Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership: How A Funding Collaborative Can Empower Your Nonprofit, with Tara Townsend & Carlos Hernandez

Tara Townsend, president of IFF’s Social Impact Accelerator, and Carlos Hernandez, founder and executive director of the Puerto Rican Arts Alliance, sat down with Patton McDowell for the podcast, “Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership,” to discuss Chicago’s Cultural Treasures and the challenges facing arts and culture organizations of color. The conversation also focused on the ongoing need for systems change work to address decades of underfunding and shift the way that philanthropy approaches the arts space.

“I speak for all of my peers who are organizations of color who are still out there trying to sustain their own organizations, that are impacting so many people who represent the changing faces in American society,” said Hernandez. “And yet it is so horrible, terrible, that we’re still talking about finding equitable funding in this day and age, and that racism in the arts still persists. And what was very uplifting about Chicago’s Cultural Treasures was the fact that there were institutions who were beginning to get it, who were beginning to address it.”

Listen to the whole interview and read more about the interviewees here, or listen to Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership wherever you find podcasts.