About this podcast
Funding Rural: A podcast that explores how philanthropy can better serve rural and Indigenous communities. Join host Erin Borla, Executive Director of the Roundhouse Foundation in Sisters, Oregon, as she engages with folks on all sides of philanthropy to better understand the challenges and opportunities facing funders and the folks they hope to serve and support.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 69 episodes
- Glen Galaich, PhD: Control · 37 min · Season 4 Episode 8Glen Galaich challenges the rules, systems, and frameworks in which foundations operate, and while it’s not always a welcome perspective for philanthropists, his commentary could…
- Erin Nunes: Fighting Fire Like a Girl · 32 min · Season 4 Episode 7Erin Nunes is a Battalion Chief with the Lebanon Fire District, which covers a 450 square mile area south of Salem, Oregon. Women like Erin make up just 5 percent of paid…
- Savannah Barrett: Stories Build Relationships · 44 min · Season 4 Episode 6Savannah Barrett’s deep Kentucky roots have guided her entire career. She’s the Exchange Director for Art of the Rural, a nonprofit that uses creative connection and storytelling…
- Cory Carman: Supporting Innovation in Ranching · 35 min · Season 4 Episode 5More than 95 percent of American beef cattle spend the end of their lives eating grain in feed lots. It’s an easy way to get them fat faster. However, a growing number of…
- Gov. Tom Vilsak: A Career in Office Serving Rural Folks · 33 min · Season 4 Episode 4Governor Tom Vilsack started out as a small-town lawyer, then mayor, and went on to serve as governor of Iowa for 8 years. He ran the US Department of Agriculture under President…
- JT Flowers: Coming Home to Build Community · 42 min · Season 4 Episode 3Rhodes Scholar, lifelong Portlander, and community visionary JT Flowers draws the parallels between urban and rural communities. Born and raised in NE Portland’s historic Black…
- Mel Butterfield: Promoting Hope · 30 min · Season 4 Episode 2Mel Butterfield asks, ‘if adults aren’t modeling healthy behaviors, why does it surprise us when youth behavior suffers?’ She is a fourth-generation Central Oregonian and the…
- Rev. Dr. Ryan M. Eller: Action is the Oxygen of Organizing · 39 min · Season 4 Episode 1Rev. Dr. Ryan M. Eller is a ninth-generation Appalachian who deeply understands his region—and where generations of their wealth went. As Executive Director of Appalachia Funders…
- Here comes Season 4! · 3 min · Season 4We're back with a new season of Funding Rural! This fall, we bring you more fresh, heartfelt conversations about philanthropy and how it can better serve rural and Indigenous…
- Charlie Brown: Don’t Run from the Mess · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 21When people don’t know where to begin when it comes to funding rural America, collaborative funds are a great way to start. Charlie Brown is the executive director of the Trust…
- Derek Burkhardt & Allison Rayburn: Rural Fire Protection Agencies · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 20Funding for disaster response is much needed in the American West where vast rangeland ignites quickly under dry conditions. In Eastern Oregon, innovative Rangeland Fire…
- Kimberly Lindsay: I can lend a hand; I can volunteer; I can be available · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 19Meeting the mental and behavioral health needs of rural communities, where people are dispersed and remarkably self-reliant, can be a challenge for a variety of different…
- Jordan Lewis, PhD: We Still Take Care of Each Other · 23 min · Season 3 Episode 18There are so many folks who want to age in place but live far away from the care they need, and that can present challenges for their health, happiness and the social fabric of…
- Dee Anne Everson: The #1 Leadership Quality is Love · 28 min · Season 3 Episode 17When massive wildfires swept through Oregon in 2020, Dee Anne Everson helped hundreds of people who had just lost everything, and five years later, she’s still helping them…
- Brad Kik: Where Art Meets Earth · 37 min · Season 3 Episode 16Crosshatch Center for Art and Ecology in Northern Michigan is an artist residency that aims to build community through farming, ecology and economy. The Northern Michigan Small…
- Sue Matters: Radio on the Reservation: Continuing the Oral History Tradition · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 15Philanthropy has long been a champion of public radio, providing grants for everything from infrastructure and new buildings to special reporting projects. Recent federal cuts…
- Dave Dallas: Grow Your Own · 27 min · Season 3 Episode 14In rural and remote Oregon, where populations are low and the need for educators is high, there’s Rural Teacher Corps, a Grow Your Own program that is implementing new approaches…
- Stone Hudson: Giving for the Generations You Will Never Meet · 49 min · Season 3 Episode 13Native American Tribal communities are a blind spot for philanthropy with just .4% of funding going to Native organizations—but some philanthropic organizations are trying to…
- Luke Shaefer, PhD: Living in Complexities · 28 min · Season 3 Episode 12Luke Shaefer, PhD is one of the nation's foremost scholars of poverty and social welfare policy. He is a professor at the University of Michigan and is the inaugural director of…
- Maria Sykes: It Should be a Privilege, Not a Burden, to Fund Rural · 27 min · Season 3 Episode 11Green River, Utah (population 900) can be seen as a waypoint in the desert with more hotel rooms than residents. Or it can be seen through the eyes of locals like Maria Sykes…
