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Unfunded List Open Door Philanthropy

Unfunded List’s Open Door Philanthropy Podcast gathers philanthropists, entrepreneurs, and changemakers of all stripes. Hosted by Dave Moss, who founded Unfunded List in 2015 to help make sure that the next generation of changemakers get the feedback and recognition they need to be successful. Our mission is to demystify and open the door to private philanthropy for the general public while providing a platform for our guests to discuss their life’s work. Unfunded List reviews funding proposals twice annually from small and mid-size nonprofits and social impact startups. The 200+ philanthropy experts on our evaluation committee give helpful and candid feedback about each grant proposal’s weaknesses & strengths. Then we publish the best proposals to our list that we circulate to a rolodex of foundations and philanthropists in the hopes that we can find some funding and partnerships for these amazing unfunded proposals. Unfunded List is currently accepting proposals for our Spring 2019 evaluation round until March 15, 2019. We invite your org to join the Unfunded List awardees and 100+ other projects that our funding evaluators have given feedback to since 2015. Find out more and submit at www.unfundedlist.com.

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Season 4, Episode 4; John Ahmann, CEO, Westside Future Fund (ATL) Dec 13, 2021

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An interview with John Ahmann, CEO of the Westside Future Fund.

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Season 4, Episode 3; Aleah Bacquie Vaughn, ED, CJI Fund May 31, 2021

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Aleah is the executive director of CJI Fund and they have a co-review partnership with Unfunded List. Listen in to this long, wide-ranging interview with Dave that spans from Aleah's childhood, to her career in Africa advocating for the release of political prisoners, to her work with CJI Fund supporting incarceration justice here in the US.

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Season 4, Episode 1; Jay and Shira Ruderman, Ruderman Family Foundation May 03, 2021

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Jay and Shira Ruderman are a husband and wife who run a foundation created with the wealth of Jay's father Mort. The Ruderman Family Foundation has become synonymous with the cause of disability inclusion. In 2020, however, they decided to choose a new vanguard to fund and faced some public criticism for that decision. What are the expectations when a funder exits a field? What other causes out there are currently unfunded and unheard of? How can the champions of those causes approach family foundations? We talk about these questions and more in a wide ranging interview with this prolific husband and wife funding team.

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Season 4, Episode 2; Amanda Cage, CEO, National Fund for Workforce Solutions May 02, 2021

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In March of 2020 Amanda Cage became president and CEO of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions. A national coalition of grantmakers that includes family foundations as well as large companies provides the funds and Amanda oversees the work of distributing it where it can best help workers. Amanda's career includes stints as a labor organizer, jobs with several large foundations, helping to implement workforce solutions for the city of Chicago. Dave spoke to her at length about her work organizing funder collaboratives focused on workforce solutions. Enjoy.

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Challenges With Challenges - Evaluator Summit Feb 24, 2020

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What is the best way for well-known philanthropists to have social impact? Contests and challenges are not new but have become trendy of late in the world of philanthropy. Are these well-branded challenges great ways to identify grand solutions to social problems? What about the unfunded list of contestants? Are these contests fair and inclusive and available to everyone? Today we are fortunate to be joined by leaders in the field of contest philanthropy. They are here to share their knowledge and answer your questions. Moderator: Becky Lee, Becky's FundPanelists:Jeff Ubois, MacArthur Foundation's Lever for Change ChallengeAlex Amouyel, MIT's SOLVE ChallengeNancy Conrad, Conrad Foundation's Conrad ChallengeNOTE: About half way through the episode, the Sun was in Becky's eyes and it takes us all about 40 seconds to close the blinds. We considered editing it out, but instead hope that you enjoy this authentic, mid-panel moment.Also, as this was the last panel of the weekend, the battery on our recorder died during Q&A so we were unable too include all of the great questions asked.

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The Un - Founder Panel - Evaluator Summit Feb 24, 2020

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Founding a new organization has great potential for impact, but it is often more effective to join organizations that are established and already doing work that is important to you. No one is an island and even leaders and founders do not do the work in a vacuum. This panel focuses on ways to be involved -- through paid work or volunteerism -- with projects that you are passionate about without starting something from scratch. All of today's panelists, none of whom are founders, have had great impact with their respective organizations and have joined us today to talk about it.Moderator: Margaret Chapman, Unfunded ListPanelists:Anne Stauffer, Pew Charitable TrustsMarQuis Fair, Kaiser PermanenteElizabeth Franklin, Cancer Support Institute

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So, You Wanna Be A Founder? - Evaluator Summit Feb 24, 2020

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The Founder embodies a mythical role in modern society. But what's it like to be one? We found several great founders running impactful organizations who all happen to have the same advisor, Russ Finkelstein, and invited them to come talk to us about their experiences.Moderator: Russ Finkelstein of Idealist and ClearlyNextPanelists:Ross Morales Rocketto - RunForSomethingElle Hearns - Black Lives Matter and Marsha P. Johnston InstituteHannah Dehradunwala - TransfernationIvelyse Andino - Radical Health

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Special Episode: Nada Zohdy from Open Gov Hub Jan 20, 2020

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Unfunded List has an office! We are members of a coworking space focused on open government, accountability and transparency called OpenGov Hub in Washington, DC. We have just completed our first full year in the Hub and it's been great. Our favorite moment so far has undoubtedly been the opportunity to sit down with Nada Zohdy for a special episode of Open Door Philanthropy. Nada Zohdy joined the OpenGov Hub in September 2015. As Director she oversees all strategy, operations, and programs for this growing social enterprise, and leads the design and implementation of programs to promote collaboration, innovation and learning across the Hub network of 40 member organizations. In 2015 she received a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she was a Pforzheimer Nonprofit Fellow and focused on linking democracy/governance with social entrepreneurship/innovation. Nada was a consultant for the OECD through her applied Master's thesis, which analyzed the opinions of 100 local civil society groups about open government reforms in Tunisia. She also performed research on nonprofit collaborations, published by the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

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Introduction Jan 19, 2020

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Unfunded List founder Dave Moss interviews his father, a U.S. Cultural Historian, about the history of Philanthropy in America. Richard J. Moss (aka Pete Moss), was the John and Cornelia Gibson Professor of History at Colby College, where he taught U.S. History and American Studies for close to three decades. A cultural historian, he is the author of two biographies of the post-revolutionary figures Noah Webster and Jedidiah Morse. Later in his career, he became interested in the history of sport and leisure and authored two books on golf and country clubs. He also wrote Eden in the Pines, a history of Pinehurst, North Carolina, his current home. He earned his doctorate at MichiganState University in 1974. At Colby, his courses on American culture — particularly in the late 19th century — dealt substantially with philanthropy as an important aspect of American life.

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"Some philanthropists hire professionals. Should they?" Jan 19, 2020

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Unfunded List founder Dave Moss interviews his father, a U.S. Cultural Historian, about the history of Philanthropy in America. Richard J. Moss (aka Pete Moss), was the John and Cornelia Gibson Professor of History at Colby College, where he taught U.S. History and American Studies for close to three decades. A cultural historian, he is the author of two biographies of the post-revolutionary figures Noah Webster and Jedidiah Morse. Later in his career, he became interested in the history of sport and leisure and authored two books on golf and country clubs. He also wrote Eden in the Pines, a history of Pinehurst, North Carolina, his current home. He earned his doctorate at MichiganState University in 1974. At Colby, his courses on American culture — particularly in the late 19th century — dealt substantially with philanthropy as an important aspect of American life.

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