Tailwinds: Ideas Fueling Nonprofit Innovators and Social Entrepreneurs
Tailwinds is a project that brings momentum to the leaders tackling the world’s most impossible problems.
Created by Flying Whale Strategies, the show delivers ideas, insight, and energy to the people doing work that often feels impossible.
Each episode features brass tacks strategy that can be implemented tomorrow. Hillary Frances interviews social sector leaders who are in the messy middle of building their organizations. And since we are talking about bold solutions to intractable problems, she also brings in insight from the for-profit world.
Tailwinds: Ideas Fueling Nonprofit Innovators and Social Entrepreneurs
Latest Episodes
The relationship strategy behind a $5.5M grant portfolio
Riley Janeway and Emily Brown help run a $5.5M grant portfolio—up from $3 million in 2024, for Emma's Torch, a culinary training nonprofit for refugees and asylum seekers. Their secret isn't better writing....
Capital Stacks: How to ask donors to leverage, not just give
The for-profit world is accessing capital because they know how to walk into a room and say "I don't need you to just hand me money, I need you to change the terms of another deal I have." In this episode, Hillary lays out why for-profit entrep...
What reentry work teaches us about shifting public opinion
One of the most difficult parts of our work is when the mission requires changing public perception. History has proven it's possible — but we need to study the formula.This episode tracks how societies move the boundary of what's accept...
A recipe for emails people want to read
Fundraising appeals have become easy to ignore.They ask for money, lean hard on emotion, and rarely offer anything back to the reader.This episode explores what happens when appeals are designed to add value before they make an ask. ...
How to lead anti-racism work your team actually wants to do
Nonprofit leaders often dread anti-racism work. It's a two-day retreat, a book club, a list of behavioral expectations — and it leaves us feeling raw, anxious, or stuck in our heads. What if that's not a personal failing, but a process problem?...