Today's Five-Star Guest is grant-writing expert Rachel Waterman.Rachel Waterman has over 25 years of community development and grant writing experience, is Grant Professional Certified (GPC), a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE), a Grant Professionals Association (GPA) Approved Trainer, and an expert in grant management. She holds a Master’s degree in community and economic development with…

Today's Five-Star Guest is Lori Van Dusen, Founder & CEO of LVW Advisors.  Lori Van Dusen, CIMA®, is the Founder and CEO of LVW Advisors, a registered investment advisory firm that serves both wealthy families and individuals, as well as nonprofit institutions throughout the United States. An advocate of client-focused strategies for more than 25…

Today's Five-Star Guest is Dan Wagner, Founder & CEO of Civis Analytics. The Civis team is full of the best and brightest minds, from former particle physicists to seasoned corporate strategists. They’ve worked on election campaigns, at CERN, and in Antarctica. They accept that we don’t know everything, but they pursue the truth relentlessly. They…

Today's Five-Star Guest is Anne Vela-Wagner, Executive Director of the Mars Wrigley Foundation. The Mars Wrigley Foundation’s mission is to nurture wellbeing to improve lives and inspire happiness in our communities. They also realize people face very real challenges to their happiness and wellbeing. From addressing a lack of oral health education affecting children and…

Today's Five-Star Guest is Joey Goone, President of Utopia Experience.  What is Utopia Experience? Founded in 2002, Utopia is a proud family owned and operated business. Whether they’re producing multinational conferences for Fortune 100 companies, helping nonprofit organizations rethink how they bring people together through fundraisers, or creating video content to help businesses build brand…

Today's Five-Star Guest is Ann Lee of Los Angeles-based disaster relief organization, CORE.   Co-founded by Ann and actor Sean Penn, CORE is a crisis response organization that brings immediate aid and recovery to underserved communities across the globe. CORE’s ongoing global efforts to save lives and empower communities in and beyond devastating crises. Donate to CORE: …

Today's Five-Star Guest is Chase Harmer,  Founder of Wishes–an innovative payment system for nonprofits  More About Chase: Chase Bio More About Wishes: http://www.wishes.inc Connect with Chase on LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chase-harmer-657a5b5/Get on our waiting list for our new nonprofit & fundraising community filled with on-demand courses and live webinars that are exclusive to members! Learn all about…

Today's Five-Star Guest is Rowan Vansleve of HopetheMission.org.  Rowan currently serves as the President of Hope the Mission, he first worked for Hope in 2010. He leads the day to day operations of the Mission and its long term strategic vision. He is responsible for the Mission’s financial stability, personnel, communications, fundraising, media engagement and…

Today's Five-Star Guest is Beth Ridley, Leadership & Workplace Culture Expert. Beth is a former corporate executive turned organizational transformation consultant, speaker and author. She combines her 25 years of global leadership and management consulting experience with expertise in diversity and inclusion and positive psychology to partner with leaders to transform workplace cultures to better…

Today's Five-Star Guest is Rebecca Undem. Our first three-time guest!  Learn More About Growing Small Towns:  https://www.growingsmalltowns.org/ Listen to Rebecca's Podcast (it's great!): https://rebeccaundem.com/podcaster Learn More About Rebecca:  https://rebeccaundem.com/about-rebecca Read Rebecca's Book (it's also great!):  https://rebeccaundem.com/authorGet on our waiting list for our new nonprofit & fundraising community filled with on-demand courses and live webinars that…