Latest Civil society Podcast Episodes
How to manage your volunteers
Third Sector Podcast - April 26, 2024 09:29 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLucinda 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...
The End of Charity episode 6: What is a world without charity?
Third Sector Podcast - April 23, 2024 06:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn 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...
Placing people at the forefront of tech innovations
Third Sector Podcast - April 19, 2024 10:29 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLucinda 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...
The End of Charity episode 5: Power in the wrong hands
Third Sector Podcast - April 16, 2024 06:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhen 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...
The traumatic side of charity work
Third Sector Podcast - April 12, 2024 09:15 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLucinda 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...
Season 6 Episode 10: AI and Democracy with Seher Shafiq
Wonks and War Rooms - April 10, 2024 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Elizabeth talks with Seher Shafiq, a program manager at the Mozilla Foundation and expert in civic engagement, particularly in the context of elections and engaging marginalized people in the vote. They discuss how AI is impacting Canadian elections, civic engagement, and democracy. Th...
The End of Charity episode 4: The political chokehold
Third Sector Podcast - April 09, 2024 06:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn 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...
What’s happening to individual giving?
Third Sector Podcast - April 05, 2024 10:31 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLucinda 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...
Counter-speech as Content Moderation with Kesa White
Wonks and War Rooms - April 03, 2024 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode Elizabeth discusses the idea of counter-speech as content moderation with far right extremist researcher, Kesa White. Kesa describes her work on “dog-whistling,” talks about how counter speech can be helpful but doesn’t solve the problem of hate speech online, and explains some o...
The End of Charity episode 3: Who are charities missing?
Third Sector Podcast - April 02, 2024 06:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhy 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...
In conversation with Dhivya O’Connor
Third Sector Podcast - March 28, 2024 14:54 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLucinda 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 ...
Collective vs Connective Action with Michael Redhead Champagne
Wonks and War Rooms - March 27, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Elizabeth talks with Michael Redhead Champagne, a community organizer in Winnipeg working to dismantle harmful systems and build better ones through Indigenous practices and knowledge. They discuss collective and connective action logics, and the importance of creating networks of peop...
The End of Charity episode 2: Can MrBeast save humanity?
Third Sector Podcast - March 26, 2024 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMeet 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...
The hidden history of fundraising
Third Sector Podcast - March 22, 2024 11:23 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLucinda 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...
Parasocial Relationships with T.X. Watson
Wonks and War Rooms - March 20, 2024 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode Elizabeth chats with TikTok creator and researcher T.X. Watson about parasocial relationships and how this term created in the 1950s applies, or not, to digital content creators. T.X. talks about relationships between influencers and their followers and how both research and popu...
The End of Charity episode 1: The food bank era
Third Sector Podcast - March 19, 2024 08:32 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLast 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...
Charities’ use of artificial intelligence
Third Sector Podcast - March 15, 2024 11:38 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLucinda 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...
Coming soon: The End of Charity
Third Sector Podcast - March 13, 2024 09:08 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn 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...
In conversation with the British Heart Foundation’s first female boss
Third Sector Podcast - March 08, 2024 09:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLucinda 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...
One-Step Flow with Hamish Marshall
Wonks and War Rooms - March 06, 2024 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode Elizabeth delves into the fascinating world of data and personalization with Hamish Marshall, former National Campaign Manager for the Conservative Party of Canada and seasoned expert at the crossroads of data and politics. They explore the evolution from the Two-Step Flow to the...
The world of legacy fundraising
Third Sector Podcast - March 01, 2024 11:16 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLucinda and Emily are joined by Anaish Yilma-Parmar, head of legacies at the British Red Cross, and Lucinda Frostick, director at Remember a Charity. Lucinda (Frostick) provides an overview of the legacy market, worth more than £4bn annually, and expectations for further growth in spite of curr...
Political Influencers with Nate Lubin
Wonks and War Rooms - February 28, 2024 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Elizabeth chats with digital communication strategist and experienced political campaigner, Nate Lubin about social media content creators in politics. Nate draws on his experience with the Better Internet Initiative which helps influencers make educational content related to pr...
Behind the scenes of a £300m fundraising appeal & Amnesty International UK CEO interview
Third Sector Podcast - February 23, 2024 11:21 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLucinda and Andy are joined by Liz Tait, fundraising director at Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, to discuss progress with the charity’s biggest and most ambitious fundraising appeal to date. Liz describes the planning process, including the use of campaign peaks to structure an...
News influencers with Rachel Gilmore
Wonks and War Rooms - February 21, 2024 08:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode Elizabeth chats with journalist Rachel Gilmore about what counts as journalistic content and how to navigate the intersection of journalism and the social media influencer industry. Rachel is a freelance journalist who posts regularly on TikTok (@rachel_gilmore), Instagram (@r.gi...
Maximising your online fundraising potential
Third Sector Podcast - February 16, 2024 10:12 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLucinda and Emily are joined by Suzy Edington, fundraising consultant at JustGiving, and Ellie Putt, senior participant experience manager at the Alzheimer’s Society. Suzy outlines the changes in fundraising behaviour on the JustGiving platform since the Covid-19 pandemic, with greater volumes ...
Social Media in Politics with Dave Sommer
Wonks and War Rooms - February 14, 2024 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Elizabeth chats with Dave Sommer, Vice President of Strategic Communication at Enterprise Canada, former Head of Politics and Government at Instagram in Washington, D.C., and former Deputy Director of Communications, Digital, for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa. They chat about...
Episode 49: Time to ban Amazon!
EU Watchdog Radio - February 13, 2024 09:00 - 9 minutesAmazon is a frequent visitor to the EU Parliament. In January alone, it had nine meetings with MEPs. But when it refused to appear before the Employment Committee on a hearing on crucial issues concerning working conditions within its warehouses, it made MEPs from all party groups extremelly ang...
Combatting toxic workplace culture and understanding new charity merger trends
Third Sector Podcast - February 09, 2024 10:39 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLucinda and Andy are joined by the organisational psychologist and author Dr Susan Hetrick to discuss the drivers of and barriers to workplace toxicity. Susan identifies unreasonable performance pressures as a key trigger for organisational toxicity. She explains the terms 'normalisation of dev...
The power of language
Third Sector Podcast - February 02, 2024 10:44 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLucinda and Emily are joined by Hatty Evans, head of brand and marketing at Magic Breakfast, and Georgie Howlett, managing director of Stand Agency, to discuss the importance of language in appealing to donors and service users. Hatty explains how Magic Breakfast, which works to end morning hun...
Influencers with Taylor Lorenz
Wonks and War Rooms - January 31, 2024 14:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Elizabeth chats with tech culture reporter and Washington Post columnist, Taylor Lorenz about influencers and the influencer industry. Taylor takes us from Ce-web-reties to influencers to content creators, telling us a bit about the history of folks who monetize their online presence. ...
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