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The Rebuild Conversations: On asking uncomfortable and disruptive questions.

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - April 11, 2024 15:31 - 12 minutes ★ - 1 rating
The Rebuild Conversations is a series in which the No-Cost Extension team checks in with the Rebuild India Fund Investment Committee members to see how they’re doing, what they’ve been learning and how they envisage for the future of the Fund. Rebuild India’s mission is to provide grassroot or...

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Vishal Talreja on burnout and the road to rebuilding oneself and one's organization

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - March 28, 2024 04:07 - 53 minutes ★ - 1 rating
Twenty five years ago Vishal Talreja founded Dream-a-Dream as a voluntary effort in Mumbai with eleven other individuals who were committed to working with young people.  Since then, Ðream-A-Dream has become a non-profit that works with close to 5 million children across six Indian states, wit...

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Rahima Khatun carries her father’s legacy in to the 21st century

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - March 14, 2024 08:18 - 26 minutes ★ - 1 rating
Rahima Khatun has been associated with Nari-O-Shishu Kalyan Kendra (NOSKK)  an NGO working extensively with  the rights and dignity of women and children across West Bengal for over two decades.  The earliest seed for NOSKK was sown on Republic Day in 1952 when Rahima’s father started a commun...

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A Conversation About Child Support, Special Needs Children, Divorce and More

The Black Nonprofits and Business Podcast - March 04, 2024 06:07 - 1 hour
Miriam Rhoden-Shedden has been an attorney since December 2016. She is barred in Jamaica, Vermont, and Maryland and will be starting the process of becoming barred in DC in February 2024. Since 2022, she has handled family law cases and recently started handling landlord and tenant matters. Sh...

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Yasmin Madan of Co-Impact: Remeasure the metrics of success:

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - February 29, 2024 06:19 - 47 minutes ★ - 1 rating
From selling horlicks in the Burdwan coalmine districts to studying filmmaking, this week’s guest on No-Cost Extension, Yasmin Madan has led a rich and varied life.  After holding various senior level positions at PSI and serving as the Private Sector Lead at Thinkwell, Yasmini joined Co-Impac...

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Deepa Pawar: As mediators for our community’s rights, we remain accountable to them

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - February 15, 2024 03:07 - 44 minutes ★ - 1 rating
Deepa Pawar is the founder and director of the Anubhuti Trust, an organization formed and self-led by women, with the intention to work with youth on developing their leadership so that there are aware and responsible youth in society who can lead change for a more just and equitable world. In...

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Episode 104: Conversations with Industry Icons - Episode 30 with Susan Doliner

Thompson & Associates - February 13, 2024 00:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
You don't want to miss this inspiring episode of Conversations with Industry Leaders featuring Susan Doliner from Maine Medical Center.   In this 12-minute podcast, Sue shares: The priceless key to making a tremendous impact; Where the spirit of philanthropy shows up; The most impo...

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Nandita Pradhan Bhatt : What we try to question is about dignity

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - February 01, 2024 03:56 - 48 minutes ★ - 1 rating
What is it like to dedicate one's life to working for some of the most under-represented groups? Nandita Pradhan Bhatt is the Director of the Martha Farrell Foundation, an NGO that supports informal, migrant workers, mostly female domestic workers and adolescent children to build their leadershi...

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Our Relationship With Nature Is Broken says Deep Jyoti Sonu Brahma

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - January 18, 2024 05:34 - 51 minutes ★ - 1 rating
After a short year end break, No-Cost Extension is back! In the first episode of 2024, Deval sits down with Deep Jyoti Sonu Brahma, co-founder of Farm2Food Foundation. Deep speaks of his early years growing up and studying in Arunachal Pradesh, the impact the turbulent times in the North Easte...

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Why You Need a Will, Trust, and Power of Attorney - ASAP!

The Black Nonprofits and Business Podcast - January 17, 2024 19:51 - 1 hour
Ep. #82 - This is a topic that has become near and dear to my heart because it's something I'm currently in the process of doing. Many people in the Black community have lost MILLIONS because we were never taught about wills, probate, trusts, power of attorney, etc.  The lack of this knowledge i...

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How to Get A Job With The Federal Government

The Black Nonprofits and Business Podcast - December 18, 2023 22:46 - 37 minutes
Ep. #81 - As a senior HR professional in the Federal Government, Dalton Grisham will help you land your dream job and take your career to the next level. He has helped clients like transform their resumes, hone their applications, and improve their interview skills to dramatically increase their...

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Revathi Radhakrishnan says ‘When a child dies, hope dies.'

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - December 14, 2023 09:12 - 43 minutes ★ - 1 rating
Revathi Radhakrishnan is the founder-director of the Vanavil Trust, a non profit founded in  2004 that supports children of two Nomadic communities: Boom Boom Mattikarars and Narikuravars, in Tamil Nadu. After 17 years of working with the communities, Vanavil now has grown into an organisation t...

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Dhruv Lakra Is A Hustler At Heart

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - November 30, 2023 06:14 - 48 minutes ★ - 1 rating
Season 3 of No-Cost Extension kicks off with host Deval Sanghavi in conversation with Dhruv Lakra, founder and CEO of Mirakle Couriers, a for- profit courier service that employs low income deaf adults thereby delinking charity with disability.  Dhruv grew up in Kashmir before moving to Mumbai...

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Season 3 Trailer!

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - November 24, 2023 07:35 - 2 minutes ★ - 1 rating
Deval Sanghavi is back with a new season of No-Cost Extension! In this season Deval’s talking to some of the most committed social leaders from India and around the world on what it’s like to work towards the challenging goal of equity. Deval and his guests also speak about what it is like to ru...

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Episode 103: Conversations with Industry Icons - Episode 29 with Grant Whitney

Thompson & Associates - November 10, 2023 00:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
There's no better way to kick off the relaunch than with experienced charitable gift planner, Grant Whitney. Previously with Harvard for 21 years, Grant is celebrating his first anniversary at Mass General Hospital. In this 19-minute podcast, Grant shares what inspired his work in phila...

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How To Build Wealth Through Life Insurance

The Black Nonprofits and Business Podcast - October 22, 2023 06:14 - 52 minutes
Ep. #80 - At Your Family, Your Legacy, Whitney Thompkins is your family’s life insurance advisor. After gaining invaluable experience working alongside a successful producer who was catering to a high net-worth, mature clientele, Whitney found her calling in sharing her wealth of knowledge with ...

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How does it all begin?

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - June 30, 2023 08:13 - 24 minutes ★ - 1 rating
How does it all begin? Was there a singular experience or encounter that sparked a desire to work on social change? How do you go from being affected by an issue, to contributing a few times, to the realisation that there is more to this? - that working in social change could be the calling, or ...

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What does impact mean to you?

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - June 01, 2023 07:34 - 14 minutes ★ - 1 rating
Over the past two seasons, host Deval Sanghavi has talked about the idea of impact with his guests: what does it mean and what should it mean? How can we further our understanding of social impact?  From the archives we bring you Donald Lobo of the Chintu Gudiya Foundation, Karen Doff of Shara...

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Learning from Gagan Sethi

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - May 17, 2023 10:30 - 35 minutes ★ - 1 rating
Gagan Sethi is the founder of Janvikas, an NGO that has worked in the space of holistic human development for over three decades. Gagan has helped set up several strategic organizations in the country, like Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan, Sahjeevan, Drishti, Centre for Social justice and the HID f...

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Loren Cardeli wants to take on the Food Industrial Complex

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - May 03, 2023 11:05 - 49 minutes ★ - 1 rating
Loren Cardeli is the Executive Director at A Growing Culture, a non profit that believes in food sovereignty for everyone everywhere and works with farmers to ensure they decide what to grow, where to grow it and who to sell it to. Deval and Loren met at a Synergos retreat and found they had mu...

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Going Platinum: Past, Present and Future of Civil Society in India @ 75

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - April 20, 2023 04:17 - 32 minutes ★ - 1 rating
We're pausing our regular programming on No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi to bring you this panel discussion from Dasra Philanthropy Week 2023. Deval will be back next week with a new guest! The Going Platinum: Past, Present and Future of Civil Society in India @ 75 report is a collective...

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We Are All Philanthropists, says Sonal Shah

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - April 04, 2023 13:45 - 39 minutes ★ - 1 rating
Sonal Shah has spent her career both in the private and public sector, including stints with Goldman Sachs, Google.org and The White House. She is currently the CEO of The Texas Tribune, a politics and public policy-specific news organization. But before embarking on her illustrious career, ma...

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Who has Spencer Mcpherson shot?

What's in the Goody Bag with Julie Kent MBE - March 31, 2023 03:00 - 37 minutes
What makes a man leave the City where he could make lots of money to become a photographer? But Spencer is no ordinary photographer having shot Hilary Clinton, Bono, Vivienne Westwood and most of the celebs that sit on Graham Norton's sofas. Oh, he shot Graham too, many times! He had just retur...

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When you plan for the most vulnerable, you make the world work better for everyone - Jo and Ravi Chopra

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - March 22, 2023 05:15 - 47 minutes ★ - 1 rating
Jo McGowan and Ravi Chopra met in the 70s and fell in love through the post. They got married and moved to India in the early 80s and have since dedicated their lives to serving the communities they live in, albeit in very different ways. From helping set up The Front for Rapid Economic Advanc...

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The first thing you have to know is that you don't know anything - Dr. Armida Fernandez and Vanessa D’Souza

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - March 09, 2023 04:08 - 47 minutes ★ - 1 rating
How do you begin to break intergenerational cycles of poor health and violence in a megapolis? What evidence based models of urban health interventions can we look to?   Content Warning: This episode contains mentions of violence that some listeners may find disturbing and listener discretion ...

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Estate Planning 101 – w/Attorney Shakisha Morgan

The Black Nonprofits and Business Podcast - February 25, 2023 22:50 - 1 hour
Ep. #79 - As an educator, licensed attorney, and connector, Shakisha has been privileged to speak with individuals, families, co-workers, community groups, and conferences full of people from all walks of life. She speaks on topics such as estate planning, multi- and inter-generational wealth b...

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DPW Conversations: Bring The Community Voice Back

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - February 23, 2023 13:31 - 21 minutes ★ - 1 rating
Dasra Philanthropy Week is an annual gathering of diverse stakeholders and voices from the development ecosystem to convene, converse and continue sustained action towards the quest for a billion Indians to thrive with dignity and equity.  As the 14th edition of Dasra Philanthropy Week 2023 ge...

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My Exit Plan – Are You Prepared?

The Black Nonprofits and Business Podcast - February 17, 2023 07:16 - 49 minutes
Ep. #78 -  What if you suddenly passed away? Does your family know what to do? If your loved one passed, would you know what to do? Rhonda Green serves as the Funeral Services Manager at First Baptist under the leadership of Pastor and Mrs. John K. Jenkins Sr. She has coordinated services for th...

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The Importance of Listening in Philanthropy with Alberto Lidji

No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi - February 09, 2023 03:55 - 38 minutes ★ - 1 rating
How can we engage with policymakers in a timely and effective way? What can we do to address the power imbalance between the Global North and the Global South? Why does global philanthropy set aside only 2% of funding for the climate?  In this episode of No-Cost Extension, Deval Sanghavi has a...

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When Your Nonprofit or Business Needs A CPA

The Black Nonprofits and Business Podcast - February 02, 2023 02:34 - 59 minutes
Ep. #77 – Do you know if or when you need a CPA? If you’re not sure, this episode will help. You can also learn how to avoid making financial mistakes. Chérie (The Little CPA) is an AICPA 40 Under 40 Black CPA, a Tax Manager at a national financial services firm, and creator of The Little CPA. ...