Episodes

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Nov. 20, 2024

Breaking News: This Journalist Covers Funding for the Nonprofit Workforce

In this episode, you'll get a free-wheeling, big picture view of how organized philanthropy does and does not address issues impacting the nonprofit workforce. Inside Philanthropy journalist Dawn Wolfe writes about how funding for living wages and other fundamental matters related to nonprofit staffing. Why should we all be 'following the money'? Why should the hiring crisis not have come as a surprise to anybody? How are the sector's funding practices actually hurting the groups they are try...
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Nov. 13, 2024

Do Funders Understand the Nonprofit Burnout Crisis?

As the nonprofit workforce crisis evolves into 2025, how funders respond to nonprofit burnout, compensation, recruitment, and retention challenges will be more important than ever. After a summer and fall hiatus, we’re back with a brand-new season of Fund the People’s Podcast, featuring insightful guests and valuable resources to help you invest in the nonprofit workforce! Even though we haven’t been publishing, we've been busy behind the scenes! At the start of this episode, you’ll get a ...