All Episodes

What Every Nonprofit Communicator Can Learn From Arts Marketing Genius Sean Kelly

Marc Moorghen of Lever for Change – the Elvis of the Nonprofit World

So You Wanna Be a Consultant? Going Independent with Regan Douglass

Glen Galaich on Why Big Giving Falls Short

From Presence to Power: A Conversation with Rashad Robinson

A Sector in Crisis: CEP’s Elisha Smith Arrillaga Exposes the Dangerous Disconnect Between Foundations and Nonprofits

Making Meaning of the Madness With Kristen Grimm

Dr. Sacoby Wilson on the Dirty Secret of AI—and the Communities That Are Fighting Back

Amanda Renteria on Making Government Work for Everyone

Nonprofit AF: Vu Le on Crappy Funding Practices, Hope, and Hard Truths

The Public Interest Comms Textbook We Needed Yesterday - with Ann Christiano and Angela Bradbery

A Playbook for Change — Rachael Kagan on Journalism, Philanthropy, and Ending Domestic Violence

The Great Doug Hattaway on the Art and Science of Effective Communications

The Politics of Beauty with John de Graaf

Transparency, Collaboration, and the Fight Against Misinformation with Wikimedia Foundation’s Anusha Alikhan

We Kick Off Season Seven with Mister Mystery - Kirk Brown!

Paper Bags and Patience: A Post-Election Pep Talk with Takema Robinson

What’s Next for Climate Justice? – A Conversation with EPA Advisor Danielle Deane-Ryan

The Clean Energy Economy is Coming! – with Rachel Korberg of the Families and Workers Fund and David Etzwiler of the Siemens Foundation

Hey Philanthropy, You Can Fund Policy Work! No, Really! - A Conversation with Marc Solomon of Civitas Public Affairs and William Foster of the Bridgespan Group

Grace Nicolette of the Center for Effective Philanthropy Unpacks the $17 Billion Bombshell - MacKenzie Scott's Philanthropy Revolution

Eloy Ortiz Oakley of the College Futures Foundation on the Power of Community Colleges

Esteban Gast, Climate Comedian - Yes, You Read That Right

ComNet24 is Coming! - With Sean Gibbons, Carrie Clyne, and Tristan Mohabir

Suzanne Ehlers of USA for UNHCR Gives Us Hope on World Refugee Day

Fatima Angeles of the Levi Strauss Foundation Challenges Foundations to Fund their Partners "Like We Want Them to Win"

Inside Philanthropy’s David Callahan Gets All Carrot-y Stick-y With It

Heather McGhee Talks About the Amazing Future that the Multiracial Governing Coalition Will Bring

Robert Pérez and the Genius of Upstairs, Downstairs

Kristen Grimm of Spitfire Strategies Takes on the Trust Challenge

Chris DeCardy, the President of the Heinz Endowments, Convinces us that Pittsburgh is the Center of the Universe

A Marriage Made in Heaven! - Elena Chavez Quezada of Gov. Newsom’s Office and Don Howard of the Irvine Foundation Talk Partnerships

Oscar Nominee John Hoffman Tackles the Racial Wealth Gap with his Amazing Film, “The Barber of Little Rock”

Ed Begley, Jr. and Eric Go Way Back

Anat Shenker-Osorio – The Magical Message Whisperer of Progressive Causes

Don Chen of the Surdna Foundation Kicks off Season Six of Let’s Hear It

Holiday Re-Release - Shanelle Matthews of the Radical Communicators Network

Holiday re-release - the Great Jim Canales

Holiday re-release Trabian Shorters!

Alison Smart is Changing How We Talk About Climate Change

Larry Kramer’s Hewlett Foundation Exit Interview

Jen Carnig, the Brand-Spanking-New Head of Spitfire Strategies

Ashwath Narayanan is Proof That There’s Hope for the Future

Stacy Palmer of the Chronicle of Philanthropy Reflects on Thirty Five Years as a Watchdog and Cheerleader for the Field

Dena Kimball and David Brotherton on the Kendeda Fund’s Epic Journey

Going Commando with Nima Shirazi of Spitfire Strategies and Citations Needed

Tony Proscio Deconstructs Word Salad in the Philanthropic Jargon Space

Tara Dorabji on the Power of Art and the Art of Power

Making Reparations a Reality: Blazing a Trail to Racial Repair with Trevor Smith

Designing the Office Space for the Aftertimes - Emily Krone Phillips of the Spencer Foundation and Francis Court of Wondersphere

Alan Jenkins asks, “What if the 1/6 Insurrection Succeeded? – in a Comic Book

Marta Tellado of Consumer Reports – Our Privacy is a Setting, and it Needs to be a Right

Jacob Harold’s New Book Will Make Your Head Hurt (in a good way)!

Using The Science of Storytelling to Change the Narrative on Poverty and Wealth: Shanelle Matthews of Radcomms and Annie Neimand of Third Sector

Ken Weine of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Has a Very Important Person on the Line

Jenn Hoos Rothberg of Einhorn Collaborative Dares You to Hope

Race Forward’s Jeff Chang: A Cultural Wing Walker and Oracle of the Zeitgeist Talks about Hip Hop, Chris Rock, and Moving Forward

Disability Rights Advocate Emily Ladau Blows Our Minds Wide Open

Aaron Belkin is a Stone-Cold Communications Genius

Stupski Foundation‘s Glen Galaich Offers the Best Idea Yet for How Philanthropy Should Measure Success

Jasmine Banks of UnKoch My Campus is Unafraid

Edgar Villanueva’s Quest to Decolonize Philanthropy

If You Are Very Lucky, Rich Neimand Will Make You Some Soup

Rinku Sen of the Narrative Initiative Shows Us Why What We Say Matters

Living the Work: Precious Stroud of the BlackFemaleProject

Kris Putnam-Walkerly: News Flash – Philanthropy is Messed Up

Lowell Weiss Got Yelled at by the President and Other Tales of Derring-Do

SF Foundation's Valerie Goode Has Never Seen Her Office

Andy Goodman - Why Bad Zoom Calls Happen to Good Causes

There's News About Young People and Democracy - And It's a Little Scary

Trabian Shorters and the Genius of "Asset Framing"

Let's Hear It is Back with Season Three!

We will emerge from this wounding – Joy Harjo, the first Indigenous Poet Laureate

The Antidote – A Movie About Kindness and Caring in America Comes Along in the Nick of Time

Daniel Lee of the Levi Strauss Foundation Will Warm the Cockles of Your Heart

David Roberts of Vox - A Beacon in the Smog

Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson at ComNetworkV

ComNet’s Clarence B. Jones Award Winner Susan Vandergriff of A Step Ahead Chattanooga

ComNetworkV - A Preview of This Year's Virtual Gathering

The opening of the American mind - Javier Torres-Campos of the Surdna Foundation talks about culture, equity, and the state of the American theater

Ideas for Days: Career Karma’s CEO and co-Founder Ruben Harris Tells Us How Business and Nonprofits Can Learn From Each Other

Renée DiResta - Disinformation in the Age of COVID

Sabeel Rahman of Demos is the Optimist We All Need to Hear From

Swimming in a Sea of Disinformation: Author Nina Jankowicz on How to Lose the Information War

Thaler Pekar and the Magic of Sharing Stories

Revisiting our Conversation with Ben McBride

Dominique Derbigny on Closing the Women's Wealth Gap

Alexis Madrigal of the COVID Tracking Project Outdoes the CDC

Ann Christiano Builds a Field Where There Never Was a Field

“Make Your Content Like a Twinkie” - Talking Presentation Design with One of the Greats – Nolan Haims

Saru Jayaraman and One Fair Wage: Making the Restaurant Industry Work for Workers

Leadership in a Crisis - A ComNet Webinar wtih Joanne Krell of Defy Communications

Seasoned Voices During Difficult Times - A COVID-19 Special Edition

Shanelle Matthews - The Radical Communicator of Our Time

Super Tuesday Special - Bernie Sanders' Pollster Ben Tulchin

Annenberg Foundation's Cinny Kennard and the Civic Duty of Philanthropy

Professor john a. powell will change your life

Season Two is Here!

PICO's Ben McBride Practices What He Preaches

Apolitical’s Lisa Witter Teaches Us That Bureaucrats Are People Too, and Much More

Drew Altman of the Kaiser Foundation Pens a Love Letter to Communications

Villy Wang Blazes a Trail

Trabian Shorters Takes Us To School at ComNet 2019

Desmond Meade Unites the Voters of Florida in the Cause of Justice

Stacey Abrams at ComNet 2019 – Let’s Get to Work

A bonus edition of Let’s Hear It – ComNet 19 Preview with Carrie Clyne and Tristan Mohabir

David Morse – A Giant Among Foundation Communicators

ComNet 19 - The Most Exciting Event of the Year!

Hunter Johansson of Solar Responders Makes His Famous Twin Sister Proud

Fred Blackwell of the San Francisco Foundation Talks About Equity, Optimism, and Trying to Pass his Grandmother’s “Smirk Test.”

Doniece Sandoval Might Just Change the Way You See – Taking “Radical Hospitality” to the Streets

Cronies in Bars Having Cocktails - Alfred Ironside, Ford Foundation's International Man of Mystery

Who Wants $100 Million? MacFound's Kristen Mack and Common Pool's Jaison Morgan Discuss 100&Change

The re- re- re-invention of Beth Kanter

Jim Canales, President of the Barr Foundation - Need We Say More?

Na'ilah Suad Nasir of the Spencer Foundation Shakes Up the Academy

Phil Buchanan of the Center for Effective Philanthropy Takes on the Naysayers

Kristen Grimm of Spitfire Strategies Tells All

Jesse Salazar - Communications Network Chair Emeritus and so much more!

Consultants in Bars Having Cocktails - Minna Jung

Heinz Endowments President Grant Oliphant

Amrit Dhillon of the Race Card Project

Hewlett Foundation President Larry Kramer