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Hosted by Adam Jeske · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 21 episodes
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Nonprofit CEOs carry decisions they can't fully discuss with their board, their team, or their peers. So they carry them alone. Each week, Adam Jeske, The Nonprofit CEO Advisor, sits down with a nonprofit CEO to go inside the decisions they carry: the agonizing restructure, the wonky board dynamic, the moment that defined their tenure. Adam has been in over 230 of these conversations. The patterns are striking and valuable. This podcast surfaces them so you can lead with the perspective most CEOs never get. For weekly patterns, synthesis, and peer intelligence between episodes, subscribe to The Nonprofit CEO Briefing at nonprofitCEO.com.
Adam Jeske hosts The Nonprofit CEO Podcast, a business show with 21 episodes published.
World Hope had run a child sponsorship program for 30 years. Jenn Petersen was one year into her CEO tenure. The program was declining, the administrative lift was high, and it was no longer serving donors, field teams,
Dan Vogel spent months building a partnership with a large institutional funder. Flourish Fund was barely a year old, still in startup mode, without a stable base of funding. The money would have been meaningful, and the
Ann Graber Hershberger spent nearly four decades connected to Mennonite Central Committee before she led it: first as a worker in Nicaragua and El Salvador, then through years of board service, alongside a 33-year career
Ted Esler launched a partially self-funded health insurance program for the staff of Missio Nexus member organizations. It grew from zero to $22 million in about 18 months. Then COVID arrived. Claims went quiet while peo
A member publicly demanded to know where the Alliance to End Hunger stood on the Gaza conflict. Half of Eric Mitchell's coalition supported one side. Half supported the other. Silence was its own answer. He held off as l
Michael Wear had a clear vision for the Center for Christianity and Public Life: deep formation work, deep investment in cohorts of twelve to sixteen fellows, commitments measured in years. Some potential funders kept po
Joanna Taft proposed starting a charter high school out of the arts nonprofit she was leading. She had no background in education. Her artists were leaving Indianapolis because nobody was buying their work, and she decid
Myal Greene inherited an organization with a mission statement that everyone loved. World Relief had run on that mission statement for fifteen years. Internal staff admired it. External donors knew it. Myal knew it neede
Nicole Martin is five and a half months into leading Christianity Today. The prayer she keeps coming back to: "God, please don't let me break this!" She began leading a 70-year-old organization founded by Billy Graham, a
Phil Ryken had believed for years that Wheaton College's signature orientation program should be required for every new student. The research was there, and he saw what it could mean for Wheaton. But that meant scaling a
Eugene Cho started at Bread for the World two days before the COVID lockdown. In his first week, a tweet of his went viral, landing in the Washington Post. He had to figure out how to lead and how to speak, in real time.
Everything was up and to the right. Hope International had just received an award for innovating in a post-conflict setting. Peter Greer the biggest champion of more. Then the cracks started to show. Peter had to stop, o
On March 12, 2020, Tami Heim learned the governor had shut down public gatherings in Texas. The Outcomes Conference was weeks away. And she was facing the possibility that Christian Leadership Alliance was, in her words,
In one month, CEO Bill Simmons shipped more than 15 working applications and 70,000 lines of code to his team, without adding a single software license or outside developer. He did it with about $25,000 in internal time,
Jody Levison-Johnson had a big idea and had to decide whether to bet her organization's resources on it. A film was coming out that could either quietly fade or become an inflection point for how the country thinks about
Curtis Chang set out to build a nonprofit nobody would ever know by name. He wanted Good Faith to be like Target: the store as the brand, not the founder. Four years later, Curtis, David French, and Russell Moore were at
Andy Crouch uses a framework from Peter Greer to name a structural problem with honest at the heart of many nonprofits. It's the stakeholder gap, and he argues it creates built-in incentives to not tell the whole truth a
Olivia Mulerwa spent months carrying a decision she couldn't talk about with anyone who didn't already have a stake in the outcome. She needed to have a hard conversation with a beloved board member. The rest of the boar
Dr. Jennifer Holloran walked into her first board meeting as CEO of American Bible Society and left with a $5 million crisis and a collapsing timeline, with no peers she could call. This conversation covers that decision
On this episode of The Nonprofit CEO Podcast, hosts Adam Jeske and Krish Kandiah dive into the complex, consequential decisions that shape nonprofit leadership. Krish Kandiah, founder of the Sanctuary Foundation and a ke
Nicole Martin
assistant research professor in dairy foods microbiology · Christianity Today
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Philip Ryken
theological scholar · 10th - Tenth Presbyterian Church (PCA)
1 appearance on this show
Eugene Cho
President and CEO · Bread for the World
1 appearance on this show
Peter Greer
Author, “Lead With Prayer” · HOPE International
1 appearance on this show
Bill Simmons
President and CEO · Hope Rises, International
1 appearance on this show
Russell Moore
Bluegrass singer and guitarist · Christianity Today
1 appearance on this show
Curtis Chang
consulting professor at Duke Divinity School, Senior Fellow at Fuller Theological Seminary · Good Faith
1 appearance on this show
David French
New York Times columnist, co-host of Advisory Opinions and The Dispatch Podcast · Christmas 4 Kids
1 appearance on this show
Andy Crouch
Partner for Theology and Culture, Praxis
1 appearance on this show
Phil Buchanan
President · Center for Effective Philanthropy
1 appearance on this show
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