745: The OSF Celebrates and Reviews 2016

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2017

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

In this episode John Dehlin (OSF Chief Executive Officer, Board Member) and Craig Woodfield (OSF Board Member, Finance Committee Chair) review the successes of the Open Stories Foundation for 2016. Items discussed include:

The OSF's longstanding commitment to financial transparency.
The incredible growth of OSF podcasts in 2016.
The emergence and success of a new retreats/workshops initiative to support Mormons experiencing a religious transition.
A review of the newly released financial statements.
Compensation of OSF staff and OSF podcasters.
A discussion of the Mormon Transitions project.

SUPER grateful for all the questions submitted by OSF donors and listeners.

Please email any additional questions to: openstoriesboard@gmail.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Mormon Stories is a production of the Open Stories Foundation and relies solely upon the support of people like you, its listeners.
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0:19.0	All contributions to Mormon Stories are completely tax deductible and go towards producing the podcast and building communities and programs of support for Mormons like you.
0:29.0	Thanks for your support.
0:32.0	The Conglue Light Amidth Insurcling Glue
0:43.0	Leigh Thou Meon, The Night is Dark and I am Far From Home.
0:53.0	Hello everyone and welcome to a special edition of Mormon Stories Podcast.
0:57.0	Brought to you by the Open Stories Foundation. I'm your host John DeLin. It's May 25th, 2017.
1:03.0	And we are very excited to release this episode. This episode is going to be as we do most years.
1:12.0	We're going to be talking about a year in review. We're going to be talking about 2016 to coincide with the release of our financial reports this year.
1:20.0	And we're also going to be talking about a lot of exciting things that happened both in 2016 and in the first quarter of 2017.
1:30.0	And just to be candid, we've had a ton of interest in questions in the OSF.
1:34.0	And I'm just going to say flat out, we love interest, we love feedback, we love questions, we even love constructive criticism.
1:43.0	I will say that transparency has been our value from day one. From the very first year, we started publishing our financial statements at the end of each year.
1:53.0	We've done that every year since. I've talked openly about my salary and other things. And I just want to say at the outset, that's always been a core value of ours.
2:01.0	I've tried to do these annual reviews whenever we had time and there was something to say. And to talk about the future.
2:07.0	So I'm excited to do it again. I think this is definitely the best year in a quarter we've ever had.
2:14.0	So there's a ton of cool things to say. So thanks to everyone who's given us questions and comments and suggestions and even, even respectful criticism.
2:23.0	All that helps us be better. Just to give a tiny bit of history.
2:27.0	For those who don't know, the Open Stories Foundation, papers were filed for it in 2010 during my second year of graduate school.
2:33.0	And I think starting around 2011, we were sort of up and running as an official nonprofit.
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