The Shin Fujiyama Podcast | Social Entrepreneurship | Nonprofit Organizations | International Development Aid | NGOs Podcast
1) 57: 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 t...Show More
57: Monrovia Football Academy is changing lives in Liberia through soccer—with William Smith
1:23:02 | May 23rd, 2018
2) 56: How Kentucky students 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, Hondura...Show More
3) 55: 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 engagem...Show More
4) 54: 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 dis...Show More
5) 53: 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 maximiz...Show More
6) 52: How to fundraise $45,000 on campus for your favorite charity - 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 barel...Show More
52: How to fundraise $45,000 on campus for your favorite charity - Steve Sexton
41:35 | Dec 27th, 2017
7) 51: 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...Show More
8) 50: What are RCTs and how will they transform development aid? 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...Show More
50: What are RCTs and how will they transform development aid? With Noam Angrist
45:56 | Sep 26th, 2017
9) 49: Providing health training to 90,000 people in the hospitals of India, with Katy Ashe
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 th...Show More
49: Providing health training to 90,000 people in the hospitals of India, with Katy Ashe
1:00:03 | Jun 7th, 2017
10) 48: How Annie "The Jackfruit Lady" Ryu built a health food company in India instead of a nonprofit
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 se...Show More