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Fund the People: A Podcast with Rusty Stahl — 145 episodes
Narrative Resilience for the Nonprofit Sector - with Vanessa Wakeman, The Wakeman Agency
How Nonprofits Fight Back Against Today's Biggest Federal Threats - with Sarah Saadian, National Council of Nonprofits
Anger, Hope, Funding, and the Future of Nonprofits with Vu Le, Nonprofit AF
Protect Direct Democracy: Ballot Measures, Funders, and Nonprofits - with Liz DiLauro, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
From 7% to 107%: Investing in Organizers Supercharges Impact - with Geraldine Alcid (Filipino Advocates for Justice) and Rebecca Gorena (All Due Respect)
Build Trust, Practice Equity: Funders and The Black Nonprofit Workforce - with Kaci Patterson, Social Good Solutions and Black Equity Collective
DEMOCRACY: The Unique Value of the US Nonprofit Workforce (3 of 3)
ECONOMY: The Unique Value of the U.S. Nonprofit Workforce (2 of 3)
COMMUNITY: The Unique Value of the U.S. Nonprofit Workforce (1 of 3)
The Federal Policy & Propaganda Landscape Facing the Nonprofit Workforce in 2026 - with host Rusty Stahl, Fund the People
S.O.S. Funding: All Hands on Deck for a Nonprofit Workforce in Crisis - Kim Almeida, Maria Cabildo, Annie Chang, Janelle Miller, & Rusty Stahl
Out of Control: Fixing Funding that Starves Social Sector Staff - with Glen Galaich, Stupski Foundation and Break Fake Rules Podcast
What Nonprofits Can Learn from Real-Time Labor Market Data - with Cary Sparrow, WageScape
Chasm Grows between Funder and Nonprofit Perceptions of Crisis - with Elisha Smith Arrillaga, Center for Effective Philanthropy
Funding Advocacy for Racial Equity in a Hostile Climate – with Dr. Giridhar Mallya, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
5 Lessons on Nonprofit Job Quality from Worker-Led Research - Brianna Rogers and Rob Hope, ReWork the Bay
A New Era of Philanthropy: Why Funders Must Invest in Nonprofit People - with Dimple Abichandani
Donors Invest in Health Nonprofit’s Staff -- with Dramatic Program Results - Janelle Miller Moravek, Youth and Family Counseling
Getting the Overhead Myth Out of Our Heads -- And Out of Nonprofit Ratings (Guest: Michael Thatcher, Charity Navigator)
S9:E1 - Peaceful Terrorists and Violent Activists - with Rusty Stahl
Happy Holidays! S8 Review and S9 Preview!
“Strong People Make Strong Organizations” with Sherece West-Scantlebury, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (Season Finalé)
Enterprise Capital: A Framework for Sustainable Nonprofits - with Andrea Levere
Lowering Our 'Revenue Risk,' with Gretchen Upholt, BDO
We Need to Play and Eat Ice Cream: A Very Nonprofit Thanksgiving Episode - with Kristine Michie, ImpactFull
Imagine What's Possible: Understanding Funder Responses to the Trump Admin. War on Charity - with Megan Thomas, Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties
Funding Nonprofit People & Possibility: Inside the Durfee Foundation
'Silence Isolates, Solidarity Shields,' with Tonya Allen, McKnight Foundation
Introducing Staff Operating Support (S.O.S.) Grants Concept
How Funders Can Fight Nonprofit Burnout, Not Fuel It — with Elisha Smith Arrillaga , Center for Effective Philanthropy
How to Grow Nonprofit Voice & Visibility with Powerful Advocacy
End the Overwhelm: Boost Your Team with Fractional Consultants
Social Impact Grief: How to Mourn AND Organize in 2025
Funding for the Long Haul: How Many-Year Grants Strengthen Nonprofit Jobs & Impact - with Betsy Leondar-Wright
The Trump War on Charity
MacArthur President Chooses Courage, Not Quiet
Thriving Wages for Community Organizers
Defend Nonprofits, Defend the Social Safety Net
Making the Nonprofit Workforce Visible
Nonprofits, the U.S. Constitution & the ACLU
New Study: Cost of Low Wages in Youth-Serving Nonprofits
Call to Action for Red State Nonprofits!
Beyond Capacity: Reimagining Sustainable Leadership in the Social Sector
Minnesota Nice, Nonprofit Fierce: Defending the Sector, Midwest-Style
Nonprofit Staff Resilience and Wellbeing in Turbulent Times
Meet the Moment: A Call to Action for Funders
Healing Nonprofits from Internal Conflict & External Crises
Funders & Nonprofits: Unite to Defend Democracy
Confronting the Contradictions of Talent Justice
Mr. Stahl Goes to Washington
Wellbeing as Strategy: Reimagining Philanthropic Practice
Nonprofits Made America
Breaking the Silence: Making Leadership Transitions Safe for Nonprofits
A Model for Systematically Improving Nonprofit Workplaces
When Staff Thrive, Communities Thrive: A Nonprofit Wage Revolution
Not For Profit, Not For Cheap: California Nonprofit Workers Fight for Fair Pay
When Politicians Call Nonprofits “Thugs” and “Sleazebags,” What Will You Do?
Investing in Fair Pay: Unlocking the Value, Process, and Costs for Nonprofit Workers
Responding to Threats to Civil Society
Coaching Black Women Leaders in White Nonprofit Spaces
Breaking News: This Journalist Covers Funding for the Nonprofit Workforce
Do Funders Understand the Nonprofit Burnout Crisis?
Season 7 Trailer
Funding That Works Academy Launch! Season Finale!
Season 6 Take-Aways PLUS a Special Announcement!
Place-Based Talent-Investing: Small Scale, Big Value
Leadership Development and Racial Equity in Nonprofits
Happy, Healthy Nonprofit People
Listening to the Nonprofit Workforce
Should We Cancel Capacity-Building?
Reforming How Oregon Funds Nonprofits
Getting Retirement Right – Tips for Nonprofit Employers
Talent-Investing from Scratch in a 60-Year-Old Nonprofit
How Funders Can Support Nonprofit Workers in the Age of Burnout, Part 3
How Funders Can Support Nonprofit Workers in the Age of Burnout, Part 2
How Funders Can Support Nonprofit Workers in the Age of Burnout, Part 1
Forging a Multigenerational, Multiracial Nonprofit Workforce
It’s not an Either/Or – General Support, Project Support, and Talent-Investing
The Nonprofit Nutrition Cycle
The Great Double Standard: What Counts as Program Expenses in Nonprofits
Bridging the Gap: How a Major Consulting Firm (Unintentionally) Misled the Nonprofit Sector
No More Mini-Grants for Well-Being
Funding Beyond Fear - How Doubt on Both Sides Freezes Talent-Investing
The Value of Talent-Investing Can be Evaluated (Part 2)
Why Don’t Funders Invest in Nonprofit Staff? Pushing Back on 4 Myths (Part 1)
Funders, Listen Up! It’s Time to Invest in Nonprofit Workers
Fund the People Podcast Season 5 - Coming Soon!
MacArthur Foundation Makes Changes to End Nonprofit Starvation Cycle - with Kenneth Jones, MacArthur Foundation
The Annie E. Casey Foundation Makes Changes to End Nonprofit Starvation Cycle - with Katie Tetrault, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Starting a Revolution in Nonprofit Hiring – with Alfonso Wenker and Trina Olson, Team Dynamics
5 Research Findings on Health of Nonprofit Workforce - with Todd Butler and Caitlin Fisher, Causewave Community Partners
6 Practices for Embedding Equity in Nonprofit Compensation - with Mala Nagarajan, Vega Mala Consulting
Ford Foundation Makes Changes to End Nonprofit Starvation Cycle - with Tiffanie De Gannes and Jim Gallagher, Ford Foundation; Part II of “Smashing the Overhead Myth Once and for All” Series
Doubling-Down on Wellness in Capacity-Building - with Janet Nami McIntyre and Paula Morris, The Resilience Initiative
Funders Confront Reality & Myth of Nonprofit Overhead - with Rodney Christopher, BDO; Part I of “Smashing the Overhead Myth Once and for All” Series
Where Government and Nonprofits Interact - with Jan Masaoka, CalNonprofits
The 8 Practices of Talent-Investing - with host Rusty Stahl
Season 4 Trailer
Dr. King, AmeriCorps, & Nonprofit Work - with Michael Smith, AmeriCorps
Season 3 Finale: Staying Principled - with Host Rusty Stahl
How NYC Human Service Workers Won #JustPay - with Michelle Jackson, Human Services Council
Holiday Wishes from Fund the People
What’s Wrong with Retirement? - with Chitra Aiyar, Just Futures
Compensation Philosophy for Your Nonprofit - with Mala Nagarajan, Vega Mala Consulting
Fair Labor Standards for Community Organizers - with Kinzie Mabon and Kevin Simowitz, All Due Respect
Funding Black Leaders to Prevent Burnout - with Dany Sigwalt, Power Shift Network
Talent-Investing is the Best Capacity-Building - with Tom Fuechtmann, Community Memorial Foundation
Haunted by Student Debt? Wipe it out by Halloween - with Aoife Delargy Lowe, PSLF Coalition
Investing in Talent Inside Foundations - with Storme Gray, Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy
Got a Burnout Story? Let's Hear It! - with Betsy Leondar-Wright, Staffing the Mission
Investing in New Executive Directors, Part 2 - with Jane McDonnell and Irving Washington, Online News Association
Investing in New Executive Directors, Part I - with Joey Lee and Bipasha Ray of Open Society Foundations
The 8 Principles of Talent-Investing with host Rusty Stahl
Coming Soon! New Season of Fund the People Podcast Launches Sept. 7!
Funding That Works Academy
Using Capacity-Building Grants for People-Systems - with Andrea Frye, People’s Action (Bonus Episode)
Season 2 Finale! Top Takeaways on Talent-Investing - with host Rusty Stahl and Monisha Kapila, ProInspire
The Gold Standard of Foundation Talent-Investing - with Sidney Hargro, The LeadersTrust
How One Nonprofit Models Talent-Investing - with Abby Wolensky & Ashley Pesi, Auberle
Nonprofit Voice & Visibility in Washington - with Jeff Moore, Independent Sector
Connecting Social Justice People, Orgs & Jobs - with Linda Nguyen, Movement Talent
Transforming Government to Support the Nonprofit Workforce - with Jennifer Geiling, Mayor’s Office of Contract Services, City of New York
Rethinking How Foundations Invest in Leadership Development - with Roger Nozaki, Barr Foundation
Talent Matters Remix, Part III: Culture of Care - with Michele Booth Cole
Talent Matters Remix, Part II: Building a New Generation of Values-Driven Leaders in the Nonprofit Sector - with Stephen Bauer
Talent Matters Remix, Part I: Network-Weaving, Nonprofit Workers, & Social Justice - with Trish Tchume
Special Announcement & Mid-Season Review - with host Rusty Stahl
Funding Grantee Leadership & Equity - with Caroline Altman Smith, The Kresge Foundation
Embracing Nonprofit Abundance - with Nell Edgington
Sharing the Wisdom of the Nonprofit Crowd - with Heather Parish and Lisa May Simpson
Closing the Leadership Development Deficit - with Libbie Landles-Cobb, The Bridgespan Group
The Social Justice “Talent Boom” - with Deepak Bhargava and Gara LaMarche
Talent-Investing: A Proposal For Change - with Host Rusty Stahl
Inauguration Day Bonus Episode! Special Guest: Dan Cardinali, Independent Sector
The Guru of Burnout: Christina Maslach, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Philanthropy Saves Money on all the Wrong Things -with Kris Putnam-Walkerly
Activating Leaders at All Levels - with Monisha Kapila, ProInspire founder and CEO
Understanding Funders’ Blindspots - with Phil Buchanan and Grace Nicolette, The Center for Effective Philanthropy
Executive Transitions, Equity and Sustainability - with Tom Adams
Rusty's Rants & Reflections: Philanthropy and the President
The Power of the Nonprofit Workforce - with Dr. Lester Salamon
Racial & Generational Barriers in Nonprofit Careers - with Frances Kunreuther and Sean Thomas-Breitfeld
Investing in Nonprofit Staff as an Equity Strategy - with Kathy Reich
Treating Leaders Like Batteries - with Vu Le
Backstory of Fund the People (Org & Podcast)