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EPISODE SUMMARY

Most nonprofit leaders understand that community impact requires both frontline relationships and institutional influence — but building a strategy that connects those two worlds takes a very different kind of leadership. In this episode, Tchernavia Montgomery, CEO of Care Ring in Charlotte, NC, shares her ABCs of grassroots to grasstops community impact: Authentic Leadership, Board Engagement, and Capital Campaign Navigation. Drawing on five years of leading one of Charlotte's most vital health and human services organizations through a facility relocation and a capital campaign without a chief development officer, Tchernavia speaks with the directness of a leader who has lived every lesson she teaches.

ABOUT TCHERNAVIA

Tchernavia Montgomery is the CEO of Care Ring, a Charlotte-based nonprofit that has served the community since 1955, connecting approximately 10,000 uninsured and underserved individuals each year to primary care, maternal and child health programs, and a $70 million donated care network of more than 1,600 specialists. A licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience, she is a double graduate of UNC Charlotte's School of Social Work. Under her leadership, Care Ring completed a major facility relocation and a successful capital campaign.

EPISODE RESOURCES‍

• ‍Care Ring
• Tchernavia Montgomery on LinkedIn‍
• Block Love Charlotte‍
• Belles Board‍
• Bank of America Study on Philanthropy‍
• Book: The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins