, why resourceful leaders unintentionally mask...
- Jun 9, 202614 min
Why "Delegate Better" Doesn't Work
You’ve delegated. Probably more than once. So why does every decision still end up back on your desk? In this episode, Brooke unpacks the real reason delegation so often fails inside growing organizations. The issue usually isn’t your team’s capability — and it’s not your willingness to hand things off. It’s that most organizations never build the structure that allows decisions to stay delegated in the first place. Brooke breaks down the critical difference between delegation and decision ri...
- Jun 2, 202624 min
When Your Organization Is One Funder Away from a Crisis
Funding concentration becomes risky when a nonprofit depends on a small number of major funders without the infrastructure to replace, supplement, or stabilize that revenue over time. At the $1M+ stage, the issue is not simply that a few funders represent a large share of the budget. The deeper issue is that the organization may be tracking revenue instead of building a true capital engine. In this episode, Brooke explains why nonprofit funding concentration is an architecture problem, not ju...
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