Nonprofits Now Leading Today Podcast with Stacy Palmer and Vanessa Priya Daniel

As nonprofit leaders grapple with increasingly dire threats to their funding and missions, it’s more important than ever to understand what it takes to lead resilient organizations.

For a look at what skills are most important, we hear from Vanessa Priya Daniel, who interviewed 45 social-justice leaders for her new book, Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning.

Daniel combines her extensive research for the book with her own experiences as an organizer and founder of Groundswell Fund and Groundswell Action Fund — which together have distributed more than $100 million to over 200 organizations led by women of color and transgender people.

In a conversation with Chronicle CEO Stacy Palmer, Daniel says her interviews led her to identify three all successful change agents possessed:
• Bold ideas. Incremental solutions don’t add up to enough to solve the tremendous challenges of today and tomorrow.
• Generosity. Daniel says an “ethos of rising by lifting others” is what makes the women she interviewed successful.
• 360-degree vision. There’s never just one cause of a problem that’s complex and worth solving.

This podcast is available wherever you get your podcasts.

The podcastNonprofits Now: Leading Today is hosted by Stacy Palmer, CEO of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. It is produced by the Chronicle's Emily Haynes and by Reasonable Volume's Mary Dooe, producer; Mark Bush, engineer; and Rachel Swaby and Elise Hu, executive producers. Additional support provided by the Chronicle's Margie Fleming Glennon, Andrew Simon, Nick Adams, Krista Niles, Kyle Johnson, and by Amaya Beltran of the design firm Salta With Us.

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