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025 He Got a $60 Million Gift. Then He Left | Freedom Fund CEO Nick Grono
Season 1 Episode 25
He got the largest gift in his organization's history. Then he left anyway.
Nick Grono had been employee number one at the Freedom Fund since 2014, th…
2 months, 1 week ago
024 Treating Complaints as Gifts | World Renew Executive Director Carol Bremer-Bennett
Season 1 Episode 24
Carol Bremer-Bennett sensed there were meetings before the meeting and meetings after the meeting.
The initiatives she was pushing kept stalling, and…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
023 Did I Just Completely Mess That Up? | Abara Executive Director Sami DiPasquale
Season 1 Episode 23
Sami DiPasquale put three border properties under contract in the same week. Abara had received its 501c3 status the month before. He had no money, b…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
022 Ending Our Only Recurring Revenue | World Hope International President & CEO Jenn Peterson
Season 1 Episode 22
World Hope had run a child sponsorship program for 30 years. Jenn Petersen was one year into her CEO tenure.
The program was declining, the administr…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
021 Am I Too Far Ahead? | The Gathering CEO Josh Kwan
Season 1 Episode 21
Josh Kwan leads The Gathering, a national community of philanthropists and impact investors who span the full political and theological spectrum.
His …
3 months ago
020 Turning Down Money You Need | Flourish Fund Founder & CEO Dan Vogel
Season 1 Episode 20
Dan Vogel spent months building a partnership with a large institutional funder. Flourish Fund was barely a year old, still in startup mode, without …
3 months, 1 week ago
019 The Mud Floor Test | Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Exec. Dir. Ann Graber Hershberger
Season 1 Episode 19
Ann Graber Hershberger spent nearly four decades connected to Mennonite Central Committee before she led it: first as a worker in Nicaragua and El Sa…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
018 Pulling the Plug on a $22 Million Program | Missio Nexus President & CEO Ted Esler
Season 1 Episode 18
Ted Esler launched a partially self-funded health insurance program for the staff of Missio Nexus member organizations. It grew from zero to $22 mill…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
017 Speaking Calmly While Holding a Powder Keg | Alliance to End Hunger President Eric Mitchell
Season 1 Episode 17
A member publicly demanded to know where the Alliance to End Hunger stood on the Gaza conflict.
Half of Eric Mitchell's coalition supported one side. …
4 months ago
016 Should I Take This Shortcut? | Center for Christianity and Public Life Founder, President & CEO Michael Wear
Season 1 Episode 16
Michael Wear had a clear vision for the Center for Christianity and Public Life: deep formation work, deep investment in cohorts of twelve to sixteen…
4 months, 1 week ago