Sep 8, 2026 · 27 min · 9 segments
Mike sits down with Jewelers for Children Executive Director, Sarah Murphy, and board member Ross Wesdorp to unpack how the jewelry industry has donated over $66 million to help kids through nine…
Michael BurpoHostSarah MurphyGuest
Ross WesdorpGuest
So I I've always wondered about charities because there's like this sometimes a gulf between like a local charity.
So there are these local charities where it's like the dollar goes in and then the dollar comes right back out.
And then there are these extremely large ones like, you know, Doctors Without Borders type of events.
It just sometimes feels like there's a lot of steps to kind of make the dollars go into action.
Can you talk to me a little bit about, for example, like how does an organization like JFC actually run and like stay up? Because I'm sure that there is substantial upkeep required, but like you guys raise this money, is it, do then, split it up 12 ways for your 12 major donors or can you just maybe share a little bit about that?
We really function pretty lean, but we can only do that because JFC has a 60 person board.
And what I will say is that JFC's board is a group of people that work really hard for JFC.
I was with Ross at the Atlanta Jewelry Show this weekend, and he was sending people to my booth and making sure I had a place to sell Blinky Hearts, which are a JFC tradition.
Craig Stern from Rogers and Holland, Ashcroft and Oak is our board chair currently.
We really try to make sure that JFC's board understands, people understand when they join that it's a working board, right? And so the reason JFC can operate so leanly is we have that support.
So we have a committee, it's called our Charity Partners Committee, and they meet and review applications every year and decide who gets how much funding.
So I I've always wondered about charities because there's like this sometimes a gulf between like a local charity.
So there are these local charities where it's like the dollar goes in and then the dollar comes right back out.
And then there are these extremely large ones like, you know, Doctors Without Borders type of events.
It just sometimes feels like there's a lot of steps to kind of make the dollars go into action.
Can you talk to me a little bit about, for example, like how does an organization like JFC actually run and like stay up? Because I'm sure that there is substantial upkeep required, but like you guys raise this money, is it, do then, split it up 12 ways for your 12 major donors or can you just maybe share a little bit about that?
We really function pretty lean, but we can only do that because JFC has a 60 person board.
And what I will say is that JFC's board is a group of people that work really hard for JFC.
I was with Ross at the Atlanta Jewelry Show this weekend, and he was sending people to my booth and making sure I had a place to sell Blinky Hearts, which are a JFC tradition.
Craig Stern from Rogers and Holland, Ashcroft and Oak is our board chair currently.
We really try to make sure that JFC's board understands, people understand when they join that it's a working board, right? And so the reason JFC can operate so leanly is we have that support.
So we have a committee, it's called our Charity Partners Committee, and they meet and review applications every year and decide who gets how much funding.
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