Human Powered: In Conversation with Mary Beth Collins

Human Powered: In Conversation with Mary Beth Collins

From Human Powered by Wisconsin Humanities

November 5, 2025 · 34 min · Season 4 · Episode 12

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...

People in this episode

Guest: Mary Beth Collins

Topics covered

  • nonprofits
  • community studies
  • Wisconsin
  • Trump administration
  • challenges
  • education
  • law

Keywords

  • nonprofits
  • Mary Beth Collins
  • Wisconsin
  • community
  • Trump administration
  • education
  • law

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Places: Wisconsin, Trump administration

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