Nonprofit Espresso

Host Bryce Lord discusses arts advocacy and post-Covid recovery in this episode with Anne Katz, Executive Director of Create Wisconsin, Wisconsin’s community cultural development organization.

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This week,  Milwaukee Children's Choir Executive Director, Bill Busch, joins host Bryce Lord to discuss connecting children with music during the coronavirus lockdown. We'll also learn how this well-established arts organization could pivot and keep fulfilling its mission "to provide exceptional choral music education and performance experiences that foster creativity, personal expression and social growth."

• Viral Tunes: Changes in musical behaviours and interest in coronamusic predict socio-emotional coping during COVID-19 lockdown 
• We Are the Art - Milwaukee Children's Choir Lyric Chorale
• What the World Needs Now - Combined Choirs and Special Guests

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In this week's Single Shot, host Bryce Lord weighs in on the Great Resignation and its meaning for the nonprofit sector.  

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Beth Ridley of Ridley Consultants joins Bryce to talk about the fundamentals of DEI and the steps to take to ensure a culture of belonging in the workplace.

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Nonprofit Espresso returns with a new look, new sound, and a new format.

This week, host Bryce Lord looks into the proposed Nonprofit Sector Strength and Partnership Act of 2022 and what it offers for the U.S. social sector.

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With the publication of the 2019 Wisconsin Civic Health Index this past summer, Wisconsin joins 30 other U.S. states in measuring civic health. In this episode, Mary Beth Collins, Executive Director of the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies (CommNS) at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, joins me to discuss the importance of tracking civic engagement and its implications this report has on Wisconsin. We also learn about the path that brought Mary Beth to lead such a thriving focal point for Wisconsin's nonprofit communities. 

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In this episode, Bryce talks with Tony Shields, the outspoken and passionate President & CEO of the Wisconsin Philanthropy Network (WPN). As the leader of an organization supporting foundations, giving programs, and individual donors across Wisconsin, he gives us insight into how philanthropy has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tony also takes us along his personal and professional journey to lead an organization with statewide impact.

Bryce also looks into WPN's biannual report Wisconsin Gives 2020, providing a better understanding of just how funding gets distributed around the state and where the support is focused.

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In this episode, I’m joined by Malkia Stampley-Johnson, a Milwaukee-born actress with a career on stage, TV, and film. We'll get the scoop on her involvement in two separate initiatives in Milwaukee to expand awareness of and opportunities for artists of color, both on- and off-stage – Bronzeville Arts Ensemble and Milwaukee Black Theater Festival.

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Bryce sits down with Kim O'Brien, Executive Director of the Nonprofit Leadership Initiative in Appleton, WI to discuss providing the necessary resources for leadership development to nonprofits in the Fox Valley region of Wisconsin. Along the way, we discover that we have similar goals, responsibilities, and more.

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In this episode, I'm joined by Katie Cummings, Founder and Executive Director of Pink Umbrella Theater Company. Aside from catching up after a long time, we discuss her work in providing theater education for children and adults with a variety of neuro-diverse issues.

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