Today’s conversation is with Jermaine Craig, the founder of Kwanda, a funding platform that connects members of the African diaspora based in the UK and North America with grassroots projects in Africa that they can fund and support beyond cash.  Now this isn't about charity in the traditional sense. In fact, it's a practical and authentic challenge to the status quo. Kwanda was set up to support entrepreneurs in Africa who are responding thoughtfully to the daily frictions in their lives.  Jermaine's view is that traditional funders and non profits neither understand nor trust Afric ..read more

Today’s conversation is with Bessie Ndovi, who is one of four senior regional advisors from the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network.  Bessie is based in Malawi and from there is supporting civil society organisations in 15 countries across East and Southern Africa.  Now, advocacy work is a really hard thing to fundraise for:  it's inherently political it's difficult to measure it can cause friction between partners, and  it takes a long time to demonstrate the impact of advocacy funding which means that it stretches beyond the traditional funding horizons of mo ..read more

Today’s conversation is with Keo Souvannaphoum, who is the award-winning Country Director in Lao, for CARE International. She has also been an active and dedicated participant in the Global Radicals Fundraising Leadership Programme -generously sharing her experiences with others around the world. Keo is an expert with deep experience of building high impact community programmes and institutional partnerships with international funders based in Europe and North America.  But I’m also hoping that she will share more details about an incredible funding partnership that she has built over the ..read more

My conversation with Irene Arellano was just too rich to fit into just one episode, so we’re rolling it into this second episode! So, a quick reintroduction, today’s conversation is with Irene Arellano, who is the Head of Innovation and Business Development at CARE Peru.  During this episode, we’re talking about: social innovation selling impactful consultancy services to companies in Peru the details of how CARE Peru is establishing a new impact investment fund how social justice and climate justice link via circular economies and much more. In this episode Irene has offered us a step ..read more

Today's conversation is with Irene Arellano, the head of innovation and business development at CARE Peru.  Irene is working to build transformational partnerships between the cause and companies in Peru that are grounded in shared purpose. This is about bringing together funding, social impact and sustainability, and redefining roles so we can free ourselves to build new sorts of partnerships between causes and companies that aren't bound by traditional, narrow roles of who can deliver impact and how.  In this episode we unpack the ups and downs of building a social innovation progr ..read more

Today's fundraising leadership conversation is with the ever modest Cosmas Makamet, in Papua New Guinea. Cosmas is the manager of FORCERT, a sustainable forestry nonprofit operating in Papua New Guinea. FORCERT is owned by the indigenous communities of PNG and they have built trusted partnerships that are critical to protecting land rights in the face of logging and palm oil companies. Their work within these communities is critical to sustaining the forests and biodiversity of Papua New Guinea, which is in turn critical for the future of the whole planet. I've been working with Cosmas and FOR ..read more

Today's fundraising leadership conversation comes from Jakarta in Indonesia, the world's most generous country. No country in the world gives as much per capita to charities.  This conversation is with Luki Kurniyawan, who is the Director of Support Operations for Yayasan CARE Peduli, CARE international's lead NGO partner in Indonesia. Luki's remit includes coordinating the whole internal structure of YCP to deliver its strategic objectives, with responsibility for fundraising thrown in too.  In this conversation we're going to be talking about the practical side of corporate partner ..read more

Today's fundraising leadership conversation comes from Kenya and is with Tessy Maritim, former Organisation Development Coordinator at Care International and soon to be Oxford MBA student.  We're going to be talking about many things in this episode today, among them: Africa's creative industry, leadership and international development. how to change systems, shift power and localise development within a major international NGO Tessy’s personal educational journey, the challenges and triumph of gaining a scholarship and much, much more. I know you’ll enjoy meeting Tessy in our conversat ..read more

Today's fundraising leadership conversation comes from Cambodia and is with Sinketh Arun, Co-Director of Fundraising at the Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap. We're going to be talking about corporate partnerships, about growing up in the shadow of the Pol Pot regime and lots, lots more. This episode focuses on  building capacity and knowledge among healthcare workers and villagers the importance of connecting with others and sharing knowledge Sinketh also shares her personal journey from being a nurse to becoming a fundraiser and highlights the strong relationships the hospital ..read more

This episode of the Fundraising Radicals Podcast is a special conversation for me.  It really has been my privilege and has been one of the most humbling experiences of my career to have been working alongside Dr Syed Muqadas for the past four years. Syed trained as a medical doctor specialising in paediatrics in China and Pakistan. He is the Director of AMRAN the Afghan Mobile Reconstruction Association and co-chair of the Afghanistan Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Alliance based in Kabul. Syed has always had the option to leave Afghanistan and join his family in the United Stat ..read more