The Fundraising Elevator: where we’re all headed up. Samantha Swaim and Kristin Steele are using their decades of fundraising, event strategy and storytelling experience to help you change the world at your next event. Listen to conversations with industry leaders for insights and tools you can use to connect more people to your mission. New episodes drop every Wednesday.
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The Fundraising Elevator: where we’re all headed up. Samantha Swaim and Kristin Steele are using their decades of fundraising, event strategy and storytelling experience to help you change the world at your next event. Listen to conversations with industry leaders for insights and tools you can use to connect more people to your mission. New episodes drop every Wednesday.
Episode #84 | Compassionate Leadership with Marc A. Pitman
The Fundraising Elevator Podcast
1 hour 1 minute 46 seconds
4 months ago
Episode #84 | Compassionate Leadership with Marc A. Pitman
In this episode we’re joined by longtime sector leader, coach, and truth-teller Marc A. Pittman, founder and CEO of Concord Leadership Group. We explore the surprising (and sobering) origins of nonprofit structures and productivity tools—from the legacy of slavery and colonialism to outdated industrial-era mindsets still embedded in our systems. Marc helps us see how practices like time management, donor stewardship, and organizational hierarchy often mirror extractive systems that were never designed to honor human wellbeing—whether that’s the donor, the community served, or the staff. He offers a reframing that honors the goodness and generosity at the heart of the sector and points toward leadership rooted in humanity, curiosity, and compassion.
The Fundraising Elevator Podcast
The Fundraising Elevator: where we’re all headed up. Samantha Swaim and Kristin Steele are using their decades of fundraising, event strategy and storytelling experience to help you change the world at your next event. Listen to conversations with industry leaders for insights and tools you can use to connect more people to your mission. New episodes drop every Wednesday.
