The Public Space

Reimagining the Nonprofit World

Episode Summary

Shari Dunn, innovator, educator, and thinker and CEO/Principal of ITBOM, Inc. joins Lilisa Hall to reimagine the nonprofit world and alongside it, philanthropy, as well.

Episode Notes

The nonprofit sector, including philanthropy, is at a crossroads. Shari Dunn compares the nonprofit sector to an ill patient, and discusses the contributing factors that led to this condition. She prescribes how the patient can get well, be healthy, and thrive. She reimagines the transformation of the nonprofit world into an exciting, effective, and vital social enterprise. 

In this episode:

• Moment of great change for nonprofit sector (4:21)
• Interplay between philanthropy and nonprofits (7:09)
• How nonprofits should see themselves (11:17)
• Philanthropy historically and what it should look like now (16:42)
• Board members’ role (21:06)
• Address race and racism (22:30)

Additional resources:

• NAO's 2020 State of the Sector Report – Nonprofit Association of Oregon
• America’s Nonprofits – National Council of Nonprofits
• The Charitable Sector – Independent Sector
• Health of the U.S. Nonprofit Sector – Independent Sector
• Nonprofit Executives and the Racial Leadership Gap – Race to Lead, Building Movement Project
• The Race to Lead Series – Race to Lead, Building Movement Project
• Race to Lead: Women of Color in the Nonprofit Sector – Race to Lead, Building Movement Project
• The Social Sector Has an Internal Racism Problem – SOJOURNERS
• How Can Philanthropy Redistribute Power – Trust-Based Philanthrophy Project
• No More Band-Aids: How Funders Can Advance Systems Change – PEAK Grantmaking
• Jim Crow Philanthropy by Emily Masghati – US History Scene
• Trends in Northwest Giving 2019– Philanthropy Northwest
• Charitable Giving Showed Solid Growth – Giving USA