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Many Hands Live
by The Giving Foundation 501(c)(3)
Many Hands Live, a podcast that captures the conversations convened on the first Friday of every other month in the Richmond region of Virginia — when community gathers around a common belief that the future is a group project, and the long arc of history doesn’t bend itself. It takes Many Hands.
Episodes
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Data Centers
This month, Many Hands launched a new bimonthly, 90-minute format designed to give us more room to go deep and talk with one another, not just listen. The topic was a hard one — the explosive growth of data centers across Virginia — guided by founder Becky Lakin alongside two local experts: Sarah...
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A Changing Climate
For this Many Hands, March 2026, the topic was A Changing Climate. Words chosen to validate the experience of all in our Richmond, Virginia Region as we endure the iciest winters, violent storms, and hottest summers on record. How has our climate actually changed? How will it? How can we cope –...
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Gender Belonging
Ellie Burke, meditation teacher and life coach opened our conversation through a meditation. Reminding us that "fear is taught and learned, but courage is found in an open heart.” The perfect invitation to listen to our speaker, Shannon McKay, Executive Director of He She Ze and We. A nonprofit...
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Affordable Housing
For this Many Hands, April 2026, the topic was Affordable Housing. A theme chosen because of the urgency and complexity of what anyone in the know, and in the work, calls a “housing crisis.” What do we mean by the word affordable? What myths act as barriers to progress? What data tells us truths?...
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Our Trauma
Last month we talked about how important it is to be near and in discomfort, as we work to change this moment and our world. This month we explored how to do that being. Our guest and our guide, Amanda Mbata, LCSW and the Clinical Director for Safe Harbor — a 25-year old nonprofit in the Richmond...
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How Do We Help?
For this Many Hands, September 2025, the topic was Helping. A word meant to provoke a conversation about what the word means, and what it asks us to do. And whether or not it’s the right verb needed in this moment, or…do we actually need to serve, not help. In the new world we’re living in…
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Healthcare in America
Every first-Friday Many Hands gathering begins with a shared purpose: to bring people together in real time to understand the challenges of our moment and move – collectively – toward action. Our August 2025 topic has been top of mind and news cycle for months: healthcare in America. Many Hand's...
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Critical Media
On Friday morning, June 6th, at around 8:30 a.m., we opened the doors on our first-Friday forum Many Hands wherein we discussed the attacks on, and important of, public media with Jayme Swain — President and CEO of VPM, Virginia's homes for public broadcasting. This is a recording of that live...
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The Overview Effect
Eight years ago, we started a monthly speaker series called Mindful Mornings in the Richmond region of Virginia that quickly grew to 11 cities and hosted thousands of folks and went on a 40-month run before Covid caused it to halt. And now, five years after the last gathering, in this...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Many Hands Live, a podcast that captures the conversations convened on the first Friday of every other month in the Richmond region of Virginia — when community gathers around a common belief that the future is a group project, and the long arc of history doesn’t bend itself. It takes Many Hands.
HOSTED BY
The Giving Foundation 501(c)(3)
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Many Hands Live, a podcast that captures the conversations convened on the first Friday of every other month in the Richmond region of Virginia — when community gathers around a common belief that the future is a group project, and the long arc of history doesn’t bend itself. It takes Many Hands.
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Many Hands Live is created and hosted by The Giving Foundation 501(c)(3).
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