S2E18: Help United Through Caring Hands
Your Nonprofit Life
My guest is Founder and Executive Director of H.U.T.C.H. (Help United Through Caring Hands), Armishia Wiley-Adams.
info_outline
S2E17: Earning Mentorship. Empowering Leadership.
Your Nonprofit Life
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.
info_outline
Encore: Preserving the White Mountain Apache Culture with Krista Beazley
Your Nonprofit Life
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:
info_outline
Encore Episode: Serving Vulnerable Veterans & Active Service Members
Your Nonprofit Life
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.
info_outline
S2E16: No Starving Artists
Your Nonprofit Life
Dionne Powlenzuk is the Executive Director of the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington in Bowmanville, Ontario Canada.
info_outline
S2E15: Improving the Lives of Horses Now and Later
Your Nonprofit Life
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?
info_outline
S2E14: Managing Childhood Illness With Song
Your Nonprofit Life
Today's guest is a young man who found his life’s purpose while pursuing a music degree at Yale University.
info_outline
S2E13: Loving Bottoms, Changing Minds
Your Nonprofit Life
My guest today is LeeAnn Porter, the Founder and Executive Director of Loving Bottoms Diaper Bank in Galesburg, Illinois.
info_outline
S2E12: Advancing Asian American Christianity
Your Nonprofit Life
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.
info_outline
S2E11: Competent Care for LGBTQIA2S+ Communities
Your Nonprofit Life
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_outlineRutgers is the 8th oldest college in the U.S. having received its charter in 1766—10 years before the Revolution. Recent research documents the university's foundation on land taken from the indigenous Lenape people and at one time benefited from slave labor and funds derived from purchasing and selling slaves.
As you can imagine, it’s not easy creating a sense of belonging for students whose ancestors were directly impacted by this. And for decades...centuries, really... there was no association dedicated to serving the alumni of African descent. But that all changed when students banded together in 1989 to form the original Rutgers African-American Alumni Alliance on campus.
RAAA was re-launched in 2001 (and incorporated in 2006) as an all-volunteer organization serving the African, Afro-Asian, Black/African-American, Afro-Caribbean & Afro-Latinx alumni encompassing all of Rutgers University's undergraduate and graduate schools in New Jersey.
In this episode, my guest, Kendall Hall, shares her passion for building unity and developing camaraderie among students, faculty, and staff of African descent—not only as alumni, but possibly just as important, while they are are actively enrolled in studies at the University. She explains how a student’s experience of belonging while studying at the university directly impacts their involvement as alumni which indirectly impacts the experience future students have at Rutgers.
And it makes sense, right? If you don’t feel like you belong at your university, when you matriculate, you walk away.
Envisioning a more inclusive future for both students and alumni, Kendall has actively been involved in running various aspects of RAAA, Inc. since 2001. Notably, she worked directly with the class of 1971 on the their class gift: the Paul Robeson Plaza to honor one of Rutger’s most famous graduates.
Kendall highlights why this project was so significant for the university, and why she was so intent on helping with it even though she graduated more than 25 years after the class of 71.
I can’t wait for you to meet Kendall Hall, President of Rutger’s African-American Alumni Association, Inc.
https://yournonprofitlife.com/s2e09-kendall-hall