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One Entrepreneur’s Fearless Approach to Sparking Social Change

Featuring Internet pioneer Jean Case

Named to Barron’s “25 Best Givers” list, investor and Internet pioneer Jean Case discusses a bold approach to social change that requires taking risks, being innovative, and failing forward. Jean and her team at the Case Foundation embrace the same entrepreneurial approaches she and her husband, Steve Case, cultivated throughout their business careers. Their brand of philanthropy is celebrated in their campaign that encourages other changemakers to “Be Fearless.”

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February 24, 2016
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Amplify Your Impact Through Passion, Network, & Risk

Featuring Foundation Source client Carrie Morgridge, author and Vice President of the Morgridge Family Foundation

Carrie Morgridge discusses her book, Every Gift Matters: How Your Passion Can Change the World, in which she reveals her personal philanthropic journey as Vice President of the Morgridge Family Foundation. In this podcast, we hear more about the passion fueling Carrie’s philanthropy, how she leverages her networks for good, and how she embraces risk and learns from mistakes.

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January 12, 2016
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Junior Board Helps Young Philanthropist Soar

Featuring Sarina Dayal, Tarsadia Foundation’s Junior Board Member

Now 20 years old, Sarina Dayal reflects on the six years she’s spent serving on the Tarsadia Foundation’s Junior Board with her sister and cousins. As she explains, the Junior Board helped learn about international and place-based family philanthropy while also imparting leadership skills. Sarina also offers insight into addressing a position of privilege among peers and grantees as well as the foundation’s role in cementing family values.

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December 8, 2015
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The White House on Racial Equality & Philanthropy

Featuring Michael Smith, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of Cabinet Affairs for My Brother’s Keeper

Ferguson. Staten Island. Baltimore. Charleston. Cleveland. These cities have become emblematic of the deep divides that still exist in this country, reigniting a national conversation about race and racism in the United States. President Obama launched My Brother’s Keeper in response to this unrest to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color. In this podcast, Michael Smith, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of Cabinet Affairs for My Brother’s Keeper, discusses the initiative’s progress and sense of urgency as the President’s second term ends. Our conversation reveals Michael’s deeply personal connection to this work and his suggestions to funders for more effective philanthropy.

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November 17, 2015
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Next Gen Leads Family Foundation Transition

Featuring Katherine Lorenz, Emerging philanthropist of The Giving Pledge

Katherine Lorenz represents the succeeding generation of The Giving Pledge signators. As such, she’ll be responsible for fulfilling the philanthropic intentions of her grandparents, Cynthia and George Mitchell. In this podcast, Katherine shares her journey in preparing to lead her family’s foundation. Our conversation explores how her grandfather’s legacy influenced her style of philanthropy, the importance of sharing and learning from philanthropic failures, and the power of peer networks. By the end of the podcast, listeners will understand why Forbes magazine named Katherine among “Ones to Watch,” as a notable emerging philanthropist using her resources to make change in distinctive and innovative ways.

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October 27, 2015
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Increase your Impact by 95%

Featuring Kristin Hull, signatory of the Divest Invest Philanthropy Pledge

While the 5% grantmaking payout certainly furthers your foundation’s philanthropic goals, what are you doing with the other 95%? Increasingly, private foundations are exploring the benefits of impact investing, aligning their investment portfolio with their missions to improve their impact. In this podcast, Kristin Hull shares her passion for impact investing, which inspired her to allocate 100% of her family foundation’s assets to mission-related investments. A signatory of the Divest Invest Philanthropy Pledge, Kristin also offers advice on how next-generation trustees can introduce impact investing to their family foundations.

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October 8, 2015
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The Secret to Passing on Your Philanthropic Legacy

Featuring Philanthropist Sharna Goldseker

The founders of private foundations often have a story—a formative experience or insight that inspired them to become active philanthropists. In this podcast, Sharna Goldseker discusses The Grandparent Legacy Project, a tool to help you share your narrative that informed your personal identity as well as your philanthropy. Although many founders take these stories for granted, assuming that they’re “ancient history” as far as the next generation is concerned, they’re anything but. Your personal narrative, and the act of passing it on, is actually critical to conveying your philanthropic legacy to your family and enlisting the next generation to carry it forward.

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September 9, 2015
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Turning Philanthropy Inside Out

Featuring David Callahan, founder and editor of Inside Philanthropy

David Callahan, founder and editor of Inside Philanthropy, a digital media site, discusses his quest to revolutionize philanthropy by taking a more critical look at the way it’s currently practiced by foundations, donors, and grantees. Viewed as an iconoclast by some, he’s earned that reputation by questioning the practices of everyone from well-intentioned neophytes to well-established (and often acclaimed) foundations. In this podcast, David analyzes current philanthropic trends and shares his recommendations for funders who want to achieve the greatest impact with their charitable dollars.

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August 11, 2015
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Raising Children Amid Privilege & Wealth

Featuring Author and nationally recognized wealth advisor Coventry Edwards-Pitt

Coventry Edwards-Pitt discusses her book, Raised Healthy, Wealthy & Wise, which features guidance and real-world examples to help parents of means bring up their children to be happy, healthy, and generous adults. Drawing on her many years of professional experience as a nationally recognized wealth advisor, Edwards-Pitt shares her research on successful heirs and uncovers what works—and what doesn’t—in raising wealthy children to lead fulfilling and productive lives.

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June 16, 2015
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Next Gen Donors: Respecting Legacy, Revolutionizing Philanthropy

Featuring Researcher Michael Moody, PhD

#NextGenDonors – Who are the next generation donors, and how do they think about philanthropy? Michael Moody, Ph.D. discusses first-of-its-kind research Respecting Legacy, Revolutionizing Philanthropy conducted by The Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University and 21/64, a nonprofit consulting practice specializing in next gen and multigenerational engagement in philanthropy.

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May 26, 2015