How Friends of the Children Builds a 12-Year Promise Through Mentorship

How do you make a 12-year promise to a kindergartner and keep it? Jorie Das, Executive Director of Friends of the Children Los Angeles, joins Stephen Garten to explain how her chapter grew from under $4 million to a $9.2 million organization by treating collaboration and financial health as part of the mission. She shares how to partner with other nonprofits without competing for donors, and the personal story behind her work.

In this episode:

• How professional, paid mentoring works over 12+ years
• Using child welfare data to decide where to expand
• Braided public and private funding, and what public dollars don't cover
• How to collaborate with 60+ agencies without competing for donors
• The hub-and-spoke model that keeps overhead low
• Making the ROI case to funders without reducing a child to a dollar figure

Guest: Jorie Das is Executive Director of Friends of the Children Los Angeles, a professional mentoring organization serving 300+ children across Los Angeles County.

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