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
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? | Maggie 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...
All Victories Are Temporary | Chris Knopf, Friends of the Boundary Waters
"All victories are temporary, and every defeat is permanent."That's how Chris Knopf describes the fight to protect one of Minnesota's most beloved places. As executive director of Friends of the Boundary Waters, he leads the advocacy, ed...
Why Nonprofits Need to Stop Being Afraid of Ambition | Jazz Hampton
Since posting, Jazz has stepped down as CEO of TurnSignl.--Jazz Hampton has sat in every seat that shapes how a community solves its problems: as a nonprofit board member, a for-profit founder, and a candidate for public o...
What We Lose When We Lose Restaurants | Stephanie March and Tracy Dyer, Salt Cure Fund
When Operation Metro Surge swept the Twin Cities last winter, the restaurant industry was hit first and hardest, but they stayed quiet about it, because hospitality's whole job is to project joy even when the bottom is falling out.Steph ...