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Fund the People: A Podcast with Rusty Stahl

Fund the People: A Podcast with Rusty Stahl

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 Our show offers transformative ideas, tools, and examples to help you invest in the nonprofit workforce within your sphere of influence. This unique podcast invites you into a fun, provocative conversation with diverse funders, nonprofits, scholars, and capacity-builders. In 2014, Rusty Stahl founded Fund the People, which works to maximize investments in America's nonprofit workforce. In September 2020, we launched this eponymous podcast to broadcast our message far and wide. In 2025, we launched the premium version of the show (visit patreon.com/FundthePeople). Thank you for listening!Fund the People マネジメント マネジメント・リーダーシップ 経済学
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  • “Strong People Make Strong Organizations” with Sherece West-Scantlebury, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (Season Finalé)

    “Strong People Make Strong Organizations” with Sherece West-Scantlebury, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (Season Finalé)
    2025/12/18
    In this final episode of Season 8, you'll get a powerful, inspiring discussion on defending the nonprofit sector amid political intimidation and retrenchment, with a call to action for funders to act with courage rather than caution. The message is clear: a strong democracy depends on a strong, well-resourced nonprofit workforce, and philanthropy must choose to lead boldly in this moment. Host Rusty Stahl, Fund the People's President and CEO, speaks with Dr. Sherece West-Scantlebury, President and CEO of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, as part of the Defend Nonprofits, Defend Democracy series. Reflecting on more than 30 years in philanthropy and her forthcoming retirement at the end of 2025, West-Scantlebury offers a candid assessment of what has — and hasn’t — worked in the sector. She traces the evolution of the foundation’s equity-centered mission, its focus on working families who are struggling in Arkansas, and how COVID reinforced the urgency of addressing low wages, systemic inequities, and the root causes of poverty.Throughout the conversation, she challenges philanthropy to confront the real costs of sustaining a healthy civil society and to move beyond outdated, restrictive funding models.Dr. West-Scantlebury also details the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation’s commitments to capacity building, nonprofit workforce pay and benefits, leader wellness, and innovative approaches such as enterprise capital. She argues that investing in people — through living wages, flexible funding, wellness stipends, and long-term balance-sheet investments — is essential to nonprofit sustainability and impact.The episode closes with a powerful discussion on defending the nonprofit sector amid political intimidation and retrenchment, with West-Scantlebury urging funders to act with courage rather than caution. Her message is clear: a strong democracy depends on a strong, well-resourced nonprofit workforce, and philanthropy must choose to lead boldly in this moment.Download an edited transcript of this episode⁠This is part 2 of our 2-part Season 8 Finalé. Check out part 1, a conversation with Andrea Levere of Capitalize Good (S8:E12), from December 10, 2025.Guest Bio:From her early beginnings as a housing advocate in New York City to leading some of the most prestigious foundations in the Southeastern U.S., Sherece West-Scantlebury, Ph.D., has been relentless in her quest to increase prosperity for families striving to move out of poverty. She has served as President and CEO of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation for 18 years. Previously, she was the founding CEO of the Foundation for Louisiana, which was born in response to Hurricane Katrina. Prior to that, she was a program executive at the Annie E. Casey Foundation.Related Episodes:Enterprise Capital: A Framework for Sustainable Nonprofits - with Andrea Levere (S8:E12)Lowering Our 'Revenue Risk,' with Gretchen Upholt, BDO (S8:E11)'Silence Isolates, Solidarity Shields,' with Tonya Allen, McKnight Foundation (S8:E7)Links to Resources Discussed in the Episode:Winthrop Rockefeller FoundationFund the PeopleAnnie E. Casey FoundationFoundation for LouisianaCapitalize GoodUnited for ALICE (ALICE: Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed)ALICE in the Nonprofit WorkforceEnterprise Capital ExplainerCapacity Building in PhilanthropyMIT Living Wage CalculatorTitan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron ChernowAudre Lorde (referenced on silence and complicity)
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    44 分
  • Enterprise Capital: A Framework for Sustainable Nonprofits - with Andrea Levere

    Enterprise Capital: A Framework for Sustainable Nonprofits - with Andrea Levere
    2025/12/10

    In this episode, you’ll learn about a powerful alternative to restricted, project-based funding: enterprise capital for nonprofits. Guest Andrea Levere, founder and CEO of Capitalize Good, explains why nonprofits—like any enterprise—need multi-year, flexible capital that strengthens their balance sheets, builds reserves, and supports the people and systems that drive impact. Andrea breaks down the basic financial principles that determine nonprofit sustainability, and how enterprise capital enables organizations to innovate, hire essential staff, invest in technology, and create high-quality jobs. She also shares compelling examples—from affordable housing developers to workforce builders—showing how this kind of capital supports everything from salaries and benefits to new program development and strategic growth.

    Andrea and Rusty also dig into the relationship between talent-investing and enterprise capital, the pitfalls of scarcity-based philanthropy, and how funders can more effectively match their “sources of funds” to the actual needs of organizations. Andrea shares stories from Capitalize Good’s partnerships with funders like the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and the Citi Foundation's Community Progress Makers, as well as the emerging work in Arkansas to pilot enterprise capital approaches statewide. Listeners will come away with a clear understanding of how enterprise capital works, why it matters, and how both nonprofits and funders can adopt this transformative approach.


    Download an edited transcript of the episode in .PDF format


    Links to Resources:

    • Gift to Listeners: 6 Months Free Subscription to FTP Podcast Premium on Patreon (up to 50 people). Offer will no longer be available after 12/31/25 at 11:59pm ET.

    • Fund the People website

    • Long-Haul Grantmaking Report (Fund the People)

      Guest Organization & Initiatives Mentioned

    • Capitalize Good website

    • Capitalize Good “Blueprint for Enterprise Capital”

    • Capitalize Good “Deeper Dive” FAQ section

    • Andrea Levere on LinkedIn

    • Capitalize Good on LinkedIn

    • Yale School of Management

    • Nonprofit Finance Fund

    • Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation

    • Citi Foundation – Community Progress Makers
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    48 分
  • Lowering Our 'Revenue Risk,' with Gretchen Upholt, BDO

    Lowering Our 'Revenue Risk,' with Gretchen Upholt, BDO
    2025/12/03
    In this episode, nonprofit finance expert Gretchen Upholt joins Rusty to introduce Nonprofit GPS, BDO’s free new online toolkit for scenario planning, business model resilience, and short-term coaching. Learn how your organization can navigate revenue risk and make informed financial decisions in 2026, as the impact of the Trump Administration's War on Charity continues to roll across the sector.Itching for more Fund the People Podcast? Join the new Premium version of the show on Patreon! Visit ⁠patreon.com/fundthepeople⁠ to join. You'll get extended episodes, videos, bonus content, and community conversations. Plus, you'll get Riverside Reflections, an entire new weekly show only available to premium subscribers! Get the inside scoop on Fund the People while getting outside for a walk and an intimate conversation with host Rusty Stahl. Download an edited transcript of this episode.Related Episodes:Funders Confront Reality and Myth of Nonprofit Overhead with Rodney Christopher, BDOMacArthur President Chooses Courage, Not Quiet with John Palfrey, MacArthur FoundationHow Many-Year Grants Strengthen Nonprofit Jobs and Impact with Betsy Leondar-Wright, Fund the PeopleResources Mentioned:Nonprofit GPS website (free tools from BDO and their partners)Strong Nonprofits websiteNonprofit Financial Commons websiteBDO Nonprofit and EducationFunding for Real Change, the website that resulted from the Real Change, Real Costs InitiativeOn our 'PodPage', stream this and all episodes, find links to our show on your favorite podcast player⁠⁠, and more.Resources Mentioned:Nonprofit GPS website (free tools, templates, webinars, coaching from BDO and their partners)Strong Nonprofits websiteBDO Nonprofit and EducationFunding for Real Change, the website that resulted from the Real Change, Real Costs InitiativeGuest Bio:As a Managing Director with BDO’s Nonprofit and Grantmaker Advisory practice, Gretchen Upholt leads the team’s Cohort & Initiative programs, where BDO partners with funders to provide large-scale capacity building programs for their grantees. She also serves as a lead for several key product areas including training and finance technology consulting, and as a representative of BDO to nonprofits and funders in the Midwest region. In addition to her leadership in the practice, she splits her time between playing an active role as trainer, coach, and curriculum developer for cohort and other training initiatives and as consultant to nonprofit clients across the country, helping nonprofit leaders improve their financial management skills and processes. An experienced staff and program manager, Gretchen is skilled in training, capacity building, research, and program and volunteer management. Previously, Gretchen served as the head of the Volunteer Department at the Thabyay Education Network in Thailand. In that role, Gretchen developed a strategic plan to improve monitoring and evaluation and program management in her department. She also served on the leadership team for the organization, where she reviewed and approved budgets for the organization’s 22 programs and worked on a plan to restructure the organization’s finance and operations staffing and systems. Gretchen’s widely diverse nonprofit experience includes working on the corporate citizenship team at the TCC Group, designing and implementing a pilot research study on nonprofit talent costs for the Talent Philanthropy Project (now Fund the People), as a project manager with the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness, and as Chorus Manager for The Choral Arts Society of Washington. She also served as a Community Development Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine, where she designed project frameworks, wrote grants, and led a committee tasked with making funding decisions for USAID-funded grants.
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    39 分
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