The PoweR of Strategic Charitable Giving: Mike McClamroch
12/04/19 • 45 min
About Mike McClamroch:
A Knoxville, Tennessee native, Mike McClamroch has been East Tennessee Foundation’s chief executive since 2001. With his constant emphasis on excellent stewardship of the resources entrusted to the Foundation and on top-notch constituent services, Mike has overseen dramatic growth in the asset size and grantmaking of ETF.
Prior to leading ETF, Mike practiced law and was an active volunteer with a variety of charitable organizations in the Knoxville area. In 2019, Mike received The Legacy Award for outstanding philanthropic leadership, presented by the Great Smoky Mountain Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
In Episode 12, Kelly and Mary Beth welcome Mike, who talks about the combination of passion, focus and expertise community foundations like East Tennessee Foundation deliver to the fabrics of local communities nationwide.
Mike discusses:
- How and why philanthropy is relevant... now more than ever
- Why it’s so important to merge what you’re passionate about with your vocation (and how he’s personally accomplished this outcome through his leadership career path with ETF)
- How Mike’s personal collaboration with the late Lady Vols Head Coach Pat Summitt resulted in a national legacy through creation of the Pat Summitt Foundation (housed at ETF), to help find a cure for Alzheimer’s
- How charitable organizations serve strategic needs in any community (and how public relations professionals can broker necessary relationships and programs to meet those needs)
- The types of nationwide community needs that philanthropic donors should consider when undertaking the task of investing dollars for local community impact
- What types of communications challenges community foundations encounter, in seeking to advance their missions
- Why careers in philanthropy are a direct path toward action-based impact... making the biggest differences to the most people
- Why measuring impact is essential
- Top mistakes that well-meaning philanthropists can easily make in the process of participating in charitable work / giving
- What “the new model” of charitable giving entails
- Why it’s important for employees of companies to be involved in the corporate giving process – such as by serving on a grant panel
- How the power of endowment works as a core function of ETF to generate permanent grant-making opportunities, with benefits to grantees, donors and communities
- How Millennials and women are helping drive philanthropy today
Links:
- Follow the #MsInterPReted hashtag in social media
- Discover East Tennessee Foundation (ETF): http://www.easttennesseefoundation.org/
- Discover the Pat Summitt Foundation (housed within ETF): http://www.patsummitt.org/
- Follow East Tennessee Foundation: @ETFoundation https://twitter.com/etfoundation
- Follow the Pat Summitt Foundation: @WeBackPat https://twitter.com/WeBackPat
- Discover Fletcher Marketing PR: https://www.fletchermarketingpr.com/
- Follow Fletcher Marketing PR on Twitter: @FletcherPR https://twitter.com/fletcherpr
- Follow Kelly Fletcher on Twitter: @KDfletcher https://twitter.com/kdfletcher
- Follow Mary Beth West on Twitter: @marybethwest https://twitter.com/MaryBethWest
About Mike McClamroch:
A Knoxville, Tennessee native, Mike McClamroch has been East Tennessee Foundation’s chief executive since 2001. With his constant emphasis on excellent stewardship of the resources entrusted to the Foundation and on top-notch constituent services, Mike has overseen dramatic growth in the asset size and grantmaking of ETF.
Prior to leading ETF, Mike practiced law and was an active volunteer with a variety of charitable organizations in the Knoxville area. In 2019, Mike received The Legacy Award for outstanding philanthropic leadership, presented by the Great Smoky Mountain Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
In Episode 12, Kelly and Mary Beth welcome Mike, who talks about the combination of passion, focus and expertise community foundations like East Tennessee Foundation deliver to the fabrics of local communities nationwide.
Mike discusses:
- How and why philanthropy is relevant... now more than ever
- Why it’s so important to merge what you’re passionate about with your vocation (and how he’s personally accomplished this outcome through his leadership career path with ETF)
- How Mike’s personal collaboration with the late Lady Vols Head Coach Pat Summitt resulted in a national legacy through creation of the Pat Summitt Foundation (housed at ETF), to help find a cure for Alzheimer’s
- How charitable organizations serve strategic needs in any community (and how public relations professionals can broker necessary relationships and programs to meet those needs)
- The types of nationwide community needs that philanthropic donors should consider when undertaking the task of investing dollars for local community impact
- What types of communications challenges community foundations encounter, in seeking to advance their missions
- Why careers in philanthropy are a direct path toward action-based impact... making the biggest differences to the most people
- Why measuring impact is essential
- Top mistakes that well-meaning philanthropists can easily make in the process of participating in charitable work / giving
- What “the new model” of charitable giving entails
- Why it’s important for employees of companies to be involved in the corporate giving process – such as by serving on a grant panel
- How the power of endowment works as a core function of ETF to generate permanent grant-making opportunities, with benefits to grantees, donors and communities
- How Millennials and women are helping drive philanthropy today
Links:
- Follow the #MsInterPReted hashtag in social media
- Discover East Tennessee Foundation (ETF): http://www.easttennesseefoundation.org/
- Discover the Pat Summitt Foundation (housed within ETF): http://www.patsummitt.org/
- Follow East Tennessee Foundation: @ETFoundation https://twitter.com/etfoundation
- Follow the Pat Summitt Foundation: @WeBackPat https://twitter.com/WeBackPat
- Discover Fletcher Marketing PR: https://www.fletchermarketingpr.com/
- Follow Fletcher Marketing PR on Twitter: @FletcherPR https://twitter.com/fletcherpr
- Follow Kelly Fletcher on Twitter: @KDfletcher https://twitter.com/kdfletcher
- Follow Mary Beth West on Twitter: @marybethwest https://twitter.com/MaryBethWest
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Marshall keeps listeners laughing as well as riveted as he shares:
- How his memorial cartoons in 2018 of the late First Lady Barbara Bush and President George H. W. Bush became overnight, national media sensations while being embraced by the Bush Family (Marshall will be speaking at the Bush Presidential Library in December 2019);
- How his 9/11 cartoons helped unify a grieving nation; and
- How Jesus's Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30) served as a catalyst to change Marshall's life in the face of adversity -- including a serious bout with cancer, 18 cycles of career lay-offs in the newspaper business and the occasional animosities and even personal threats against his safety when a disenchanted reader fails to find either humor or good-natured irony in his work.
Kelly Fletcher, Mary Beth West and the whole Fletcher PR team join Marshall in wishing everyone a safe, blessed Thanksgiving holiday.
Links:
- Follow the #MsInterPReted hashtag in social media
- Follow Marshall Ramsey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarshallRamsey
- Follow Mississippi Today: https://twitter.com/MSTODAYnews
- Follow Dave Ramsey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DaveRamsey
- Discover Fletcher Marketing PR: https://www.fletchermarketingpr.com/
- Follow Fletcher Marketing PR on Twitter: @FletcherPR https://twitter.com/fletcherpr
- Follow Kelly Fletcher on Twitter: @KDfletcher https://twitter.com/kdfletcher
- Follow Mary Beth West on Twitter: @marybethwest https://twitter.com/MaryBethWest
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PR & Entrepreneurship: Managing Stress & Burnout
The holiday season at year-end can be spiritually fulfilling and laden with good cheer . . . but it's also a time of over-booked calendars, never-ending "to do" lists (both personally and professionally) and -- in the agency business -- year-end tasks coupled with plans for the upcoming New Year Q1 that might derail well-meaning intentions to take peaceful R&R with family and friends.
Every PR professional encounters workplace stress at any time of the year . . . but what happens when stresses go into overdrive and start resulting in deeper, more negative impacts on one's mindset, energy level and an ability to bring one's best self to their teams (and to their own personal lives)?
In this episode, Kelly and Mary Beth share what some of the unique challenges entail of founding, launching and sustaining over many years a thriving public relations agency . . . and how both employers and employees alike should be more aware of one another's challenges and needs in order to create a healthy workplace culture, conducive to great business results and healthy mindsets year-round.
Links:
- Follow the #MsInterPReted hashtag in social media
- Discover Fletcher Marketing PR: https://www.fletchermarketingpr.com/
- Follow Fletcher Marketing PR on Twitter: @FletcherPR https://twitter.com/fletcherpr
- Follow Kelly Fletcher on Twitter: @KDfletcher https://twitter.com/kdfletcher
- Follow Mary Beth West on Twitter: @marybethwest https://twitter.com/MaryBethWest
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