Donors
topic on 2 shows · 5 statements across 4 episodes
American Optimist 
the a16z Podcast
5 statements about Donors, every show
Carvalho: University presidents speak out of both sides of their mouths
“Presidents doing exactly what you said, right? They speak with both sides of their mouths. Inside, they do one thing to the donors and boards that are coming with a particularly different worldview. They speak in a different way.”
Horowitz: Former student-athletes represent a disproportionate share of university alumni donors
“A crazy percentage of the donors are people who played college athletics at the school. So it was like really the people who have the most school spirit are the athletes by far, like not even close.”
Ferguson: Major donations to legacy universities likely go to causes donors oppose
“Making large donations to established institutions really is the wrong way to go. Because very likely the money will be used for things the donor disapproves of”
Janah: Aid-dependent governments prioritize foreign donors over their own citizens
“The great challenge in nonprofits, and you see this in international aid environments, is that, you know, country governments where the budget is largely composed of aid from richer countries are much more accountable to the donors than they are to their own p…”
Janah: Donors should tie non-profit funding directly to beneficiary feedback
“And so I think one of the ways we solve that is for donors to kind of force that accountability by demanding in their donor reports actual feedback from the beneficiaries and having that be the primary metric that drives their follow on gifts, as opposed to wh…”