![Charity Talks](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/7405204/Charity_Talks_5.jpg)
Charity Talks is the podcast designed to help people learn about great local, national and international nonprofits through interviews with their leaders. It also highlights inspirational people making a huge impact in the world. In each episode, you will learn about a nonprofit's mission, uplifting stories, and most importantly, how you can help.
Episodes
![Rainforest Trust](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog7405204/IMG_1728_4ndxb2_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Rainforest Trust
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Dr. James Deutsch, the CEO of Rainforest Trust, joins Charity Talks. For more than 30 years, Rainforest Trust’s primary mission has been to raise funds in order to make grants in Africa, Asia and South America that preserve and protect land and habitats there. As James and Brooke discuss, by protecting millions of acres of land, Rainforest Trust is saving endangered species from extinction. But its impact goes well beyond that. Rainforest Trust’s work also is helping to ameliorate the effects of climate change, since rainforests keep carbon locked up in their wood and soil, while removing excess CO2 from the air. It also is empowering indigenous people with the resources to preserve their land and culture. These are just some of the positive impacts that Rainforest Trust’s conservation efforts have had. (0:27).
Website: https://www.rainforesttrust.org/
![Friends of Mewar](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog7405204/IMG_1658_nmpnpm_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jan 09, 2023
Friends of Mewar
Monday Jan 09, 2023
Monday Jan 09, 2023
Princess Padmaja Kumari Parmar, the Founder and President of Friends of Mewar, is this episode’s guest. Padmaja is the daughter of the House of Mewar, which was founded in 734 AD and is the world’s longest, unbroken serving dynasty. She founded Friends of Mewar to address three pressing problems - women’s empowerment and education, lack of preventive healthcare, and preservation of Mewar’s cultural heritage. Over the past ten years, Friends of Mewar’s work in these areas has helped so many people in rural and urban Rajasthan, India. (0:25).
Website: https://www.friendsofmewar.org/
Email: info@friendsofmewar.org
![Pump Aid](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog7405204/IMG_1562_ca9zjk_300x300.jpg)
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Pump Aid
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Michael Chuter, the Chief Executive of Pump Aid, joins Charity Talks. Pump Aid works primarily in Malawi, and its goal is to achieve lasting positive change in the poorest and most disadvantaged communities there by implementing water, sanitation, and hygiene programs. As Michael and Brooke discuss, over the last twenty years, over 10,000 communities and almost 2 million people have been provided with access to safe, clean water thanks to Pump Aid’s programs. This access has been life-changing for those communities, and Pump Aid intends to continue its work in the most remote regions of the country until every community has the type of basic access to water that most of us take for granted. (0:32).
Website: www.pumpaid.org
![National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog7405204/IMG_1496_igaqgi_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Christopher Cassidy, the President and CEO of the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation (“NMOHMF”), is this episode’s guest. Chris attended the U.S. Naval Academy and became a Navy SEAL, before becoming a commander of SEAL units in Afghanistan. After Chris left the SEALs, he joined NASA as an astronaut, flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavor and Russian Soyuz spacecraft, commanded the International Space Station, and eventually rose to NASA’s Chief Astronaut. In total, Chris has spent the fifth most time of any human being in space. After leaving the military, Chris was tapped to lead the NMOHMF. During the podcast, Chris and Brooke discuss how the museum (which recently broke ground in Arlington, Texas) came to be, how it will honor the 3,511 Medal of Honor recipients, and how a monument to be built in Washington, D.C. by the NMOHMF, as well as the Foundation’s Leadership Institute, will share the stories of these incredible heroes with current and future generations. (0:26).
Website: https://mohmuseum.org/
![Happier Lives Institute](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog7405204/Untitled_design_2_2_u245wa_300x300.png)
Thursday Sep 15, 2022
Happier Lives Institute
Thursday Sep 15, 2022
Thursday Sep 15, 2022
Dr. Michael Plant, the Founder and Director of the Happier Lives Institute, joins Charity Talks. While studying for his PhD in moral philosophy at the University of Oxford, Michael realized that there was a pressing need for more research on the most cost-effective, evidence-based ways to improve global happiness. That led him to found the Happier Lives Institute. Michael and Brooke discuss how by drawing on the fields of philosophy, economics and psychology, the Institute goes about focusing on neglected global problems, such as mental health and pain, identifies key interventions, and then evaluates the best organizations to deliver those interventions. (0:22).
![J-PAL](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog7405204/IMG_1315_akmd6b_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
J-PAL
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Iqbal Dhaliwal, the Global Executive Director of MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), is this episode’s guest. J-PAL’s mission for the last twenty years has been to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Anchored by a network of hundreds of affiliated professors at universities around the world, J-PAL conducts rigorous research to find solutions to the world’s greatest challenges, and then translates its findings into action by promoting a culture of evidence-informed policymaking globally. Its work has been so impactful that its co-founders were awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics for their pioneering approach to alleviating global poverty. (0:36).
Website: https://www.povertyactionlab.org/
![The Humane League](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog7405204/IMG_1185_6fyhzb_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
The Humane League
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Dr. Vicky Bond, the President of The Humane League, joins Charity Talks. As Vicky and Brooke discuss, animals raised for food (including predominantly chickens) suffer from abuses in factory farms at a scale that is shocking. THL exists to end the abuse of these animals. It does so by influencing the policies of the world’s largest food companies, demanding legislation, and empowering others to take action. Through its efforts, THL has already freed millions of chickens from the confines of their cages, and is continuing to advocate for animals around the world. (0:28).
Website: https://thehumaneleague.org
![Cure Brain Cancer Foundation](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog7405204/cure-brain-cancer_7f3am6_300x300.jpg)
Saturday May 28, 2022
Cure Brain Cancer Foundation
Saturday May 28, 2022
Saturday May 28, 2022
![Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog7405204/IMG_1188_heu6cd_300x300.jpg)
Saturday May 14, 2022
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
Saturday May 14, 2022
Saturday May 14, 2022
Bonnie Carroll, the President and Founder of the Tragedy and Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), joins Charity Talks. Since 1994, TAPS has offered compassionate care to all those grieving a military loss. As Bonnie and Brooke discuss, TAPS has a variety of programs that help so many affected families cope with the loss of a loved one, including a peer support network available 24 hours a day and women’s empowerment retreats. TAPS also provides resources internationally, including in Ukraine, where TAPS has worked for years. Given its amazing work, it was no surprise that Bonnie received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama in 2015. (0:21).
Website: www.taps.org
![The END Fund](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog7405204/END-Fund-Logo-Square_8k6n2b_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
The END Fund
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Ellen Agler, the CEO of the END Fund, and Mark Stoleson, the CEO of Legatum, are this episode’s guests. In 2006, Legatum realized that millions of people in Rwanda and Burundi were needlessly suffering from treatable neglected tropical diseases, such as intestinal worms, so it decided to fund programs to address this huge problem. After its work demonstrated the feasibility of scaling these programs, Legatum created the END Fund. As Ellen and Mark discuss, these diseases affect hundreds of millions of people each year in Africa, devastating so many lives, but they are all potentially curable at very little cost per life affected. To date, the END Fund has already provided over a billion treatments, and it has set the ambitious goal of eliminating these diseases entirely within our lifetimes. (0:37).
Website: https://www.end.org/