The Catalytic Philanthropy Podcast
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It was a win-win solution, hiding in plain sight. Community colleges could serve more parents with young children if parents had easier access to affordable childcare. Head Start Centers, for their part, want to serve more families. Idea: If more community colleges could host Head Start Centers right on their campuses, eligible parents would have immediate access to free child care, colleges could better tap into a population of potential students, and Head Start centers could get free space and access to aspiring teachers. Abigail Seldin, founder of the Seldin/Haring-Smith Foundation, did what leanly staffed foundations are perfectly positioned to do - she saw the potential of a great idea and took the initiative to act on it. Abigail brought together the Association of Community College Trustees and the National Head Start Association, and engaged another small funder, the ECMC Foundation, to provide a modest but critical grant to design ways for more Head Start Centers to locate to community college campuses. The idea is already attracting enthusiastic support from community colleges, Head Start programs, Federal Government agencies, and other potential partners. In this podcast, Abigail explores how the idea and vision emerged, and the steps her small foundation took to help make it a reality.
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Abigail Seldin is CEO of the Seldin/Haring-Smith Foundation (SHSF). Under her leadership, SHSF seeded Kids on Campus, a new effort with the National Head Start Association and Association of Community College Trustees to relocate Head Start centers to community college campuses. At SHSF, Abigail also launched a partnership with Getty Images to create new stock photos of today’s college students and published new data on transit inaccessibility that has generated bipartisan legislation. Abigail co-founded and sold a tech start-up and studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
Abigail Seldin - Creative Philanthropy: Catalyzing a New Way to Help Parents Attend College - Part 2
SPECIAL EPISODE - Andy Carroll & Paul D. Daugherty Talk Catalytic Leadership in Philanthropy
Megan Oglesby & Joe Blosser - Catalyzing Job Creation by Supporting Our Region's Designers, Makers, and Creatives - Part 3
Megan Oglesby & Joe Blosser- Creating a Coworking Space Designed to Support Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses in Our City - Part 2
Megan Oglesby & Joe Blosser - How a Lean Foundation Does What Government and Business Cannot Do, to Spark Job Growth and Economic Development - Part 1
Angela Hult – We Funded a Data Survey to Count People with Disabilities. The Results Were Stunning, and Helped Our Partners Change the Policy Landscape - Part 2
Angela Hult – We Funded a Data Survey to Count People with Disabilities. The Results Were Stunning, and Helped Our Partners Change the Policy Landscape - Part 1
John Amoroso - Any Funder Can Support Issue Advocacy by Their Partners. A Step-By-Step Guide to Funding Advocacy and Engaging Your Board
Jennie Riley - How a Small Foundation Builds Communities’ Power to Advance Health Justice, by Supporting Advocacy, Organizing, and Civic Engagement - Part 2
Jennie Riley - How a Small Foundation Builds Communities’ Power to Advance Health Justice, by Supporting Advocacy, Organizing, and Civic Engagement - Part 1
Libby Kyles - Recognizing the Work of Community Leaders Who Dedicate Themselves to Social Justice Work, at Considerable Personal Expense
Dan Ely - ”Actions Speak Louder Than Words.” When We Uncovered that Enslaved African People Contributed to the Wealth of the Foundation, Our Board and Staff Did More Than Make Statements
Joey Borgogna - Embracing a More Powerful Role for Our Foundation - Using Our Position to Nurture Leaders and Build a Peer Learning Community Part 2
Joey Borgogna - Embracing a More Powerful Role for Our Foundation - Using Our Position to Nurture Leaders and Build a Peer Learning Community Part 1
Richelle Todd-Yamoah ─ ”Not Thinking Anything Was Too Big” - A Small Foundation Partners with a CDFI and the State to Nurture Businesses and Fill Transportation Gaps in a Struggling Region
Colleen O’Keefe ─ ”We Never Would Have Made This Impact by Relying on Grant Proposals.” How Listening and Building Relationships Allowed a Small Foundation to Catalyze Transformation - Part 2
Colleen O’Keefe ─ ”We Never Would Have Made This Impact by Relying on Grant Proposals.” How Listening and Building Relationships Allowed a Small Foundation to Catalyze Transformation - Part 1
Kimberly Quintero — How a Next Generation Influences Its Family to Embrace Environment, Social Justice as Integral to the Mission
Henry Rael — How a Small, Place-Based Foundation Was Instrumental in Catalyzing Investment in Native American Communities, in Ways Determined by the Communities Themselves Part 2
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