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Nonprofit CEOs carry decisions they can't fully discuss with their board, their team, or their peers. So they carry them alone. Each week, Adam Jeske, The Nonprofit CEO Advisor, sits down with a nonprofit CEO to go inside the decisions they carry: the agonizing restructure, the wonky board dynamic, the moment that defined their tenure. Adam has been in over 230 of these conversations. The patterns are striking and valuable. This podcast surfaces them so you can lead with the perspective most CEOs never get.
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- 4 days ago46 min
023 Did I Just Completely Mess That Up? | Abara Executive Director Sami DiPasquale
Sami DiPasquale put three border properties under contract in the same week. Abara had received its 501c3 status the month before. He had no money, but he moved anyway. Abara is a nonprofit in El Paso that works on both sides of the US-Mexico border, in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, creating spaces for connection, belonging, and peace across deep divides. The three properties sat right against the border fence, on a piece of land Sami calls one of the most historically significant in the A...
- 1 weeks ago33 min
022 Ending Our Only Recurring Revenue | World Hope International President & CEO Jenn Peterson
World Hope had run a child sponsorship program for 30 years. Jenn Petersen was one year into her CEO tenure. The program was declining, the administrative lift was high, and it was no longer serving donors, field teams, or communities the way anyone had hoped. It was also the only recurring revenue World Hope had, and it funded a narrow slice of the work. Jenn spent six months listening before she decided. She talked to the field teams, to the sponsors, to the people the program was mea...
- 2 weeks ago35 min
021 Am I Too Far Ahead? | The Gathering CEO Josh Kwan
Josh Kwan leads The Gathering, a national community of philanthropists and impact investors who span the full political and theological spectrum. His only real currency is trust, and every consequential decision he makes runs through one question: how far can he push this community before he gets out too far ahead of them? He points to a line from the organization's founder: if you climb out of the trench and wander so far in front of your community, they start to think you're the enemy...
- 3 weeks ago27 min
020 Turning Down Money You Need | Founder & CEO Flourish Fund Dan Vogel
Dan Vogel spent months building a partnership with a large institutional funder. Flourish Fund was barely a year old, still in startup mode, without a stable base of funding. The money would have been meaningful, and the credibility would have been great. Then it became clear the funder wanted more control than Dan could give without compromising the collaborative model he was building. So he told the granting institution it might not work. He got off the call and immediately wondered i...
- Jun 30, 202626 min
019 The Mud Floor Test | Exec. Dir. Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Ann Graber Hershberger
Ann Graber Hershberger spent nearly four decades connected to Mennonite Central Committee before she led it: first as a worker in Nicaragua and El Salvador, then through years of board service, alongside a 33-year career as a nursing professor. She is retiring this summer as its executive director. When she set out to address racial equity at MCC, the question wasn't whether to act. The organization had tried before, more than once, and those efforts had ended up on a shelf. The hard part was...
- Jun 23, 202634 min
018 Pulling the Plug on a $22 Million Program | President and CEO of Missio Nexus Ted Esler
Ted Esler launched a partially self-funded health insurance program for the staff of Missio Nexus member organizations. It grew from zero to $22 million in about 18 months. Then COVID arrived. Claims went quiet while people stayed away from the doctor, so the program looked healthy when it was not. The bills landed all at once when they came back, and the losses grew large enough to threaten an association running about $2 million a year. His consultants told him to ride it out. H...
- Jun 16, 202637 min
017 Speaking Calmly While Holding a Powder Keg | President of the Alliance to End Hunger Eric Mitchell
A member publicly demanded to know where the Alliance to End Hunger stood on the Gaza conflict. Half of Eric Mitchell's coalition supported one side. Half supported the other. Silence was its own answer. He held off as long as he could, then decided to speak. Before the statement went public, he pulled leaders from both sides into crafting it. He talks through how he kept the consultation tight, who he brought in, and why staying strictly in the lane of food access let the Allianc...
- Jun 9, 202638 min
016 Should I Take This Shortcut? | Founder, President & CEO of the Center for Christianity and Public Life Michael Wear
Michael Wear had a clear vision for the Center for Christianity and Public Life: deep formation work, deep investment in cohorts of twelve to sixteen fellows, commitments measured in years. Some potential funders kept pointing to cheaper models. Other organizations were reaching thousands for less. The constant temptation was to take a shortcut, starting with something splashy and backfill the real work later. Michael kept asking one question: a shortcut to what? A shortcut would have built s...
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Nonprofit CEOs carry decisions they can't fully discuss with their board, their team, or their peers. So they carry them alone. Each week, Adam Jeske, The Nonprofit CEO Advisor, sits down with a nonprofit CEO to go inside the decisions they carry: the agonizing restructure, the wonky board dynamic, the moment that defined their tenure. Adam has been in over 230 of these conversations. The patterns are striking and valuable. This podcast surfaces them so you can lead with the perspective most CEOs never get.
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