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by John Dougherty
From Human Service Innovations, John Dougherty shares practical ideas for leaders working to build stronger organizations and create greater community impact. Impact Unbound features candid conversations with leaders in the field, while Insights With Impact Learning Sprints offer focused guidance on leadership, governance, sustainability, innovation, culture, and turning ideas into action.
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- 1 weeks ago42 min
People Need to Eat. Forging Opportunity After a Leadership Collapse.
In this episode of Impact Unbound, host John Dougherty sits down with Tricia Aragon, Board President, and John Lund, Vice Chair of Lift Up, about what it takes to lead an organization through crisis without losing sight of the mission.Tricia and John share how Lift Up faced executive turnover, key staff departures, rising demand, and serious financial uncertainty all at once, forcing the board to move beyond business as usual and take greater ownership of the organization’s future.Together they dig into the difficult decisions that helped bring Lift Up back from the brink, including selling assets, stepping away from its thrift store business, tightening operations, and putting the mission of fighting food insecurity at the center of every decision. They also explore why transparency, frequent communication, shared accountability, and a willingness to accept help were critical to moving from fear toward action.Now on stronger footing with new executive leadership and a renewed board, they reflect on building trust before a crisis happens, creating stronger financial oversight, developing an engaged board culture, and why knowing exactly what your organization is here to do can make the hardest decisions clearer.Learn more about John's work at https://humanserviceinnovations.com/
- 3 weeks ago32 min
From the Inside, Out! Seeding Ecosystem Capacity
In this episode of Impact Unbound, host John Dougherty sits down with Valerie Carlin, Chief Impact Officer at Aspen Community Foundation, about what it takes to strengthen an entire nonprofit ecosystem by listening closely, adapting quickly, and staying focused on what the community actually needs.Valerie shares lessons from nearly 17 years at the foundation, including how COVID, leadership transitions, and changing community needs pushed the organization to rethink how it showed up. She also reflects on the six year partnership with John that helped lead to new approaches in coaching, interim leadership, coalition building, and ultimately the creation of the Nonprofit Center of Excellence.Together they dig into why funders need to be willing to change course, the growing pressure nonprofits are facing as government support shifts, and why philanthropy alone cannot fill every gap. They explore strengthening organizations through better leadership, operations, fundraising, collaboration, and capacity building so they are better equipped for what comes next.They also tackle a harder question for nonprofit leaders: are you protecting your organization, or protecting the mission? Valerie makes the case for putting community need first, even when that means partnering, merging, changing the model, or accepting that another organization may be better positioned to carry the work forward.Learn more about John's work at https://humanserviceinnovations.com
- Oct 1, 20261h 5m
Music Fostering Youth Learning and Connection.
In this episode of Impact Unbound, host John Dougherty sits down with Carol Minter, Executive Director, and Rey Ramirez, Program Director and Co-Founder of Soundscapes, about growing a youth development organization without losing the core that makes it work.Rey shares how Soundscapes went from students drumming on orange Home Depot buckets to a full orchestra pathway serving young people from early elementary through age 25, and Carol opens up the co-leadership model that balances his "let's do it tomorrow" energy with the question that keeps them sustainable: how are we going to fund that?Together they dig into protecting your mission when growth accelerates, why they'd rather get smaller than lose their core, building the board you deserve, and the mindset shift that carried them through a hard year: change the question, change the answer.Learn more about John's work at https://humanserviceinnovations.com/
- Sep 17, 20261h 2m
Innovating for Access to Mental Health
In this episode of Impact Unbound, host John Dougherty talks with Ally Singer Wright, Vice President of Health Access Programs at the Medical Society of Virginia, about scaling a mission without losing yourself in it. Ally shares how MSV's mental health access programs grew from a team of fewer than ten into a statewide initiative reaching clinicians across Virginia, and what it took to evolve through five roles in six years along the way. Together they dig into the discipline of stepping back as a leader, trusting your team to hold the answers, and unbinding yourself from the pressure to be right the first time.Learn more about John's work at https://humanserviceinnovations.com/
- Sep 3, 202654 min
Crisis Transformation = Opportunity
In this episode of Impact Unbound, host John Dougherty talks with Kelly Kinghorn, CEO of Homeward, about leading through crisis and the power of collaboration in the fight against homelessness in Greater Richmond.They reconnect on the work they did together at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when acting early and working together saved lives, and explore how Homeward has spent nearly 30 years uniting more than 40 agencies to do what none could do alone. Kelly shares candid lessons on adapting through change, listening to the people you serve, and knowing when a leader is the solution and when they're the bottleneck.Learn more about John's work at https://humanserviceinnovations.com/
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