Proof of Impact
Proof of Impact is the nonprofit podcast that actually asks the hard questions.
The sector is full of people doing extraordinary work, and a culture that is very good at staying comfortable. No pushback. No tension. Just carefully managed conversations that leave the most important things unsaid.
Host Elizabeth "E" Kitzenberg has spent decades inside the nonprofit world, leading major campaigns at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard, and now running The Kitzenberg Group, her own institutional fundraising consultancy. She knows where the guard goes up. This show is about what happens when it comes down.
Honest conversations with nonprofit leaders. No filter. No apologies.
Proof of Impact
Latest Episodes
Food Shelves Aren't About Food, They're About Income | Matthew Ayres, Executive Director of Joyce Uptown Food Shelf
Matthew Ayres runs one of Minneapolis's oldest and smallest food shelves — two staff, three hundred volunteers, a 110-year-old Victorian house in Uptown. Over the past year, Joyce Uptown has bounced from crisis to crisis, and in the thick of it...
The Foundation That's Giving It All Away | Stephanie Sauer, Sauer Family Foundation
Most foundations are built to last forever. The Sauer Family Foundation decided to do the opposite.Started in 1996 as a 30th-anniversary gift between Stephanie Sauer's parents, the foundation has spent nearly three decades strengthening ...
Urgency Without Being Hurried | Chanda Smith Baker, President & CEO of the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation
Chanda Smith Baker leads the largest community foundation in Minnesota — nearly $2 billion in charitable assets, more than 9,000 grants a year — and she came to the role with a career's worth of hard-won wisdom about how change actually happens...
You Don't Win by Looking Needy | Steve Grove, CEO of The Minnesota Star Tribune
Steve Grove left a career in Silicon Valley to come home and take on one of the hardest jobs in American media: leading a nearly 160-year-old newspaper into a future it isn't guaranteed to have.As CEO and publisher of the Minnesota Star ...
Is Gun Violence Actually Solvable? | Maggiy Emery, Protect Minnesota
Maggiy Emery leads Protect Minnesota, the only statewide, independent gun violence prevention organization in the state. Her work sits at the intersection of the most contentious politics in America — and she approaches it with a clarity that's...