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Ashish Shrestha is the Executive Director of the Sambhavya Foundation located in Nepal. His mission is to get mental health programming set up in the schools throughout Nepal, and he's making quite an impact already. His children's programs and train-the-trainer courses are operating in 27 schools around Kathmandu utilizing volunteers along with ensuring that there are spaces appropriate for counseling. The long-taboo subject of mental health is becoming uncloacked and the stigma removed to create a wellness focus. The difference it is making with the school children is being realized through data and personal commentary. It should be understood that there really wasn't anything developed in the country focusing on mental health prior to this program, and now that there is, the societal and generational shift in attitude around mental health seems to be where the real impact lies. Ashish shares his mission and where he's headed with the work he envisions with Frontrunners Innovate host, Mary Kurek.

https://www.sambhavya.org.np/

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Tarique J. Rashaud is the CEO of Xemplar Carbon & Capital Solutions based in Texas. Rashaud leads the global portfolio strategy for developing Tech-based and Nature-based carbon offset projects at the Food-Water-Energy Nexus. In service to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UCFCCC) and the United States Business Council for Sustainable Development, he involves himself at the leadership level of policy in national and global environments. In his role as expert advisor on carbon offsets relating to climate change initiatives, he helps impact innovators understand the unique, sometimes complicated, and little-known financing opportunities through carbon offsets at the global level. In this episode of Frontrunners Innovate, Rashaud shares with host, Mary Kurek, and co-host, Amb. Richard Swett of Climate Prosperity Enterprise Solutions, information that sheds light on this expansion of the carbon market space.

https://xemplarcarbon.com/

https://www.climateprosperitysolutions.com/

Frontrunners Development is a business development agency focused on creating business connections that matter. The people we interview for our podcast, Frontrunners Innovate, are working from the diplomatic, corporate, and founder levels on innovating solutions on the world's most challenging problems. Most interviews generate new and exciting business opportunities, often before we even get off the interview.

To see our most current videos and connect with us, visit https://www.frontrunnersinnovate.com/

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is an expert in gender and generational balance using a longevity lens backed by quality data. As the CEO of the consultancy, 20-First, Wittenberg-Cox brings forth her own leadership experience and expertise in fields like diversity and inclusion and cultural balance to paint a global picture of current and projected events that can steer us forward in critical areas of social impact. In this episode of Frontrunners Innovate, she shares her viewpoints and some surprising statistics that inform how education, healthcare, workforce, and aging spaces are shaping and where focus and adjustment should become paramount - excellent guidance for those working toward change in these areas.


Frontrunners Development is a business development agency focused on creating business connections that matter. The people we interview for our podcast, Frontrunners Innovate, are working from the diplomatic, corporate, and founder levels on innovating solutions on the world's most challenging problems. Most interviews generate new and exciting business opportunities, often before we even get off the interview.

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Nathan (Nate) Atkinson, President and General Counsel of Village Juice & Kitchen (VJK) headquartered in North Carolina shared some exciting news with Frontrunners Innovate recently. Village Juice & Kitchen, in partnership with Aramark, the Chris Paul Foundation, and the United Negro College Fund, (plus others) have launched The Elete Experience, an extraordinary student mentorship-to-internship program in food services. VJK provides nutritious raw juices and clean food options, so it seemed a natural fit to bring the students into the entire operation on college campuses and collaborate with them to promote entrepreneurship in the industry. The details include connections for internships and paid stipends for work done. With a pilot already operating at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, the program is off and running with endorsements from the leadership. The current plan includes expanding (with the assistance of the UNCF) into the HBCU network of colleges. Nate shares the information with us and welcomes institutions that could be interested in the program to connect.

https://www.theelete.com/news-and-updates/elete-experience-announces-high-profile-support-for-hbcu-dining-and-mentorship-programs-

Frontrunners Development is a business development agency focused on creating business connections that matter. The people we interview for our podcast, Frontrunners Innovate, are working from the diplomatic, corporate, and founder levels on innovating solutions on the world's most challenging problems. Most interviews generate new and exciting business opportunities, often before we even get off the interview.

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Larry Griffith is Executive Vice President, Programs and Student Services at United Negro College Fund (UNCF.) His position involves working with scholarship dollars large enough that a high level of responsibility and compliance is involved, but, the result is nothing short of changing young lives. With Larry, it is not only the mission of UNCF to ensure that no minds are wasted; it is a personal commitment and a joy that you can literally feel when he speaks. In this episode of Frontrunners Innovate, we asked Larry about the many years he’s spent working at the organization and details around how the nation’s largest education scholarship provider to minority groups manages to to keep creating wins after 80 years.

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Dr. Jacqueline King is the Founder and CEO of Black Women Empowered, a large community of professional women (and men) who have embraced faith as part of their personal and professional journey. Dr. King's development of this community goes back a few years and has its roots in social media. She shares with Frontrunners Innovate Host, Mary Kurek, and Co-Host, UN Ambassador, Dr. Diana Kenoly, exactly how this amazing supportive community has come together and how it has grown to millions in the last few years. She also delivers details on the newly created and beautifully developed directory that offers a multitude of public-facing tools for marketing. Meet Dr. Jacqueline King.

https://www.blackwomenempowereddirectory.com/

Frontrunners Development is a business development agency focused on creating business connections that matter. The people we interview for our podcast, Frontrunners Innovate, are working from the diplomatic, corporate, and founder levels on innovating solutions on the world's most challenging problems. Most interviews generate new and exciting business opportunities, often before we even get off the interview.

To see our most current videos and connect with us, visit https://www.frontrunnersinnovate.com/