Videos and Recordings

View the Resource By NNSI Editorial Team Philanthropy California is a 10-year-old alliance between Northern California Grantmakers (NCG), Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties (formerly Catalyst), and Southern California Grantmakers (SCG). In this episode, I speak with Karla Mercado, Director of Philanthropy California, Karen Freeman (now Chief Operating Officer at Southern California Grantmakers), and Megan Thomas, President & CEO of Catalyst of San Diego and Imperial Counties, about the evolution of Philanthropy California and why they believe

View the Resource By NNSI Editorial Team In this episode of the Sustained Collaboration podcast, host Michelle Shumate talks with Nico Leone, President and CEO of KERA – North Texas Public Broadcasting, about Arts Access. Arts Access is a joint project of KERA and Dallas Morning News.  The partnership not only allowed the two news organizations to cover equity in the arts but helped them secure funding from new donors. To

View the Resource By NNSI Editorial Team In this episode, host Michelle Shumate talks with Margaret Black of Lyda Hill Philanthropies, Jennifer Price-Letscher of the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, and  Jessica Richards of the William Penn Foundation. Each of these foundations has committed to supporting the Sustained Collaboration Network through a shared fund. Learn more about why they support sustained collaboration and their experience in a pooled fund. They offer critical insights to any philanthropic funder thinking about

View the Resource By NNSI Editorial Team In this episode, we talk about asset transfers. Asset transfers occur when a nonprofit gifts part or all of its assets to another organization. We feature three conversations. The episode begins with a conversation with Laura Solomon, Founder of Laura Solomon & Associates. The conversation focuses on the legal aspects of an asset transfer. Next, we turn to a story of a specific asset

View the Resource By NNSI Editorial Team In this episode, host Michelle Shumate talks with  Paige Flink, former CEO and board member of The Family Place, and Suzanne Smith of Social Impact Architects. They share the story of DVBeds and discuss how alliances can offer better-shared services to clients through coordination.  DVBeds is a network of independent domestic violence shelters in Texas. Under a systems alignment theory of change, the program aligns the

View the Resource By NNSI Editorial Team In this episode, we are talking about shared service collaboratives. Shared service collaboratives occur when organizations coordinate activities to create more efficient or higher-quality operations. This episode features a conversation with Marjorie Murat, CEO of Dallas Afterschool, and Errika Flood-Moultrie, founder and CE0 of Connections Multiplied and Connections Multiplied, Too. They describe the Early Childhood and Out-of-School Time (ECOST) workforce development program, where early childhood, summer, and afterschool programs share