Fund the People: A Podcast with Rusty Stahl
Hosted by Rusty Stahl · Fund the People
4.8from 50 ratings
- 151
- Episodes
- 19
- Transcribed
- 50
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Fund the People: A Podcast with Rusty Stahl
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.
- Publisher
- Fund the People
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 Sept 2020
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
19 of 151 episodes have a transcript.
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Don’t Let Fear Shrink Your Mission: Nonprofits and Democracy — with Joe Goldman, Democracy Fund
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The ‘Courageous Operating System’ for Nonprofit Leaders – with Eveline Shen, Author, Choosing to Lead Against the Current
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Upgrading Nonprofit Workplaces: Flourishing with Fewer Hours - with Betsy Leondar-Wright, Ph.D. (Guest Host), Adam Jespersen, and Juliet Schor, Ph.D.
Inside a recent episode
Don’t Let Fear Shrink Your Mission: Nonprofits and Democracy — with Joe Goldman, Democracy Fund
Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And My view when I look across those four tests is all four of them, especially from the perspective of the beginning of the year, could go either way. And from a glass half empty perspective, that is frightening that we could fail any of those tests. It should be a 0% likelihood that we would fail any of them. That is decidedly not the case. But from a glass half full perspective, again, there is agency in the fact that they could go either way. And we as citizens and leaders have a say in how they play out. And that means we've got a chance and we can do something about it, which I think is really empowering. […]
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- Joe Goldman
- Eveline Shen
- Betsy Leondar-Wright
- Adam Jespersen
- Juliet Schor
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 37 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 13 ratings
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- Quality
- 71
- Social presence
- 91
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 77
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Who hosts Fund the People: A Podcast with Rusty Stahl?
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