“Broken Systems, Funded Silence: Deconstructing the Nonprofit-Gov Pipeline” – Part 1
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“Broken Systems, Funded Silence: Deconstructing the Nonprofit-Gov Pipeline” – Part 1
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🎙️ Resilient Voices & Beyond Podcast
Title: “Broken Systems, Funded Silence: Deconstructing the Nonprofit-Gov Pipeline” – Part 1
In this explosive Part 1 of a two-part special, Resilient Voices & Beyond dives into one of the most underexamined yet critical realities in system reform: the nonprofit-to-government pipeline. Host Michael D. Davis-Thomas, nationally recognized advocate and Founder of MDDTSpeaks, sits down with two powerhouse changemakers—Bobbi Taylor, Founder & CEO of Proximate Solution, and Tamara Dillard, MSW, CSW, clinical therapist, policy influencer, and child welfare advocate—for an unfiltered, intellectually rigorous, and emotionally grounded conversation about how broken systems are not only funded but protected by silence.
We confront the sacred cows.
We name what’s often hushed.
We question whether systems are “broken”—or simply functioning as they were always designed to.
These leaders don’t speak from theory. They speak from trenches. From lived experience as alumni of foster care and juvenile justice. From boardrooms where reform is discussed but rarely lived. From advocacy tables where funding decisions eclipse impact. This is a conversation about ethics, power, complicity, and survival in professional spaces that demand proximity—but punish truth-telling.
Together, we dissect how nonprofits, while often well-intentioned, can become complicit in systemic harm by prioritizing contracts over community, grants over grassroots, and optics over outcomes. We explore how lived experience is sometimes tokenized rather than empowered—and what it looks like to reclaim that narrative.
Featured Guests:
Bobbi Taylor – Founder & CEO, Proximate Solution
National systems-change strategist | Child welfare + juvenile justice advocate | Lived experience leader | Thriving Families Safer Children Executive Committee | Researcher, author, policy contributor
Tamara Dillard, MSW, CSW – Clinical Therapist & Child Welfare Advocate
Foster care alumni | Mental health professional | State & national policy influencer | Public speaker | Systems disruptor | University of Kentucky graduate
Key Themes Explored:
- GROUNDING TRUTH: What it means to live through systems before analyzing them
- TOKENIZATION VS. TRANSFORMATION: The risk of nonprofits centering funding over lived wisdom
- FUNDED SILENCE: The invisible cost of staying quiet in systems built on compliance
- VALUES VS. PAYCHECK: Holding onto truth in institutions that reward forgetting
- BAND-AID POLICIES: When intention isn’t enough, and how surface-level reforms deepen wounds
- THE COST OF TELLING THE TRUTH: Retaliation, blackballing, and standing in integrity despite it all
- HISTORICAL ROOTS: The evolution of foster care as a profit-generating system, from orphan trains to federal incentives
- You’ve worked in or alongside nonprofits and wondered why real change feels so far away
- You’ve ever questioned whether advocacy is being bought and sold
- You’ve been silenced, sidelined, or tokenized—and want language for what happened
- You believe truth-tellers deserve platforms, not punishment
Produced by: MDDTSpeaks Media
This podcast is recorded, edited, and released independently to protect the integrity of truth-tellers and lived experts. Support our work through reviews, donations, and by sharing these stories that systems too often suppress.
Because silence is comfort for systems—but truth is freedom for people.