Nonprofit Finance Fund

A nonprofit lender and consultant with 40 years of national and hyperlocal experience, NFF helps mission-driven organizations adapt, thrive, and drive positive change.

What We’ve Learned and How We’re Changing with Jessica LaBarbera & Annie Chang 08/02/2021

What We’ve Learned and How We’re Changing with Jessica LaBarbera & Annie Chang We’ve increasingly recognized our blind spots around racial inequities in the way outcomes-based funding was envisioned and too frequently plays out. We’ll look at what we’ve learned and how we’re changing so that money, power, and decision rights are centered in those communities – largely communities of color – that have been systematically disconnected from wealth. /episode/index/show/nffpodcast/id/19981865

Understanding Rules and Rituals with Zia Khan 07/19/2021

Understanding Rules and Rituals with Zia Khan In this episode, Zia Khan, Vice President, Initiatives and Strategy at The Rockefeller Foundation, highlights the need to recognize and understand rules and rituals in order to spur change, especially when it comes to achieving and measuring outcomes. Since recording this podcast, Zia has a new role: Senior Vice President for Innovation. This segment was recorded at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on June 5, 2017. /episode/index/show/nffpodcast/id/19858166

Investing in Health, Not Just Healthcare with Tyler Norris 07/19/2021

Investing in Health, Not Just Healthcare with Tyler Norris In this episode, Tyler Norris, Chief Executive of Well Being Trust, makes the case that in order to improve the health of the country, it is going to take a comprehensive strategy that includes a significant investment of resources, as well as changes in policy. This segment was recorded at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC on September 12, 2017.  /episode/index/show/nffpodcast/id/19858160

Four Steps to Creating True Impact with Lisa Fitzpatrick 07/19/2021

Four Steps to Creating True Impact with Lisa Fitzpatrick Lisa Fitzpatrick, former Senior Medical Director for DC Department of Healthcare Finance, gives the four steps to creating true impact: engage communities, tailor services, incentivize partners, and shift culture. Lisa is the founder and CEO of Grapevine Health, which creates engaging and entertaining health content for underserved and under-resourced communities. This segment was recorded at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC on September 12, 2017. /episode/index/show/nffpodcast/id/19858151

Cooperation, Collaboration, and Change with Kristine Alvarez 07/19/2021

Cooperation, Collaboration, and Change with Kristine Alvarez In this episode, Kristine Alvarez, Director, Advisory Services at Nonprofit Finance Fund explores how successfully measuring outcomes is going to require cooperation, collaboration, and change from nonprofits, philanthropy, government, investors, and private donors. This segment was recorded at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia on May 22, 2019. /episode/index/show/nffpodcast/id/19858148

The Power of Philanthropy with Fred Blackwell 07/19/2021

The Power of Philanthropy with Fred Blackwell Join San Francisco Foundation CEO Fred Blackwell in conversation with David Erickson of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Weingart Foundation President and CEO Fred Ali, as they highlight the role of power within the philanthropic sector and explore the need for philanthropy to partner with local government in order to create systems change. This segment was recorded at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on June 13, 2017. /episode/index/show/nffpodcast/id/19858130

The Nonprofit Funding Model Is Broken with Fred Ali 07/19/2021

The Nonprofit Funding Model Is Broken with Fred Ali Fred Ali, then President and CEO of Weingart Foundation, in conversation with Fred Blackwell, CEO of The San Francisco Foundation and David Erickson of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, explains how unrestricted operating support from funders is critical to helping nonprofits engage clients and communities, create better infrastructure, and ultimately become more effective organizations. This segment was recorded at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on June 13, 2017.  /episode/index/show/nffpodcast/id/19858121

Lessons From a Randomized Control Trial with Eshauna Smith 07/19/2021

Lessons From a Randomized Control Trial with Eshauna Smith In this episode, Eshauna Smith, CEO of Urban Alliance, discusses what it takes for nonprofits to administer randomized control trial studies as a means of measuring outcomes, while also trying to continue delivering immediate services to their communities. Since recording this podcast, Eshauna has left Urban Alliance. This segment comes from an Invest in Results event recorded at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC on September 12, 2017. /episode/index/show/nffpodcast/id/19858115

Creating Space for Trust with Darren Walker 07/19/2021

Creating Space for Trust with Darren Walker Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, joins Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund, and Andrew Plepler, global head of ESG at Bank of America, in a conversation about the steps Ford Foundation has taken to build trust with their grantees and provide them with the flexibility, time, and resources to do their work. This segment was recorded at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on June 5, 2017. /episode/index/show/nffpodcast/id/19858103

Introducing the Invest in Results Podcast 07/19/2021

Introducing the Invest in Results Podcast What would happen if a homeless shelter were given funding, not for the number of people who slept in the shelter every night (which is an output), but instead for the number of people they helped secure and keep permanent housing so they were no longer unhoused (which is an outcome)? Thinking about outcomes shifts our mentality from funding based on short-term metrics to funding based on long-term, meaningful results. /episode/index/show/nffpodcast/id/19858070

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