Change the World

The Mental Health Season: with Lianne Forman, founder of Jewish CCSA

Sam Schwartz is the VP of Business Development at The Donors Fund, a revolution Donor Advised Fund that empowers donors of every size with breakthrough financial tools, granting formats, and self-service technologies. We sat down together to discuss the concept of a DAF and what the Donors Fund is doing differently.

Dina Goldman is the founder of Mispar, the only Orthodox Jewish consumer data company. Dina gave me an in-depth look at her process and why research is so important.

Keshet Starr is the CEO of Ora. We had an inspiring conversation about her role, how her organization helps, and how she copes with the challenges of her position.

Tiferet Sprung and Sarah Silvestri are the Founders of Executive Arm, a full-service management outsourcing firm for nonprofit organizations. Their mission is to help non-profit organizations achieve greater heights through internal capacity development, executive coaching, and strategic program design. In this episode, we chat about why their started their firm, how they help nonprofits, and what you can learn from their process.https://www.executivearm.org/

Jack Bernstein is the founder and CEO of Kurrent Kitchen and Bath. Jack and I connected over LinkedIn when he posted about an incredible fundraising event he held in his business location. In this conversation, Jack brings corporate philanthropy to life in a relatable and inspiring way.

In this episode, Uri Jaskiel and I dive into the ins ands outs of building a community of support around your nonprofit organization. First, we have a very special conversation Mayer Freedman, a proud Renewal kidney donor. Mayer gives us his firsthand experience of what it means to him to be part of Renewal's community.

I had an honest, insight-packed chat with Racheli Edelkopf, who founded Pedal to help nonprofits with their marketing.

Rachel Cyrulnik is the founder and principal at Raise Nonprofit Advisors. In light of the horrific tragedies that occurred on October 7 and the turbulent times that have followed, we sat down to discuss how nonprofit organizations can address their fundraising needs sensitively and effectively.

Daniel Solganik, MSSA, L-ISW-S turned down a position at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic to become the Director of Behavioral Health Services, Naaleh Cleveland. In this episode, we discuss Naaleh Cleveland's first-of-its kind in house mental health clinic.

Rabbi Shlomo Landau is the Director of Community Mentors at Olami. In this episode, Rabbi Landau shared his approach to making the most of relationships with nonprofit volunteers.

In this episode, I interviewed Rabbi Avi Schnall, the New Jersey director of Agudath Israel of America, to explore the topic of nonprofit advocacy.

In the first episode of Season 4, I interviewed Rabbi Josh Sturm, the Director of Outreach at Renewal, who shared his unique approach to nonprofit outreach.

In our community, women in nonprofit or communal leadership roles are the minority. In this episode, I spoke with Jenna Beltser to find out why that is and what we can do to change it.

In this episode, I sat down with Arieh Friedner, COO of Daily giving, to talk about the what it means for a non-profit organization to implement systems.

Martin Friedlander and Eli Goldbaum are the founders of the Yashar Coalition, an initiative to provide couples with the tools for healthy marital conflict resolution. We had an amazing discussion about what compelled them to start their organization, and what the process has been like to get them where they are today.

Avrohom Adler is the International Director of Yachad. In this episode, he shares his experiences from over two decades in the nonprofit sector.

In this episode, Moshe Isenberg shares some really unique insights into the incredible power of strategic partnerships for nonprofit organizations.

In this episode, Mrs. Brany Rosen bravely shares some of her personal journey with infertility and the experiences that led her to found ATIME.https://www.atime.org

Yaakov Galen is the founder of Truth Seekers, Inc, a company that helps organizations reach GenZ (10-25-year-olds) on TikTok, YouTube, and even LinkedIn. In this episode, Yaakov and I discuss what GenZ is really all about, the best way to reach them, and how to get started.

Yaakov Langer is the popular host and producer of popular Jewish podcasts like Kosher Money, Inspiration for the Nation, and That's an Issue. His podcasts spark important and timely conversations in the community about topics such as the cost of Jewish life, mental health, and living more meaningfully. We sat down to talk about his non-profit platform, Living L'Chaim, and his plans for the future...and we had a surprise guest pop in midway through!

Rabbi Phil Karesh is the executive director of the Orthodox Union's Community Projects and Partnerships. We sat down to discuss his department's recent parenting initiative, Gen Aleph.

Joe Klein is the COO of Just One Chesed, a global movement connecting volunteers and those in need. We sat down to discuss how he got into the nonprofit space, what being a nonprofit leader means to him, and how we can better integrate chesed into our communities.

Dina Rabhan is a strategist and creative consultant with expertise in media, education, nonprofits, leadership, and mental health. Dina works with small/medium businesses and start-ups in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors by building innovative strategies while optimizing their culture, people, processes, and anything related to media. Dina is also an advisor on two start-up boards, is the senior strategic advisor for a new charitable trust, and is an executive producer for a new documentary film called Uncharitable. I sat down with Dina to discuss the documentary and how it pertains to our community.

I interviewed Dr. Marcy Forta, founder and director of Atzmi, to discuss how the fear of shame and stigma in the Orthodox Jewish community creates challenges for nonprofit organizations.

A list of some of the common mistakes that nonprofit organizations make when it comes to their marketing.

I spoke to Dr. Jonathan Donath, the founder of Daily Giving, to discuss how something as small as one dollar a day can make a huge impact.

We open Season 3 of the Change the World Podcast with a conversation about women in Jewish nonprofit leaders. Listen now to my interview with the incredible Sara Rivka Kohn, Founder and Director of Zissel Links, Shloime's Clubs, and Little Links of Pearls

Change the World with Elana Silber, CEO of Sharsheret

Yitzy Weinberg, Executive Director of the Flatbush Community Fund

Featuring Abbey Wolin, CEO, and Founder of Social Marketing Agency Abbey & Co

Avi Friedman, Productivity Coach

Joseph Gitler, Founder and Chariman of Leket Israel

Carly Friedman, Founder of MyTzedakah

Season 2 ep 3 with Batya Willmott, Founder of Fundsource26

Rabbi Zvi Gluck, CEO of Amudim

Season 2, episode 1: featuring Jonah Halper from Altruicity.

Change The World Podcast - Ep. 7 [00:00:00] Guest: [00:00:00] Hi, Tzivia: [00:00:08] my name is Tzivia Cohen. I'm the founder of 14 minds, a marketing agency that specializes in developing strategic campaigns to help nonprofit organizations connect with their audience. I've had the privilege of meeting some inspirational nonprofit leaders and doers who have devoted an untold number of hours to achieving their mission. Many of these incredible individuals that shared a similar frustration repeat along these lines. [00:00:30] No one knows what we really do. Not even our own volunteers. It's so hard to explain all of our different services. People think our organization is a lot smaller than it is. That's why I created this podcast to give non-for-profits a platform to share their mission with the world. I hope these conversations inspire you as much as the inspire me. Hi, everybody. I'm so excited to have with me. Today's 35 minutes. [00:01:00] She's the founder of my extended family and organization. I'm really excited to learn more about, and just also the CMO of Lucy, the surfaces. Thank you so much for being here. How Guest: [00:01:09] are you? Yeah, thank you. I'm going great. Thank God. I'm so honored to be here. I guess it's like one of my second or third time being on a podcast. So out of my comfort zone, doing it. Lucky Tzivia: [00:01:22] me. I'm so excited. This is going to be fun. So can you tell me, let's just start by telling me a little bit about the Guest: [00:01:28] organization. Okay. [00:01:30] So my extended, the family was started actually, while I was a cinema. I felt like we live in such an amazing community where we have services for every kind of person, children that are sick, anyone that struggles with anything, we really, our community really lends itself to being a community. And I felt like when it comes to single parenting, there really wasn't much before. So I was just going to mama for children, something. [00:02:00] So my other family started, we never had any idea what we were getting ourselves into. We didn't realize how great the need was until we jumped. Basically started about almost nine years now, I brought the idea to rep a yes, you Bigler. He was the rabbi of mine, still in thought Bush, very close to them. And his wife actually credit Ram today to them, they really guided me and basically said like, we have to do something. And it was right before Hanukkah time. And he was like, [00:02:30] you know, unless they want to go party a single mom, we decided we'll do it in his house. You can imagine this house in Flatbush rabbi. It's not that. And we thought like, we'll have, you know, 10 funny kids, like how many kids are going to have to put the word out. It was just word of mouth. And before we know it yet. Oh my goodness. Okay. Now, um, so we took a hall and we threw this huge $25,000 party, which we had no idea we were getting the money from [00:03:00] like, we laid out the money, but you had no idea how we were going to work with. And that's how I spend the family was born. Yeah. So that's what we started today. We operate in Flatbush. Muncie five towns. I, we just opened the Teaneck and we're on track. Been find out another relocations within the next year. And then the tri-state area. Uh, the kids come once a week, obviously a separated boys and girls. They come once a week for the center, whichever in their respective center [00:03:30] and their sound they're provided with social work staff. A big brother or big sister. So basically like a mentor within the Sheba or B staff kind of system. It's that high school girl or boy that. Becomes their big brother, big sister there serve suffer. They do activities. We provide all of my trips. We make sure that any need that they have is filled. If we stick to that from the boat, we will take care of that. We take care of school...

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Shownotes [00:00:00] Tzivia: Hi, my name is Tzivia Cohen. I'm the founder of 14Minds, a marketing agency that specializes in developing strategic campaigns to help nonprofit organizations connect with their audience. I've had the privilege of meeting some inspirational nonprofit leaders and doers who have devoted an untold number of hours to achieving their mission. Many of these incredible individuals have shared a similar frustration with me along these [00:00:30] lines. No one knows what we really do. Not even our own volunteers. It's so hard to explain all of our different services. People think our organization is a lot smaller than it is. [00:00:40] That's why I created this podcast to give non-for-profits a platform to share their mission with the world. I hope these conversations inspire you as much as they inspire me. [00:00:50] Okay. Hi everyone. Today I am really excited to have with us Yitty Fisch, the founder and director of Kochavim. Yitty, thank you so much for being here. Yitty: Thanks for having me. I am the director of a nonprofit [00:01:10] organization called Kochavim. We are based in Brooklyn as our first location, and we are committed to helping [00:01:20] kids shine despite serious illnesses. And our anchor program and our most important program is our school [00:01:30] for immunocompromised children, which enables children who otherwise would be at home and unable to attend regular school because of their complex medical needs [00:01:40] to get a good education, enables them to go to school, to preschool, just like anyone else. And it makes sure that beyond just doctors' [00:01:50] appointments, hospitals and home, they have an additional safe place that they can go to school and get their education. Tzivia: Wow. Amazing. So with which type of [00:02:00] illnesses? Yitty: So any kind of illness in which there is a child that has … usually it's immunocompromised, so that would be if a child has a heart transplant and they're [00:02:10] on certain drugs that prevent them from being exposed to germs or children on active chemotherapy, kidney transplants. And there's a whole host of diseases that will compromise the child's immunity and we know prevent them from going to school with 30 kids where they can pick up any germs and become too sick to be able to function. You know in today's times, we could probably understand the concept of germs, but we've been in existence already for eight years. And I think it becomes a lot easier to explain to people what it means to be in a sterile environment because of unfortunately the last year and [00:02:50] Corona. But our children and the children we service were out of school even before anybody knew what Corona was, and we were taking safety measures and precautions to make sure that they were safe. [00:03:00] And if you were to visit our class, the first thing we would do is send you straight to the sink to wash your hands. And then at different intervals during the day, the children wash [00:03:10] up, wash their hands, and everybody has their own box and their own supplies. Tzivia: Way before it was commonplace… Yitty: Yes, exactly. And we did shut down for [00:03:20] Covid obviously because our children were at higher risk, but some of the protocols and procedures were already in place before the rest of the world caught on. We do have an air purifying [00:03:30] system that purifies the air, and there are children who literally can be on chemo in the morning and come to our school in the afternoon. Or, you know, we even had children like [00:03:40] wheeled in in their carriages sleepy from post-radiation. And we are so lucky to have them be part of a regular school setting. It's obviously a small class. [00:03:50] If a child isn't feeling well and has a runny nose, the mothers know not to send them. Teachers have to be feeling fine. And all this is I think an outgrowth of a volunteer experience...