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How to manage your volunteers

Third Sector Podcast - April 26, 2024 09:29 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Lucinda and Emily are joined by Holly Penalver, founder of Indigo Volunteers and volunteer development manager at ShelterBox, and Karolina Praskova, a volunteer at the education charity Climate Ed. Holly provides pointers for effectively managing the volunteer recruitment stage and stresses the...

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The End of Charity episode 6: What is a world without charity?

Third Sector Podcast - April 23, 2024 06:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In November 2023, the finance officer of West Norfolk Carers came to a devastating realisation: after more than a year of rejected funding applications, the charity wouldn’t be able to stay afloat for longer than four months. Several months earlier, the Lankelly Chase Foundation, a grantmaker t...

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Placing people at the forefront of tech innovations

Third Sector Podcast - April 19, 2024 10:29 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Lucinda and Andy are joined by Matt Corbishley, deputy chief executive of Ashgate Hospice, to discuss the charity’s use of new tech solutions in its operations and service delivery. Matt explains why Ashgate Hospice encourages staff to experiment with new forms of IT and artificial intelligence...

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Everyday Freedom: Philip K. Howard

Future Hindsight - April 18, 2024 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratings
Philip K. Howard is the founder and chair of Common Good, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that advocates for simplifying government, and has advised both parties on needed reforms. His latest book is Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society.   Every community...

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Committee Work -Collaborating to Create a Better World for Colleagues and Florida Families

Never Contemplated - April 16, 2024 21:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
In this episode of Never Contemplated, host Judge Hetal Desai talks with two distinguished members of The Florida Bar’s Family Law Section, Sarah Kay, and Shannon Novey. Tune in as they share their expertise and shed light on the intricacies of this multifaceted legal field.  CLE Number: 8460

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The End of Charity episode 5: Power in the wrong hands

Third Sector Podcast - April 16, 2024 06:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
When The Times newspaper’s chief reporter Sean O’Neill broke the story that senior Oxfam aid workers had committed sexual abuse while working in the disaster zone of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, it sent shockwaves around the charity sector and wider society. O’Neill reflects on his memories of un...

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The traumatic side of charity work

Third Sector Podcast - April 12, 2024 09:15 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Lucinda and Emily are joined by the author and mental health consultant Dimple Dhabalia.  Dimple warns of the dangers facing organisations that focus on their charitable mission at the expense of staff wellbeing. She notes the sense of guilt often felt by humanitarian workers suffering the effe...

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Power Sharing Liberalism: Danielle Allen

Future Hindsight - April 11, 2024 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratings
Danielle Allen is the author of Justice by Means of Democracy. She is also the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. We discuss power s...

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The End of Charity episode 4: The political chokehold

Third Sector Podcast - April 09, 2024 06:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In May 2018, three climate activists called time on lukewarm campaigning over the climate crisis. They wanted a different and radical approach. The plan: mass civil disobedience. The name: Extinction Rebellion.  And the first major act of the movement? Stage an occupation – of the Greenpeace o...

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Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War

The US-China Podcast - April 05, 2024 17:23 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
David M. Lampton’s new book addresses a core critique of the management of Sino-American relations across eight administrations: that naïve American elites conflated their hopes for democracy and a globally responsible China with the actual prospects for those ends, and, in the process, traded a...

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What’s happening to individual giving?

Third Sector Podcast - April 05, 2024 10:31 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Lucinda and Andy are joined by Philippa Cornish, head of client experience at the Charities Aid Foundation.  They discuss the implications of CAF’s report into individual giving, which found a smaller pool of donors giving more led to a total uplift in 2023 in spite of the median monthly figure...

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The Founders’ Intentions: Jeffrey Rosen

Future Hindsight - April 04, 2024 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratings
Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center and the author of The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America. We discuss how the Constitution is a framework for a productive conversation for people w...

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Has engagement with China failed? | U.S.-China Counterpoints

The US-China Podcast - April 02, 2024 17:23 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
At the height of the Cold War, the United States made a bold political gamble to engage with an underdeveloped and politically isolated China. Engagement policy transformed not only the Cold War political landscape, but the trajectory of history: China is now one of the largest and most powerful...

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The End of Charity episode 3: Who are charities missing?

Third Sector Podcast - April 02, 2024 06:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Why donate to a charity if you can just help out a fellow human yourself – or buy a piece of premium fashion that promises to generate a similar result? In episode three of The End of Charity, Lucinda Rouse explores two very different alternatives to the charity model: mutual aid theory, and th...

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#7 Two Giant Neighbors of the Pacific Islands: U.S.-China & the World

The US-China Podcast - March 29, 2024 17:25 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
U.S.-China & the World is an interview series investigating how the U.S.-China relationship impacts societies, economies, and policies around the globe. Through short interviews with local experts, this series takes a closer look at the countries and regions affected by and navigating through U...

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In conversation with Dhivya O’Connor

Third Sector Podcast - March 28, 2024 14:54 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Lucinda and Emily Burt are joined by Dhivya O’Connor, chief executive of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women. Dhivya provides insight into her previous experiences as an interim chief executive, describing the pros and cons of holding a short-term leadership role, and stresses the importance ...

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Cancel Student Debt: Braxton Brewington

Future Hindsight - March 28, 2024 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratings
Braxton Brewington is the Press Secretary of the Debt Collective. We discuss the origins of the Debt Collective in the Rolling Jubilee and its history in canceling student debt. Their example is a powerful model for canceling student debt, which continues to be important for all Americans in thi...

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The End of Charity episode 2: Can MrBeast save humanity?

Third Sector Podcast - March 26, 2024 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Meet Jimmy Donaldson, perhaps better known as MrBeast – the 25-year-old YouTuber who some say is on the verge of sparking a revolution in online philanthropy.  With more than 236 million YouTube subscribers and an estimated net worth of $500m, MrBeast has turned his focus from filling houses wi...

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China’s Role in Red Sea Security

The US-China Podcast - March 25, 2024 20:11 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
The United States and its allies have been combating Houthi attacks that have left vital Red Sea shipping lanes vulnerable. China, however, has contributed little to these international efforts. Tensions have risen amid calls for China to join the international effort, prompting discussions on t...

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Where Will China’s Economy Go in 2024?

The US-China Podcast - March 22, 2024 16:02 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
China’s economy is infused into every aspect of the U.S.-China relationship. With tighter U.S. export controls on chips, new technology developments in China, a slowdown in consumer activity, rising electric vehicle competition, and prickly government relations, the Chinese and American economie...

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The hidden history of fundraising

Third Sector Podcast - March 22, 2024 11:23 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Lucinda and Andy are joined by the fundraising historian Marina Jones to track the development of the fundraising profession and perceptions of charity fundraisers through the ages. Marina, who is leading a history project for the think tank Rogare, traces the roots of fundraising back to the t...

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Employ Negative Partisanship: Rachel Bitecofer

Future Hindsight - March 21, 2024 09:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratings
Rachel Bitecofer is a political scientist and election forecaster turned political strategist. Her most recent book is Hit ’Em Where it Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game. We discuss why it's time for Democratic Party candidates to embrace negative partisanship...

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Perspectives on 2024’s Two Sessions

The US-China Podcast - March 19, 2024 20:51 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
The annual meetings of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), known as the “Two Sessions” (“Lianghui”), feature the gathering of political leaders in Beijing each spring to announce plans and goals for the coming year. In 2024, faced ...

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The End of Charity episode 1: The food bank era

Third Sector Podcast - March 19, 2024 08:32 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Last year the UK food bank network the Trussell Trust distributed almost 3 million emergency food parcels, 1 million of which were for children, up from 50,000 a decade ago. How has the UK landed in such a severe hunger crisis – and can food banks ever be the solution? In episode one of The En...

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How a Rusting Warship Became the Hotspot of the South China Sea

The US-China Podcast - March 15, 2024 16:01 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
Second Thomas Shoal, a feature in the South China Sea, is highly contested: both China and the Philippines claim sovereignty over this area and have confronted each other repeatedly around the shoal, stirring tensions that have escalated into a military confrontation between the two countries. ...

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Charities’ use of artificial intelligence

Third Sector Podcast - March 15, 2024 11:38 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Lucinda and Emily are joined by the digital specialist Zoe Amar and Karen Marter, head of technology strategy at the British Heart Foundation. Zoe outlines key developments in the AI space over the past year and how charities are reacting to them, including the use of virtual assistants in work...

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A Real Right to Vote: Richard L. Hasen

Future Hindsight - March 14, 2024 09:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratings
Richard L. Hasen is Professor of Law and Political Science at UCLA and director of UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project. We discuss his most recent book, A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy.   A country that believes that its people are ...

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Coming soon: The End of Charity

Third Sector Podcast - March 13, 2024 09:08 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In a world where need is spiralling out of control and new, radical forces are shaping the landscape for doing good, can charity be the answer to the world’s social and environmental problems? Lucinda Rouse presents The End of Charity, a new podcast series from the makers of Third Sector.  Gui...

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#6 Who are Serbia's partners? : U.S.-China & the World

The US-China Podcast - March 08, 2024 10:28 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
U.S.-China & the World is an interview series investigating how the U.S.-China relationship impacts societies, economies, and policies around the globe. Through short interviews with local experts, this series takes a closer look at the countries and regions affected by and navigating through U...

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In conversation with the British Heart Foundation’s first female boss

Third Sector Podcast - March 08, 2024 09:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Lucinda and Emily are joined by Charmaine Griffiths, chief executive of the British Heart Foundation, to reflect on the voluntary sector’s female-dominated workforce and the challenges facing women on their path to senior leadership positions. Charmaine stresses her conviction that charities ne...