57: Monrovia Football Academy is changing lives in Liberia through soccer—with William Smith
While traveling in Liberia as an undergraduate research student, William Smith played in 7am pickup soccer games. As the captain of the vars...
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Shin Fujiyama is a CNN Hero and the Executive Director of Students Helping Honduras. He lives with 30 former street children in Honduras where he runs a school and international NGO out of a...
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20 of 58 episodes56: How Kentucky students raised $25,000 in one night—with Jacob Dietz
During his senior year at the University of Kentucky, Jacob Dietz made it his mission to raise $25,000 for Students Helping Honduras . He an...
55: Lessons on impact travel—with Rich Johnson from Spark Ventures
Rich Johnson is the co-founder of Spark Ventures , a nonprofit focused on international community development in Zambia, Mexico, and Nicarag...
54: How to raise $25,000+ with a charity gala, step-by-step
Alex Altman and Zeke Copic are longtime supporters of Students Helping Honduras. They have been organizing a charity gala each year in NYC c...
53: How nonprofits can leave the treadmill of financial survival in 5 steps - Kathleen Janus
Countless nonprofit organizations are stuck on the treadmill of financial survival. Most of their energy is spent trying to make payroll at...
52: How to fundraise $45,000 on campus for your favorite charity - Steve Sexton
"Everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong," said Steve Sexton. His first major fundraising event as the chapter president of Studen...
51: Using standup comedy & improv to help war veterans — Sam Pressler
While studying at the College of William & Mary, Sam Pressler learned about the post-traumatic stress disorder war veterans were facing as t...
50: What are RCTs and how will they transform development aid? With Noam Angrist
Today's guest is Noam Angrist, the founder of Young 1ove , an NGO providing sex education to 35,000+ young people in Botswana. Sex-ed is a c...
49: Providing health training to 90,000 people in the hospitals of India, with Katy Ashe
Katy Ashe is the co-founder of Noora Health , a tech NGO in India. When she visited the hospitals of Bangalore as a graduate student, she sa...
48: How Annie "The Jackfruit Lady" Ryu built a health food company in India instead of a nonprofit
While volunteering in India as an undergraduate student, Annie Ryu fell in love at first sight. What she saw at the market wasn't tall, dark...
47: Growing a nonprofit since age 12 to help soldiers & veterans in need—Forbes 30U30 Robbie Bergquist
When Robbie was 12 and his sister Brittany was 13, they heard the story of a soldier returning from Iraq with a near $8,000 phone bill. They...
46: One conservationist's quest to hep the animals in the jungles of Indonesia—with Adam Miller
Most foreigners who visit Indonesia end up at the beaches of Bali. But not Adam Miller, a young conservationist from St. Louis. While volunt...
45: How Swipe Out Hunger served 1.3 million meals using leftover meal swipes on campus—with Rachel Sumekh, Forbes 30 Under 30
How did Rachel Sumekh (founder and CEO of Swipe Out Hunger ) respond when she was told "you're just too nice to be a leader"? In this episod...
44: One woman's quest to run a girls school in war-torn Afghanistan—with CNN Hero Razia Jan
Every morning for nearly a decade, CNN Hero Razia Jan drank a cup of water from her school's well to make sure it hadn't been poisoned overn...
43: One man's quest to end child trafficking around the world—Andy Stein, Founder of Orphaned Starfish Foundation
As an investment banker, Andy Stein never imagined that a visit to an orphanage in Chile would change his life, and the life of thousands of...
#42: One doctor's quest to cure the poor, while living on a fishing boat—with Doctor Ben LaBrot, CNN Hero
WARNING: If you are involved or will be involved in the medical field, this episode may alter your future aspirations... CNN Hero Dr. Ben La...
#41: One teacher's quest to create an education movement in Colombia—with Henry May
Social entrepreneur Henry May is the founder of CoSchool , a B-Corp * that's worked with 5,000 youth in Bogota, Colombia. CoSchool works to...
#40: One lawyer's quest to build schools around the world—with Doug Bunch of Global Playground
Today's guest is social entrepreneur Doug Bunch, a full-time attorney from DC and the co-founder of Global Playground . It's a nonprofit org...
#39: Shin Fujiyama's biggest failure moments in Honduras
Today's episode is the opposite of what I usually do. I'm actually crossposting a podcast episode where I'm the guest answering questions. S...
#38: ONE 28-year-old's quest to provide clean water to the ENTIRE NATION of Swaziland—with Seth Maxwell, Forbes 30U30
Social Entrepreneur Seth Maxwell has the goal of providing clean water to every single community in Swaziland. And at age 28, he is on his w...