How Easterseals CEO Kendra Davenport Leads a $100M+ Nonprofit

Running a nonprofit that serves 1.5 million people across 1,400 sites is hard enough in a stable environment. Doing it while federal program funding is under threat, the economy is unpredictable, and your brand is underrecognized outside the disability community is a different challenge entirely. Kendra Davenport has been Easterseals ' President and CEO since 2022. In that time she led a financial turnaround at the national office: no line of credit, no debt, departments that consistently come in under budget, and a long-term orientation most nonprofit leaders talk about but few execute on. In this episode of the Charity Charge Show, Stephen Garten sits down with Kendra to get into the specifics: how she thinks about financial discipline, vendor audits, reserves strategy, board engagement, and building an organization designed to outlast any single leader.

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How Easterseals CEO Kendra Davenport Leads a $100M+ Nonprofit is an episode from The Charity Charge Show by Charity Charge.

This episode is 37:28 long.

This episode was published on Mar 25, 2026.

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