Alana is a tech guru with 20 years at Google and an active philanthropist. The essence of this episode is to draw back the curtain for a fireside chat about a leader in tech and her approach to creating community for good. In this episode, I bring on Alana Karen, author of The Adventures of Women in Tech — how we got here and why we stay. She is also a 20 year vet in tech and currently serves as the Director of Search Platforms at Google and a Founding Member of Enrich, a private network for business leaders.<br><br>Head to <a href="http://CreatingCommunityForGood.com">http://CreatingCommunityForGood.com</a> for full show notes, key takeaways and episode resources.

35: We are For Good | Making the Ask & the Five Fundamentals of Fundraising

Welcome to Creating Community for Good, a podcast dedicated to philanthropy: the love of humankind. Here we will band together across disciplines within the ecosystem of the nonprofit sector to illuminate perspectives, decode motivations, and leverage strategies in the business of generosity. On this show, your host, Lindsay Simonds, invites you to a friendly conversation about contributing to good. With this, we will ultimately increase empathy, create stronger bonds and make more impact on mission-driven work. Whether you are a nonprofit executive, a legacy donor, a major gifts fundraiser, a crowdsource hacker, program director, impact investor, corporate partner or beneficiary, this space is for all of us to inform, inspire and evolve.