Season 4
MacArthur Foundation Makes Changes to End Nonprofit Starvation Cycle …
Welcome to a very special final episode of Season Four! In this episode, you’ll learn how one foundation built the internal political will to make internal reforms so they can provide grants that better serve their grantees a...
The Annie E. Casey Foundation Makes Changes to End Nonprofit Starvati…
In this episode, you’ll get an insider’s view of The Annie E. Casey Foundation ’s journey to contribute to the full costs of grantees in an adequate and equitable fashion. Our guest is Katie Tetrault, the Foundation’s Vice Pr...
Starting a Revolution in Nonprofit Hiring – with Alfonso Wenker and T…
In this episode, you’ll gain an understanding of how bias commonly plays out in the hiring process, and how organizations can better recruit and retain a powerful, diverse workforce that expands opportunity across lines of ra...
5 Research Findings on Health of Nonprofit Workforce - with Todd Butl…
Over half of mid-level nonprofit staff in Western New York State don’t make enough to support themselves or their families. This number grows to 68% for those who work at nonprofits with budgets of less than a million dollars...
6 Practices for Embedding Equity in Nonprofit Compensation - with Mal…
So many nonprofits right now are experiencing challenges with recruitment, burnout, retention, and internal conflict around issues of equity and compensation. Sometimes we don’t know where to start. Sometimes we don’t have a ...
Ford Foundation Makes Changes to End Nonprofit Starvation Cycle - wit…
In this second installment of our series, Smashing the Overhead Myth Ones and For All, you’ll get an insider’s view of how things are changing inside the Ford Foundation , one of the largest private funders in the world, as t...
Doubling-Down on Wellness in Capacity-Building - with Janet Nami McIn…
In this episode, we examine The Resilience Initiative , a model of foundation-initiated capacity-building work on behalf of grantee organizations that has sought to help progressive nonprofits tackle the mounting political, e...
Funders Confront Reality & Myth of Nonprofit Overhead - with Rodney C…
Welcome to the first installment of our special series, “Smashing the Overhead Myth – Once and For All.” In this episode, we hear the story of Funders for Real Costs, Real Change, a learning collaborative among a dozen funder...
Where Government and Nonprofits Interact - with Jan Masaoka, CalNonpr…
In this episode, we speak with Jan Masaoka, CEO of California Association of Nonprofits (CalNonprofits), and one of the most respected and outspoken organizers, advocates, authors, and capacity-builders in the nonprofit secto...
The 8 Practices of Talent-Investing - with host Rusty Stahl
Welcome to the first episode of Season 4 of Fund the People - A Podcast with Rusty Stahl! In this episode, host Rusty Stahl welcomes you back, and sets up the theme for an amazing new season! Each season of this show has a th...
Dr. King, AmeriCorps, & Nonprofit Work - with Michael Smith, AmeriCor…
In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we’re pleased to welcome special guest Michael Smith, the eighth CEO of AmeriCorps, the federal agency for service and volunteering. This special episode explores the role of Ame...