Do Your Good

How can we successfully leverage public funds as private donors? Peter Stangel joins Sybil and explains how to distribute funds in the right places, and how donors can strategically use their dollars to strategically leverage public funds and maximize impact. 

Episode Highlights:

• How can we successfully leverage private and public funds for the causes that we care about
• Peter’s personal journey to ultimately become Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities
• How to navigate the federal grant bureaucracies for maximum impact

Peter Stangel Bio:

Peter Stangel of Aiken, SC joined the US Endowment in April of 2010. An ecologist by training, Peter received a B.S. in Biology from Furman University and a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. Previously he was with National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, most recently as Director of Science and Evaluation. With the Foundation he also served as Eastern and Southeastern Regional Director, and Neotropical Migratory Bird Initiative Director. Peter has extensive experience building corporate conservation partnerships, and has worked with Walmart, Shell Oil Company, ConocoPhillips, and Southern Company, among others. He has more than 20 publications in the technical literature and nearly 200 in the popular magazines.

Links:

• U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities:  https://www.usendowment.org
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Crack the Code: Sybil’s Successful Guide to Philanthropy

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In this new course, you’ll gain access to beautifully animated and filmed engaging videos, and many more! 

• Link for the wait list for the Philanthropy Accelerator 

https://www.doyourgood.com/Philanthropy-Accelerator-Mastermind-Waitlist

• Link to the nonprofit email sign-up to connect 

https://www.doyourgood.com/ticket-to-fundraising

• Check out her website with all the latest opportunities to learn from Sybil at 

www.doyourgood.com. 

Connect with Do Your Good

• https://www.facebook.com/doyourgood

• https://www.instagram.com/doyourgood

Would you like to talk with Sybil directly?

Send in your inquiries through her website https://www.doyourgood.com/ or you can email her directly at [email protected]!

How can we successfully leverage public funds as private donors? Peter Stangel joins Sybil and explains how to distribute funds in the right places, and how donors can strategically use their dollars to strategically leverage public funds and maximize impact. {You can hear the full episode on Monday, May 15th}

This month's focus is on leveraging your private dollar with public funding and support. Today we are replaying an interview with Meta Loftsgaarden who shares her experience leveraging public funding with private donations to make the world a better place. In addition to the amazing work Meta does right now with the Mount Hood National Forest, Meta previously ran the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, which is a great example of a partnership between public and private partnerships that  are essential for durable programs that do good in society.

Episode Highlights:

• The nuts and bolts of strategies to promote public and private partnerships
• The key opportunities to give effective grants in partnership with public agencies. 
• How donors can leverage public funding. 

Meta Loftsgaarden Bio:

Meta Loftsgaarden has been Forest Supervisor for the Mt. Hood National Forest since October 2021. Her career experience includes numerous leadership positions supporting local economies, communities, and science-based restoration and conservation. Before joining the Forest Service, Loftsgaarden was Executive Director for a state agency - the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB). This unique agency invested $150 million per biennium in native fish and wildlife habitat and water quality projects throughout Oregon. She was also Governor Brown's lead for the state's 100-Year Water Vision. Loftsgaarden previously worked for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service on partnership and policy issues including farmland protection, working forestland easements, and strategic conservation. In Montana, she promoted economic and natural resource policies as the head of the state’s Agriculture Marketing and Business Development Bureau and as the Governor’s deputy communications director. Loftsgaarden has a Master of Public Administration from Portland State University and a Bachelor of Science from Montana State University. 

Links:

• Mount Hood National Forest  https://www.fs.usda.gov/mthood 
• Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB) https://www.oregon.gov/oweb/pages/index.aspx 
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Crack the Code: Sybil’s Successful Guide to Philanthropy

Become even better at what you do as Sybil teaches you the strategies as well as the tools, you’ll need to avoid mistakes and make a career out of philanthropy through my new course, Crack the Code!

In this new course, you’ll gain access to beautifully animated and filmed engaging videos, and many more! 

• Link for the wait list for the Philanthropy Accelerator 

https://www.doyourgood.com/Philanthropy-Accelerator-Mastermind-Waitlist

• Link to the nonprofit email sign-up to connect 

https://www.doyourgood.com/ticket-to-fundraising

• Check out her website with all the latest opportunities to learn from Sybil at 

www.doyourgood.com. 

Connect with Do Your Good

• https://www.facebook.com/doyourgood

• https://www.instagram.com/doyourgood

Would you like to talk with Sybil directly?

Send in your inquiries through her website https://www.doyourgood.com/ or you can email her directly at [email protected]!

This month's focus is on leveraging your private dollar with public funding and support. Today we are replaying an interview with Meta Loftsgaarden who shares her experience leveraging public funding with private donations to make the world a better place. In addition to the amazing work Meta does right now with the Mount Hood National Forest, Meta previously ran the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, which is a great example of a partnership between public and private partnerships that are essential for durable programs that do good in society.

{You can hear the full episode on May 8th}

Now is the time to figure out how your funding can leverage public funding opportunities. This is especially true right now in the United States when a ton of funding is going out the door through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Package and the Inflation Reduction Act. 

Sybil explains the biggest obstacles to overcome you want to understand how nonprofits can access federal and state funding. 

Episode Highlights:

• Do the nonprofits you support have the capacity and bandwidth to secure public funding opportunities? 

• Is there a special funding niche you can occupy that will effectively leverage your support? 

• Are you setting yourself up for success?

• Are you making the big mistake of making it seem that philanthropy can cover something that really should be covered by the public coffers? 

Sybil Ackerman-Munson Bio:

With over 20 years of experience as a nonprofit professional and foundation advisor, I work with philanthropic institutions and foundations interested in successful, high-impact grant making, so you can make a true and lasting positive contribution to the world on your terms.

• Links:
• Alliance for a Sustainable Future https://www.c2es.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cities-advancing-climate-cation-leveraging-federal-funds-for-impact.pd

• AnnGoggins Gregory and Don Howard, Stanford Social Innovation https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_nonprofit_starvation_cycle

• Ford Family Foundation https://www.tfff.org/pathways-securing-rural-federal-funding

• SD Bechtel Jr Foundation, Setting the Course https://www.ncfp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Sooner-Rather-Than-Later_-Chapter-1-Bechtel-2019.pdf

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Crack the Code: Sybil’s Successful Guide to Philanthropy

Become even better at what you do as Sybil teaches you the strategies as well as the tools, you’ll need to avoid mistakes and make a career out of philanthropy through my new course, Crack the Code!

In this new course, you’ll gain access to beautifully animated and filmed engaging videos, and many more! 

• Link for the wait list for the Philanthropy Accelerator 

https://www.doyourgood.com/Philanthropy-Accelerator-Mastermind-Waitlist

• Link to the nonprofit email sign-up to connect 

https://www.doyourgood.com/ticket-to-fundraising

• Check out her website with all the latest opportunities to learn from Sybil at 

www.doyourgood.com. 

Connect with Do Your Good

• https://www.facebook.com/doyourgood

• https://www.instagram.com/doyourgood

Would you like to talk with Sybil directly?

Send in your inquiries through her website https://www.doyourgood.com/ or you can email her directly at [email protected]!

Now is the time to figure out how your funding can leverage public funding opportunities. This is especially true right now in the United States when a ton of funding is going out the door through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Package and the Inflation Reduction Act. 

Sybil explains the biggest obstacles to overcome you want to understand how nonprofits can access federal and state funding.

{You can hear the full episode on Monday, May 1st}

Sybil and Fred talk about the power of funder collaborations. They talk about the many different kinds of collaborations, from loose affinity groups to more focused issue focused work that funders do strategically together to make a difference. Sybil shares the conditions needed for a funder collaboration to be successful.

Episode Highlights:

• Personal stories from Fred & Sybil
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• The Five Conditions of Collective Success

Sybil Ackerman-Munson Bio:

With over 20 years of experience as a nonprofit professional and foundation advisor, I work with philanthropic institutions and foundations interested in successful, high-impact grant making, so you can make a true and lasting positive contribution to the world on your terms.

Links:

• Collective Impact: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/collective_impact
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• Philanthropy Together - https://philanthropytogether.org/
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• Giving 2.0 Getting together to give: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/giving_2.0_getting_together_to_give#
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• Are Funder Collaboratives Valuable: https://www.bridgespan.org/getmedia/3bec9088-712d-4e06-9bd7-fdcfdc10db57/bridgespan-2019-value-of-philanthropic-collaboration-research-study.pdf
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• How Philanthropic Collaborations Succeed and Why They Fail: https://www.bridgespan.org/insights/how-philanthropic-collaborations-succeed-and-fail
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• Philanthropic Collaborations Database https://www.bridgespan.org/insights/philanthropic-collaborations-database?gclid=Cj0KCQjwxMmhBhDJARIsANFGOSuaweJvC3kuy8hIwJ4vuTHPBKDPxL_j-fBpChHU2SfNcV_qbUxrgpkaApcWEALw_wcB

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Become even better at what you do as Sybil teaches you the strategies as well as the tools, you’ll need to avoid mistakes and make a career out of philanthropy through my new course, Crack the Code!

In this new course, you’ll gain access to beautifully animated and filmed engaging videos, and many more! 

• Link for the wait list for the Philanthropy Accelerator 

https://www.doyourgood.com/Philanthropy-Accelerator-Mastermind-Waitlist

• Link to the nonprofit email sign-up to connect 

https://www.doyourgood.com/ticket-to-fundraising

• Check out her website with all the latest opportunities to learn from Sybil at 

www.doyourgood.com. 

Connect with Do Your Good

• https://www.facebook.com/doyourgood

• https://www.instagram.com/doyourgood

Would you like to talk with Sybil directly?

Send in your inquiries through her website https://www.doyourgood.com/ or you can email her directly at [email protected]!

Sybil and Fred talk about the power of funder collaborations. They talk about the many different kinds of collaborations, from loose affinity groups to more focused issue-focused work that funders do strategically together to make a difference. Sybil shares the conditions needed for a funder collaboration to be successful.

{You can hear the full episode on Monday, April 24th}

Joanna Kerr is the president and CEO of MakeWay, a philanthropic institution that brings together groups of philanthropists and works on moving the needle and solving solutions to the world's biggest problems and challenges in Canada. 

Joanna explains why MakeWay has set up opportunities for philanthropists to be in a relationship with community leaders alongside other philanthropists, to learn together to support the key priorities of the nonprofits trying to make the world a better place for all of us. 

Episode Highlights:

• How to give deliberately through a pooled fund that makes a difference

• Mistakes people make when they don’t adequately lean into people who have experience

Joanna Kerr Bio:

Joanna Kerr is the President and CEO of MakeWay.

She has dedicated her career to advancing social justice and women’s rights, a healthy environment, and strong civil society. Prior to joining MakeWay in 2019, Joanna led Greenpeace Canada for over 5 years. She was the first female Chief Executive of ActionAid International based in South Africa, and the Executive Director of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development.

She currently serves as the Chair of the Equality Fund, Canada’s global fund for women, and is the International Board Chair of World Animal Protection. She is also the Lake Steward for the lake she can often be found near

Links: 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-kerr-bb011b71/?originalSubdomain=ca

Make Way: https://makeway.org

Northern Manitoba Food and Culute Collaborative:  https://makeway.org/project/northern-manitoba-food-culture-and-community-collaborative/.

The Collective's Website: http://www.nmfccc.ca/

Learning Trip: https://makeway.org/food/a-learning-trip-to-garden-hill-northern-manitoba-guest-blog-by-funder-andi-sharma

AWID: https://www.awid.org

Right Relations: https://rightrelationscollaborative.ca

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Crack the Code: Sybil’s Successful Guide to Philanthropy

Become even better at what you do as Sybil teaches you the strategies as well as the tools, you’ll need to avoid mistakes and make a career out of philanthropy through my new course, Crack the Code!

In this new course, you’ll gain access to beautifully animated and filmed engaging videos, and many more! 

• Link for the wait list for the Philanthropy Accelerator 

https://www.doyourgood.com/Philanthropy-Accelerator-Mastermind-Waitlist

• Link to the nonprofit email sign-up to connect 

https://www.doyourgood.com/ticket-to-fundraising

• Check out her website with all the latest opportunities to learn from Sybil at 

www.doyourgood.com. 

Connect with Do Your Good

• https://www.facebook.com/doyourgood

• https://www.instagram.com/doyourgood

Would you like to talk with Sybil directly?

Send in your inquiries through her website https://www.doyourgood.com/ or you can email her directly at [email protected]!

Joanna Kerr is the president and CEO of MakeWay, a philanthropic institution that brings together groups of philanthropists and works on moving the needle and solving solutions to the world's biggest problems and challenges in Canada. 

Joanna explains why MakeWay has set up opportunities for philanthropists to be in a relationship with community leaders alongside other philanthropists, to learn together to support the key priorities of the nonprofits trying to make the world a better place for all of us.

{You can hear the full episode on Monday, April 17th}