In-Kind Chaos

Tia's got the closet key this week. In this episode, hosts Tia McLaurin and Ashlea Hitchcock-Francis open an InKinder confession about a workplace trans-inclusion training that went sideways before it ever started. The guest speaker handled it with the utmost grace. The irony did not. Anonymous nonprofit and NGO workplace confessions, unfiltered. Got nonprofit chaos? Submit your story anonymou...

Someone found out something about their boss they were never supposed to know. The problem: their boss is also dating their family member. In this episode, Ashlea Hitchcock-Francis tells the confession live to Tia McLaurin — and the dilemma is one some nonprofit and NGO workers know all too well: what do you do when workplace politics and family loyalty collide? What do you do with information lik...

Someone showed up to their university TA shift and immediately knew it was going to be that kind of day. In this episode, host Tia McLaurin opens an anonymous confession from the higher education nonprofit world — because universities are nonprofits too, and the chaos doesn't discriminate. Drunk professors, dry ice, and the specific exhaustion of being the most competent person in a room that&...

The morning before a major international donation meeting, someone found out their Executive Director was suddenly, unexpectedly unavailable. No warning. No handoff. Just chaos. In this episode, Ashlea Hitchcock-Francis and Tia McLaurin react in real time to an anonymous confession about leadership absence at the worst possible moment — the kind of crisis that nonprofit program staff know all too...

Someone showed up to work one day and discovered a 1,300-message backlog — and nobody noticed. In this debut episode, hosts Ashlea Hitchcock-Francis and Tia McLaurin open the first anonymous nonprofit confession: a story about what happens when understaffing, chronic underfunding, and organizational chaos collide in the most avoidable way possible. If you've ever inherited someone else's m...

A nonprofit volunteer agreed to cover a shift — and walked into something no orientation could have prepared them for. In this episode, hosts Ashlea Hitchcock-Francis and Tia McLaurin unpack an anonymous confession about what happens when organizations rely on volunteers to fill gaps that full-time staff couldn't handle. Closed-toe shoes were the least of the problems. If you've ever been...

The supply closet is officially open. If you've ever worked in a nonprofit, NGO, or CBO , you know there are two versions of every story. The one that makes it into the staff meeting — and the one that lives in the supply closet forever. In-Kind Chaos is the podcast for the second version. And in case you're wondering about the name: in-kind donations are the goods, services, and resources...