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Tiny Spark — 156 episodes
'Dirty Work' Raises Moral Questions
How the Prison-Industrial Complex Undermines Immigrant Rights
For This Art Curator, the Aesthetic is Political
Community First! Tiny Homes, Big Intentions
Stanford Professors Take On Silicon Valley
Broadway's Break: A Deep Breath For The Industry?
Tackling Erasures with a 'Radical Archive'
Invisible by Default: What You Won't See on GoFundMe
The Women Forgotten in the Wars We Started
'Missing and Maligned' No More, Muslims Push For Better Roles
Let's Talk About Sex, Sexism and Health Equity
The Wealth Defense Industry - or How Billionaires Hide Their Assets
Power and Consent: Reconsidering Oral History
The Culinary Artist Putting Liberation on the Menu
Food Rescue Hero: Salvaging Food Waste to End Hunger
'We Have Names': Meet the Women Fighting for Climate Justice
Found in Translation Seeks Language Justice
Curator Says It's Time to Tackle Art World's Racist Culture
If Colonialism Is the Disease, Are Reparations the Cure?
Giving Circles: A Gift to Philanthropy
The Humanitarian Sector Needs To Value African Women
The Black Women Making Birth Better
Donors' Behavior Key to #MeToo in Fundraising
The Woman Who 'Saved Mercy Corps'
The Colonialism of Prizes & Publishing
"The Country Does Not Like Me"
Why Teachers, Not Reformers, Should 'Reimagine Education'
'I Don't Feel Like A Hero': Voices from the COVID-19 Front Lines
Former CDC Head Pushes For Equity In Pandemic Policies
Facing 'Existential Threat,' Nonprofit Leaders Hold It Together
COVID-19 Crisis 'Requires Us All To Be Bolder'
When Nonprofit Compensation is 'An Elaborate Game of Pretend'
The Black Woman's Guide To Philanthropy
Resilience on the Reservation
The Guilty Project: 'How Do You Defend Those People?'
The Innocence Project: Challenging The Justice System's Abyss
In Climate Crisis, We Need Love and Science
The You-Sized Hole in the Environmental Movement
Tax Us More says Multimillionaire
For Volunteer Humanitarians, "Solidarity Is Not a Crime"
Baby Bonds: A 'Birthright To Capital'
A Plan To Reverse "Economic Apartheid" In The U.S.
On A Mission To Make White People Uncomfortable
Orphanage Voluntourism – Trafficking on Good Intentions
The Ethics of Nonprofit Storytelling: Survivor Porn and Parading Trauma
How Philanthropy "Captures" Social Movements
Could 'Radical Tough Love' Improve The Internet? These Women Think So
A Place Where You Can Speak Your Mind to That Foundation
Nonprofit AF: Fragility, Frustration And Funding
A Cost Of Med School Debt: Poor Patients, No Doctors
In Epidemics, Outbreak Culture Is As Toxic As Disease
Inequalities In Crowdfunding: An 'American Struggle'
Hey America, Let's Talk About What Divides Us
Is Big Philanthropy Destroying Democracy?
'Rage' or Resolve? Women Are Giving More In 2018
What Can We Do About The White Savior Complex?
How Nonprofits Made The LGBT Movement Straight
Museums Must Open Doors To Today's Realities
Crisis in Home Health Care Will Soon Affect You
Winners Give More As America Loses Out
Update: 'Women Won' Justice After Terrain Hotel Attack
John Valverde: The CEO Of Second Chances
Charity Auctions: What's In It For Artists?
The 'Hypocrisy' Still Hurts After UN Staffer's Assault
Should We Give Our Cash To The Homeless?
Natural Disasters, Aid Groups, And Donor Questions
Why Charity Is 'No Solution' In Unequal Times
Successful Social Change Takes Patience and Audacity
In Global Migrant Crisis, When Are Smugglers 'Saviors'?
'Don't Discount Kindness' When Fighting Hate
The 'Perils' Of Checking Your Privilege
Why Big Philanthropy Needs Scrutiny Not Gratitude
After 'Evil' Experiment, Psychologist Inspires Heroes
The Rise of Philanthropy's 'Shadow Giving System'
Forget Straight A's, Connections Count At Top Colleges
An Idealist's Guide to Avoiding Burnout
Tech Resistance: Giving Voice To The 'Silent Majority'
The Problems With Your Valentine's Day Tip
Worked Up About Trump? Make Time For Art & Music
The Case Against Empathy
Born to the One Percent, Dedicated to the 99
The Giving Code: Silicon Valley's 'Prosperity Paradox'
Sun, Sea And…Laying Cement? A New Type Of Cruise Tries To Do Good
Midnight Basketball: A Popular Distraction to Real Problems
Forget "Teach A Man To Fish…" Just Give Him Cash
One Year On, Water Crisis Stays Personal for Flint Foundation Leader
Power, Patronage and Problems: When Private Wealth Transforms Public Schools
If Public Universities Offer Free Tuition, Who Will Be Left Behind?
Global Health Volunteering: Billions of Dollars, Few Rules
To Advance Racial Justice, Philanthropists Will Need to be Courageous
Heinz Endowments Chief: Philanthropy Faces Critical Test on Racial Equity
Who Really Benefits When Billionaires Give Away their Wealth?
NPR Reporter Exposes Charity's Failings
What's in the Dumpster? Exploring Food Waste and Hunger in America
Doctors Without Borders Explains Decision to Pull Out of World Humanitarian Summit
Why I Want to Take Over the World with Shea Butter
Mom Survives Terrorist Attack With Baby, Vows to Keep Fighting Violent Extremism
Is Philanthropy Fueling Wealth Inequality?
Doing Good as Muslim American and Being Shut Down
In Solving Global Crises, How Useful Are Hashtags and Likes?
From War Photographer to War Crimes Investigator
There's More Aid than Ever, So Why are Poorest Nations Getting Less?
Ardent Aid Critic Says He's Misunderstood
Promo: Doing Good in Repressive Regimes
Occupy Charity: Big Money in Few Hands
Promo: Charities Must Measure What Matters Most
Why are Billions of Charitable Dollars Sitting in the Bank?
Promo: Why are Billions of Donor Dollars Sitting in the Bank?
Part Three: Is This Charity Any Good?
Tools for Good Giving
Is it Better to Give Locally or Globally?
The Great Surge in Developing Nations No One is Talking About
Good Deeds in Cold Blood: Extreme Altruists
Quick Update for our listeners
When a School Markets Students as Charity Cases
Promo: Public School Teachers Get Cozy with Donors
No Tech Solutions for Poverty, says former Microsoft Researcher
Curing Violence Like an Infectious Disease
Building a Self-Reliant Africa from the Bottom-Up
Your Letters: 'Cultural Imperialism,' Aid Work Advice
How Much is a Celebrity Worth? Nonprofits Pay For Star Power
Your Letters: An Ethical Dilemma and Business vs Philanthropy
Does $400M Gift to Harvard Support a Worthy Cause?
Effort to Chart Global Deaths Draws Backlash
Tracking the Aid Money: Mission Impossible
A Global Detour Before College
Promo: A Global Detour Before College
Not If, When: Planning for the Next Nepal
Promo: Preventing Disasters
Promo: Philanthropy & The Business Mindset
Why Philanthropy Should Push Back Against the Business Mindset
Spring Cleaning? Before You Donate It…
Journalist Questions Her Paycheck After Aid Scandal
Charities: Flattering Results, Poor Data
HIV Disclosure: Privacy, Pressure and Public Health
Teaching the Next Generation of Global Innovators
Ebola: One Doctor in a Firefight
The Bright Continent: Rethinking Modern Africa
Promo: The Bright Continent
Essmart: Helping The Poor and Charging a Fee
Lessons from an Expat Aid Worker
Promo: Lessons from an Aid Worker
Slingshot Documentary - An Inventor Doing Good
The Case for Evidence-Based Aid
What Works? The Case for Evidence Based Aid
The Soccket: A Follow-Up Investigation
Should Impoverished Volunteers Be Paid?
Tracking One Man's Quest to End Extreme Poverty
Promo - One Man's "Quest to End Poverty"
Bed Nets & Malaria: Following Up on A Promising Idea
Promo: TOMS Shoes
In Praise of Lost Causes
International Adoption - A Complicated Quest to Do Good
Medical Volunteers In Crisis Zones - Doing Good or Doing Harm?
TOMS Shoes - Is it Good Aid?
Promo: Medical Volunteers