Break Fake Rules – Details, episodes & analysis

“Spending down enables us to make larger investments in our grantees to take bigger swings at addressing the barriers that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities face when accessing health care.”

Break Fake Rules is a podcast from the Stupski Foundation that questions philanthropy’s self-imposed rules and looks for ways philanthropy can better serve communities and contribute to lasting change. 

In this episode, Glen talks with Ryan Easterly, executive director of the WITH Foundation, who is dedicated to advancing comprehensive care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Hear Ryan encourage funders to break the fake rules that prevent resources from flowing to people with disabilities who need them today.

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Host: Glen Galaich

Guest: Ryan Easterly

Producer: Claire Callahan

It’s time to Break Fake Rules, this time with two remarkable rule breakers who delve into race, philanthropy, and humanity. In this episode, Glen speaks with leading antiracist scholar and award winning author, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi and CEO of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Marcus Walton. Which rules must we break to create an antiracist world? Tune in to find out. 

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Break Fake Rules is a podcast from the Stupski Foundation that questions philanthropy’s self-imposed rules and explores ways it can better serve communities and contribute to lasting change. 

Host: Glen Galaich

Guests: Dr. Ibram X. Kendi and Marcus Walton

Producer: Claire Callahan

“When we're trying to make the change that we want by only using the tools that have tax benefits to the donors, we should be very explicit about that. And that dynamic is a fake rule that we need to interrupt.”

Break Fake Rules is a podcast from the Stupski Foundation that questions philanthropy’s self-imposed rules and explores ways it can better serve communities and contribute to lasting change. 

In this episode, Glen talks with Ludovic Blain, Executive Director of the California Donor Table. Ludovic dispells the myth of unrestricted 501(c)(3) funding and highlights how we can we better leverage philanthropic dollars to advance a multiracial democracy.

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Host: Glen Galaich

Guest: Ludovic Blain

Producer: Claire Callahan

“A.B.C. Always be challenging.”

Break Fake Rules is a podcast from the Stupski Foundation that questions philanthropy’s self-imposed rules and explores ways it can better serve communities and contribute to lasting change. 

In this episode, Glen talks with Rachel Pritzker, President and Founder of the Pritzker Innovation Fund. Rachel encourages us to lean into humility and curiosity to challenge our assumptions and discover new solutions that lead to progress. 

Resources:

As mentioned in the discussion, find more information about the important function of in-group moderates here. 

Learn how to navigate conflict in Amanda Ripley’s book, High Conflict. 

Learn more about the Democracy Funders Network, the Breakthrough Institute, Third Way, and the Energy for Growth Hub.

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Host: Glen Galaich

Guest: Rachel Pritzker

Producer: Claire Callahan

“We only see one side of the story, which is the giving of money but not the getting of money.”

Break Fake Rules is a podcast from the Stupski Foundation that questions philanthropy’s self-imposed rules and looks for ways philanthropy can better serve communities and contribute to lasting change. 

In this episode, Glen talks with Dr. Carmen Rojas, president and CEO of the Marguerite Casey Foundation. Carmen outlines how we can break the fake rules of philanthropy to support a just economy and fully realized democracy that is accountable to communities.

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Host: Glen Galaich

Guest: Dr. Carmen Rojas

Producer: Claire Callahan

“We're stuck in our own infrastructure that we've created and we've bought into it. If we were just to take a pause and just think about that for a moment, what could we do more today to mitigate the problems down the road? I mean, we could solve a lot right now.” 

Break Fake Rules is a podcast from the Stupski Foundation that questions philanthropy’s self-imposed rules and looks for ways philanthropy can better serve communities and contribute to lasting change. 

In this episode, Glen chats with Priscilla Enriquez, CEO of the James B. McClatchy Foundation. Hear them discuss her foundation’s commitment to spend down by 2030 through their Sunrise Plan to fund the people and support a brighter future for California’s Central Valley. 

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Host: Glen Galaich

Guest: Priscilla Enriquez

Producer: Claire Callahan

“People should go push to liberate themselves. What do they want to do more of?”

Break Fake Rules is a podcast from the Stupski Foundation that questions philanthropy’s self-imposed rules and looks for ways philanthropy can better serve communities and contribute to lasting change. 

Glen talks with Sarah Longwell, president and CEO of Longwell Partners, founder of The Bulwark, and host of The Focus Group podcast. In this episode, they discuss her decision to fight against Trump as a Republican and the need for the nation to build strong coalitions to restore Americans’ trust in our institutions and each other.

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Host: Glen Galaich

Guest: Sarah Longwell

Producer: Claire Callahan

“There’s all this wealth that’s locked up, that has been taken from the community that needs to be distributed back to the community.” 

Break Fake Rules is a podcast from the Stupski Foundation that questions philanthropy’s self-imposed rules and looks for ways philanthropy can better serve communities and contribute to lasting change. 

Glen speaks with Jennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen, director of postsecondary success at the Stupski Foundation, who makes the case for integrating students in decision-making, greater wealth distribution, and why institutional philanthropy should cease to exist.

Learn more from Jennifer with, "Philanthropy Confidential, a “Dear Abby”-style quarterly column where Jen answers anonymously submitted questions about the opaque, strange, and often absurdist world of institutional philanthropy.

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Host: Glen Galaich

Guest: Jennifer Nguyen

Producer: Claire Callahan

Break Fake Rules is a podcast from the Stupski Foundation that questions philanthropy’s self-imposed rules and looks for ways philanthropy can better serve communities and contribute to lasting change. 

In our first episode of this series, Glen talks with Pia Infante, senior fellow at the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project, about the concept of a spend down, Trust-Based Philanthropy, and tapping into community power. 

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Host: Glen Galaich

Guest: Pia Infante

Producer: Claire Callahan

Some rules are meant to be broken - especially the fake ones! Join Glen Galaich, CEO of the Stupski Foundation, and guests, as they question philanthropy’s self-imposed rules and look for ways philanthropy can better serve communities and contribute to lasting systems change.

New episodes drop monthly starting on January 17.

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