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It's been quite a ride on THE GOOD ROAD. This is the final episode of Phi·lan·thro·pol·o·gy. We interview the author of the podcast, Vu Le of Nonprofit AF who highlights the crazy world of trying to do good, while courting funders and their (sometimes) ridiculous requirements.

We also give our Top 10 list of the things we learned in our first season of our podcast.

Thanks to all of the fans of this podcast, and the soon-to-be, wildly popular podcast, Phi·lan·thro·pol·o·gy.

The world needs people who put both their backs and there hearts into the job of fixing the world's most difficult problems. But is your charity focused on profit margins and the bottom line? Or is it a mission-driven and working on the larger good.

In this episode, we interview two different individuals who both give a damn. Regardless of how the work is done, there are a couple of immutable truths, and one of them is money.

War changes everything for those who fight. Many struggle to find meaning in their lives, and the world around them. Some develop a "Military history and a Missionary Heart". This raw look at two different stories of Stacy Bare (Adventure not war), and Dave and Karen Eubank (Free Burma Rangers) will challenge your definition of a soldier... and who they are inside.

If you are a teacher, then you already know about "low-performing schools" and even "lower-performing politicians". Here is an insightful discussion of 1st-rate thinking in 3rd-world conditions. Featuring Dr. Susan Kessler of Hunters Lane High School (Nashville, TN), a remote Muslim school in the Zanzibar archipelago, and Deacon Patrick Moynihan of the Haitian Project.

Animals. Food, trophies or pets?

Most people eat meat. But what makes one animal food, and another a pet? And how blurry is that distinction?

What started out as an anti-poaching episode, turned into a deeper exploration of the ethics, and the messy and complicated relationship humans have with animals. Whatever your belief is now, it will be challenged in this discussion.