Let’s Hear It
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Welcome to Let’s Hear It, a podcast about foundation and nonprofit communications (among other things), hosted by non-relatives Eric Brown and Kirk Brown. Let’s Hear It is sponsored through generous contributions from the College Futures Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, the Prebys Foundation, and the Stupski Foundation. On Let’s Hear It, Kirk and Eric speak with leaders in the field about who they are, what makes them tick, and how they think about their work.
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A Sector in Crisis: CEP’s Elisha Smith Arrillaga Exposes the Dangerous Disconnect Between Foundations and Nonprofits
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Making Meaning of the Madness With Kristen Grimm
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Dr. Sacoby Wilson on the Dirty Secret of AI—and the Communities That Are Fighting Back
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Amanda Renteria on Making Government Work for Everyone
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Nonprofit AF: Vu Le on Crappy Funding Practices, Hope, and Hard Truths
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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The Public Interest Comms Textbook We Needed Yesterday - with Ann Christiano and Angela Bradbery
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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A Playbook for Change — Rachael Kagan on Journalism, Philanthropy, and Ending Domestic Violence
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May 06, 2025 |
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The Great Doug Hattaway on the Art and Science of Effective Communications
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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The Politics of Beauty with John de Graaf
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Transparency, Collaboration, and the Fight Against Misinformation with Wikimedia Foundation’s Anusha Alikhan
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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We Kick Off Season Seven with Mister Mystery - Kirk Brown!
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Paper Bags and Patience: A Post-Election Pep Talk with Takema Robinson
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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What’s Next for Climate Justice? – A Conversation with EPA Advisor Danielle Deane-Ryan
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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The Clean Energy Economy is Coming! – with Rachel Korberg of the Families and Workers Fund and David Etzwiler of the Siemens Foundation
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Hey Philanthropy, You Can Fund Policy Work! No, Really! - A Conversation with Marc Solomon of Civitas Public Affairs and William Foster of the Bridgespan Group
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Grace Nicolette of the Center for Effective Philanthropy Unpacks the $17 Billion Bombshell - MacKenzie Scott's Philanthropy Revolution
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Eloy Ortiz Oakley of the College Futures Foundation on the Power of Community Colleges
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Esteban Gast, Climate Comedian - Yes, You Read That Right
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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ComNet24 is Coming! - With Sean Gibbons, Carrie Clyne, and Tristan Mohabir
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Suzanne Ehlers of USA for UNHCR Gives Us Hope on World Refugee Day
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Fatima Angeles of the Levi Strauss Foundation Challenges Foundations to Fund their Partners "Like We Want Them to Win"
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May 28, 2024 |
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Inside Philanthropy’s David Callahan Gets All Carrot-y Stick-y With It
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May 13, 2024 |
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Heather McGhee Talks About the Amazing Future that the Multiracial Governing Coalition Will Bring
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May 01, 2024 |
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Robert Pérez and the Genius of Upstairs, Downstairs
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Kristen Grimm of Spitfire Strategies Takes on the Trust Challenge
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Chris DeCardy, the President of the Heinz Endowments, Convinces us that Pittsburgh is the Center of the Universe
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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A Marriage Made in Heaven! - Elena Chavez Quezada of Gov. Newsom’s Office and Don Howard of the Irvine Foundation Talk Partnerships
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Oscar Nominee John Hoffman Tackles the Racial Wealth Gap with his Amazing Film, “The Barber of Little Rock”
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Ed Begley, Jr. and Eric Go Way Back
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Anat Shenker-Osorio – The Magical Message Whisperer of Progressive Causes
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Don Chen of the Surdna Foundation Kicks off Season Six of Let’s Hear It
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Holiday Re-Release - Shanelle Matthews of the Radical Communicators Network
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Holiday re-release - the Great Jim Canales
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Holiday re-release Trabian Shorters!
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Alison Smart is Changing How We Talk About Climate Change
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Larry Kramer’s Hewlett Foundation Exit Interview
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Jen Carnig, the Brand-Spanking-New Head of Spitfire Strategies
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Ashwath Narayanan is Proof That There’s Hope for the Future
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Stacy Palmer of the Chronicle of Philanthropy Reflects on Thirty Five Years as a Watchdog and Cheerleader for the Field
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Dena Kimball and David Brotherton on the Kendeda Fund’s Epic Journey
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Going Commando with Nima Shirazi of Spitfire Strategies and Citations Needed
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Tony Proscio Deconstructs Word Salad in the Philanthropic Jargon Space
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Tara Dorabji on the Power of Art and the Art of Power
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Making Reparations a Reality: Blazing a Trail to Racial Repair with Trevor Smith
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Designing the Office Space for the Aftertimes - Emily Krone Phillips of the Spencer Foundation and Francis Court of Wondersphere
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May 24, 2023 |
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Alan Jenkins asks, “What if the 1/6 Insurrection Succeeded? – in a Comic Book
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Marta Tellado of Consumer Reports – Our Privacy is a Setting, and it Needs to be a Right
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Jacob Harold’s New Book Will Make Your Head Hurt (in a good way)!
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Using The Science of Storytelling to Change the Narrative on Poverty and Wealth: Shanelle Matthews of Radcomms and Annie Neimand of Third Sector
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Ken Weine of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Has a Very Important Person on the Line
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Jenn Hoos Rothberg of Einhorn Collaborative Dares You to Hope
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Race Forward’s Jeff Chang: A Cultural Wing Walker and Oracle of the Zeitgeist Talks about Hip Hop, Chris Rock, and Moving Forward
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Disability Rights Advocate Emily Ladau Blows Our Minds Wide Open
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May 11, 2022 |
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Aaron Belkin is a Stone-Cold Communications Genius
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Stupski Foundation‘s Glen Galaich Offers the Best Idea Yet for How Philanthropy Should Measure Success
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Jasmine Banks of UnKoch My Campus is Unafraid
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Edgar Villanueva’s Quest to Decolonize Philanthropy
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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If You Are Very Lucky, Rich Neimand Will Make You Some Soup
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Rinku Sen of the Narrative Initiative Shows Us Why What We Say Matters
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Living the Work: Precious Stroud of the BlackFemaleProject
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Kris Putnam-Walkerly: News Flash – Philanthropy is Messed Up
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Lowell Weiss Got Yelled at by the President and Other Tales of Derring-Do
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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SF Foundation's Valerie Goode Has Never Seen Her Office
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May 05, 2021 |
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Andy Goodman - Why Bad Zoom Calls Happen to Good Causes
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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There's News About Young People and Democracy - And It's a Little Scary
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Trabian Shorters and the Genius of "Asset Framing"
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Let's Hear It is Back with Season Three!
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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We will emerge from this wounding – Joy Harjo, the first Indigenous Poet Laureate
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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The Antidote – A Movie About Kindness and Caring in America Comes Along in the Nick of Time
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Daniel Lee of the Levi Strauss Foundation Will Warm the Cockles of Your Heart
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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David Roberts of Vox - A Beacon in the Smog
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson at ComNetworkV
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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ComNet’s Clarence B. Jones Award Winner Susan Vandergriff of A Step Ahead Chattanooga
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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ComNetworkV - A Preview of This Year's Virtual Gathering
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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The opening of the American mind - Javier Torres-Campos of the Surdna Foundation talks about culture, equity, and the state of the American theater
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Ideas for Days: Career Karma’s CEO and co-Founder Ruben Harris Tells Us How Business and Nonprofits Can Learn From Each Other
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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Renée DiResta - Disinformation in the Age of COVID
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Sabeel Rahman of Demos is the Optimist We All Need to Hear From
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Swimming in a Sea of Disinformation: Author Nina Jankowicz on How to Lose the Information War
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Thaler Pekar and the Magic of Sharing Stories
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Revisiting our Conversation with Ben McBride
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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Dominique Derbigny on Closing the Women's Wealth Gap
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May 27, 2020 |
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Alexis Madrigal of the COVID Tracking Project Outdoes the CDC
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May 13, 2020 |
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Ann Christiano Builds a Field Where There Never Was a Field
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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“Make Your Content Like a Twinkie” - Talking Presentation Design with One of the Greats – Nolan Haims
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Saru Jayaraman and One Fair Wage: Making the Restaurant Industry Work for Workers
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Leadership in a Crisis - A ComNet Webinar wtih Joanne Krell of Defy Communications
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Seasoned Voices During Difficult Times - A COVID-19 Special Edition
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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Shanelle Matthews - The Radical Communicator of Our Time
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Super Tuesday Special - Bernie Sanders' Pollster Ben Tulchin
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Annenberg Foundation's Cinny Kennard and the Civic Duty of Philanthropy
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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Professor john a. powell will change your life
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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Season Two is Here!
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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PICO's Ben McBride Practices What He Preaches
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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Apolitical’s Lisa Witter Teaches Us That Bureaucrats Are People Too, and Much More
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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Drew Altman of the Kaiser Foundation Pens a Love Letter to Communications
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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Villy Wang Blazes a Trail
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Trabian Shorters Takes Us To School at ComNet 2019
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Desmond Meade Unites the Voters of Florida in the Cause of Justice
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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Stacey Abrams at ComNet 2019 – Let’s Get to Work
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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A bonus edition of Let’s Hear It – ComNet 19 Preview with Carrie Clyne and Tristan Mohabir
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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David Morse – A Giant Among Foundation Communicators
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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ComNet 19 - The Most Exciting Event of the Year!
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Sep 04, 2019 |
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Hunter Johansson of Solar Responders Makes His Famous Twin Sister Proud
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Aug 14, 2019 |
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Fred Blackwell of the San Francisco Foundation Talks About Equity, Optimism, and Trying to Pass his Grandmother’s “Smirk Test.”
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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Doniece Sandoval Might Just Change the Way You See – Taking “Radical Hospitality” to the Streets
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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Cronies in Bars Having Cocktails - Alfred Ironside, Ford Foundation's International Man of Mystery
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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Who Wants $100 Million? MacFound's Kristen Mack and Common Pool's Jaison Morgan Discuss 100&Change
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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The re- re- re-invention of Beth Kanter
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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Jim Canales, President of the Barr Foundation - Need We Say More?
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May 22, 2019 |
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Na'ilah Suad Nasir of the Spencer Foundation Shakes Up the Academy
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May 08, 2019 |
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Phil Buchanan of the Center for Effective Philanthropy Takes on the Naysayers
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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Kristen Grimm of Spitfire Strategies Tells All
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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Jesse Salazar - Communications Network Chair Emeritus and so much more!
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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Consultants in Bars Having Cocktails - Minna Jung
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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Heinz Endowments President Grant Oliphant
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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Amrit Dhillon of the Race Card Project
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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Hewlett Foundation President Larry Kramer
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Jan 28, 2019 |