Givers, Doers, & Thinkers—A Podcast on Philanthropy and Civil Society

This week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers , Jeremy speaks with Tim Kachuriak. Tim Kachuriak is the founder and Chief Innovation and Optimization Officer for NextAfter , a fundraising research lab and consulting firm that works with businesses, nonprofits, and NGOs to help them grow their resource capacity. Tim is also the co-founder and board member of Human Coalition and serves on several other...

Jeremy sits down with Helen Andrews this week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers . Helen Andrews is a senior editor at The American Conservative . She has worked at the Washington Examiner and National Review , and as a think tank researcher at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney, Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies from Yale University. Her work has appeared in The...

This week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers , Jeremy speaks with Brad Wilcox about how civil society affects our marriages and families for better or worse. Brad Wilcox is the Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia , Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia , Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies , and a Visiting Scholar at the American Enter...

Jeremy sits down with Kevin Youngblood this week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers . Kevin served during Desert Shield and Desert Storm and won eight medals. He was the mayor of Carl, Georgia, and has started several businesses, including Odysseyware , an educational software company focused on reaching at-risk students. Most recently, he helped Grand Canyon University launch their Canyon Ventures...

This week, Jeremy sits down with Elise Westhoff, President and CEO of The Philanthropy Roundtable . Elise has extensive experience in the world of fundraising, from working as the executive director of The Snider Foundation (2013-2020) to managing major gifts fundraising for neuroscience programs at the Indiana University School of Medicine (2009-2013) and developing a successful $500 million capi...

To kick off the second season of Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy sits down with Timothy P. Carney , a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he works on economic competition, cronyism, civil society, localism, and religion in America. He is concurrently the commentary editor at the Washington Examiner. Jeremy asks about Timothy’s latest book, “ Alienated America: Why Som...

This week is the tenth and final episode of Philanthropy Daily 's first season of Givers, Doers, & Thinkers. But don't fret, we'll be back with season two in February 2021!  Today, Jeremy speaks with historian and journalist Ben Soskis. He's been featured in the Washington Post , the Atlantic , the Guardian , New Yorker online, and is the co-editor of HistPhil , an online p...

This week, Jeremy speaks journalist and author Gracy Olmstead. She's written for The American Conservative , National Review , The Federalist , and The Washington Times , and elsewhere. Her new book is now available for pre-order Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind . Jeremy and Gracy discuss whether the trendy concept of localism has any real meaning, our need...

This week, Jeremy speaks with William B. Allen, Ph. D., Chief Operations Officer of Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) , Emeritus Dean of James Madison College and Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. Dr. Allen has also been a member of the Mackinac Center Board of Scholars since 1995. Dr. Allen discusses maintaining constitutional heritage, personal res...

 Don't miss the seventh episode of Philanthropy Daily 's podcast, Givers, Doers, & Thinkers !  This week, Jeremy speaks with Tom Riley, president of the Connelly Foundation in Philadelphia. Tom is a contributing editor to Philanthropy Magazine , and from 2001 to 2009, he was Associate Director of the White House Office of National Drug Policy. Tom shares the history of his grandparen...

This week, Jeremy speaks with Bill Kauffman, an American writer who has been featured in The American Conservative , the Wall Street Journal , Front Porch Republic , as well as various books on American civil society. Jeremy and Bill share their love of baseball, cultivating healthy communities, returning home, and the future of American politics.  You'll also hear from Iain Bernhoft , managi...

INTERVIEW  This week, Jeremy speaks with Garrett Johnson, co-founder and executive director at Lincoln Network . Garrett shares how government and technology have operated in “ separate silos ” rather than embracing the exciting opportunities that sit at the intersection of these two spheres. From his experience in government, it is clear that “ technologists and innovators play an important role...

INTERVIEW This week, Jeremy sits down with Patrick Deneen , author of Why Liberalism Failed , Professor of Political Science and Chair of the David A. Potenziani Memorial College Chair at the University of Notre Dame. Patrick specializes in the history of political thought, American political thought, religion and politics, and literature and politics. Jeremy and Patrick discuss why liberalism str...

INTERVIEW This week on the podcast, Jeremy speaks with Gabe Cooper, CEO at Virtuous Software , about what motivates donors to give, how much money is actually raised in the digital world, and how nonprofits can stop failing their donors by creating more personalized experiences . PRACTICALITIES You'll also hear from Matt Gerken , Managing Director at American Philanthropic and a frequent Phil...

INTERVIEW  This week, Jeremy speaks with T.K. Coleman on cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset, growing up as a preacher's kid in the west side of Chicago, and identifying your own creative power to strengthen civil society.  PRACTICALITIES  Nicole Rizkallah shares the worst advice anyone can give Gen-Z about the workforce and her recommendations for employers managing Gen-Z employees.  ___...

INTERVIEW  Jeremy speaks with Alicia Manning about her work at The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, how civil society is failing and where it is surprisingly robust, the importance of reciprocity in the world of philanthropy, and how she would advise a donor who wants to give away $20 million.  PRACTICALITIES  Chris Kuetemeyer shares three takeaways that every fundraiser working in major gifts...

Givers, Doers, and Thinkers introduces listeners to the fascinating people and important ideas at the heart of American civil society.  Join Jeremy Beer every Wednesday, starting September 9, 2020, for discussions with philanthropists, foundation leaders, reformers, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit executives, religious believers, historians, sociologists, philosophers, journalists, and anyone else...