The Tactical Philanthropy Podcast is a series of conversations with influential people in the philanthropic sector. Below you’ll find the full archive of interviews. If you would like to suggest a guest for an upcoming interview, have comments or questions, please let me know. Starting with the June 7, 2007 interview, the interviewees fielded questions and comments from readers. Click through to the original post to see these follow up discussions.
Today’s interview is with Clara Miller. Clara is president and CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund. NFF helps nonprofits match their passion and dedication with financial strength and sustainability. They provide impartial analysis, and flexible, frequently unsecured financing that nonprofits typically can’t get from other sources. Clara was voted one of 2006’s Power and Influence Top 50 by the Nonprofit Times. She has written and spoken extensively on nonprofit capitalization, and is the author of a number of articles on the subject.
I just got back from the Council on Foundations conference where I saw Clara speak. In this interview she explains the challenges that nonprofits face when trying to grow and how NFF is able to finance their expansion.
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Today’s interview is with Peter Karoff. Peter is chairman and founder of The Philanthropic Initiative. TPI is a nonprofit advisory team that designs, carries out, and evaluates philanthropic programs for individual donors, families, foundations, and corporations. Peter frequently speaks and writes on philanthropic and social issues, and is the author of the book The World We Want: New Dimensions in Philanthropy and Social Change.
In the interview, we talk about donors using emotion vs. logic in their decisions making, Lucy Bernholz and my joint use of the word “co-creation” and its relevance to philanthropy, and the rise of market based philanthropic solutions. Peter ends the interview by reading one of his poems.
Today’s interview is with Susan Raymond. Susan is Senior Managing Director of Research Evaluation and Strategic Planning for Changing our World. A leading consulting firm helping nonprofits and private and corporate philanthropists achieve their goals. She’s also chief analyst for onphilanthropy.com, a global resource for nonprofit professionals.
Susan is the author of the book "The Future of Philanthropy", as well as the soon to be released "Mapping the New World of American Philanthropy", of which I am a contributing author.
This is an excellent interview. Susan touches on themes such as the blending of for profit and nonprofit models, the intertwining of economic and social advancement and even responds to Phil Cubeta’s disparaging description of Micro Finance as “Micro Loan Sharking”.
Today I am happy to release the new Tactical Philanthropy Podcast Interview. Every other Friday I release an interview with someone involved in philanthropy.
Today’s interview is with Charles Collier. Charlie is the senior philanthropic advisor at Harvard University. He has also held positions at Princeton, Brown, Andover and Dartmouth. He has worked with hundreds of individuals to help them shape their philanthropy, make tax wise gift decisions and deal with family issues surrounding financial wealth. The second edition of his book, Wealth and Families was recently released and is available at Amazon.com.
February 23, 2007 – 5:25 am
Today I am happy to release the second interview of the new Tactical Philanthropy Podcast series. Every other Friday I will be releasing an interview with someone involved in philanthropy.
Today’s interview is with Tracy Gary. Tracy has been a donor activist and philanthropist for more than 25 years. She educates and supports donors, family foundations, financial service organizations and nonprofits about the stewardship of money, leadership and philanthropy. Tracy has founded or co founded 18 nonprofits. She is currently the Director of Inspired Legacies.
If you missed the interview with Jed Emerson, you can download the podcast and see the transcript here.
The sound quality of the interview should be a bit better this time, thanks to a tip from Corey at 501c3 Cast.
February 9, 2007 – 5:30 am
Today I am happy to release the first interview of the new Tactical Philanthropy Podcast series. Every other Friday I will be releasing an interview with someone involved in philanthropy.
Today’s interview is with Jed Emerson, who has done some fascinating work on Blended Value. You can click here to listen to the podcast and you can read the full transcript here.
I would like to emphatically thank Britt Bravo for the generous gift of her time to get me up to speed on podcasting. Any glitches or quality issues are my own and any hint of professionalism is due to her tutoring. Her Big Vision Podcast was my original inspiration. Corey at 501c3 Cast also offered me some great advice.
