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The Positive Impact Philanthropy podcast interviews women entrepreneurs that have a philanthropic component to their businesses and personal life to create great impact within their business, life, and communities. Enjoy informational and light-hearted interviews with legacy giving expert and entrepreneur, Lori Kranczer!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Lori Kranzer turns philanthropic ambition into concrete conversations about funding, partnerships, donor relationships, and mission-led business decisions.
Positive Impact Philanthropy Podcast follows the practical choices that turn charitable intent into operating decisions. Lori Kranzer uses interviews to connect personal motivation with the mechanics of building organizations, directing funds, choosing partners, and sustaining…
A shampoo bar meets a donor follow-up email; your good intentions may need an operations plan.
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A mission-driven retail story about making clothing choices more conscious and accessible.
The episode follows Kimberly Lau as she speaks with a founder who moved from 24 years in wealth management into Project ReWear, a mission-led business shaped by conscious consumption, affordability, style, and convenience.
A grounded look at fashion, mentorship, and conscious consumption as one connected story.
Jessi Freschel's story shows how practical impact can come from long experience in fashion and conscious consumption, not only from mission-driven language.
A steady founder story that works best when it stays close to the foundation details.
Suzanne McKenzie is framed through a clear arc from design and strategy work at large agencies and Fortune 500 companies to AbleMade and the foundation tied to it.
A reflective 100th-episode conversation about women’s leadership, philanthropy, and turning conviction into practical action.
Laurie Kranzer frames the 100th episode as a measured conversation about women’s leadership, philanthropy, and the way conviction turns into action.
A clear, grounded story about building a school and knowing when to step aside.
Kate Kennedy's conversation feels steady and practical, tracing how philanthropic intent turns into a school with a three part funding plan, community buy in, and the long grind of building support one dollar at a time.
A clear look at how corporate giving is shaped by values, data, and partnerships.
Sheena Wild traces a corporate philanthropy role as something that gets shaped over time, not something fixed on day one. The Kendra Scott Foundation moved from broad giving to a narrower focus on women and youth in health, wellness, education, and entrepreneurship, and that…
A patient look at philanthropy as lived practice, with equity and community at the center.
Holly's conversation on Positive Impact Philanthropy Podcast treats giving as something shaped by equity, community, and lived experience, not just a clean theory of generosity.
A grounded look at how values, capital, and community meet in nonprofit growth.
This conversation follows Tulane Montgomery's work at New Profit and her view of philanthropy as a vocation shaped by values. It also explains venture philanthropy in plain terms, tying capital to the support and community organizations need if they are going to grow.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.
Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.
Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Host Lori Kranczer is interviewed by Mara Pagano about her new social venture, Raising Junior, a clean personal care line for children with sensitivities.
Blima Arendtroy, founder of The Designers Group, explains how her interior design firm works across New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Toronto to create spaces with a social purpose.
Host Lori Kranzer interviews Jennifer Gabriel, CEO of the National Women's Hall of Fame, about her journey into philanthropy and the organization's mission to honor women's achievements.
Lori Kranzer welcomes Marnie Mandel and opens with the idea that fundraising can be a form of friendship.
Laurie Kranzer marks the podcast’s 100th episode with Gloria Felt, co-founder and president of Take the Lead.
Hall Rockefeller, founder and director of Less Than Half, says women artists make up about 15% of major museum collections and 3% of the auction market.
Robin says, "The pathway to prison is illiteracy," and ties that to the failure to teach reading.
Lori Kranzer interviews Jeannie Infante Sager, director of the Women's Philanthropy Institute, discussing research on women's giving, the underfunding of women's and girls organizations, and how to disrupt traditional philanthropic practices.
Laurie Kranzer welcomes Kimberly Lau to talk about Project ReWear.
Lori Kranzer sits down with Sheena Wild to talk through her path into corporate philanthropy.
Lori Kranzer welcomes Holly Lee for a warm, reflective conversation about everyday philanthropy.
Lori Kranzer opens by framing philanthropy as a personal practice.
Lori Kranzer opens with a warm welcome.
Laurie Kranzer welcomes Tulane Montgomery, CEO of New Profit.
Lori Kranzer welcomes writer and nonprofit consultant Kate Kennedy.
Jessi Freschel connects her work to the people who first taught her what access can mean.
Kathy Bissell says the Bissell Pet Foundation started in 2011 after she first entered a shelter during the Katrina response and began fundraising for animals brought from Louisiana.
Lori Kranzer opens with a warm introduction to philanthropy as something personal, not abstract.
Diane Bailey, a philanthropic strategy executive at Bank of America Private Bank, explains how her team works with grantmakers and nonprofits on values-based giving, unrestricted grants, and endowment strategy.
Lori Kranzer interviews Syama Bunten, principal of Big Delta Capital and founder of Wealth Catalyst, about women, wealth, and philanthropy.
Katie Dunn brings a practical investor's eye to the conversation.
Lori Kranzer welcomes Suzanne McKenzie, the founder and CEO of AbleMade.
Alex Amouyel, president and CEO of Newman's Own Foundation, explains how a childhood focus on equality of opportunity led her from Paris to Save the Children, the Clinton Foundation, and MIT Solve.
Laurie Kranzer, an attorney and philanthropic advisor, interviews Isabel Grosmaitre, founder and CEO of Goodness & Co, about business as a force for good.