Fund the People: A Podcast with Rusty Stahl

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The only show that helps YOU invest in the nonprofit workforce! Here you’ll get the ideas, tools, data, and stories you need in order raise or give money to support and develop nonprofit workers and leaders in your organization or your community. This unique podcast invites you into casual, provocative conversations with diverse leaders from foundations, nonprofits, academia, and capacity-building groups. We give you the big picture view, and we dig into specific issues, such as executive transitions, burnout, HR, fundraising for staff, how public policy impacts nonprofit workers, and more. Fund the People is the national organization that works to maximize investments in America's nonprofit workforce. It was founded in 2014 by Rusty Stahl with support from The Kresge Foundation, NYU Wagner, and Tides. We’ve launched the podcast in 2020, and have published over 100 episodes across 8 seasons. We launched a private version of the show on Patreon in 2025. It features community conversations, extended episodes, and a Patreon-only show where Rusty gives you the inside view while getting outside for a walk in New York’s Hudson Valley. Visit patreon.com/fundthepeople.

Episode Date
“We Can’t 5% Our Way Out of This” — with Brenda Solórzano, The California Endowment
Sep 16, 2026
Level Up: Helping Funders Give More, Faster - with Jodeen Olguín-Tayler, CHANGE Philanthropy
Sep 09, 2026
FTP Podcast Season 10 Starts 9/9! Find Your People @ Fund the People!
Sep 02, 2026
Narrative Resilience for the Nonprofit Sector - with Vanessa Wakeman, The Wakeman Agency
Jul 22, 2026
How Nonprofits Fight Back Against Today's Biggest Federal Threats - with Sarah Saadian, National Council of Nonprofits
Jul 08, 2026
Anger, Hope, Funding, and the Future of Nonprofits with Vu Le, Nonprofit AF
May 20, 2026
Protect Direct Democracy: Ballot Measures, Funders, and Nonprofits - with Liz DiLauro, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
May 13, 2026
From 7% to 107%: Investing in Organizers Supercharges Impact - with Geraldine Alcid (Filipino Advocates for Justice) and Rebecca Gorena (All Due Respect)
May 07, 2026
Build Trust, Practice Equity: Funders and The Black Nonprofit Workforce - with Kaci Patterson, Social Good Solutions and Black Equity Collective
Apr 29, 2026
DEMOCRACY: The Unique Value of the US Nonprofit Workforce (3 of 3)
Apr 22, 2026
ECONOMY: The Unique Value of the U.S. Nonprofit Workforce (2 of 3)
Apr 15, 2026
COMMUNITY: The Unique Value of the U.S. Nonprofit Workforce (1 of 3)
Apr 08, 2026
The Federal Policy & Propaganda Landscape Facing the Nonprofit Workforce in 2026 - with host Rusty Stahl, Fund the People
Apr 01, 2026
S.O.S. Funding: All Hands on Deck for a Nonprofit Workforce in Crisis - Kim Almeida, Maria Cabildo, Annie Chang, Janelle Miller, & Rusty Stahl
Mar 25, 2026
Out of Control: Fixing Funding that Starves Social Sector Staff - with Glen Galaich, Stupski Foundation and Break Fake Rules Podcast
Mar 18, 2026
What Nonprofits Can Learn from Real-Time Labor Market Data - with Cary Sparrow, WageScape
Mar 15, 2026
Chasm Grows between Funder and Nonprofit Perceptions of Crisis - with Elisha Smith Arrillaga, Center for Effective Philanthropy
Mar 04, 2026
Funding Advocacy for Racial Equity in a Hostile Climate – with Dr. Giridhar Mallya, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Feb 25, 2026
5 Lessons on Nonprofit Job Quality from Worker-Led Research - Brianna Rogers and Rob Hope, ReWork the Bay
Feb 18, 2026
A New Era of Philanthropy: Why Funders Must Invest in Nonprofit People - with Dimple Abichandani
Feb 11, 2026
Donors Invest in Health Nonprofit’s Staff -- with Dramatic Program Results - Janelle Miller Moravek, Youth and Family Counseling
Feb 04, 2026
Getting the Overhead Myth Out of Our Heads -- And Out of Nonprofit Ratings (Guest: Michael Thatcher, Charity Navigator)
Jan 28, 2026
S9:E1 - Peaceful Terrorists and Violent Activists - with Rusty Stahl
Jan 21, 2026
Happy Holidays! S8 Review and S9 Preview!
Dec 21, 2025
“Strong People Make Strong Organizations” with Sherece West-Scantlebury, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (Season Finalé)
Dec 18, 2025
Enterprise Capital: A Framework for Sustainable Nonprofits - with Andrea Levere
Dec 10, 2025
Lowering Our 'Revenue Risk,' with Gretchen Upholt, BDO
Dec 03, 2025
We Need to Play and Eat Ice Cream: A Very Nonprofit Thanksgiving Episode - with Kristine Michie, ImpactFull
Nov 26, 2025
Imagine What's Possible: Understanding Funder Responses to the Trump Admin. War on Charity - with Megan Thomas, Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties
Nov 19, 2025
Funding Nonprofit People & Possibility: Inside the Durfee Foundation
Nov 12, 2025
'Silence Isolates, Solidarity Shields,' with Tonya Allen, McKnight Foundation
Nov 05, 2025
Introducing Staff Operating Support (S.O.S.) Grants Concept
Nov 03, 2025
How Funders Can Fight Nonprofit Burnout, Not Fuel It — with Elisha Smith Arrillaga , Center for Effective Philanthropy
Oct 29, 2025
How to Grow Nonprofit Voice & Visibility with Powerful Advocacy
Oct 22, 2025
End the Overwhelm: Boost Your Team with Fractional Consultants
Oct 16, 2025
Social Impact Grief: How to Mourn AND Organize in 2025
Oct 09, 2025
Funding for the Long Haul: How Many-Year Grants Strengthen Nonprofit Jobs & Impact - with Betsy Leondar-Wright
Oct 01, 2025
The Trump War on Charity
Sep 24, 2025
MacArthur President Chooses Courage, Not Quiet
Jun 11, 2025
Thriving Wages for Community Organizers
Jun 04, 2025
Defend Nonprofits, Defend the Social Safety Net
May 28, 2025
Making the Nonprofit Workforce Visible
May 21, 2025
Nonprofits, the U.S. Constitution & the ACLU
May 14, 2025
New Study: Cost of Low Wages in Youth-Serving Nonprofits
May 07, 2025
Call to Action for Red State Nonprofits!
Apr 30, 2025
Beyond Capacity: Reimagining Sustainable Leadership in the Social Sector
Apr 23, 2025
Minnesota Nice, Nonprofit Fierce: Defending the Sector, Midwest-Style
Apr 16, 2025
Nonprofit Staff Resilience and Wellbeing in Turbulent Times
Apr 09, 2025
Meet the Moment: A Call to Action for Funders
Apr 02, 2025
Healing Nonprofits from Internal Conflict & External Crises
Mar 26, 2025
Funders & Nonprofits: Unite to Defend Democracy
Mar 19, 2025
Confronting the Contradictions of Talent Justice
Mar 12, 2025
Mr. Stahl Goes to Washington
Mar 05, 2025
Wellbeing as Strategy: Reimagining Philanthropic Practice
Feb 26, 2025
Nonprofits Made America
Feb 19, 2025
Breaking the Silence: Making Leadership Transitions Safe for Nonprofits
Feb 12, 2025
A Model for Systematically Improving Nonprofit Workplaces
Feb 05, 2025
When Staff Thrive, Communities Thrive: A Nonprofit Wage Revolution
Jan 29, 2025
Not For Profit, Not For Cheap: California Nonprofit Workers Fight for Fair Pay
Jan 22, 2025
When Politicians Call Nonprofits “Thugs” and “Sleazebags,” What Will You Do?
Jan 15, 2025
Investing in Fair Pay: Unlocking the Value, Process, and Costs for Nonprofit Workers
Dec 18, 2024
Responding to Threats to Civil Society
Dec 11, 2024
Coaching Black Women Leaders in White Nonprofit Spaces
Dec 04, 2024
Breaking News: This Journalist Covers Funding for the Nonprofit Workforce
Nov 20, 2024
Do Funders Understand the Nonprofit Burnout Crisis?
Nov 13, 2024
Season 7 Trailer
Nov 12, 2024
Funding That Works Academy Launch! Season Finale!
May 01, 2024
Season 6 Take-Aways PLUS a Special Announcement!
Apr 24, 2024
Place-Based Talent-Investing: Small Scale, Big Value
Apr 17, 2024
Leadership Development and Racial Equity in Nonprofits
Apr 11, 2024
Happy, Healthy Nonprofit People
Apr 03, 2024
Listening to the Nonprofit Workforce
Mar 27, 2024
Should We Cancel Capacity-Building?
Mar 20, 2024
Reforming How Oregon Funds Nonprofits
Mar 13, 2024
Getting Retirement Right – Tips for Nonprofit Employers
Mar 06, 2024
Talent-Investing from Scratch in a 60-Year-Old Nonprofit
Feb 28, 2024
How Funders Can Support Nonprofit Workers in the Age of Burnout, Part 3
Feb 21, 2024
How Funders Can Support Nonprofit Workers in the Age of Burnout, Part 2
Feb 14, 2024
How Funders Can Support Nonprofit Workers in the Age of Burnout, Part 1
Feb 07, 2024
Forging a Multigenerational, Multiracial Nonprofit Workforce
Jan 31, 2024
It’s not an Either/Or – General Support, Project Support, and Talent-Investing
Jan 24, 2024
The Nonprofit Nutrition Cycle
Jan 17, 2024
The Great Double Standard: What Counts as Program Expenses in Nonprofits
Jan 10, 2024
Bridging the Gap: How a Major Consulting Firm (Unintentionally) Misled the Nonprofit Sector
Jan 04, 2024
No More Mini-Grants for Well-Being
Dec 20, 2023
Funding Beyond Fear - How Doubt on Both Sides Freezes Talent-Investing
Dec 13, 2023
The Value of Talent-Investing Can be Evaluated (Part 2)
Dec 06, 2023
Why Don’t Funders Invest in Nonprofit Staff? Pushing Back on 4 Myths (Part 1)
Nov 29, 2023
Funders, Listen Up! It’s Time to Invest in Nonprofit Workers
Nov 15, 2023
Fund the People Podcast Season 5 - Coming Soon!
Nov 14, 2023
MacArthur Foundation Makes Changes to End Nonprofit Starvation Cycle - with Kenneth Jones, MacArthur Foundation
May 24, 2023
The Annie E. Casey Foundation Makes Changes to End Nonprofit Starvation Cycle - with Katie Tetrault, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
May 17, 2023
Starting a Revolution in Nonprofit Hiring – with Alfonso Wenker and Trina Olson, Team Dynamics
May 03, 2023
5 Research Findings on Health of Nonprofit Workforce - with Todd Butler and Caitlin Fisher, Causewave Community Partners
Apr 26, 2023
6 Practices for Embedding Equity in Nonprofit Compensation - with Mala Nagarajan, Vega Mala Consulting
Apr 19, 2023
Ford Foundation Makes Changes to End Nonprofit Starvation Cycle - with Tiffanie De Gannes and Jim Gallagher, Ford Foundation; Part II of “Smashing the Overhead Myth Once and for All” Series
Apr 05, 2023
Doubling-Down on Wellness in Capacity-Building - with Janet Nami McIntyre and Paula Morris, The Resilience Initiative
Mar 29, 2023
Funders Confront Reality & Myth of Nonprofit Overhead - with Rodney Christopher, BDO; Part I of “Smashing the Overhead Myth Once and for All” Series
Mar 15, 2023
Where Government and Nonprofits Interact - with Jan Masaoka, CalNonprofits
Mar 08, 2023
The 8 Practices of Talent-Investing - with host Rusty Stahl
Mar 01, 2023
Season 4 Trailer
Feb 22, 2023
Dr. King, AmeriCorps, & Nonprofit Work - with Michael Smith, AmeriCorps
Jan 11, 2023
Season 3 Finale: Staying Principled - with Host Rusty Stahl
Jan 04, 2023
How NYC Human Service Workers Won #JustPay - with Michelle Jackson, Human Services Council
Dec 28, 2022
Holiday Wishes from Fund the People
Dec 18, 2022
What’s Wrong with Retirement? - with Chitra Aiyar, Just Futures
Dec 07, 2022
Compensation Philosophy for Your Nonprofit - with Mala Nagarajan, Vega Mala Consulting
Nov 16, 2022
Fair Labor Standards for Community Organizers - with Kinzie Mabon and Kevin Simowitz, All Due Respect
Nov 09, 2022
Funding Black Leaders to Prevent Burnout - with Dany Sigwalt, Power Shift Network
Nov 02, 2022
Talent-Investing is the Best Capacity-Building - with Tom Fuechtmann, Community Memorial Foundation
Oct 19, 2022
Haunted by Student Debt? Wipe it out by Halloween - with Aoife Delargy Lowe, PSLF Coalition
Oct 14, 2022
Investing in Talent Inside Foundations - with Storme Gray, Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy
Oct 12, 2022
Got a Burnout Story? Let's Hear It! - with Betsy Leondar-Wright, Staffing the Mission
Oct 05, 2022
Investing in New Executive Directors, Part 2 - with Jane McDonnell and Irving Washington, Online News Association
Sep 21, 2022
Investing in New Executive Directors, Part I - with Joey Lee and Bipasha Ray of Open Society Foundations
Sep 14, 2022
The 8 Principles of Talent-Investing with host Rusty Stahl
Sep 07, 2022
Coming Soon! New Season of Fund the People Podcast Launches Sept. 7!
Aug 31, 2022
Funding That Works Academy
Aug 31, 2022
Using Capacity-Building Grants for People-Systems - with Andrea Frye, People’s Action (Bonus Episode)
Feb 24, 2022
Season 2 Finale! Top Takeaways on Talent-Investing - with host Rusty Stahl and Monisha Kapila, ProInspire
Dec 22, 2021
The Gold Standard of Foundation Talent-Investing - with Sidney Hargro, The LeadersTrust
Nov 03, 2021
How One Nonprofit Models Talent-Investing - with Abby Wolensky & Ashley Pesi, Auberle
Oct 20, 2021
Nonprofit Voice & Visibility in Washington - with Jeff Moore, Independent Sector
Oct 13, 2021
Connecting Social Justice People, Orgs & Jobs - with Linda Nguyen, Movement Talent
Sep 29, 2021
Transforming Government to Support the Nonprofit Workforce - with Jennifer Geiling, Mayor’s Office of Contract Services, City of New York
Sep 21, 2021
Rethinking How Foundations Invest in Leadership Development - with Roger Nozaki, Barr Foundation
Sep 09, 2021
Talent Matters Remix, Part III: Culture of Care - with Michele Booth Cole
Jul 28, 2021
Talent Matters Remix, Part II: Building a New Generation of Values-Driven Leaders in the Nonprofit Sector - with Stephen Bauer
Jul 21, 2021
Talent Matters Remix, Part I: Network-Weaving, Nonprofit Workers, & Social Justice - with Trish Tchume
Jul 14, 2021
Special Announcement & Mid-Season Review - with host Rusty Stahl
Jul 08, 2021
Funding Grantee Leadership & Equity - with Caroline Altman Smith, The Kresge Foundation
Jun 24, 2021
Embracing Nonprofit Abundance - with Nell Edgington
Jun 15, 2021
Sharing the Wisdom of the Nonprofit Crowd - with Heather Parish and Lisa May Simpson
Jun 07, 2021
Closing the Leadership Development Deficit - with Libbie Landles-Cobb, The Bridgespan Group
May 27, 2021
The Social Justice “Talent Boom” - with Deepak Bhargava and Gara LaMarche
May 18, 2021
Talent-Investing: A Proposal For Change - with Host Rusty Stahl
May 10, 2021
Inauguration Day Bonus Episode! Special Guest: Dan Cardinali, Independent Sector
Jan 20, 2021
The Guru of Burnout: Christina Maslach, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Dec 11, 2020
Philanthropy Saves Money on all the Wrong Things -with Kris Putnam-Walkerly
Dec 04, 2020
Activating Leaders at All Levels - with Monisha Kapila, ProInspire founder and CEO
Nov 20, 2020
Understanding Funders’ Blindspots - with Phil Buchanan and Grace Nicolette, The Center for Effective Philanthropy
Nov 13, 2020
Executive Transitions, Equity and Sustainability - with Tom Adams
Oct 30, 2020
Rusty's Rants & Reflections: Philanthropy and the President
Oct 23, 2020
The Power of the Nonprofit Workforce - with Dr. Lester Salamon
Oct 16, 2020
Racial & Generational Barriers in Nonprofit Careers - with Frances Kunreuther and Sean Thomas-Breitfeld
Oct 02, 2020
Investing in Nonprofit Staff as an Equity Strategy - with Kathy Reich
Sep 25, 2020
Treating Leaders Like Batteries - with Vu Le
Sep 18, 2020
Backstory of Fund the People (Org & Podcast)
Sep 15, 2020