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 [...]
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 [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
GROWING A NONPROFIT SINCE AGE 12 TO HELP SOLDIERS & VETERANS IN NEED—with Robbie Bergquist, Cell Phones for Soldiers
Social entrepreneur Robbie Bergquist is the co-founder of Cell Phones for Soldiers. In 2004 when Robbie was 12 and his sister Brittany was 13, they heard the story of a soldier returning from Iraq with [...]
ONE CONSERVATIONIST’S QUEST TO HELP THE ANIMALS IN THE JUNGLES OF INDONESIA—with Adam Miller, Planet Indonesia
Most foreigners who visit Indonesia end up at the beaches of Bali. But not Adam Miller, a young conservationist from St. Louis. While volunteering at a pet shop at age 10, he came up with the vision of [...]