Make Shift Happen Season 2: A Look At What’s Ahead
By Mia Reilly, Deputy Director, Tara Health Foundation, and Executive Producer, Make Shift Happen
In Season 1 of Make Shift Happen, we explored what it would take to do philanthropy differently. This season, we're looking straight at governance: how private foundations decide who holds power over the resources they steward, and what it would take to do that differently, too.
Season 2 features 12 conversations with trustees, foundation leaders, and organizers thinking honestly together about what deeper governance transformation requires. We heard about everything from redefining fiduciary duty, to the role of individual identity and the somatics of holding power.
The first full episode drops on October 15, 2026, followed by monthly releases over the coming year on Youtube and Spotify.
Here’s a look at what’s to come, and when:
October 2026: What Would It Take for Foundation Governance to Reflect a More Just World? Rachel Robasciotti, Tara Health Foundation Board Chair, in conversation with Mia Reilly, Deputy Director of Tara Health Foundation and Executive Producer of Make Shift Happen
November 2026: What If Foundations Rewrote the Rules We Inherited? Dimple Abichandai, Philanthropic Advisor & Author, New Era Strategies, in conversation with Mia Reilly, Deputy Director of Tara Health Foundation and Executive Producer of Make Shift Happen
December 2026: What If Fiduciary Duty Were the Door, Not the Barrier? Jono Anzalone, Elmina B. Sewall Foundation Board Chair, in conversation with M. Gabriela Alcalde, Elmina B. Sewall Foundation Executive Director
January 2027: What If Conflict in the Boardroom Deepened Our Commitments? Kimi Mojica, Co-Senior Director of Consulting at Justice Funders in conversation with Elise Belusa, Tara Health Executive Director
February 2027: What If We Learned Together About Everything We’re Hearing This Season? Mia Reilly, Deputy Director of Tara Health Foundation and Executive Producer of Make Shift Happen in conversation with Natalie Blackmur, Narrative Strategist with Tara Health Foundation and Producer of Make Shift Happen
March 2027: What If Changing Governance Meant Changing How We Relate? Marcus Walton, President and CEO of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO), in conversation with Ellen LaPointe, Managing Director at NPAG and Independent Consultant
April 2027: What If Foundation Board and Staff Were Truly on the Same Side? Rachel Robasciotti, Board Chair of Tara Health Foundation, in conversation with Elise Belusa, Executive Director of Tara Health Foundation
May 2027: What If We Brought More Than Our Minds to Foundation Governance? Leslie Lindo, Executive Director of Hidden Leaf Foundation, in conversation with Nathan Naik Shara, Embodied Leadership Coach and Facilitator at Shaping Change
June 2027: What If We Told Different Stories About Power? Kimi Mojica, Co-Senior Director of Consulting at Justice Funders, in conversation with Medha Chandra, Managing Director of Programs and Impact at TransitCenter
September 2027: What If We Brought the Boardroom Out From Behind Closed Doors? Glen Galaich, CEO of Stupski Foundation, in conversation with Elise Belusa, Executive Director of Tara Health Foundation
October 2027: What If We Governed Our Endowments as Community Resources? Nwamaka Agbo, CEO of Kataly Foundation and Managing Director of the Restorative Economies Fund, in conversation with Lynne Hoey, Chief Investment Officer of Kataly Foundation
November 2027: What If Accountability Were Both Personal and Structural? Farhad Ebrahimi, Philanthropic Transformation Strategist with Solidaire Network, in conversation with Michael Gast, Founder of Organize the Rich
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