Nine out of ten people can’t tell you what a community foundation doesâyet these institutions have been quietly holding communities together for over a century. Peter Panepento has spent the last decade trying to solve what might be the most counterintuitive problem in philanthropy: how do you build a national brand for 900 organizations that each insist on being completely different?
Hosted by social impact expert and B Corp leader Carrie Fox, each episode of Mission Forward explores the power of communications. With just the right mix of practical and thought-provoking content, we take on the issues that matter to you, and that support your work as a communicator for change.
Carrie Fox is the founder and CEO of Mission Partners, a woman-owned strategic communications firm and Certified B Corporation that guides high-potential nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible corporations in realizing their greatest social impact. Since launching her first firm in 2004, she has guided hundreds of organizations around the world to lead with purpose, fueling organizations and their missions forward in new and more impactful ways.
Nine out of ten people can’t tell you what a community foundation doesâyet these institutions have been quietly holding communities together for over a century. Peter Panepento has spent the last decade trying to solve what might be the most counterintuitive problem in philanthropy: how do you build a national brand for 900 organizations that each insist on being completely different?
When a city loses its paper, what fills the silence? In Baltimore, Lisa Snowden and the Baltimore Beat have found a way to turn local news into the heartbeat of community life.
Everyone says journalism is broken. Michael Bolden thinks the story is more complicatedâand that the next generation of reporters may be the ones to save it.
Rich Harwood has spent thirty years in America’s most forgotten places and discovered something that could save democracyâbut it’s not happening where you think it is. After another act of political violence rocks the nation, Carrie Fox sits down with the man who’s proven that the path forward isn’t through our broken politics, but through rebuilding the invisible infrastructure of how we actually live together.