After only eight months in their new facilities, the Cayton Children's Museum faced the pandemic and subsequent reopening. According to their CEO, Jessica Aronoff, "I really did think the challenging part was when we were shut down. And that's not true. Sure, that was an existential challenge for us, for humanity. But from a business standpoint, the time since reopening has been the most challenging." In this episode, Jessica, who has worked as a funder and a non-profit executive, shares tips...

Season 5, Episode 3 of the How We Run podcast has an amazing leader that has built an amazing organization. Our guest is Nichol Whiteman, the CEO of the Dodgers Foundation who shares with us how she led a turnaround to build an organization with a deep understanding of its mission and goals. Nichol shares: "It was very important for us to focus first on youth and families who we know needed us most, who could truly help us drive programming moving forward. We created a grant making program....

We are joined by Liz Forer, CEO Venice Family Clinic, who tells us about the recent successful merger of two nonprofits: Venice Family Clinic and South Bay Family Health Care. Liz talks through how the board started planning and coordinating this merger for almost two years and what she feels makes it successful.

Jenna Hauss started as an intern at ONEgeneration and today she is the President and CEO of this $9 million organization in Southern California. Jenna shares what she's learned about the importance of succession planning and how she views it as a tool for the whole organization, not just executive roles. "Succession planning is also about replacing key staff, not just executive leadership, but our program directors who are truly carrying the programs. Recognizing internal potential candidates...

A look back on Season 4

Leslie Ito, the Executive Director of Armory Center for the Arts talks about leading through crisis.

Mollie Marsh-Heine joins us to talk about how and why the fundraising department at Earthjustice has embraced the principles of Community-Centric Fundraising.

David Diaz is the Executive Director of Active San Gabriel Valley who has recently transitioned his organization from fiscal sponsorship to being an independent 501c3.

ParentChild+ made an incredible pivot to virtual programming with surprising success.

Johng Ho Song talks with Trent Stamp about his decades of leadership and how he’s managed to keep his organization responsive to community needs, even if it means changing the name.

Marc Freedman, CEO of Encore.org, talks with Trent Stamp about receiving a transformational gift from MacKenzie Scott

Roger Castle joins to talk about strategies and tactics for retaining pandemic donors.

Guest Tony Brown from Heart of Los Angeles shares what he learned from steering his organization through an enormous expansion campaign.

Our guests are Alexis Madrid and Amanda Willms of The Painted Turtle who join us to dive into how they turned a virtual event into one of their biggest fundraisers ever.

The importance of employee engagement, employee happiness, and support for diversity, equity, and inclusion issues.

Mike Lansing of the Boys & Girls Club of LA Harbor saw the families that rely on his organization needed access to food during the pandemic and he moved fast to provide it.

In this episode, we are joined by Alan-Michael Graves of the Good+Foundation who shares how his organization went from providing goods and training to raising money for an emergency micro-grant program.

Nick Carranza from UCLA Health joins us to discuss how his organization uses social media and shares best practices for smaller nonprofits.

In this episode we’re talking to Porter Gilberg, Executive Director of the LGBTQ Center Long Beach about how his organization been able to respond to emerging needs of the community. From technology to enable remote work, to fundraising to support extra services, to restructuring staff check ins, Porter shares how he has strengthened his organization in ever-changing times.

In this episode we’re talking to Porter Gilberg, Executive Director of the LGBTQ Center Long Beach about how his organization been able to respond to emerging needs of the community. From technology to enable remote work, to fundraising to support extra services, to restructuring staff check ins, Porter shares how he has strengthened his organization in ever-changing times.

We're joined by Angela LoBue, the COO of the Coalition for Responsible Community Development who takes us through the changes her organization has been through in order to keep serving vulnerable youth in South LA. This episode covers staying on top of new guidelines, keeping staff motivated and informed, and working with funders to release funds for critical projects.

We're joined by Angela LoBue, the COO of the Coalition for Responsible Community Development who takes us through the changes her organization has been through in order to keep serving vulnerable youth in South LA. This episode covers staying on top of new guidelines, keeping staff motivated and informed, and working with funders to release funds for critical projects.

It's unfortunate but true, many fundraising events scheduled for the next few months will not be able to go on, leaving organizations that count on event revenue in a tough situation. But there are options for your organization and your board. In this episode, Trent Stamp and Julie Lacouture talk to Michelle Gilmore of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and Darren Diess, a benefit auctioneer, about their advice to organizations faced with canceling a fundraising event. This episode covers moving...