Beyond the Bake Sale

An extended cut of our episode with Kris Putnam-Walkerly.

Kris Putnam-Walkerly is a trusted advisor to the world's leading philanthropists.

For more than 20 years, wealthy families, ultra-high net worth donors, foundations, Fortune 500 companies, and celebrity activists have sought and benefited from her advice to transform their giving and catapult their impact.

As President of the Putnam Consulting Group, a philanthropy advisor, speaker, and award-winning author, she's helped over 100 philanthropists strategically allocate over half a billion dollars in grants and gifts. Additionally, Kris works closely with estate planning attorneys, financial and wealth advisors, and family offices to serve wealthy families who wish to deepen their philanthropic commitments.

Kris has been named one of America's Top 25 Philanthropy Speakers for the past three years running. She is the author of the book, Delusional Altruism: Why Philanthropists Fail to Achieve Change and What They Can Do To Transform Giving (Wiley, 2020)and Confident Giving: Sage Advice for Funders, and is a Forbes.com contributor on philanthropy.

Kris's clients include the J.M. Smucker Company, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, National Center for Family Philanthropy, Blue Shield of California, and the Cleveland Foundation.

Kris Putnam-Walkerly is a trusted advisor to the world's leading philanthropists.

For more than 20 years, wealthy families, ultra-high net worth donors, foundations, Fortune 500 companies, and celebrity activists have sought and benefited from her advice to transform their giving and catapult their impact.

As President of the Putnam Consulting Group, a philanthropy advisor, speaker, and award-winning author, she's helped over 100 philanthropists strategically allocate over half a billion dollars in grants and gifts. Additionally, Kris works closely with estate planning attorneys, financial and wealth advisors, and family offices to serve wealthy families who wish to deepen their philanthropic commitments.

Kris has been named one of America's Top 25 Philanthropy Speakers for the past three years running. She is the author of the book, Delusional Altruism: Why Philanthropists Fail to Achieve Change and What They Can Do To Transform Giving (Wiley, 2020)and Confident Giving: Sage Advice for Funders, and is a Forbes.com contributor on philanthropy.

Kris's clients include the J.M. Smucker Company, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, National Center for Family Philanthropy, Blue Shield of California, and the Cleveland Foundation.

An extended cut of our episode with Drew Vincent.

Drew is the Founder and Creative behind Stay At Home Fundraising.

Drew and his team's first event the Stay at Home Gala was born out of necessity to support charitable endeavours at the start of COVID. Launching March 27th after 11 days of planning,

Since March of 2020 Stay at Home Fundraising has worked with over 45 communities and organizations to help make engaging and innovative online events a reality, helping organizations raise over 1.6 Million for their cause.

Drew has a background in large scale events including Ironman Triathlons and TEDx, as well as a Masters Degree in International Business From the University of Worms in Germany.

Drew is the Founder and Creative behind Stay At Home Fundraising.

Drew and his team's first event the Stay at Home Gala was born out of necessity to support charitable endeavours at the start of COVID. Launching March 27th after 11 days of planning,

Since March of 2020 Stay at Home Fundraising has worked with over 45 communities and organizations to help make engaging and innovative online events a reality, helping organizations raise over 1.6 Million for their cause.

Drew has a background in large scale events including Ironman Triathlons and TEDx, as well as a Masters Degree in International Business From the University of Worms in Germany.

An extended cut of our episode with Candies Kotchapaw.

Candies Kotchapaw is a passionate change maker focused on amplifying the excellence within Black communities in Canada and beyond. She holds a Master's and Bachelor's degrees in social work from York University, and a Diploma in Child and Youth Work from George Brown College in Toronto, Canada.

Candies' work centers around education, training, and mentorship in careers where Black talents are stereotypically under-represented. Over the course of the last 3 years, she has successfully spearheaded the development of two community-based leadership development programs. #LeadLikeAGirl is a program for Black girls ages 8-17. Young girls in this program are mentored by Black women and allied women to disrupt the gender wage disparity in professional careers. From her own lived experience of lack of access to the diplomatic education and training space, she developed the Black Diplomats Academy for young professionals interested in careers in diplomacy and negotiation.

Candies Kotchapaw is a passionate change maker focused on amplifying the excellence within Black communities in Canada and beyond. She holds a Master's and Bachelor's degrees in social work from York University, and a Diploma in Child and Youth Work from George Brown College in Toronto, Canada.

Candies' work centers around education, training, and mentorship in careers where Black talents are stereotypically under-represented. Over the course of the last 3 years, she has successfully spearheaded the development of two community-based leadership development programs. #LeadLikeAGirl is a program for Black girls ages 8-17. Young girls in this program are mentored by Black women and allied women to disrupt the gender wage disparity in professional careers. From her own lived experience of lack of access to the diplomatic education and training space, she developed the Black Diplomats Academy for young professionals interested in careers in diplomacy and negotiation.

On this episode Christian sat down with Bailey Greenspon, Co-CEO of Girls20 and Sarah Mariani, a participant in the Girls on Boards program.

Bailey is a global advocate for young women's participation and has served in progressive leadership roles overseeing programming and global engagement at G(irls)20 since 2017.

Sarah is an emerging voice on inclusive innovation and leads digital transformation projects at North America's largest urban innovation hub while supporting Young Diplomats of Canada and the Canadian Women's foundation as a Young Director.

In this episode, we discussed The Girls on Boards program; Increasing young women's representation and participation on boards of directors; Reimagining governance models; Combating microaggressions and much more.

An extended cut of our episode with three young black fundraisers; Adya Afanou, Camila Pereira Ph.D and Melissa Leite to talk about their experiences in the sector.

In the conversation, Christian discussed with Adya, Camila and Melissa a range of topics from how to recruit young people of colour into a variety of roles in your organization; why transparency in culture and compensation is critically important; how to set boundaries as a young professional and much more.

On this episode, Christian sat down with three young black fundraisers; Adya Afanou, Camila Pereira Ph.D and Melissa Leite to talk about their experiences in the sector. In the conversation, Christian discussed with Adya, Camila and Melissa a range of topics from how to recruit young people of colour into a variety of roles in your organization; why transparency in culture and compensation is critically important; how to set boundaries as a young professional and much more.

An extended cut of our episode with Nneka Allen, Nicole Salmon and Joy Gooding.

three accomplished black women fundraisers who shared with me a message of hope for young black fundraisers, and young fundraisers of colour who work in the charitable sector.

In our conversation, we spoke about sponsorship vs mentorship, filling our souls, living by our values and virtues, agency, and much more.

If you'd like to learn more, as well as connect with Nneka, Nicole and Joy, please visit our show notes for this episode on our website. While you're there, I highly encourage you to take a look at the important work of the Black Canadian fundraisers' collective, and also look at 'collecting courage: joy, pain, freedom, love that is co-edited by both Nneka and Nicole.