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Building Nonprofits That Survive Funding Shocks: Christina Sass, President & CEO, International Youth Foundation (IYF)
Description
Most nonprofits are one lost funder away from a crisis. Christina Sass, President and CEO of the International Youth Foundation, joins the Charity Charge Show to talk about how her 36-year-old organization absorbed steep USAID funding cuts without losing its core programs, and what she learned building Andela, a venture-backed tech talent company, before moving into nonprofit leadership.
In this episode:
- Why diversified funding matters more than the size of your mission What a "small but mighty" endowment actually buys a nonprofit in a crisis
- How IYF pitches corporate partners on solving a hiring problem, not a charity ask
- Building an internal AI chatbot to scale labor market data instead of headcount
- Measuring nonprofit impact through employment outcomes, not certificates
- Lessons from Christina's father's career and what it taught her about opportunity
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