Scaling Social Impact: Insights From Donald Summers On Accelerating Nonprofit Growth
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we sit down with Donald Summers to discuss his latest book, Scaling Altruism: A Proven Pathway for Accelerating Nonprofit Growth and Impact. As the Founder and CEO of Altruist Partners, Donald and his firm have spearheaded over one hundred successful accelerations for nonprofits and social enterprises – from local to global levels, across education, human services, health, environmental reform, and public media sectors…
Are you ready to gain practical guidance on how to turn nonprofit organizations into social problem-solving machines? Whether you are a funder or a graduate student aspiring to work in the nonprofit space, this conversation is sure to provide you with invaluable insights and actionable strategies to facilitate exciting social change efforts.
Jump in now to explore:
- How Donald became interested in nonprofit work.
- How to use amoral tools for good.
- What makes an organization nonprofit.
- Why scaling enterprises is so challenging.
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| 0:30.0 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | That is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast and the Good Question Podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | My guess today, I think promises to be very interesting. Genius Podcast and The Good Question Podcast. |
| 0:42.8 | My guess today, I think promises to be very interesting. |
| 0:45.4 | Donald Summers is an author of a new book called Scaling Altruism, a proven pathway |
| 0:50.9 | for accelerating non-profit growth and impact. |
| 0:53.7 | So welcome to Donald. |
| 0:54.8 | Thanks for having me on the show, Rich. |
| 0:56.4 | Glad to be here. |
| 0:57.2 | Yeah, I'm really curious about this subject because non-profits, |
| 1:00.7 | I would think the public thinks all kinds of strange things about them and the reality is probably very very different |
| 1:06.4 | So I'm looking forward to learning what the reality is of of nonprofits and how hard it is to run them and and grow them. |
| 1:12.5 | So, you know, thanks for coming again. |
| 1:14.0 | Glad to be here and I'm still learning but delighted to share what the last 25 years in the space of |
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