How We Run: Tips and Tales of Non-Profit Success
“How We Run” investigates the multi-faceted approach needed to run a non-profit. We tackle topics such as managing your board, fundraising, and measuring your impact. Each episode features an interview with a successful nonprofit director who shares their insight about running an organization. Hosted by Julie Lacouture (non-profit consultant and founder of Good Ways Inc) and Trent Stamp (founder of Charity Navigator and CEO of the Eisner Foundation). Season 5 starts April 2022.
Episodes
October 25, 2022 • 38 mins
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 ...
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June 1, 2022 • 41 mins
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 p...
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May 5, 2022 • 28 mins
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.
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April 21, 2022 • 32 mins
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 ca...
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November 24, 2021 • 20 mins
Since we're giving thanks this week, we thought we'd look back on all the fantastic guests we've had on Season 4 of the How We Run podcast and share what we've learned from them. Leslie Ito of Armory Center for the Arts, Tony Brown from HOLA, Johng Ho Song from KYCC, Roger Castle from the LA Regional Food Bank, and Mollie Marsh-Heine from Earthjustice.
For a transcript please visit: https://goodwaysinc.com/season-four-highlights/
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November 17, 2021 • 31 mins
Before Leslie Ito was the Executive Director of Armory Center for the Arts, she assumed the leadership at an organization that was struggling. Leslie shares with us how she approached that turnaround and what she learned about leading during a crisis (something that may have come in handy in 2020). Leslie shares with us what she prioritized, how she led the organization to be sustainable, and how she sees her big vision as a series...
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November 10, 2021 • 37 mins
Mollie Marsh-Heine joins us to talk about how and why the fundraising department at Earthjustice has embraced the principles of Community-Centric Fundraising. From conversations on race, inequality, and historic injustice with donors, to examining the ways they work together as a team, Mollie’s team has taken a thorough and methodical approach. Although they acknowledge this work will take time, they have seen very positive results...
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November 3, 2021 • 37 mins
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. He details how and why his organization made the leap. For him, it's a matter of building the collaborative culture that best serves his community and his staff. "We really try to mirror the approach that we want to see in our communities, that we want to see by gove...
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October 27, 2021 • 32 mins
Never in a million years did Sarah Walzer believe that virtual visits with parents and families would ever yield the same high-quality results at ParentChild+. But in March 2020, the organization was forced to go virtual anyway. Sarah was pleasantly surprised and she shares the organization’s secret to success in this interview.
Links and transcript here: https://goodwaysinc.com/podcast-Sarah-Walzer-virtual
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October 20, 2021 • 24 mins
"We need to ask ourselves on a monthly basis on a weekly basis, are we making a positive impact?"
Johng Ho Song has held nearly every job at KYCC since joining the organization in 1985. Today he is the Executive Director. In this episode, 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.
For a trans...
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October 13, 2021 • 27 mins
Marc Freedman talks with Trent Stamp about receiving a transformational gift from MacKenzie Scott, “I think for those of us on the team it really felt like a shot in the arm... We didn't want to think of this as a way to have security so much as the impetus for moving into our next chapter as an organization and really taking more risk.”
Marc also shares how he remains an optimistic leader in an area of the non-profit sector that...
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October 6, 2021 • 35 mins
In this episode, Trent Stamp and Julie Lacouture are joined by Roger Castle of the LA Regional Food Bank who shares the amazing outpouring of support they received in 2020 - growing from 16,000 donors to over 80,000. Roger shares "I get them a thank you immediately as soon as you can get it to them. Secondly, we send stewardship reports. The higher-end donors get an impact report at the very beginning of the year. And then, with th...
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September 29, 2021 • 32 mins
"We shared the leadership responsibility and we had to develop and tighten up our operational procedures and policies because that was going to help our staff feel more secure."
Tony Brown from Heart of Los Angeles shares how sharing vision and responsibility across his leadership team was the key to success in a massive capital campaign.
To see a transcript of this episode visit https://goodwaysinc.com/building-leaders-by-lettin...
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September 22, 2021 • 41 mins
"It was definitely a big shift, but it also allowed us, and kind of forced us, to think outside the box."
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.
To get a transcript of this podcast please visit https://goodwaysinc.com/podcast-s4-e1-virtual-fundraising/
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September 15, 2021 • 10 mins
Trent Stamp and Julie Lacouture return for Season for of How We Run where we'll look at how non-profit organizations are adapting and moving forward. From virtual services, virtual fundraising, and continuously adapting to challenging circumstances, today's non-profits are taking on the greatest challenges.
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June 2, 2020 • 36 mins
Kelly Bruno, CEO of the National Health Foundation, shares tactics her organization uses to be responsive to employee needs including an employee engagement committee, a channel to provide anonymous feedback, and actions all leaders can take around diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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May 12, 2020 • 32 mins
In this episode, Mike Lansing, Executive Director of the Boys and Girls Club of Los Angeles Harbor, joins us to talk about how his board, staff, and community adjusted everything in order to create new service lines to serve families and their broader community. From adjusting operations to creating and executing a fundraising plan to pay for it all, Mike walks us through the challenges and successes of pivoting program services.
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May 6, 2020 • 24 mins
Alan-Michael Graves is the National Director of National Programs at the Good+Foundation. When the COVID-19 crisis started, his program had to act fast to figure out how to continuing delivering services to their partners. They quickly moved from delivering training and in-kind good to making grants to directly support organizations and families. Alan-Michael shares how the idea evolved, how they pitched it to their funders, and th...
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April 29, 2020 • 32 mins
Season 3, Episode 4 of the How We Run podcast is a crash course in social media.
In this episode, we’re talking to Nick Carranza, a multi-faceted content producer and senior strategist at UCLA Health. A photographer and art director, Webby Award winner and Emmy nominated; he's now putting all of those experiences to work helping UCLA Health develop content and communications during COVID-19. Nick shares will us how UCLA Health appr...
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April 9, 2020 • 31 mins
In this episode were 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.
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