Funders on Fundraising
Episodes
Misty Avila Gereghty - Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer at the James B. McClatchy Foundation
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Misty Avila is a longtime nonprofit leader and current funder working to build infrastructure for multiracial democracy in California’s Central Vall...
Elizabeth Eagen - Former Senior Program Officer at the Open Society Foundations
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Eagen is a former Senior Program Officer at the Open Society Foundations, where she spent over a decade funding global digital rights and em...
Kent McGuire - Former Director, Education Program at the Hewlett Foundation
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kent McGuire’s understanding of power began at home in Lansing, Michigan, where his father led a United Auto Workers local and his aunt led the Mich...
Michelle Shevin - Former Senior Program Manager at the Ford Foundation
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle Shevin’s understanding of power took shape in an unlikely place—a graduate program run by the U.S. military—where she first learned to ...
Sasha Rabkin - Advanced Education Research & Development Fund
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sasha Rabkin, Chief of Program Strategy & Innovation for the Advanced Education Research & Development Fund (AERDF), speaks plainly about what...
Introducing Funders on Fundraising! (Trailer)
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A preview of Season 1: Funders speaking candidly about what builds trust, how decisions are made, and the subtle signals that shape every funding rela...