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How Monrovia Football Academy is changing lives in Liberia through soccer—with William Smith

While traveling in Liberia as an undergraduate research student, William Smith played in 7am pickup soccer games. As the captain of the varsity team at the College of William & Mary (‘14), he needed to stay in shape. Little did he know what would happen next. William’s foot skills impressed [...]

By | May 23rd, 2018|

How students at University of Kentucky raised $25,000 in one night—with Jacob Dietz

During his senior year at the University of Kentucky, Jacob Dietz made it his mission to raise $25,000 for Students Helping Honduras. He and his classmates wanted to build a school in La Lima, Honduras, where 400 children lacked a middle school building. Jacob asked himself: “Do I have the [...]

By | April 17th, 2018|

Lessons on impact travel—with Rich Johnson from Spark Ventures

Rich Johnson is the co-founder of Spark Ventures, a nonprofit focused on international community development in Zambia, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Along the way, Spark Ventures began to facilitate engagement trips for the mutual benefit of supporters and partner communities abroad. In this episode, Rich discusses his past challenges, fundraising, creating [...]

By | April 4th, 2018|

How to raise $25,000+ with a charity gala, step-by-step

Alex Altman and Zeke Copic are longtime supporters of Students Helping Honduras. They have been organizing a charity gala each year in NYC called Brick By Brick to benefit SHH. In this episode, we discuss what it takes—step-by-step—to organize a gala that can raise $25,000+ in one night for your favorite nonprofit [...]

By | February 12th, 2018|

How nonprofits can leave the treadmill of financial survival in 5 steps – Kathleen Janus

Countless nonprofit organizations are stuck on the treadmill of financial survival. Most of their energy is spent trying to make payroll at the end of each month—which means less time is spent maximizing their impact. Does that sound familiar to you? For five years Kathleen Janus traveled the country to find out how successful organizations like Teach [...]

By | January 10th, 2018|

How to fundraise $45,000 on campus for Students Helping Honduras – Steve Sexton

"Everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong," said Steve Sexton. His first major fundraising event as the chapter president of Students Helping Honduras at UMD—a 5K— was a "disaster that barely broke even." “I wanted to deflect the blame at first," he said, "But I took a long look [...]

By | December 27th, 2017|

Using standup comedy & improv to help war veterans — Sam Pressler

While studying at the College of William & Mary, Sam Pressler learned about the post-traumatic stress disorder war veterans were facing as they reintegrated into civilian life.  So in 2015, he started Armed Services Arts Partnership (ASAP) to help them re-enter and thrive in their communities. ASAP, based out of Washington DC [...]

By | October 5th, 2017|

Does your NGO need to carry out a randomized control trial? with Noam Angrist

Today’s guest is Noam Angrist, the founder of Young 1ove, an NGO providing sex education to 35,000+ young people in Botswana. Sex-ed is a complicated issue, and over the decades it’s been hard to tell what worked and what didn’t. In Botswana, where 22% of the population has HIV, much [...]

By | September 26th, 2017|

HOW KATY ASHE PROVIDED HEALTH TRAINING TO 90,000 PEOPLE IN THE HOSPITALS OF INDIA

Katy Ashe is the co-founder of Noora Health, a tech NGO in India. When she visited the hospitals of Bangalore as a graduate student, she saw a sea of people sitting around in the hallways. Who were they? They were family members of the patients—and they were scared, bored, and lacked basic health information. [...]

By | June 7th, 2017|

How Annie “The Jackfruit Lady” Ryu built a health food company in India to fight unemployment

While volunteering in India as an undergraduate student, Annie Ryu fell in love at first sight. What she saw at the market wasn't tall, dark, and handsome. It was a spiky, green fruit she had never seen. The huge fruit she was looking at was the jackfruit, the largest tree born fruit [...]

By | April 27th, 2017|