273. Pay, Leave, and Power: The Power Convo Pt. 1 - Maria Choi

Meet Maria. This CEO and Founder is passionate about uniting technology, philanthropy and social good to solve critical issues. She’s unapologetically talking to us about the negative impact that power dynamics have on major gifts, paid leave, cultures and benefits while sharing a reimagined strategy to shift philanthropic power dynamics. You know we’re here for this 🙌 EPISODE HIGHLIGHTSMaria’s story and journey to where she is today (2:00)Shift in power dynamics Maria is seeing because leaders of color are often in the driver's seat of social and economic change, yet they're entirely underestimated and underfunded. (3:00)Trust based philanthropy and trust based partnerships (4:30)Holistic inequitable lending practices in the sector (6:50)Changing our mindset around major gift funding and foundation funding (8:00)How Maria doesn’t see the walls in the philanthropy space (13:00)Raise For Good’s founding story and their core scope of work (16:00)Moving towards sustainability within our organizations (19:00)The narrative surrounding overhead within our sector and how it is holding us back (20:00)How Maria advises people to not just weather but thrive in the midst of challenging times and seasons within their growing organizations (26:00)Maria’s advice to leaders looking to build more equity within their organizations - where do we start? (29:00)A powerful moment of philanthropy in Maria’s life (33:00)Maria’s One Good Thing: Change can be joyful. (35:00)For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/273The We Are For Good Podcast is co-hosted by Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE and welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned 3x a week!Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello//Join the We Are For Good Community—completely free.Join fellow changemakers, share takeaways from this working session, and keep collaborating in a space built for connection, inspiration, and real impact: www.weareforgoodcommunity.comSay hi 👋LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Twitter