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Betsy Chapin Taylor

Betsy Chapin Taylor

CEO of Accordant, healthcare philanthropy consultant with 30+ years' experience in hospital fundraising and board governance.

Jun 15, 2026

16:04
At what point along the way did you start to get the itch that maybe something entrepreneurial would be in your future?
16:15
Yeah, you know, I think like there was an inflection point for me and that I felt that philanthropy was a valuable, low risk, alternative revenue resource.
16:27
And yet I was talking to a lot of CEOs and other executives who thought that philanthropy was a social endeavor.
16:36
They thought it was lightweight.
16:38
They thought it was nice to have.
16:39
It was being used for kind of the cherry on top instead of for things that were core and And I looked at philanthropy and I just perceived that we were going to have a much larger role going forward than a lot of health care executive leadership yet saw or acknowledged.
16:56
And so there is this crazy Paul Harvey radio show, which, you know, some people on this call are going to be too young to even know who that is.

9 MINS LATER

25:45
What does that look like today if I were interviewing some of your consultants, for example?

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