AaAaAhHH! (That's the sound of me fangirling!) I discovered Rusty Stahl and Fund the People when I was doing research on funding health coaching programs for women burning out in mission-driven work, and I am so excited that he agreed to come onto the podcast and discuss his work in promoting "talent investment" rather than "program investment." Rusty walks us through the nonprofit starvation cycle, the myth of overhead, and the zero-sum challenge—and then talks about what funders and grantees can do to set up a zone of trust and communicate on a completely new level.
If you missed Season 2 Episode 3 with Kathy Reich, make sure to listen to that in conjunction with this one—link in the resources below.
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Rusty Stahl is President & CEO of Fund the People, which he founded in 2014 and which works to maximize investment in the nonprofit workforce. He completed R&D for Fund the People as a Visiting Fellow in Residence at NYU's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Rusty previously served as founding Executive Director of Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy, a national association of young and new foundation professionals. He began his career as a Program Associate at the Ford Foundation, after completing an MA in philanthropic studies at Indiana University. He grew up in Philadelphia and lives in Beacon, NY.
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