Kevin joins hosts and newsrooms to talk about fundraising, leadership, and what it takes to build organizations that hold up over time.
Candid · Written by Kevin
Strategic Planning for Nonprofits: How to Make a Plan Stick
Published August 25, 2026.
Most strategic plans do not fail at the retreat. They fail in the weeks afterward, when staff return to urgent demands and the board returns to its regular agenda. Kevin makes the case that what carries a plan is shared ownership. Ownership of the process, of the priorities, and of the short-term goals that make progress visible before the plan has time to go quiet.
NonProfit PRO · Written by Kevin
Why Donor Retention Starts Before the Next Ask
Published August 12, 2026.
Fewer than one in five first-time donors ever gives again. The usual response is to tighten the process: acknowledge faster, sharpen the welcome series, time the second ask. Kevin argues the real issue is a relationship problem hiding inside a fundraising process, and walks through five movements for the space between the first gift and the second: notice the person, thank them like a person, show what happened next, invite participation, and ask when the relationship can hold it.
Passion Inspires Podcast · Scott Allen Creative
Beyond the Checkbook
Redefining donors as partners in purpose.
Kevin makes the case against the transactional view of fundraising. The conversation moves from donors as a source of funds to donors as partners in the work. What changes is how you communicate, how you steward, and how you build a culture where giving is participation rather than obligation.
Funding the Future NOW · Dr. Randy Dirks
What if Slowing Down Is the Fastest Way Forward?
A two-part conversation.
Kevin and Dr. Randy Dirks work through what has actually changed in nonprofit fundraising and what has not. Donor retention, the limits of campaign thinking, and why the most durable funding models are built on relationships that were already there. The ones you slow down long enough to tend.
The Shelley Irwin Show · WGVU Public Media
On Leadership and Focus
Broadcast May 4, 2026.
A West Michigan conversation with Shelley Irwin. Kevin and JR Roberts talk through the questions leaders bring to The Fundraisers Collective, and the community of care that is forming around fundraisers in so many places.