Nonprofit Tangent Bill Quinn

June 9, 2019, Bill Quinn





 








There's a new episode with excellent interviews that needs attention, stat!  This time we'll hear from three organizations in the field of medicine including Medshare which redirects medical surplus from landfills to developing healthcare systems, Shoe4Africa which built a children's hospital in Africa and You Can Thrive which holistically supports women as they deal with a cancer diagnosis and treatment. 
Snapping on their rubber gloves and buckling their head mirrors alongside of me are two caring and thoughtful medical professionals.  I'm joined by nurse Melissa (who gives us the latest on her organization Purses for Nurses) and the newly-minted Dr. Brandon Alexander! 
Be sure to RSVP (Facebook) for our BYOB networking picnic on June 19th!  (And if you're from the future, be sure to check out Nonprofit Tangent on Facebook to find our next event)





Be sure to learn more about these organizations by following these links:
Medshare: Facebook / Instagram / Twitter 
Shoe4Africa: Facebook / Instagram / Twitter 
You Can Thrive: Facebook / Instagram / Twitter 
Purses for Nurses: Original Interview / Web Site / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter 
I KNOW you loved our soundtrack so be sure to check out NYC's own Institute for Flyer Learning and get their album!  My thanks for letting me use their music AGAIN.  Listen on Soundcloud too.

This episode, my friend Preya Singh and I look at the art of writing through the lens of three very different interviews.  We start with the benefits of creative chaos orchestrated by 826NYC and the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.  We then hear how the Library of America is preserving and sharing the American experience.  And we finish with Walking in Other People's Shoes which is building a community of women sharing inspiring stories of struggle, perseverance and triumph.
I want to thank all my guests for being generous with their time including Ellie Windham, Joshua Mandelbaum and Max Rudin.  I was also excited to work with Yaniza and incorporate her music throughout the episode.  The Centre for Social Innovation continues to be a very valuable resource.  And I'm happy I was able to reconnect with my thoughtful friend, my cohost, Preya!  
Yaniza: http://www.yanizadore.com/music

This episode I hear from some environmental Davids who are enthusiastically staring down the Goliaths of climate change, waste and many other pressing environmental issues.  We'll hear stories from Kaia Rose, the director of Climate Countdown which is making climate politics much more accessible, Robert Lee of Rescuing Leftover Cuisine who has found a way to make enormous environmental gains while helping support New York’s food insecure and Justin Bulova & Emily Stewart of Grades of Green which is showing students and children everywhere that they can also be environmental leaders.  Helping provide context for this episode are CSI social entrepreneurs Bill Levey of Naeco and Amer Jindali of Future Meets Present.
 
Music throughout this episode is generously provided by The Institute of Flyer Learning.

Happy Giving Tuesday!  Since starting Nonprofit Tangent, I've ended almost every interview with a simple question: What have you learned?  This episode we get to hear those answers.  So Instead of stories, I present the collected wisdom from (most of) the volunteers, founders, executive directors, and others I have spoken with over the past year and a half. 
 
To help me sort through the excellent and diverse advice is Elizabeth David Dembrowsky, herself a founder of Good Counsel Services which provides organizational and legal guidance to nonprofit organizations, as well as Executive Director of Keren Or which helps blind children in Jerusalem.
 
The pearls of wisdom will come at you very fast this episode so I've assembled this quick listeners guide to help you keep track of who might be talking at any one time.  Be sure to click the links to their appearances on Nonprofit Tangent as well!
 
Get Help
Carmin Caterina (Lessons for my Daughters)
Ambassador Rubina Ali (Global Learning Trust)
Ivan Dimov (Single Step)
 
Focus on the Mission
Ken Trush (Daniel's Music Foundation)
Erin Dinan (One Sandwich at a Time)
Melissa Zuk (Purses for Nurses)
Kelley Louise (Impact Travel Alliance)
Nezry Bastien (Brooklyn Center for Quality Life)
 
Talent Management
Ben Abdallah AbdelKarim (BIL Tunisia)
Daniel Trush (Daniel's Music Foundation)
Rami Abouemira (Identify Yourself)
 
Labor of Love
Sister Bisi (Imani House)
Robert Sanfiz (Spanish Benevolent Society/La Nacional)
Phi Pham (Building Beats)
Katie Kerr (The Impact Network)
Nelson Vilaruba (Trees NY)
 
I would like to send a big thank you to Ole Kirkeng for lending us his music for this episode.  Be sure to follow this obviously talented NYC musician on his Instagram and Facebook pages!
 
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See you next month for the Environment Episode!

This episode I present a tasty three course meal of a podcast with organizations that span the spectrum  of food's role in our lives from basic sustenance to cultural ambassador to bringing community together.  We start with One Sandwhich at a Time's Erin Dinan who explains how half a sandwich spawned an army of sandwich makers  across New York that feed the homeless.  Then Robert Sanfiz of La Nacional relays the enduring power of the 150 year old Spanish Benevolent Society supporting Spanish speaking immigrants and its beautiful, newly restored restaurant.  Finally we end hearing from Katie Kerr of the Impact Network.  She is putting together an all-star team of NYC chefs for Chefs for Impact, a yearly event which raises money for their mission of bringing an excellent, technology-driven education to rural Zambia.  And I have good friend JP King along to help me tie it all of into a neat bow!
 
 
First I would like to thank Building Beats and DJ BSNYEA for providing the soundtrack for this episode. I have many other thanks including Aline for connecting me with Erin, for Reshma for connecting me with Katie and for JP helping me put it all together!

This episode we get into the transformativeand healing power of music!  I talk to three organizations that use this power to help various populations.  We hear about middle school students being turned onto music for the first time and 90 year old veterans of the industry.  And everything in between.
 
And don't forget to join us for some networking, fundraising and 90s hip hop at Nonprofit Mixtape '18! 
 
I want to firstly say thank you to DJ Syncro for the songs featured throughout the podcast!  Learn more about his music by checking out his Soundcloud, Instagram or Facebook!  And of course a huge thanks to Brian "Mailman" Maehl for co hosting.  And finally, to the relatively new home of the podcast, the Center for Social Innovation.