The Hive Collective Podcast: Shifting Power in Nonprofits

The Global Fund for Women is enabling Black feminist organizations to get a greater foothold in the philanthropy space by providing fiscal sponsorship. In this episode, Beth Ellen interviews Shonda Brooks from Global Fund for Women and Lori Robinson from VidaAfrolatina. VidaAfrolatina is sponsored by the Global Fund for Women and is bringing light to people who are Afro-descendent in Latin America, the invisibilization that has been occurring for centuries, and the sexual abuse that is associated happens when a population is unseen. Check out The Hive Collective for adaptive strategic planning that guides your culture!Don't forget to subscribe to The Unlimited Nonprofit!

Women's Earth Alliance has a unique triple co-director leadership model that reflects their organizational culture as an ecosystem that adapts, responds, supports, and cares. They don't just shift power. They redistribute it, mold it and turn it into something that draws people in. Get to know Kahea Pacheco, Melinda Ruth Kramer, and Amira Diamond who have been leading WEA for over a decade.Women's Earth Alliance  empowers women and girls to become leaders and change makers in their communities. They work to achieve environmental sustainability social justice and human rights.Check out The Hive Collective for adaptive strategic planning that guides your culture!Don't forget to subscribe to The Unlimited Nonprofit!

 Beth Ellen Holimon interviews Topher Wilkins who has been bringing people together in community for many years through Opportunity Collaboration. This global community of changemakers comes together once a year, and now more often, to support each other in building sustainable solutions for ending poverty and injustice. Topher is a true visionary and will share with us the power shifting transition Opportunity Collaboration has been undertaking. He'll also share with us a personal project he is participating in called Lunar University. Find the visual Topher mentions here.Check out The Hive Collective for adaptive strategic planning that guides your culture!Don't forget to subscribe to The Unlimited Nonprofit!

Episode 3 features Jill Lalonde, executive director of OneVillage Partners working in Sierra Leone, and Harriet Spears, leading partnerships for Women's Global Education Project.  With podcast host Beth Ellen Holimon, they discuss community-centric fundraising and its role in fundraising for international organizations, how to engage your board in shifting power, and the hard questions we have to ask ourselves as leaders when shifting power. Check out The Hive Collective for adaptive strategic planning that guides your culture!Don't forget to subscribe to The Unlimited Nonprofit!

Beth Ellen interviews Alison Carlman about how her Global Giving team recently stopped one of their seemingly successful programs cold because it was not achieving their equity goals fast enough. They used human-centered design to co-create a new model that is more equitable and so much more. You are gonna want to hear this!Check out The Hive Collective for adaptive strategic planning that guides your culture!Don't forget to subscribe to The Unlimited Nonprofit!

Travis Ning is the former ED of  MAIA Impact. MAIA Impact is redefining the word school and rural Guatemala through a holistic educational model with an equal focus on academics, culture, and identity creating a generation of empowered girl pioneers. We always say that in mission-driven organizations we want to work ourselves out of a job.  Travis Ning, former ED of MAIA Impact, has achieved that .  MAIA Impact's work is still needed and relevant, but their goal has always been to develop Mayan leaders to take the program on.  Having Mayan leadership direct the program means the leaders are now proximate to the problems they are trying to solve. They have successfully transitioned leadership to two extraordinary Mayan women and we are going to talk to Travis about he got there. Check out The Hive Collective for adaptive strategic planning that guides your culture!Don't forget to subscribe to The Unlimited Nonprofit!