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Tiny Spark — 156 episodes

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'Dirty Work' Raises Moral Questions

2

How the Prison-Industrial Complex Undermines Immigrant Rights

3

For This Art Curator, the Aesthetic is Political

4

Community First! Tiny Homes, Big Intentions

5

Stanford Professors Take On Silicon Valley

6

Broadway's Break: A Deep Breath For The Industry?

7

Tackling Erasures with a 'Radical Archive'

8

Invisible by Default: What You Won't See on GoFundMe

9

The Women Forgotten in the Wars We Started

10

'Missing and Maligned' No More, Muslims Push For Better Roles

11

Let's Talk About Sex, Sexism and Health Equity

12

The Wealth Defense Industry - or How Billionaires Hide Their Assets

13

Power and Consent: Reconsidering Oral History

14

The Culinary Artist Putting Liberation on the Menu

15

Food Rescue Hero: Salvaging Food Waste to End Hunger

16

'We Have Names': Meet the Women Fighting for Climate Justice

17

Found in Translation Seeks Language Justice

18

Curator Says It's Time to Tackle Art World's Racist Culture

19

If Colonialism Is the Disease, Are Reparations the Cure?

20

Giving Circles: A Gift to Philanthropy

21

The Humanitarian Sector Needs To Value African Women

22

The Black Women Making Birth Better

23

Donors' Behavior Key to #MeToo in Fundraising

24

The Woman Who 'Saved Mercy Corps'

25

The Colonialism of Prizes & Publishing

26

"The Country Does Not Like Me"

27

Why Teachers, Not Reformers, Should 'Reimagine Education'

28

'I Don't Feel Like A Hero': Voices from the COVID-19 Front Lines

29

Former CDC Head Pushes For Equity In Pandemic Policies

30

Facing 'Existential Threat,' Nonprofit Leaders Hold It Together

31

COVID-19 Crisis 'Requires Us All To Be Bolder'

32

When Nonprofit Compensation is 'An Elaborate Game of Pretend'

33

The Black Woman's Guide To Philanthropy

34

Resilience on the Reservation

35

The Guilty Project: 'How Do You Defend Those People?'

36

The Innocence Project: Challenging The Justice System's Abyss

37

In Climate Crisis, We Need Love and Science

38

The You-Sized Hole in the Environmental Movement

39

Tax Us More says Multimillionaire

40

For Volunteer Humanitarians, "Solidarity Is Not a Crime"

41

Baby Bonds: A 'Birthright To Capital'

42

A Plan To Reverse "Economic Apartheid" In The U.S.

43

On A Mission To Make White People Uncomfortable

44

Orphanage Voluntourism – Trafficking on Good Intentions

45

The Ethics of Nonprofit Storytelling: Survivor Porn and Parading Trauma

46

How Philanthropy "Captures" Social Movements

47

Could 'Radical Tough Love' Improve The Internet? These Women Think So

48

A Place Where You Can Speak Your Mind to That Foundation

49

Nonprofit AF: Fragility, Frustration And Funding

50

A Cost Of Med School Debt: Poor Patients, No Doctors

51

In Epidemics, Outbreak Culture Is As Toxic As Disease

52

Inequalities In Crowdfunding: An 'American Struggle'

53

Hey America, Let's Talk About What Divides Us

54

Is Big Philanthropy Destroying Democracy?

55

'Rage' or Resolve? Women Are Giving More In 2018

56

What Can We Do About The White Savior Complex?

57

How Nonprofits Made The LGBT Movement Straight

58

Museums Must Open Doors To Today's Realities

59

Crisis in Home Health Care Will Soon Affect You

60

Winners Give More As America Loses Out

61

Update: 'Women Won' Justice After Terrain Hotel Attack

62

John Valverde: The CEO Of Second Chances

63

Charity Auctions: What's In It For Artists?

64

The 'Hypocrisy' Still Hurts After UN Staffer's Assault

65

Should We Give Our Cash To The Homeless?

66

Natural Disasters, Aid Groups, And Donor Questions

67

Why Charity Is 'No Solution' In Unequal Times

68

Successful Social Change Takes Patience and Audacity

69

In Global Migrant Crisis, When Are Smugglers 'Saviors'?

70

'Don't Discount Kindness' When Fighting Hate

71

The 'Perils' Of Checking Your Privilege

72

Why Big Philanthropy Needs Scrutiny Not Gratitude

73

After 'Evil' Experiment, Psychologist Inspires Heroes

74

The Rise of Philanthropy's 'Shadow Giving System'

75

Forget Straight A's, Connections Count At Top Colleges

76

An Idealist's Guide to Avoiding Burnout

77

Tech Resistance: Giving Voice To The 'Silent Majority'

78

The Problems With Your Valentine's Day Tip

79

Worked Up About Trump? Make Time For Art & Music

80

The Case Against Empathy

81

Born to the One Percent, Dedicated to the 99

82

The Giving Code: Silicon Valley's 'Prosperity Paradox'

83

Sun, Sea And…Laying Cement? A New Type Of Cruise Tries To Do Good

84

Midnight Basketball: A Popular Distraction to Real Problems

85

Forget "Teach A Man To Fish…" Just Give Him Cash

86

One Year On, Water Crisis Stays Personal for Flint Foundation Leader

87

Power, Patronage and Problems: When Private Wealth Transforms Public Schools

88

If Public Universities Offer Free Tuition, Who Will Be Left Behind?

89

Global Health Volunteering: Billions of Dollars, Few Rules

90

To Advance Racial Justice, Philanthropists Will Need to be Courageous

91

Heinz Endowments Chief: Philanthropy Faces Critical Test on Racial Equity

92

Who Really Benefits When Billionaires Give Away their Wealth?

93

NPR Reporter Exposes Charity's Failings

94

What's in the Dumpster? Exploring Food Waste and Hunger in America

95

Doctors Without Borders Explains Decision to Pull Out of World Humanitarian Summit

96

Why I Want to Take Over the World with Shea Butter

97

Mom Survives Terrorist Attack With Baby, Vows to Keep Fighting Violent Extremism

98

Is Philanthropy Fueling Wealth Inequality?

99

Doing Good as Muslim American and Being Shut Down

100

In Solving Global Crises, How Useful Are Hashtags and Likes?

101

From War Photographer to War Crimes Investigator

102

There's More Aid than Ever, So Why are Poorest Nations Getting Less?

103

Ardent Aid Critic Says He's Misunderstood

104

Promo: Doing Good in Repressive Regimes

105

Occupy Charity: Big Money in Few Hands

106

Promo: Charities Must Measure What Matters Most

107

Why are Billions of Charitable Dollars Sitting in the Bank?

108

Promo: Why are Billions of Donor Dollars Sitting in the Bank?

109

Part Three: Is This Charity Any Good?

110

Tools for Good Giving

111

Is it Better to Give Locally or Globally?

112

The Great Surge in Developing Nations No One is Talking About

113

Good Deeds in Cold Blood: Extreme Altruists

114

Quick Update for our listeners

115

When a School Markets Students as Charity Cases

116

Promo: Public School Teachers Get Cozy with Donors

117

No Tech Solutions for Poverty, says former Microsoft Researcher

118

Curing Violence Like an Infectious Disease

119

Building a Self-Reliant Africa from the Bottom-Up

120

Your Letters: 'Cultural Imperialism,' Aid Work Advice

121

How Much is a Celebrity Worth? Nonprofits Pay For Star Power

122

Your Letters: An Ethical Dilemma and Business vs Philanthropy

123

Does $400M Gift to Harvard Support a Worthy Cause?

124

Effort to Chart Global Deaths Draws Backlash

125

Tracking the Aid Money: Mission Impossible

126

A Global Detour Before College

127

Promo: A Global Detour Before College

128

Not If, When: Planning for the Next Nepal

129

Promo: Preventing Disasters

130

Promo: Philanthropy & The Business Mindset

131

Why Philanthropy Should Push Back Against the Business Mindset

132

Spring Cleaning? Before You Donate It…

133

Journalist Questions Her Paycheck After Aid Scandal

134

Charities: Flattering Results, Poor Data

135

HIV Disclosure: Privacy, Pressure and Public Health

136

Teaching the Next Generation of Global Innovators

137

Ebola: One Doctor in a Firefight

138

The Bright Continent: Rethinking Modern Africa

139

Promo: The Bright Continent

140

Essmart: Helping The Poor and Charging a Fee

141

Lessons from an Expat Aid Worker

142

Promo: Lessons from an Aid Worker

143

Slingshot Documentary - An Inventor Doing Good

144

The Case for Evidence-Based Aid

145

What Works? The Case for Evidence Based Aid

146

The Soccket: A Follow-Up Investigation

147

Should Impoverished Volunteers Be Paid?

148

Tracking One Man's Quest to End Extreme Poverty

149

Promo - One Man's "Quest to End Poverty"

150

Bed Nets & Malaria: Following Up on A Promising Idea

151

Promo: TOMS Shoes

152

In Praise of Lost Causes

153

International Adoption - A Complicated Quest to Do Good

154

Medical Volunteers In Crisis Zones - Doing Good or Doing Harm?

155

TOMS Shoes - Is it Good Aid?

156

Promo: Medical Volunteers