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Scaling a mission w/TAAF president Sonal Shah
Rapid Response
English - July 15, 2021 09:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsManagement Business energy sports news leadership science retail healthcare culture technology startup Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
"Hate is not a one community issue," says Sonal Shah, president of The Asian American Foundation, a nonprofit launched by business leaders in May, dedicated to addressing discrimination against Asian Americans. In just its first few weeks, TAAF raised $1 billion – and is now grappling with what all start-ups face: how to iterate fast, pivot, lose what's not working, and scale what is working, fast. Sonal, who launched the White House Office of Social Innovation in the Obama Administration, is applying the philosophy of business startups to the new effort, building networks between government, businesses, and other nonprofits to amplify impact.
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