Challenge and Opportunity: A Conversation with Leaders in Healthcare Philanthropy

In this special episode, we bring together some of the most influential voices in healthcare philanthropy—Nancy Bussani, Executive Vice President and Chief Philanthropy Officer for CommonSpirit Health and President of the CommonSpirit Health Foundation; Julie Cox, Vice President of Development at LifeBridge Health; John Drake, President of the BSW Irving Foundation at Baylor Scott & White Health; David Flood, Enterprise Chief Development Officer and President of the Intermountain Foundation; Bill Littlejohn, CEO and Senior Vice President of the Sharp HealthCare Foundation; and Birgit Stumpf, Acting Managing Director of Deutsche Stiftung Frauengesundheit and Leader of the Healthcare Section of the Deutscher Fundraising Verband. In a collaboration between Accordant and DonorSearch, I met with each of these leaders individually at the AHP International Conference to ask one simple but revealing question: In today’s environment, what is your biggest challenge—and what is your greatest opportunity? Here are their answers.