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World’s Leading Charity Auctioneer Reveals Secrets to Billion-Dollar Fundraising Success
Lydia Fenet, the world’s leading charity auctioneer, shares her expertise on maximizing fundraising impact through effective auctioneering. She highlights the importance of confidence, timing, and audience engagement, advocating for personalized auctions tailored to the specific cause. Lydia also reveals how strategic use of silence can prompt bidding, emphasizing that careful planning and a wellexecuted approach are key to transforming a good auction into a successful one.
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When Disasters Strike: How Airbnb.org is Changing the Game in Emergency Housing
Christoph Gorder is the executive director of Airbnb.org. Launched in 2020, the organization builds on the spirit of hospitality initiated by Airbnb hosts. They have provided free emergency stays to over 220,000 people, displaced by crises, including natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies. Christoph brings decades of experience from his tenure at charity: water and AmeriCares, where he led significant global humanitarian initiatives.
Revolutionizing Tech Learning: How CodePath Fuses Industry Needs with Academic Rigor
Michael Ellison is the CEO and Co-founder of CodePath, a nonprofit reprogramming higher education to create a diverse generation of engineers, CTOs, and founders. CodePath offers industry-vetted courses and career support for Black, Latino and Latina, indigenous and low-income students, empowering them in tech careers.
Navigating Leadership Transitions: Insights from Josh Wright and Bridgette Gray of ideas42
Often overlooked and underappreciated are the intricacies of a successful CEO transition. Today, we’re joined by Josh Wright, the outgoing CEO of ideas42, and Bridgette Gray, the incoming CEO. With their combined insights, we’ll explore the challenges and strategies involved in ensuring a smooth leadership change in a nonprofit organization. Josh has led ideas42 through significant growth and impact, while Bridgette brings a fresh perspective and a wealth of experience to her new role. Together, they’ll share their experiences, plans, and advice on making a CEO transition, not just a change in leadership, but an opportunity for renewal and progress.
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The Art of Fearless Fundraising: Masterclass Insights from Lydia Fenet
Lydia Fenet, the world’s leading charity auctioneer, shares her expertise on maximizing fundraising impact through effective auctioneering. She highlights the importance of confidence, timing, and audience engagement, advocating for personalized auctions tailored to the specific cause. Lydia also reveals how strategic use of silence can prompt bidding, emphasizing that careful planning and a wellexecuted approach are key to transforming a good auction into a successful one.
CodePath: Reshaping Tech Education and Workforce Diversity
As the CEO and co-founder of CodePath, Michael Ellison is on a mission to revolutionize higher education and create a more diverse generation of tech leaders. His journey to this point has been shaped by personal experiences and a deep understanding of the challenges facing underrepresented students in the tech industry.
Airbnb.org: Empowering Hosts to Provide Emergency Housing
Airbnb.org is a nonprofit that provides emergency housing for people displaced by crises worldwide. Founded after Hurricane Sandy in 2012, it has housed over 220,000 people in 134 countries. Executive Director Christoph Gorder discusses their challenges and successes, including housing 130,000 Ukrainian refugees. The organization partners with over 100 groups globally to assist vulnerable cases. Its funding combines host generosity and public donations, with Airbnb covering operating costs. Gorder aims for Airbnb.org to become the primary platform for temporary emergency housing, leveraging Airbnb’s community of 5 million hosts and 100 million guests for humanitarian purposes.
Latest The Paths Forward Segments
Nurturing Excellence and Equity: Insights from the Vera Institute of Justice
For this edition we are going to visit team members at the Vera Institute of Justice. Their mission is to end the overcriminalization and mass incarceration of people of color, immigrants, and people experiencing poverty.
Cultivating Wellbeing: The VillageReach Story of Transforming Healthcare and Workplace Culture
Today we’ll be visiting team members of VillageReach. VillageReach works with the government to solve healthcare delivery challenges in low-resource communities. It is a global organization with offices in Seattle, Washington, Nairobi, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and DRC.
Noora Health’s Unique Approach: How ‘Doing the Needful’ Transforms Nonprofit Success
Noora Health seeks to improve outcomes and strengthen health systems by equipping family members with the skills they need to care for their loved ones. They envision a world where patients and their caregivers are a core component of healthcare delivery, and family member training is a standard of care.
SPEAKING, MODERATING & COACHING
A key differentiator of the highest performing nonprofits is their belief in Executive Coaching…and not just for the senior staff but for people throughout the organization. Not only is it transformative for the individual but for the whole organization. A “coaching culture” is becoming synonymous with places people thrive and want to stay.
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“Take Five” with Jim Firman, President and CEO of National Council on Aging (NCOA)
Denver: We're going to play Take Five with Jim Firman, the President and CEO of NCOA. Are you ready to go, Jim? Jim: I’m ready to go. Denver: What is one of your favorite documentaries or movies? Jim: King of Hearts. Denver: What should we as a society be...
“Take Five” with Dr. Neal Barnard, Author of Your Body in Health and Founder of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
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“Take Five” with Lindsay Firestone Gruber, President and CEO of Taproot Foundation
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ABOUT DENVER
Radio Show Host, Speaker, Moderator & Executive Coach
Denver Frederick is the Host of The Business of Giving.
Each week he interviews nonprofit CEOs, corporate leaders, philanthropists and social entrepreneurs on the solutions that they are working on and investing in to make this a better world.
Denver is a Certified Professional Coach for leaders in the social sector. He is also a sought-after speaker on how to create healthy and robust corporate cultures in nonprofit organizations.