S2E18: Help United Through Caring Hands
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My guest is Founder and Executive Director of H.U.T.C.H. (Help United Through Caring Hands), Armishia Wiley-Adams.
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S2E17: Earning Mentorship. Empowering Leadership.
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DeLashea Strawder is the Executive Director and Artistic Director of the Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit. Mosaic is a nonprofit organization which unleashes the creative talents of youth while developing leadership skills.
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Encore: Preserving the White Mountain Apache Culture with Krista Beazley
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In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States, we are re-releasing an educational and inspirational interview with someone whose people lived here before the country was “discovered.” Krista Beazley is now serving as the Executive Director of the Fort Apache Heritage Foundation. Hear about her journey into nonprofit leadership which began after the death of her husband. Show notes:
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Encore Episode: Serving Vulnerable Veterans & Active Service Members
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Happy Veterans Day! In this episode, you’ll meet KellyAnn Romanych, daughter of a Veteran and Deputy Director of Veterans Legal Institute in Southern California. VLI provides pro bono legal assistance to homeless, at-risk, disabled and low-income—current and former—service members to eradicate barriers to housing, healthcare, education, and employment, and foster self-sufficiency.
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S2E16: No Starving Artists
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Dionne Powlenzuk is the Executive Director of the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington in Bowmanville, Ontario Canada.
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S2E15: Improving the Lives of Horses Now and Later
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Have you ever thought about what happens to abused and neglected horses? Or what happens when a horse owner loses her job and can’t afford to care for her well-loved four-hoofed friend?
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S2E14: Managing Childhood Illness With Song
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Today's guest is a young man who found his life’s purpose while pursuing a music degree at Yale University.
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S2E13: Loving Bottoms, Changing Minds
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My guest today is LeeAnn Porter, the Founder and Executive Director of Loving Bottoms Diaper Bank in Galesburg, Illinois.
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S2E12: Advancing Asian American Christianity
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Reverend Young Lee Hertig is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of both the Innovative Space for Asian American Christianity AND Asian American Women On Leadership. She’s the Editor-In-Chief of ChristianityNext, and the author of The Tao of Asian American Belonging: A Yinist Spirituality.
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S2E11: Competent Care for LGBTQIA2S+ Communities
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In this episode, we turn our focus to PRIDE and the nationwide celebration of LGBTQIA2S+ humans who deserve the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness just like everyone else.
info_outlineThis episode features one of the most unique nonprofit organizations I'm aware of. In fact, as far as we know, this is one of only two organizations with this mission in the entire world. Let's set the stage a little bit.
Like many of you, my family switched to watching Sunday Services online when the pandemic was declared. Last week's sermon was based on a passage in the book of Numbers in the Hebrew Scriptures where the people were being bitten by snakes. Not exactly the kind of story you're expecting to hear on a Sunday morning! Then the priest shared a story about her own experience being trolled by a snake in her backyard. She cannot stand snakes!
Maybe you're now thinking about all the movies you've seen where snakes are the representation of evil, or maybe even they're the villains themselves.
Well, today we're here to flip the narrative around snakes and learn about them from a completely different perspective.
My guest today is Melissa Amarello, the founder and executive director of Advocates for Snake Preservation (A.S.P.).
Asp! Isn't that a cool name for this organization?!
Melissa has been fascinated with snakes since she was a little girl, but it wasn't until she was in college that she saw her first rattlesnake out in the wild. And that experience changed the trajectory of her career.
Over time, Melissa realized that she had a gift for helping people better understand snakes. She found that being face-to-face with people, she could break through the misinformation and help people care about the snakes they might encounter in their yards or out on a trail.
Melissa focused her passion, started a nonprofit from scratch, and is now the first paid staff at her organization, the Executive Director. Her story will inspire and educate you.
https://yournonprofitlife.com/s2e06-melissa-amarello