Podcasts

 Robert Wicks is the vice president of philanthropy and CEO of the Gladstone Institute. Prior to joining Gladstone, he was the director of West Coast Advancement at Dartmouth College based in the Bay Area. From 2006 to 2014, he worked in a series of frontline fundrai…Read More

 Joanna Hogan is a strategic fundraising coach. She helps fundraising professionals achieve extraordinary results by transforming their viewpoint and approach. Joanna is also the Vice President of Philanthropy at Porter Hills foundation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and sh…Read More

 Joe Tumolo is the CEO of Gift Planning Development. He has helped over 75 organizations expand their gift planning programs. He loves structure and process and works with his clients to get more intentional and confident about integrating gift planning into all of their i…Read More

 Elliot Stockstad is the Chief Development Officer for Lutheran Community Services in the Pacific Northwest. He has spent 20 years in various non-profit leadership positions, including extensive work in fundraising and community engagement with local, regional, and internatio…Read More

 Rick Peltier is the Executive Director at the Franciscan Health Foundation serving Northwest Western Indiana. Prior to moving to the Northwest part of the state, Rick lived in Southwestern Indiana and was the Director of the St. Vincent Evansville Foundation.  Rick graduated f…Read More

 There are different ways people can help a community. It could be through volunteer work like working with veterans or kids, through board memberships, and through donations. There are also non-profits that come in to link up philanthropic foundations with donors, which is an area th…Read More

 Dr. Rusell James is very well known in the philanthropic and estate planning fields. He is currently the Professor of Charitable Financial Planning at Texas Tech University where he is leading research on charitable giving and fundraising in pursuit of his focus to make and share words,…Read More

 Martin Leifeld is a consummate professional and has been a leader in the philanthropic profession for many years.  Martin learned the power of embracing discomfort, and through powerful human behavior techniques, was able to raise over $500 million for three organizations.  He served as Vic…Read More

John McIntyre is the Chief Philanthropy Officer with Mercy Foundation, which is a part of the Dignity Health System. John's involvement in philanthropy spans more than 30 years and through that time he has worked with donors to advance higher education, health care, and social support care for the e…Read More

It's interesting to note that one of the things preventing accelerated giving in North America is the retention of talent. Donors have said that the reason why they are no longer able to give donations is that their contacts in organizations keep changing. This poses a threat to the fundraising acti…Read More