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Charity Talks
by Charity Talks
Charity Talks is the podcast designed to help people learn about great local, national and international nonprofits through interviews with their leaders, and highlights inspirational people making a huge impact in the world.
Episodes
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Cristian Rivera Foundation
John Gungie Rivera, the founder of the Cristian Rivera Foundation, is this episode's guest. John started the foundation in honor of his four year old son, Cristian, who was diagnosed with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), a rare brain tumor located in the stem of the brain. During the...
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Love Light + Melody
Brad Corrigan, the director of the film Ileana's Smile, co-founder of the band Dispatch, and founder of Love Light + Melody, joins Charity Talks. In 2006, Brad founded Love Light + Melody and built a global community of supporters who are helping transform the lives of children, primarily in...
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Navy SEAL Foundation
Robin King, the CEO of the Navy SEAL Foundation (NSF), is this episode's guest. As Robin and Brooke discuss, NSF provides critical support for warriors, veterans and families of Naval Special Warfare. It offers assistance in a wide variety of areas, from health to education. NSF provides millions...
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Cure Alzheimer's Fund
Meg Smith, the CEO of Cure Alzheimer's Fund, joins Charity Talks. Cure Alzheimer's Fund is dedicated to funding research with the highest probability of preventing, slowing or reversing Alzheimer's disease. The brain is the most complex organ in the human body, and as Meg and Brooke discuss, that...
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Trickle Up
Lauren Hendricks, the President and CEO of Trickle Up, is this episode's guest. Trickle Up partners with women in extreme poverty to build economic opportunities through programs rooted in the "Graduation Approach." As Lauren and Brooke discuss, Trickle Up's programs reach the most marginalized...
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Pancakes For Roger
Susan Combs, the Founder of Pancakes For Roger, joins Charity Talks. Susan founded Pancakes for Roger to honor her father, Major General Roger E. Combs, by helping veteran address the unique challenges they face during and after their service. Through partnerships with 501(c)(3) organizations and...
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Atina
Marijana Savic, the Founder and Director of Atina, and Board Director of Global Fund for Children, is this episode's guest. Atina is a Serbia-based nonprofit that fights against human trafficking. As Maja and Brooke discuss, not only does Atina help the transition process for trafficking victims,...
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Global Fund for Children/Society for Science
Maya Ajmera, founder of the Global Fund for Children (GFC), and President & CEO of Society for Science and Executive Publisher of Science News, joins Charity Talks. GFC invests in innovative, community-based organizations around the world to help children and youth reach their full potential and...
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4Amanda.Org
Dan Hubbard, the founder and Director of 4Amanda.Org, is this episode’s guest. 4Amanda is a non-profit foundation that provides emergency financial support to cancer patients. The foundation is named for Amanda Pagans-Hubbard, Dan’s deceased wife, who with Dan set up the foundation before her...
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Fisher House Foundation
David Coker, the President of Fisher House Foundation, joins Charity Talks. The Foundation builds comfort homes where military and veteran families can stay free of charge while a loved one is in the hospital, and are located in military and VA medical centers around the world. The Foundation…
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Charity Entrepreneurship
Joey Savoie, the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Charity Entrepreneurship, is this episode’s guest. CE’s core mission is to launch high-impact nonprofits by connecting entrepreneurs with effective ideas, training and funding. As Joey and Brooke discuss, each year CE dedicates hundreds of...
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I AM ALS
Andrea Goodman, the CEO of I AM ALS, joins Charity Talks. I AM ALS was founded by Brian Wallach and his wife Sandra after he was diagnosed with ALS in 2017. ALS is a terminal neurodegenerative disease that robs people of their ability to move, speak, eat, and breathe, usually in less than five...
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Teaching at the Right Level Africa
Titus Syengo, the Executive Director of Teaching at the Right Level Africa (“TaRL”), is this episode’s guest. TaRL began as a joint venture between Pratham and J-PAL (whose Global Executive Director — Iqbal Dhaliwal — was a guest on Charity Talks last year). Its primary goal is to strengthen...
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WHOlives
John Renouard, the Founder and Executive Director of WHOlives, joins Charity Talks. On a trip to Africa in 2010, John was shocked to see how little access to clean water many villages he visited had. So, working with college engineering students, he invented the “Village Drill,” which is a low...
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FundLife
Marko Kasic, the Founder of FundLife, is this episode's guest. FundLife works directly on the ground in the Philippines, where a very high percentage of children live in poverty and without access to the tools to develop flourishing lives. FundLife has developed a youth-led, community-first...
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StrongMinds
Sean Mayberry, the founder and CEO of StrongMinds, joins Charity Talks. StrongMinds treats depression suffered by women largely in Africa. For African women, depression is a leading cause of disability. Yet, due to the lack of investment in mental health services, approximately 85% of people in...
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Cochrane
Catherine Spencer, the CEO of Cochrane, is this episode’s guest. Cochrane is a global organization that collaborates to produce trusted health evidence, make it accessible to all, and advocate for its use. Its work is internationally recognized as the benchmark for high-quality information about...
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Rainforest Trust
Dr. James Deutsch, the CEO of Rainforest Trust, joins Charity Talks. For more than 30 years, Rainforest Trust’s primary mission has been to raise funds in order to make grants in Africa, Asia and South America that preserve and protect land and habitats there. As James and Brooke discuss, by...
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Friends of Mewar
Princess Padmaja Kumari Parmar, the Founder and President of Friends of Mewar, is this episode’s guest. Padmaja is the daughter of the House of Mewar, which was founded in 734 AD and is the world’s longest, unbroken serving dynasty. She founded Friends of Mewar to address three pressing problems…
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Pump Aid
Michael Chuter, the Chief Executive of Pump Aid, joins Charity Talks. Pump Aid works primarily in Malawi, and its goal is to achieve lasting positive change in the poorest and most disadvantaged communities there by implementing water, sanitation, and hygiene programs. As Michael and Brooke...
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National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation
Christopher Cassidy, the President and CEO of the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation (“NMOHMF”), is this episode’s guest. Chris attended the U.S. Naval Academy and became a Navy SEAL, before becoming a commander of SEAL units in Afghanistan. After Chris left the SEALs, he joined NASA as an...
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Happier Lives Institute
Dr. Michael Plant, the Founder and Director of the Happier Lives Institute, joins Charity Talks. While studying for his PhD in moral philosophy at the University of Oxford, Michael realized that there was a pressing need for more research on the most cost-effective, evidence-based ways to improve...
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J-PAL
Iqbal Dhaliwal, the Global Executive Director of MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), is this episode’s guest. J-PAL’s mission for the last twenty years has been to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Anchored by a network of hundreds of...
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The Humane League
Dr. Vicky Bond, the President of The Humane League, joins Charity Talks. As Vicky and Brooke discuss, animals raised for food (including predominantly chickens) suffer from abuses in factory farms at a scale that is shocking. THL exists to end the abuse of these animals. It does so by influencing...
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Cure Brain Cancer Foundation
Lance Kawaguchi, the CEO of Cure Brain Cancer Foundation, is this episode’s guest. As Lance and Brooke discuss, there has been very little progress made in the treatment of brain cancer in the last few decades, despite the fact that brain cancer has such a terrible impact on the people afflicted...
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Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
Bonnie Carroll, the President and Founder of the Tragedy and Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), joins Charity Talks. Since 1994, TAPS has offered compassionate care to all those grieving a military loss. As Bonnie and Brooke discuss, TAPS has a variety of programs that help so many affected...
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The END Fund
Ellen Agler, the CEO of the END Fund, and Mark Stoleson, the CEO of Legatum, are this episode’s guests. In 2006, Legatum realized that millions of people in Rwanda and Burundi were needlessly suffering from treatable neglected tropical diseases, such as intestinal worms, so it decided to fund...
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Instiglio
Siegrid Holler, a partner and founding member at Instiglio, joins Charity Talks. Instiglio is based in Bogota, Columbia, and its mission is to ensure that every dollar spent on social programs in low and middle-income countries has the greatest possible impact. By focusing on three areas —…
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The Taimaka Project
Parth Ahya, the cofounder of The Taimaka Project, is this episode’s guest. Taimaka works hand-in-hand with rural communities, primarily in Africa, to tackle hunger and malnutrition. The problem it is addressing is post-harvest food insecurity arising from farmers being forced to sell their crops...
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Faunanalytics
Brooke Haggerty, the Executive Director of Faunalytics, joins Charity Talks. Faunalytics’ mission is to empower animal advocates by providing them with access to research and strategies that maximize their effectiveness in reducing animal suffering. It does so by conducting essential research,...
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Humanitix
Joshua Ross, the co-founder of Humanitix, is this episode’s guest. Humanitix is an online event ticketing business that Josh and his childhood friend founded when they realized that there was an opportunity to disrupt the ticketing business. But their real innovation was their decision to donate...
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Giving Multiplier
Joshua Greene, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and co-founder of Giving Multiplier, joins Charity Talks. During the podcast, Joshua and Brooke discuss the “heart” versus “head” dilemma surrounding charitable giving, and the behavioral research his team at Harvard has been doing that...
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New Incentives
Svetha Janumpalli, the Founder and CEO of New Incentives, is this episode’s guest. New Incentives is an innovative nonprofit that uses small cash payments to boost childhood vaccinations in North West, Nigeria, which has some of the lowest childhood vaccination rates in the world. In partnership...
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Hearing Health Foundation
Timothy Higdon, the President and CEO of Hearing Health Foundation, joins Charity Talks. HHF is the largest nonprofit funder of hearing and balance research in the United States, and for more than 60 years, HHF has awarded scientific research grants to foster the development of cochlear implant...
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World Neighbors
Dr. Kate Schecter, the President and CEO of World Neighbors, is this episode’s guest. During the podcast, Kate and Brooke discuss how World Neighbors focuses on training and educating communities around the world to find lasting solutions to the challenges they face, such as hunger, poverty and...
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American Indian College Fund
Cheryl Crazy Bull, the President and CEO of the American Indian College Fund, joins Charity Talks. The College Fund has been providing scholarships to Native American students for over 30 years. In addition to scholarships, the College Fund provides critical funding to tribal colleges and...
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Giving What We Can
Luke Freeman, the Executive Director of Giving What We Can, is this episode's guest. Giving What We Can was founded by Oxford philosophers Toby Ord and William MacAskill to inspire donations to the world's most effective organizations. It was one of the first groups focused on Effective Altruism,...
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Ronald McDonald House Charities
Kelly Dolan, the CEO and President of Ronald McDonald House Charities, joins Charity Talks. The mission of RMHC is to create, find and support programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children and their families. It is best known for its Ronald McDonald House® programs around…
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National Organization for Rare Disorders
Debbie Drell, the Director of Membership for the National Organization for Rare Disorders, is this episode’s guest. NORD is the leading advocacy organization representing patients and families affected by rare diseases, and is committed to the identification, treatment and cure of 7,000 rare...
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The Conservation Fund
Whitney Flanagan, the Marketing and Communications Director of the Conservation Fund, joins Charity Talks. The Conservation Fund protects America’s most critical lands and water to provide greater access to nature, strengthen local economies and enhance climate resiliency. The Fund's programs…
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High Impact Athletes
Marcus Daniell, the Founder and CEO of High Impact Athletes, is this episode’s guest. Marcus is a professional tennis player and two-time Olympian representing New Zealand, and founded HIA after he engaged with the Effective Altruism philosophy and movement. Effective Altruism asks “how can we…
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Team Rubicon
Art delaCruz, the CEO of Team Rubicon, joins Charity Talks. Team Rubicon is an international disaster response nonprofit that unites the skills and experiences of military veterans with first responders to rapidly provide relief to communities in need. Team Rubicon’s over 130,000 volunteers…
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National Down Syndrome Society
Kandi Pickard, the President and CEO of the National Down Syndrome Society, is this episode’s guest. As the leading human rights organization for individuals with Down Syndrome, NDSS’s goal is a world in which all those who live with this syndrome have the opportunity to enhance their quality of...
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Temple Grandin
Dr. Temple Grandin, professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University, is this episode’s guest. Dr. Grandin is a trailblazing advocate for the humane treatment of livestock, an inventor, a best-selling author, and a widely-sought speaker on autism. In 2010, Time 100, an annual list of the...
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Children Incorporated
Ronald Carter, the President and CEO of Children Incorporated, joins Charity Talks and discusses CI’s mission to help impoverished children in the United States and 22 countries around the world. CI does this in two key ways: through child sponsorship and special funds. Sponsorship ensures that...
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SCI Foundation
Dr. Wendy Harrison, the CEO of the SCI Foundation, is this episode’s guest. SCI’s vision is a world free of preventable diseases. One preventable disease that SCI is focusing on eradicating is caused by parasitic worm infections, which is not a problem those in developed countries hear about very...
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Innovations for Poverty Action
Annie Duflo, the Executive Director of Innovations for Poverty Action, joins Charity Talks to discuss IPA’s mission to create high quality evidence for the best interventions to alleviate poverty. IPA has programs that improve education in developing countries and reduce human trafficking in...
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Project Bantu Philippines
Jaime Benedicto, the Director of Project Bantu Philippines, is this episode’s guest. Project Bantu Philippines uses the music and movements of Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian art that combines the elements of dance, acrobatics and music, to help children and young people from the poorest…
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Innocence Project
Keith Harward, who spent 33 years in prison for crimes he did not commit, and Nigel Quiroz, an attorney and policy analyst at the Innocence Project, are this episode’s guests. During the podcast, Keith discusses how he was wrongly convicted of a murder and sexual assault based on faulty forensic...
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World Resources Institute
Caitlin Smith of the World Resources Institute joins Charity Talks. WRI is a global research organization spanning more than 60 countries that is dedicated to working with leaders in those counties to sustain the world’s natural resources. From climate, energy and water, to our oceans and cities,...
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Charity Talks is the podcast designed to help people learn about great local, national and international nonprofits through interviews with their leaders, and highlights inspirational people making a huge impact in the world.
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