Are you having misgivings? (TRAILER)

Misgivings breaks down what’s wrong with mainstream philanthropy and uplifts bold solutions. Through candid conversations filled with humor and heart, Kindle Project's Arianne Shaffer and Sadaf Rassoul Cameron connect with visionary change-makers rising to the call of this urgent moment and reshaping how money, power, and trust flow in a sector long overdue for change.

We made this show to spotlight friends, allies, and peers who are transforming how giving happens—to turn our misgivings about mainstream philanthropy into seeds of hope. Each episode, we sit down for honest, humorous, and uplifting conversations with funders, donors, artists, and bold thinkers who are challenging business-as-usual. We unpack big ideas, laugh at the weirdness of the systems we work in, and spotlight impactful alternatives. We've got an amazing lineup of guests, and hope these conversations leave you inspired, entertained, and equipped with new ways of thinking about how resources should flow.

Transcript

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Hi. Hi. Okay, you go first, sorry. I go first. No, you go first. You go first. I'm Sadoff.

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And I'm Ariane. Welcome to the Misgivings Podcast.

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We unpack funny, sad, and cringe moments of philanthropy and nonprofit work and spotlight bold change makers moving money in ways that reshape our broken ass systems.

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If you start looking at the urgencies of what's needed, you have to suspend the way in which you made the money to disperse it outside of your own personal agenda.

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A whole world is open to us to make changes and to begin to look at the past honestly and move into reparations. That's what it's really about. And reparations is a form of love.

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Community-centric fundraising is about really ensuring that the donors understand that they are part of the pond. They are a duck. Like you're a duck. I'm a duck. All of us are duck. None of us are throwing bread at one another.

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The show is for people working in philanthropy. Donors sick of the old way of doing things. Everyone in the field looking for new ideas for how to move resources and share power and have greater impact.

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Philanthropy, quote unquote, has existed for a long time. Does anybody think that we got where we were meant to be? Like it's not there. So why not try it a different way? I just can't think of a reason why not to try it a different way. I think it's has to only be fear-based, so just why not?

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Let's stretch ourselves. It really doesn't have to be this way. And we talk about the future a lot. We talk about our past, but like now, we're we're living, we're always living in the now. Like literally right now. So yes, it's it's us and it is now to do something radically different.

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And even though we're not actually ad supported, we made some fake commercials satirizing the problems with mainstream philanthropy.

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This episode is brought to you by Legacy Foundations, a conglomerate of megaphons dedicated to helping moneyed interests feel good about appearing good without doing good. Subscribe to Miss Givings available now on your podcast platform of choice.