Swim Karim
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Welcome to The Nonprofit Insider Podcast with your host Swim Karim.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Candid practitioner interviews make nonprofit finance, leadership, volunteer management, and organizational ethics concrete.
Swim Karim treats nonprofit work as a set of operating relationships, bringing practitioners into candid interviews about how organizations hold together.
A donor ask on date one? Camille's analogy will sound familiar if your fundraising calendar is impatient.
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A practical look at cooperative philanthropy, peer review, and grantmaking in plain language.
It presents Nusenda Foundation as part of a member-owned credit union while keeping the foundation distinct as a 501(c)(3) from the 501(c)(1) credit union. The cooperative logic is easy to follow: value is meant to flow back into members and the surrounding communities.
Volunteer ethics and credentialing, grounded in the practical realities of nonprofit service.
The conversation treats volunteer administration as a profession with its own ethics, and that gives it real weight. Faiza Venzant moves from credentialing to the day-to-day realities of volunteer engagement, including how nonprofits work with people who may not vote, pray, or…
A candid nonprofit chat where an early name mix-up gives way to easy, lived-in conversation.
The episode settles into a candid nonprofit conversation with Dana Litwin, and it keeps the exchange human without losing sight of the guest. A small name mix-up at the start gives it a brief wobble, but the talk quickly finds its footing.
A practical leadership chat about the board and executive director relationship.
Pat Addabbo's conversation turns on a simple but useful question: how much of a nonprofit's health depends on the executive director and board relationship.
A grounded nonprofit conversation that treats fundraising as relationship work and warns against forcing the ask too soon.
The conversation treats fundraising as relationship work, with Camille Ridley and the host underscoring that people are not cookie-cutter and that a strong ask starts by meeting someone where they are.
A clear look at fundraising as relationship work inside nonprofit life.
This conversation stays close to the day to day work of nonprofit fundraising, where relationships, community awareness, and steady mission support do most of the heavy lifting.
Volunteer engagement, trust, and revenue come into focus in a candid nonprofit conversation.
Jessica Payne Parks frames volunteer management as a leadership issue, not a soft add-on. The conversation keeps circling a plain fact: volunteers can support finance, programs, operations, awareness, and revenue, but only when organizations treat trust as the main exchange.
Nonprofit conversation, AmeriCorps, and a practical career reinvention.
Nikki Fiacco's path runs through AmeriCorps, nonprofit work, and the uneven kind of career reinvention that comes from moving forward before everything is settled.
Politics, odd news, and local heart.
Faith, service, and everyday generosity.
Governance, cities, and growth under the hood.
The Nonprofit Insider Podcast brings on Nyla Hebert and Polly Rocha from the Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement.
The Nonprofit Insider Podcast episode with Jenny Mitchell centers on her book Embracing Ambition, which was released on March 8, the same day as International Women’s Day and her birthday.
Swim Kareem uses the New Mexico wildfires in Rio Doso and the Hawaii wildfires to explain what happens to donated goods after a disaster.
Meredith Whitaker, Foundation Relations Development Officer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, talks through fundraising from the foundation side and the nonprofit side on The Nonprofit Insider Podcast episode 48.
The Nonprofit Insider Podcast centers on a fired nonprofit worker called “Jason,” a veteran-space employee whose role included social media, special events, volunteer management, and in-kind donor work.
The episode opens with cookies, cakes, ice cream, and a YouTube premiere.
Mackenzie Riley says her path into nonprofit work began as a first-generation University of Arizona student in Tucson, with mission trips in Aurora, Colorado, San Diego, and later a food bank job.
Swim Kareem uses a Lockheed Martin-sponsored higher-education badge in Philadelphia to ask whether nonprofits should take “dirty money,” then applies the same question to a stranger handing over $100 or $10,000.
Swim Kareem uses New Mexico wildfires, Rio Doso, and the Hawaii wildfire response to explain why donated goods after disasters often do not go where donors expect.
Swim Kareem opens loose, talking about episode 44, being six episodes away from episode 50, Instagram, TikTok, and a trip to Scottsdale with a Waymo ride.
The Nonprofit Insider Podcast episode "Getting Fired From a Nonprofit, Part II" ties current federal layoffs to nonprofit hiring and firing culture, with host Sam Kareem citing roughly 14,000 Americans out of work in the federal government.
Credit union philanthropy gets practical quickly.
Faiza Venzant gets a warm, personal introduction.
The Nonprofit Insider Podcast episode with Dana Litwin focuses on nonprofit consulting in 2025, with Dana describing the sector as facing "high anxiety" from federal budget cuts, shutdown conditions, and attacks on nonprofit tax and nonpartisan status.
The host explores the prevalence and necessity of second jobs and side hustles for workers in the nonprofit sector, arguing that low wages and rising costs make them essential.
The episode argues that the 2025 hurricane season will be highly political, driven by nonprofit caution, federal agency dismantling, and Trump administration dynamics.
Host Swim Karim shares his personal experience of having $20,000 in student loans forgiven through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, discussing the emotional relief, strategic decisions during the pandemic, and broader issues with predatory loan systems in education.
Swim Karim interviews Pat Adabo, Executive Director of Oregon Adaptive Sports, about nonprofit leadership, trust, and crisis management.
Camille Ridley discusses nonprofit leadership strategy, focusing on sustainability, pivoting, and relationship-centered fundraising.
The host introduces Jen Tudor after joking about finally getting her on the show.
Nonprofits blame volunteers for ghosting, but they ghosted first
The host discusses return-to-office mandates and argues that nonprofits have a unique obligation to offer hybrid work opportunities to combat burnout and attract talent.
In this special episode, host Swim Karim discusses student loans as a potential financial bubble, comparing it to the 2008 Great Recession and its lasting effects on families and the economy.
The Nonprofit Insider Podcast episode with Nikki Fiocco centers on AmeriCorps, a U.S.
The host of The Nonprofit Insider Podcast delivers an immediate, rapid-reaction analysis following the 2024 US presidential election, where Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris.
The host celebrates the 50th episode of The Nonprofit Insider Podcast by interviewing his young son, Ezra.
Discussion on Personal Finance, Technology & Innovation.