The Art of Giving: A Conversation with Arden Whitley

In this episode of Building with Carnelian, host Lauren Chuhta sits down with Arden Whitley, Senior Development Director at Ronald McDonald House, whose career has carried her from Rhodes College through animal welfare and into children's and family health, where she has spent years building the fundraising infrastructure that keeps mission-driven organizations running.Arden walks through the fundamentals of development work — funding diversification, navigating corporate and foundation giving, and scaling development operations — and reflects on what the transition between cause areas taught her about how money moves in the nonprofit space. She and Lauren get into what the field looks like today, why development is so often misunderstood, and what keeps her in the work.