{"id":5779,"date":"2025-11-20T19:41:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/?p=5779"},"modified":"2025-11-21T10:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:17:57","slug":"cherry-chan-on-philanthrothink-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/2025\/cherry-chan-on-philanthrothink-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"S2, E1: Cherry Chan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/11\/CherryChan1600-2.png); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        S2, E1: Cherry Chan\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/11\/CherryChanPortrait350.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with long, straight black hair wearing a green dress with pink flowers smiles at the camera.\" class=\"wp-image-5788\" style=\"width:232px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/11\/CherryChanPortrait350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/11\/CherryChanPortrait350-320x498.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Episode 1 of Season 2 of the <em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/philanthrothink-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PhilanthroThink Podcast<\/a><\/em>, &#8220;Money, Mission and Change: Rethinking Nonprofit Finance,&#8221; Cherry Chan, founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/otus-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OTUS Nonprofit CFOs<\/a>, CEO of OTUS Financial Solutions, and host of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nonprofitcfo.ca\/about\/the-unfiltered-non-profit-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unfiltered Non-Profit Podcast<\/a>, talks to our hosts, <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/2023\/megan-skyvington-student\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Megan Skyvington<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/2024\/fengwen-yu-student\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fengwen Yu<\/a>, about growing up in a money-focused community, building a real estate and accounting business and starting a small \u201cBasket Brigade\u201d in Hamilton. She takes us through what motivated her to set a goal to raise $50 million for nonprofits over the next decade &#8212; and explains why \u201cnonprofit\u201d is just a label and how social enterprise, licensing, sponsorship and better planning can help with fundraising. She also reflects on board pressures and the risk of staying stuck in a scarcity mindset, and offers practical ideas for testing new revenue streams and telling your story more often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the video below or listen on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/money-mission-and-change-rethinking-nonprofit-finance\/id1801197310?i=1000737573357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/3Dw6iuxaiZ8Xkmoa0wW4js?si=2de24db45a134f1f&amp;nd=1&amp;dlsi=3b6da94c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">Thank you to IG Private Wealth Management for a grant to make the PhilanthroThink Podcast series possible.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Money, Mission and Change: Rethinking Nonprofit Finance\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ct64Yfq0PTE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/hdJ0J5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">For updates, sign up for PANL Perspectives, MPNL\u2019s free monthly newsletter.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Episode 1 of Season 2 of the PhilanthroThink Podcast, &#8220;Money, Mission and Change: Rethinking Nonprofit Finance,&#8221; Cherry Chan, founder of OTUS Nonprofit CFOs, CEO of OTUS Financial Solutions, and host of the Unfiltered Non-Profit Podcast, talks to our hosts, Megan Skyvington and Fengwen Yu, about growing up in a money-focused community, building a real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":5801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[39,1206],"tags":[1283,1282,49,119,1275,191,1285,68,69,1277,1278,70,1279,76,1284,82,17,106,81,1208,1280,1276,19,1281],"class_list":["post-5779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-podcast","tag-50-million","tag-accounting","tag-carleton","tag-ceo","tag-cherry-chan","tag-dpnl","tag-ig-wealth-management","tag-leadership","tag-masters","tag-mission","tag-money","tag-mpnl","tag-nonprofit-finance","tag-nonprofits","tag-otus","tag-panl","tag-philanthropy","tag-philanthrothink","tag-pnl","tag-podcast","tag-real-estate","tag-season-2","tag-sppa","tag-taxes"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5779"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5802,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions\/5802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}