Grace Nicolette

Listen to the trailer here. I’m excited to announce that the Giving Done Right podcast is back for another season!  This season arrives at a particularly crucial moment. As we witness significant changes to federal programs and social safety nets in the U.S. — including cuts to food assistance benefits like SNAP and the worldwide impact of the unwinding of USAID — individual donors and private philanthropy face both unique challenges and opportunities for action.

Listen to the trailer here. I’m thrilled to announce that the Giving Done Right podcast is returning for another season! This summer, CEP’s president Phil Buchanan and I have been busy in the recording studio, and we’ll be bringing you 16 new episodes featuring inspirational donors and courageous nonprofit leaders and experts. We launched this podcast in 2020 with the goal of helping donors become smarter and more effective in their giving.

I often ask myself the question, “What can we learn from other cultures of philanthropy that can inform the way we give today?” It’s a question borne out of curiosity about the way that philanthropy is practiced in different cultures and across different times in history, and it’s also rooted in the experience of living abroad and working in philanthropy in China for a time in my 20s and 30s, where I often heard the refrain “China has no cultural heritage of giving,” even from local experts.