About this episode

Amy Lavender shares insights from her 15 years in nonprofit fundraising leadership.

Imagine spending 15 years working for one nonprofit organization. Fifteen years of your time. Your energy. Your dedication. Now imagine having the chance to sit down with the version of yourself from Day One. What would you say? In my latest episode of The Nonprofit Insider Podcast Summer Fundraising Series , I sit down with Amy Lavender, Vice President of Development at Adelante Development Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We discuss the advice she'd give her younger self, why building nonprofit partnerships is much harder than it looks, how the rising cost of groceries has changed donor conversations, and what it's like leading development efforts across multiple organizations. Listen to the episode on Apple here: https://bit.ly/Ep80TheNonprofitInsiderPodcastApple Listen to the episode on Spotify here: https://bit.ly/Ep80TheNonprofitInsiderPodcastSpotify And be sure to subscribe to us however you take in media: YouTube- https://bit.ly/TheNonprofitInsiderPodcast YouTube ShortsInstagram-bit.ly/TheNonprofitInsiderPodcast TikTok-https://bit.ly/TheNonprofitInsiderPodcastTikTok "Nonprofit Conversations Worth Having"

People in this episode

Host: Swim Karim

Guest: Amy Lavender

Topics covered

• nonprofit leadership
• fundraising
• donor conversations
• partnership building
• personal growth

Keywords

• nonprofit
• fundraising
• leadership
• donor conversations
• partnerships
• development

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Adelante Development Center

Places: Albuquerque, New Mexico

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