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. She is host of the Mission Forward podcast on TruStory FM.
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Gary Green could hire ten more people tomorrow and still be redlining. Carrie unpacks what he does instead — and why the pause belongs in the middle of the chaos, not after it.
Some organizations run at the speed of the crisis in front of them. Others play a long game measured in decades. The Student Press Law Center does both at once, and Gary Green has spent the last year making sure his small but mighty team knows exactly how.
Fear does more damage to adoption than a flawed tool ever will. Carrie Fox on what Ike Anand means when he says his job is to hold the brand for a season and hand it off in good condition.
Ike Anand leads the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and he took the seat just as AI began reshaping what every institution does. Carrie Fox talks with him about steering a beloved brand calmly through rapid change, and the principle he leads by: get a little bit better every day.
Elyse Cherry has run BlueHub Capital for forty years without ever changing its mission — and by changing almost everything else. She makes the case that purpose stays durable through proximity: staying close enough to a community to know what it needs next.
In 2020, the emergency gave leaders permission to act; today the urgency is just as real, only quieter. Carrie Fox reflects on what it takes to keep moving when the crisis stops announcing itself.
The instinct in uncertain times is to keep your options open. Tanir Ami built her foundation’s strategic plan on the opposite bet — and this conversation is about why it’s working.
Carrie reflects on her conversation with STRIVE’s Phil Weinberg and the difference between the resilience you feel and the resilience you build. Three takeaways on mindset, muscle, and the cost of apologizing for the work that holds everything up.
Phil Weinberg has spent fourteen years building STRIVE into one of the nation’s most durable workforce development organizations, and he thinks the sector has been wrong about overhead all along. This week, he tells Carrie Fox why the infrastructure nonprofits are taught to apologize for is, in fact, the product.
In this week’s reflection, Carrie draws out three lessons from her conversation with Amanda Kwong, director of the Public Health Communications Collaborative at the de Beaumont Foundation.