
The only show that helps YOU invest in the nonprofit workforce! Here you’ll get the ideas, tools, data, and stories you need in order raise or give money to support and develop nonprofit workers and leaders in your organization or your community. This unique podcast invites you into casual, provocative conversations with diverse leaders from foundations, nonprofits, academia, and capacity-building... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 146 | Founded | 6 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | Non-ProfitBusiness | |||

Hi everybody – this is Rusty Stahl, CEO of Fund the People and host of your Fund the People Podcast. Season 10 starts next Wednesday, September 9th. New episodes will be available every Wednesday throughout the fall.
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As nonprofits navigate the aggressively hostile political and policy environment of the current federal administration, communications strategist Vanessa Wakeman argues that organizations need more than legal and financial preparedness.
In this spe... more
Sarah Saadian of the National Council of Nonprofits explains how the Trump Administration policies are reshaping the nonprofit sector through a three-pronged effort to cut-off funding, silence organizations, and erode trust in nonprofits—and why thes... more
Vu Le is our guest for the Season Nine Finalé, which also serves as an installment of our ongoing Defend Nonprofits, Defend Democracy Series. Recorded with a live zoom audience during our spring webinar series, Vu discusses his burnout, funding insta... more
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Rusty loads up every episode with essential lessons for people who work in nonprofits and the people who fund nonprofits. Purposeful interviews that include tools, tips, and ideas you won’t hear elsewhere.
Rusty's voice in the nonprofit/philanthropy space is invaluable! He's always been a wise leader - grounded and connected - and his Fund The People pod should be the queue.
This is one of the few podcasts that I listen to within a week of the episode drop. Why? Because the information and thought leadership are so important. Thanks to Rusty and the team for bringing newer trends to the forefront of critical funding conversations.
The Fund the People podcast is one of my top 3 resources as a nonprofit grant writer/communications person/leader and a masters in public health candidate. These conversations are so important to keep widening the sector’s understanding of what the way forward can look like!
Everyone connected to nonprofits in any way - funders, workers, philanthropists, gov’t leaders at all levels, for-profit leaders, those in need, and those concerned about improving the greater good, should be listening to Fund the People.
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The show centers on investing in the nonprofit workforce, exploring how funders, foundations, and nonprofits can build resilient, well-supported teams through practical strategies, data-driven decision making, and candid conversations about governance, compensation, burnout, and policy. Across episodes, topics range from narrative resilience in communications to salary transparency, staff wellbeing, grant funding models like Staff Operating Support, and the ways philanthropy can align with real-world workforce needs. A notable strength is its willingness to challenge traditional philanthropy norms, highlight frontline perspectives, and bring in diverse voices from both funders and nonprofits to co-design more effective investments in people... more
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