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Why IT Matters
Why does anything we do matter? What can we do to increase our impact, change our perspective, and make a difference in our worlds? Why IT Matters is a series of conversations hosted by Tracy Kronzak and Tim Lockie of Now IT Matters, about change, especially as experienced by nonprofits, technology...
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Only Bad Marketing is Overhead with Lindsay Lashell
This conversation digs into some of the fundamentals regarding our own assumptions about what things should look like for marketing and business, how...

Weird Al, Seinfeld, Partnershipping, and Transactionalism
This episode is as much a Coda to some of the discussions we’ve been having throughout 2022. It is perhaps an opportunity to change the narrative and...

Naming Frankenstein’s Monster
Tim and Tracy take a deep dive into an uncomfortable place regarding the technology industry's externalities and how they are addressed. This is a co...

Humanity is Not a KPI with Meena Das
Listen to this episode to learn how data can be shaped toward human dignity. It’s easy to get bogged down in abstraction when it comes to understandin...

How Did You Dingbats Become my People with Billy Bicket
You’ll learn so much from our guest today, including that civic association was built on volunteerism, that there are nearly forty thousand nonprofit...

Privacy For All with Joshua Peskay & Kim Snyder
Digital security has always been something that nonprofits and the greater impact economy need to consider – as the world of technology has grown and...

Why IT Matters in Puerto Rico with Aimee Cubbage
Tim Lockie and Tracy Kronzak are in Puerto Rico with Aimee Cubbage, Founder, and Principal of Cubbage Consulting.
Episode Show Notes



LIVE with Woodrow Rosenbaum at Good Tech Fest 2022
Our first ever LIVE episode of Why IT Matters with keynote speaker Woodrow Rosenbaum, Chief Data Officer at GivingTuesday.org.
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Simply Give, Give Simply with Tina Roh
This episode will remind you that incredible people are out there putting their intelligence towards making it as simple to give to a nonprofit as it...

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes (special episode)
Change is constant and in our recent history, the changes have been grand and rapid. Like all things, Why IT Matters has also been going through a tra...

When We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know: A Diagnostic Discussion
Humans are not technology, and our behavior governs success as much as the actual palette of tools available to us. After over a decade of trying to...

A Double Order of Nontoxic Optimism with a Side of Good Please with Becky Endicott and Jon McCoy
For nonprofits and the impact economy, technology is everything. But how we’ve come to expect it to show up as business leaders, nonprofit consumers,...

Breaking Into Blockchain: Decrypting Crypto with Justin Edelstein
Bitcoin, crypto, blockchain, and many other terms have flooded our conversation space over the years and most recently began to get traction in the im...

The Tech Includes The Humans with Tim Lockie and Tracy Kronzak
Tim Lockie and Tracy Kronzak take on the mythology of technology as it should work for impact organizations and the realities of why it doesn’t. In t...

For Each Other, For Ukraine with Alesia Dvorkina
There are moments when we wring our hands together and ask, “What can be done?” When it comes to the events of the past six weeks, much of America has...

Ending the Stigma with Mallory Erickson
We talked with Mallory Erickson, the tour-de-force behind What The Fundraising podcast and creator of the Power Partners Formula™, about the similarit...

Why IT Matters: The Future of CRM for Nonprofits Webinar
Industry executives and leaders got together for a groundbreaking discussion on how the definition of CRM is changing for nonprofits, and how the curr...

Surviving & Thriving with Christine Priester
Episode 2 is one of the most honest conversations we’ve had about creating authentic, supportive, and safe workplaces we’ve ever had. It’s one thing...

It's Not A Cake Recipe with Makeda Keegan
We start the new calendar year with Makeda Keegan from Northeastern University, Chair of the Board, and Executive Director of Amplify. Amplify’s work...

Open Sourcery with Ryan Ozimek
Our final episode of Why IT Matters of 2021 is a conversation with an old friend, collaborator, and co-creator, Ryan Ozimek, Co-founder of PICnet and...

Transparency Matters with Mitch Stein
What happens when we turn the common assumptions about how nonprofits should acquire software on their head? Mitch Stein, Co-Founder of Pond talks abo...

The Soul of Nonprofits with Liz Moore
Leading a state association of nonprofits, particularly in a state like Montana, is a balancing act. Our guest Liz Moore, Executive Director of Monta...

Technology is Dignity with Cheryl Porro
The farther we travel, the more we return to our roots. This conversation with longtime friend Cheryl Porro reminds us that sometimes we're given the...

Find the Light with Rakia Finley
What happens when we wake up every day knowing that we are intentionally here and love solving problems more than anything? Tim Lockie and Tracy Kronz...

Hung Up On Impact with Sam Caplan
In this episode, Why IT Matters is joined by guest Sam Caplan, Vice President of Social Impact at Submittable. So much of nonprofit technology is how...

The Book I Wish I Had with Cheryl Contee
The other title for this episode was going to be “Love is What Gives Us Hope,” but you’ll need to listen all the way through to know why. Tune in wit...

For Good with Adam Rosenzweig
What does it mean when a business has something that can unlock time for good and chooses to act charitably towards nonprofits above and beyond a tech...

Cowardice is Our Strength with Jan Kaderly
Tim Lockie and Tracy Kronzak are joined by guest Jan Kaderly, Founder of A Line Strategy. Cowardice is Our Strength is a conversation about embracing...

Best in Class with Tim Sarrantonio
We talked with Tim Sarrantonio, a veteran business partnership, and nonprofit leader, about how cloud software best serves nonprofits. Tim is Head of...

OUR Why IT Matters: Tim Lockie
This month is the 1 Year Anniversary of Why IT Matters, which has, frankly, stunned Tim Lockie and Tracy Kronzak. After twenty guests and amazing con...

OUR Why IT Matters: Tracy Kronzak
This month is the 1 Year Anniversary of Why IT Matters, which has, frankly, stunned Tim Lockie and Tracy Kronzak. After twenty guests and amazing con...

A New Civil Society with Marnie Webb
We’re back from a brief summer break with an intense, provocative, and inspiring conversation with Marnie Webb, Chief Community Impact Officer at Tech...

It Starts With a List with Sam Fankuchen
We started this discussion with Sam Fankuchen talking about what it means to serve nonprofits with software. It rapidly became an engaging analysis of...

Am I Still Good? with Doyin Richards
Doyin Richards is the founder of the Anti-Racism Fight Club, and a leader in bringing discussions about racial equity to the forefront. We cover a lot...

Things We Can No Longer Ignore with Tiffany Spencer
This is a conversation about leapfrogging the past to make a better future. Our guest, Tiffany Spencer, founder of HBCUforce and COO of Esor Consulti...

A Revolution in Small Steps with Rubin Singh
“I’m a serial volunteer,” says our guest, Rubin Singh Founder and CEO of OneTenth Consulting. This describes how many of us get involved in nonprofit...

Disrupting with Love with Chantal Forster
Continuing our discussions on Why IT Matters: Creating the New Norms with Kate Ruff about how nonprofits are best supported with data structures, stan...

Black in Tech with Darrell Booker
A year ago today, the protests against the killing of George Floyd began in Minneapolis. In recognition of the global dialogue of racial justice in t...