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Writing Great Grants - A Murdock Trust Podcast

Writing Great Grants is a podcast produced by the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust to help support nonprofits across the Pacific Northwest. On this podcast, Murdock Trust staff, partners and colleagues will share insights and information on the grantmaking process - both the process unique to the Murdock Trust grantmaking cycle and overall best practices for grant applications in general - to help those in the nonprofit space to flourish and thrive.The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust is a private, nonprofit foundation in Vancouver, WA serving the Pacific Northwest (Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Since 1975, the Murdock Trust has awarded more than $1 billion in capacity building grants to organizations serving the common good.

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Writing Great Grants - A Murdock Trust Podcast

Entrepreneurship with Navin Chaddha

July 19, 2021 • M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust • Season 3 • Episode 2

For season three of our podcast, we are taking a moment to reflect on our benefactor, Jack Murdock. We are looking at current industry leaders who focus on and exemplify key areas and traits that were of particular importance and interest to Jack.

In today’s episode, Steve Moore, executive director of the Murdock Trust, talks about the value of entrepreneurship with Navin Chaddha, Managing Director at Mayfield Fund, a top-tier venture capital firm with $2.5 billion under management. He has been involved in some notable IPOs of companies including Poshmark, Lyft, SolarCity, and Akamai, as well as acquisitions of CloudGenix by Palo Alto Networks, CloudSimple by Google, Nuvia by Qualcomm, Portworx by Pure Storage, and Volterra by F5 Networks. He is a serial entrepreneur turned venture capitalist who co-founded three successful companies, including VXtreme, a streaming media platform, acquired by Microsoft to become Windows Media. He is an active philanthropist who supports education, diversity, equity, inclusion, and food scarcity groups. He holds an MS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a B. Tech. degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi, where he was honored with the distinguished IIT Alumni Award.