Proof of Impact

The Foundation That's Giving It All Away | Stephanie Sauer, Sauer Family Foundation

Most foundations are built to last forever. The Sauer Family Foundation decided to do the opposite. Started in 1996 as a 30th-anniversary gift between Stephanie Sauer&ap

Urgency Without Being Hurried | Chanda Smith Baker, President & CEO of the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Chanda Smith Baker leads the largest community foundation in Minnesota — nearly $2 billion in charitable assets, more than 9,000 grants a year — and she came to the role

You Don't Win by Looking Needy | Steve Grove, CEO of The Minnesota Star Tribune

Steve Grove left a career in Silicon Valley to come home and take on one of the hardest jobs in American media: leading a nearly 160-year-old newspaper into a future it i

Is Gun Violence Actually Solvable? | Maggie Emery, Protect Minnesota

Maggiy Emery leads Protect Minnesota, the only statewide, independent gun violence prevention organization in the state. Her work sits at the intersection of the most con

All Victories Are Temporary | Chris Knopf, Friends of the Boundary Waters

"All victories are temporary, and every defeat is permanent." That's how Chris Knopf describes the fight to protect one of Minnesota's most beloved places. As

Why Nonprofits Need to Stop Being Afraid of Ambition | Jazz Hampton

Since posting, Jazz has stepped down as CEO of TurnSignl. -- Jazz Hampton has sat in every seat that shapes how a community solves its problems: as a nonprofit board me

What We Lose When We Lose Restaurants | Stephanie March and Tracy Dyer, Salt Cure Fund

When Operation Metro Surge swept the Twin Cities last winter, the restaurant industry was hit first and hardest, but they stayed quiet about it, because hospitality'

When Did Scarcity Become a Virtue?

Welcome to Proof of Impact. In this debut episode, host Elizabeth Kitzenberg lays out the case for why this show exists, and why the nonprofit sector is overdue for a dif