694. Stop Scaling. Start Solving: What the Nonprofit Sector Gets Wrong About Growth - Eliza Blank

An episode of the We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits podcast, hosted by We Are For Good, titled "694. Stop Scaling. Start Solving: What the Nonprofit Sector Gets Wrong About Growth - Eliza Blank" was published on March 25, 2026 and runs 31 minutes.

March 25, 2026 ·31m · We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits

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Summary

Meet Eliza Blank, the new CEO of The Farmlink Project 👋 We’re exploring what happens when a founder-CEO mindset collides with one of the most urgent food systems problems of our time. Eliza bootstrapped and scaled The Sill from a single idea to 12 stores across seven markets and $25M raised. Now she's applying that same startup lens to Farmlink, which rescues and redistributes over a million pounds of food every week. In this episode, you'll hear: Why Eliza's team talks about their own ...

Episode Description

Meet Eliza Blank, the new CEO of The Farmlink Project 👋 We’re exploring what happens when a founder-CEO mindset collides with one of the most urgent food systems problems of our time.

Eliza bootstrapped and scaled The Sill from a single idea to 12 stores across seven markets and $25M raised. Now she's applying that same startup lens to Farmlink, which rescues and redistributes over a million pounds of food every week.

In this episode, you'll hear:

Why Eliza's team talks about their own obsolescence every day, and what that mindset unlocks for mission-driven orgs
Why growth for growth's sake is a red flag, and how Farmlink thinks about scale vs. depth instead
How to build a community of fanatics around a cause most people don't even know exists yet

Episode Highlights:

From The Sill to Farmlink: Eliza's origin story (3:22)
What the startup model has to teach the nonprofit sector (6:14)
Brand building and community as a growth strategy (9:16)
Scale vs. depth: why Farmlink talks about its own obsolescence (13:19)
The Field Fellowship: investing in the next generation of food systems leaders (16:41)
One Good Thing: pick a lane and compound it over a lifetime (26:01)

Resources Mentioned:

Full Episode Landing Page: https://www.weareforgood.com/episode/694

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