Dan Hubbard, the founder and Director of 4Amanda.Org, is this episode’s guest. 4Amanda is a non-profit foundation that provides emergency financial support to cancer patients.  The foundation is named for Amanda Pagans-Hubbard, Dan’s deceased wife, who with Dan set up the foundation before her passing.  As Dan and Brooke discuss, the financial challenges that coincide with cancer treatment are often as crippling as the disease.  4Amanda is dedicated to helping those cancer patients and their families with the fiscal difficulties that accompany the diagnosis and treatment.   ..read more

David Coker, the President of Fisher House Foundation, joins Charity Talks.  The Foundation builds comfort homes where military and veteran families can stay free of charge while a loved one is in the hospital, and are located in military and VA medical centers around the world.  The Foundation also operates the Hero Miles program to bring family members to the bedside of injured service members, as well as the Hotels for Heroes program, which allows family members to stay at hotels near medical centers without charge.  In addition, the Foundation manages a grant program that su ..read more

Joey Savoie, the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Charity Entrepreneurship, is this episode’s guest.  CE’s core mission is to launch high-impact nonprofits by connecting entrepreneurs with effective ideas, training and funding.  As Joey and Brooke discuss, each year CE dedicates hundreds of research hours to identifying the most effective charity ideas.  It then recruits aspiring entrepreneurs, and through its two-month incubation program, provides them with training and funding to turn these idea into high-impact organizations.  CE’s systematic approach has already ..read more

Andrea Goodman, the CEO of I AM ALS, joins Charity Talks.  I AM ALS was founded by Brian Wallach and his wife Sandra after he was diagnosed with ALS in 2017.  ALS is a terminal neurodegenerative disease that robs people of their ability to move, speak, eat, and breathe, usually in less than five years.  Brian and Sandra founded I AM ALS to find a way to empower people who are living with ALS to be a part of finding the solution for their disease.  As Andrea and Brooke discuss, I AM ALS is a patient-led community that provides critical support and re ..read more

Titus Syengo, the Executive Director of Teaching at the Right Level Africa (“TaRL”), is this episode’s guest.  TaRL began as a joint venture between Pratham and J-PAL (whose Global Executive Director — Iqbal Dhaliwal — was a guest on Charity Talks last year).  Its primary goal is to strengthen children’s foundational literacy and numeracy skills by using its evidence-based approach.  As Titus and Brooke discuss, TaRL is supporting governments and organizations in over 12 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, helping them to build the capacity to design, deliver and scale impactfu ..read more

John Renouard, the Founder and Executive Director of WHOlives, joins Charity Talks.  On a trip to Africa in 2010, John was shocked to see how little access to clean water many villages he visited had.  So, working with college engineering students, he invented the “Village Drill,” which is a low cost, human-powered water drill, and then started WHOlives.  Since then, WHOlives has helped bring clean, safe water to over 12 million people in 40 countries.  In addition, when John learned that girls were being subjected to female genital mutilation and essentially sold into slav ..read more

Marko Kasic, the Founder of FundLife, is this episode's guest.  FundLife works directly on the ground in the Philippines, where a very high percentage of children live in poverty and without access to the tools to develop flourishing lives.  FundLife has developed a youth-led, community-first approach to ensure that all children there have an equal opportunity.  As Marko and Brooke discuss, through a variety of programs, including education and empowerment, as well as emergency humanitarian programming and peace building, FundLife is helping thousands of children reach ..read more

Sean Mayberry, the founder and CEO of StrongMinds, joins Charity Talks.  StrongMinds treats depression suffered by women largely in Africa. For African women, depression is a leading cause of disability. Yet, due to the lack of investment in mental health services, approximately 85% of people in low-income countries – if not more – receive no treatment.  As Sean and Brooke discuss, StrongMinds addresses this by providing group interpersonal therapy delivered by lay community health workers.  To date, StrongMinds has provided group talk therapy ..read more

Princess Padmaja Kumari Parmar, the Founder and President of Friends of Mewar, is this episode’s guest.  Padmaja is the daughter of the House of Mewar, which was founded in 734 AD and is the world’s longest, unbroken serving dynasty.  She founded Friends of Mewar to address three pressing problems - women’s education, lack of preventive healthcare, and preservation of Mewar’s cultural heritage.  Over the past ten years, Friends of Mewar’s work in these areas has helped so many people in rural and urban Rajasthan, India.  (0:25).  Website:  https://www.friends ..read more

Christopher Cassidy, the President and CEO of the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation (“NMOHMF”), is this episode’s guest. Chris attended the U.S. Naval Academy and became a Navy SEAL, before becoming a commander of SEAL units in Afghanistan. After Chris left the SEALs, he joined NASA as an astronaut, flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavor and Russian Soyuz spacecraft, commanded the International Space Station, and eventually rose to NASA’s Chief Astronaut.  In total, Chris has spent the fifth most time of any human being in space.  After leaving the military, Chris was tapped to l ..read more