Do Your Good

In this special episode of Sybil Speaks, I’m interviewed by my husband about a difficult thing I have ever experienced in my career where I felt like my desire to do good was being challenged and how it has changed me as a nonprofit professional.

Episode Highlights:

• How to navigate being thrust into the spotlight as a funder.

• How that controversy served as an eye-opening experience for me.

• How this experience changed my grant-making moving forward.

Get the full show notes and more information here:

https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/65-sybil-speaks 

Christy Boysen and Monique Kleinhuizen, CEO and CMO of Apex Legacy Consultants join me today to talk about their thoughtful and comprehensive approach to legacy planning by celebrating the passions and values of families and individuals, helping them leave a lasting impact on the world through charitable giving to the causes they care about.

Episode Highlights:

• Christy and Monique’s personal journeys that ignited their passion for legacy giving.

• What Apex Legacy does to help others leave behind an impactful legacy.

• Strategies to develop a successful giving strategy after you have passed on.

• How stories and words connect to charitable giving.

• Christy’s stories working with families and how it translated to giving to nonprofits.

• How to balance between a family’s desire to give to nonprofits and leaving behind an inheritance.

• Christy and Monique’s final words of advice.

Get the full show notes and more information here:

https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/64-christy-boysen-monique-kleinhuizen 

In this episode, Ansley Fender, Founder & CEO of Atlas, joins me to discuss how she and her team connect donors with nonprofits through their industry agnostic, end-to-end, and collaborative funding management software. Atlas’ platform automates the grant management process not only for nonprofits but also for donors for greater effectiveness and efficiency.

Episode Highlights:

• How Ansley began in nonprofit grant management.

• Ansley’s initial idea of creating software that provides automated real-time financial data.

• The feasibility of a common application for nonprofits and donors.

• What Atlas offers to funders and funding recipients to make their jobs more efficient.

Get the full show notes and more information here:

https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/63-ansley-fender 

Joining me for this episode is Geneva Wiki, Yurok Tribal Member and Senior Program Manager of The California Endowment. Coming from a long lineage of leaders and activists who continuously fought for the rights and freedoms of Indigenous Americans, Geneva shares how she continues to follow in their footsteps through her storied journey into mainstream philanthropy. She will also speak about philanthropy in Indigenous communities and what communities can do to help them drive transformative change.

Episode Highlights:

• Geneva’s family background as part of a member of the Yurok people and how it plays an influential role in becoming the philanthropist she is today.

• The California Endowment’s grant-making strategy.

• How the philanthropy world can be more effective and supportive of Indigenous communities.

• Geneva’s words of wisdom and resources for philanthropists looking to better support Indigenous communities.

Get the full show notes and more information here:

https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/62-geneva-wiki 

In this week’s episode, Lisa Holtan joins me to share the kind of work she does in supporting her clients to fulfill their personal goals and mission in life through incorporating health and wellness into their money mindset.

Episode Highlights:

• How Lisa’s background in health and wellness ties in with money and giving.

• Lisa’s “Three Pillars” and how you can use them to focus on a giving strategy.

• Lisa’s work with her clients to help them develop a healthy money mindset.

• The importance of giving with gratitude.

Get the full show notes and more information here:

https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/61-lisa-holtan 

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, I wanted to dedicate this episode to highlighting past conversations with funders and nonprofits to honor all of the amazing work they do to address diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

Episode Highlights:

• The premise of Trust-based Philanthropy and how it works in reality.

• Past conversations with people who put DEI at the core of their work.

Get the full show notes and more information here:

https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/60-sybil-speaks 

My son, Cody Visnick joins me on the podcast today to talk about how the older generation can empower the younger generation to give back to their community. As a teen who was raised around a family that encourages giving, he shares his do’s and don’ts for parents so they can successfully instill that spirit of giving and kindness in their children.

Episode Highlights:

• The things that our family does that encourages Cody to give back.

• What personal fulfillment Cody receives from giving back.

• Cody’s advice for parents to instill giving in their child’s life.

Get the full show notes and more information here:

https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/59-sybil-speaks 

Happy  New Year! I want to talk about New Year’s Resolutions and how you can incorporate them into simple strategies that will keep you anchored to your giving strategy and stay passionate about the issues you deeply care about.

As we begin 2022, let’s continue to help each other grow so we can give more than we did in the past and do so with the knowledge that we are not only enabling nonprofits to do their good, but also staying true to ourselves and our passions. Enjoy the show!

Episode Highlights:

• Create your own personalized new year resolution.

• Write down why you’re giving to certain nonprofits and to who. 

• The reason why it’s important for you to write it down to stay true to your own passion in giving.

Get the full show notes and more information here:

https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/58-sybil-speaks 

I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Michael Chatman, President & CEO of “The Community Foundation” and today, he joins me to speak about his journey in the world of philanthropy and how he managed to build a small  Community Foundation into a thriving organization that works with locally-based organizations to give effective grants.

Episode Highlights:

• How Michael’s career as a public speaker served as his entrée into philanthropy.

• The lessons and experiences Michael learned from grant-making in rural areas of the United States.

• Rebuilding The Community Foundation from scratch to finding its special niche in philanthropy.

• What makes The Community Foundation’s structure and scholarship program unique.

• The biggest challenges Michael has had to overcome and his advice for funders and organizations looking to hone their skills.

Get the full show notes and more information here:

https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/57-michael-chatman 

Maria Azuri, Director of Capacity Building at “Network for Good”, joins me this week to share how she has created avenues dedicated to supporting diverse nonprofits. With equity, diversity, and inclusion at the forefront of her mission, she helps these nonprofits break past barriers and provides a foundation where everyone can unleash their generosity and fund with power.

Episode Highlights:

• Why Maria’s personal life journey background plays an integral part in her nonprofit work.

• Maria’s transition from social worker to funding capacity building.

• Philanthropy’s call to support nonprofits working against the growing inequality in our current society.

• Maria’s webinar workshop that serves to move philanthropy forward with equity-building within funders.

• How funders can get engaged with this kind of work.

Get the full show notes and more information here:

https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/56-maria-azuri