Fund the People: A Podcast with Rusty Stahl
Our podcast offers you transformative (yet pragmatic) ideas, data, and tools to help you invest in the nonprofit workforce. This unique show invites you into fun, provocative conversations with a diverse network of funders, nonprofit leaders, authors, intermediaries, and government leaders. Our podcast is a program of Fund the People, an organization founded in 2014, led by Rusty Stahl, that advocates for investment in America's nonprofit workforce to advance equity, effectiveness, and endurance.
Recent Episodes
March 4, 2026
Chasm Grows between Funder and Nonprofit Perceptions of Crisis - with Elisha Smith Arrillaga, Center for Effective Philanthropy
In this episode, you’ll get a clear-eyed look at the newest national data on nonprofit stability—and what it means for your organization, your funding strategy, your workforce or your grantees’ workforce. While you're here, w...
Feb. 25, 2026
Funding Advocacy for Racial Equity in a Hostile Climate – with Dr. Giridhar Mallya, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Download our Edited Transcript for this episode. Get the extended version of this and all episodes (and mucn more) by joining our Patreon community. In this installment of our ongoing Defend Nonprofits, Defend Democracy Serie...
Feb. 18, 2026
5 Lessons on Nonprofit Job Quality from Worker-Led Research - Brianna Rogers and Rob Hope, ReWork the Bay
In this episode of the Fund the People Podcast , you'll gain practical insights into how centering workers' perspectives -- and sharing power between employees and management -- can dramatically improve job quality in nonprof...
Feb. 10, 2026
A New Era of Philanthropy: Why Funders Must Invest in Nonprofit People - with Dimple Abichandani
In this episode of the Fund the People Podcast , listeners will gain practical insight into how philanthropy can evolve to meet today’s interconnected crises—and what funders can do differently right now to support justice, s...
Feb. 4, 2026
Donors Invest in Health Nonprofit’s Staff -- with Dramatic Program Results - Janelle Miller Moravek, Youth and Family Counseling
Download the transcript of this episode in .pdf format Join our premium version of the FTP Pod on Patreon , For just $6 a month, you get extended versions of this and all episodes; bonus content; community; and our Patreon-o...
Jan. 28, 2026
Getting the Overhead Myth Out of Our Heads -- And Out of Nonprofit Ratings (Guest: Michael Thatcher, Charity Navigator)
In this episode, you’ll learn how nonprofits are really rated—and why the sector’s obsession with overhead could finally be ending. Charity Navigator CEO Michael Thatcher joins host Rusty Stahl to explain how nonprofit rating...
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