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015 The Path of Humiliation | Harrison Center for the Arts Exec. Director Joanna Taft
Season 1 Episode 15
Joanna Taft proposed starting a charter high school out of the arts nonprofit she was leading. She had no background in education.
Her artists were l…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
014 The Decision After the Decision | World Relief President & CEO Myal Greene
Season 1 Episode 14
Myal Greene inherited an organization with a mission statement that everyone loved. World Relief had run on that mission statement for fifteen years.…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
013 Please Don't Let Me Break This! | Christianity Today President & CEO Nicole Martin
Season 1 Episode 13
Nicole Martin is five and a half months into leading Christianity Today. The prayer she keeps coming back to: "God, please don't let me break this!"
S…
5 months ago
012 Deciding Before You Know | Wheaton College President Philip Ryken
Season 1 Episode 12
Phil Ryken had believed for years that Wheaton College's signature orientation program should be required for every new student. The research was the…
5 months, 1 week ago
011 Prophetic or Pragmatic? | Bread for the World President & CEO Eugene Cho
Season 1 Episode 11
Eugene Cho started at Bread for the World two days before the COVID lockdown. In his first week, a tweet of his went viral, landing in the Washington…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
010 Telling Donors You Got It Wrong | HOPE International President & CEO Peter Greer
Season 1 Episode 10
Everything was up and to the right. Hope International had just received an award for innovating in a post-conflict setting. Peter Greer the biggest …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
009 Are We Going Bankrupt? | Christian Leadership Alliance President and CEO Tami Heim
Season 1 Episode 9
On March 12, 2020, Tami Heim learned the governor had shut down public gatherings in Texas. The Outcomes Conference was weeks away. And she was facin…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
008 Using AI to Rewire a Whole Nonprofit | Hope Rises International President & CEO Bill Simmons
Season 1 Episode 8
In one month, CEO Bill Simmons shipped more than 15 working applications and 70,000 lines of code to his team, without adding a single software licen…
6 months ago
007 Seven Years In. Feeling Nauseous. | Social Current President & CEO Jody Levison-Johnson
Season 1 Episode 7
Jody Levison-Johnson had a big idea and had to decide whether to bet her organization's resources on it. A film was coming out that could either quie…
6 months, 1 week ago
006 Pivoting Away from Your Original Vision | Good Faith Founding Executive Director Curtis Chang
Season 1 Episode 6
Curtis Chang set out to build a nonprofit nobody would ever know by name. He wanted Good Faith to be like Target: the store as the brand, not the fou…
6 months, 2 weeks ago