Fostering Dignity & How to Start a Non-profit in Illinois I Episode #002 OUT IN BLOOMAL

On today’s show, we sit down with Valerie Gray Beguin and Daniel Duback, founders of Fostering Dignity, to discuss how their non-profit partners with DCFS to provide backpacks rather than garbage bags, to youth being extracted from emergency situations at home. 



We discuss the need for their non-profit, the role of DCFS, the implications of funding and how lack of funding directly affects our youth as an “invisible population,” and the DCFS Investigator career (and post-career) experience.



We learn about starting, building and funding non-profits in Illinois. We talk about the importance of charitable organizations, grants, volunteering and charitable giving.



Donate to Fostering Dignity: http://www.fosteringdignity.org/donate.html



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Resources and Organizations Mentioned:

Illinois Prairie Community Foundation: https://ilprairiecf.org/

Rotary: https://www.rotary.org/en

Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP): https://www.nationalservice.gov/programs/senior-corps/senior-corps-programs/rsvp

YWCA: https://www.ywca.org/

An anonymous corporation’s Good Neighbor Grants

Eagle Scouts: https://nesa.org/

Illinois State University: https://illinoisstate.edu/

Illinois Wesleyan University: https://www.iwu.edu/

Pizza Ranch: https://pizzaranch.com/

Youth Engaged in Philanthropy: http://www.ciyep.org/

4H: https://4-h.org/



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Music: “Long Black Highway” by Sons Of Anne Harky



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