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Ep 42- Michael Thatcher | CEO of Charity Navigator (part 1)
04/30/2025
Ep 42- Michael Thatcher | CEO of Charity Navigator (part 1)
Part 1 of the interview with Michael Thatcher, CEO/President of Charity Navigator (rating over 225,000 charities), which helps millions of donors to align their passions and values to a charity. Michael shares how Charity Navigator leads the effort to make impactful philanthropy easier for everyone. He also discusses how his path forward, filled with a variety of experiences (whether at Microsoft, composing music and dancing as the co-founder/director of Dance Music Light, or years at sea conducting oceanographic research), ultimately led him to Charity Navigator. If you're thinking of giving to a charity/not-for-profit, please visit to research the organization, including their cost-effectiveness and overall health/stability and sustainability. Charity Navigator is a 501(c)(3) organization. Michael's part 2 episode, where we dive more into his personal experiences and story, will be released soon (ep 43). This episode is brought to you by Good Capital, a registered investment advisor focused on families, organizations and businesses that also want to plant seeds for future generations with a charitable component to them. Simplicity, a foundational wealth plan and investing for decades and generations, not days or quarters. Good People. Good Strategies. Good Capital. Visit , if this appeals to you. Follow us at and on Facebook, Instagram and Bluesky. *Special thanks for Sean Kelly and the band The Samples for permission to use "Streets in the Rain." Please support them at
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