About this episode

Mary Beth Collins discusses the challenges nonprofits face under the Trump administration and shares her insights from her extensive experience in the field.

We hear a lot about the ways nonprofits are preparing to cope with both new and perpetual challenges under the current Trump administration. Mary Beth Collins is the director of the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in this episode, she shares her birds-eye-view of the state. She brings her deep roots as a Wisconsinite, along with her personal experience as a teacher, an attorney, and as a nonprofit director, to this work. It’s both big-pict...

Topics covered

• nonprofits
• community studies
• Wisconsin
• Trump administration

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