Starting Point

Annual Giving Network

4.4from 14 ratings

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60Podcast AuthorityScore out of 100 · How it is scored

38
Episodes: 14
Ratings: 2022
First episode: 1K
YouTube views

About Starting Point

Starting Point is the AGN podcast that features interesting people from across the world of annual giving and educational fundraising. Tune in with host Dan Allenby to find out how each guest got started, who inspired them, mistakes they made, decisions that mattered, and why annual giving is important to them.

Publisher: Annual Giving Network
Category: education
Language: en
Explicit: No
First episode: 28 Jul 2022
Latest episode: 1 Sept 2025

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Latest episodes

38 episodes in the feed.

1 Sept 2025
E38: Ann Lawrence Grasty - Showing Your Enthusiasm
Ann Lawrence Grasty, Executive Director, University Annual Giving & Stewardship at the University of Virginia, talks about showing your enthusiasm, living your life, starting with trust, leveraging shared experiences, entering traffic circles, and more!
1 Aug 2025
E35: Jake Strang - Raising Your Hand
Jake Strang, Associate Vice Chancellor for Individual Giving at the University of Pittsburgh talks about raising your hand, valuing strong leadership, utilizing data, telling meaningful stories, being the “Beatles of Annual Giving”, and more!
1 Jul 2025
E36: Carolyn Haddad - Seeing Amazing Things
Carolyn Haddad, Director of Class Giving and Initiatives at Brown University, talks about seeing amazing things that students can do, making educated guesses, letting donors know what you know, creating time to be creative, being a good communicator, and more!

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Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views: 1,055; Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Apple Podcasts (US): 4.5 / 5; 10 ratings
Spotify: 4.3 / 5; 4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 60 / 100

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Quality: 64
Social presence: 0
YouTube: 68
Engagement: 71

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