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Una O. Osili, Ph.D., is an economist with significant experience in research and policy in the fields of household behavior and economic policy. She is also associate dean for research and international programs at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Dr. Osili was featured in a Time magazine article about trends for philanthropy in 2019, where she explained the idea of adding the idea of "testimony" to the traditional thinking of giving "time, treasure and talent" as ways to support nonprofit missions.

Dr. Osili talks with host Steve Boland about listening and engaging to leverage social capital of supporters, transparency in nonprofit work and outcomes supporting a mission more than an organization, and much more.

Corrie Zoll is in the Executive Director of In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre (HOTB), whose mission is "to bring people together for the common good through the power of puppet and mask performance." HOTB produces a range of programming, including an annual May Day parade and celebration with tens of thousands of attendees.

The May Day events and other costs over time have led to some organizational challenges for HOTB, and the staff and board decided to have a public conversation about those difficult issues. Corrie talks with host Steve Boland about how HOTB decided to make a public announcement, how to provide layers and depths of information to different audiences, predicting the results of transparency in difficulty, and more.

Katie McClosky is a product manager at Sage Intacct, a cloud-based financial management software package for nonprofits (and others) to understand and communicate their financial position. A recent update to accounting standards for nonprofit organizations (ASC Topic 958) changes how nonprofit organizations recognize revenue, talk about restrictions of gifts, and more. Katie talks about updates to Sage Intacct to help clients understand the changes, and prepare them to engage their staff and supporters in telling the full story of their sustainability, liquidity and more. Sage has additional resources available, including upcoming and recorded webinars from Sage to learn more.

Dan Schoenfeld is Vice President of Strategic Development at Fluxx Labs, "a network that powers giving in the world by connecting givers and changemakers to build capacity, increase visibility and improve collaboration." Fluxx is a Pledge 1% company (and listeners can learn more about that with our podcast episode with Ryan Martens), and has chosen to give back with the creation of Grantseeker, "a free online grants management tool that helps you create and manage tasks, track all of your grant applications and keep your whole team on the same page."

Dan joins host Steve Boland to talk about the origins of Grantseeker, how the tool leverages the development of Grantmaker, key functions like task assignments and views, and much more. Dan is also hosting a December 18 webinar for those wishing to learn more about measuring and telling your story.

Dr. Angel Diaz is the Vice President of Developer Technology, Open Source & Advocacy at IBM. IBM gathered partners for the Call for Code, "a worldwide, multi-year initiative that inspires developers to solve pressing global problems with sustainable software solutions."

Dr. Diaz joins host Steve Boland to talk about why IBM created Call for Code, how the Call reached non-governmental organizations and developers around the world, the decision to focus on helping in the wake of natural disasters, moving from a minimal viable solution to deploying technology solutions at scale in disasters and more. This year's winner is Project OWL, which helps restore communications using mesh networks deployed in disaster area. View the video of Project OWL here.