#144 How to Measure Success in Philanthropy with Cathy Lehman Senior Program Officer The Harder Foundation

We are joined by Cathy Lehman, Senior Program Officer for the Harder Foundation, to discuss how to help communities who have not previously had access to philanthropic funding. How do you build conversational spaces? What happens if your efforts are unsuccessful? 

Episode Highlights:

• How to move money to move power

• Creating space for productive conversations

• How to change course when you identify what you are doing isn’t working

Cathy Lehman Bio:

Cathy is the Senior Program Officer for The Harder Foundation, a private family foundation that supports biodiversity and ecosystem health across 5 states in the Pacific Northwest. She has spent the last 20 years working in various roles of community and economic development, environmental policy, grassroots organizing, social impact, and philanthropy. Cathy has served on dozens of community boards and commissions – including the local City Council, and as a governor-appointed commissioner for the state’s volunteerism initiative, Serve Washington. She has a BA in Communications from WWU, a master’s degree in social Entrepreneurship and Change from Pepperdine University, and a Certificate in Sustainable Business from Presidio Graduate School. She lives just outside of Bellingham, WA with her husband and animals on a shy acre near the Lummi Nation on the Salish Sea.

Links:

• Website  https://theharderfoundation.org

• Course:  Be Clear https://www.doyourgood.com/offers/xtHUdoBG/checkout 

• Course:  Be Legal https://www.doyourgood.com/offers/U8SFR3mR/checkout 

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