Podcast appearances and mentions of becky straw

The Adventure Project has been a longtime standout to me because of its exceptional (and frequent) marketing! They surveyed their donors and non-donors recently to get a better idea of what their audience wants... what a great idea! People need more touchpoints -- email can do that!Why her best emails are the stripped-down emails without fancy graphics or any extras The power of partnerships with businesses to grow your brand "The more commonality you bring out in your storytelling the more people are engaged and want to see you succeed."  About Becky Straw and The Adventure ProjectBecky Straw is Co-Founder and CEO of The Adventure Project. Becky was inspired by a passion to revolutionize giving and create a movement that would marry good intentions with measurable impact.The Adventure Project works to strategically invest in entrepreneurs that address the four biggest needs in developing countries – water, hunger, health and environment. In ten years, they have engaged over 10,000 people to help create over 2,000 jobs in Haiti, India, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda. Together those entrepreneurs serve over 2 million people in their communities.Prior to The Adventure Project, Becky spent three years helping to launch the nonprofit, charity: water after graduating from Columbia University with a Master's in International Social Welfare.Becky and her co-founder, Jody are the recipients of the 2015 Diane von Furstenberg People's Voice Award for female founders making a difference and recent recipients of a $1M bitcoin donation from the Pineapple Fund.Becky and her husband, Garland, have two children and live in South Orange, NJ. Connect with The Adventure Project here: https://www.theadventureproject.orgFree Live Training on 11/1: Unlock Funds with Every Email! Think you've reached out to “everyone” in your network? Out of ideas to get noticed and get funded? Generate leads for your nonprofit or social impact business: https://www.splendidcourses.com/prospectResources: Email Goldmine [Free Class] How to Get Noticed & Funded Online [Free Class] Private coaching: Schedule a discovery call here. - Instagram, LinkedIn, website - Join the Purpose and Profit Club weekly newsletter here. Music by The Selmanaires, featuring "Selmanaire Rock." May contain affiliate links

In a new segment of the pod we're calling How I Built Good, we interview nonprofit founders, entrepreneurs and leaders on how they're building good in the world. Starting with Becky Straw. She never set out to become a founder. But when she was let go from her job at fast-growing water charity, she bought a wireless printer the next day to start building The Adventure Project.With a passionate co-founder and a crew of volunteers by her side, Becky raised the first $40,000 with a clever marketing campaign.Today, the organization provides people in 6 countries with the tools and skills to become profitable entrepreneurs—and fund their ventures to create solutions to poverty in their own communities.The people they help learn a specialized trade and receive the mentorship and education to thrive. So they can earn an income, and wake up each day filled with purpose and pride.In our chat with Becky, she gets into: how she started the org with $0 and a wireless printerhow the org is finding a sustainable business model without having to only rely on campaign after campaign a life-changing moment on a rural, bumpy, washed out road in Liberia that still motivates her todaythe philosophy behind treating the $10 donor like the $1,000 donorYou can find out more about The Adventure Project right here—➡️ Join our FREE training on how to create compelling fundraising messaging that leads donors to action and raises more money, from more people, more often—simply by changing the words you use: https://www.5minutefundraisingfix.com/register 

About Nicky: Proud of her Native American Echota and Alabamian roots, Nicky has been in New York since 2004 (and still loves it!). She holds a Master of Arts in Forensic Psychology and got her start in NYC alongside Becky Straw at charity: water in the early years of the organization. From providing direct services at the New York County District Attorney's Office to leading the first NGO to reach 1 million followers on social media to leading NGO's and tech startups in their partnerships and social impact efforts, Nicky has over a decade of experience in growing nonprofits, building startups and forging social impact relationships that scale with technology. When not in the office or field, Nicky enjoys traveling and taking on new challenges, from climbing Kilimanjaro to learning to scuba dive! Connect: LinkedInInstagram--------------About Create GoodPodcast: The Create Good podcast is a conversation with change makers and rabble-rousers to find out what makes them tick and how they create good. We created the podcast because we were missing the connections and community that came from conferences and gatherings. Our goal is to share some awesome nonprofit folks with the community. Subscribe to follow along.Event: Create Good started as a conference, the first one was in 2017, to gather nonprofit communications leaders creating breakthrough work and share them in a fun and inspiring space. Like everyone else, we had to pivot due to the pandemic. We moved the conference online and this year we are pivoting again to a series of webinars and podcast. We are hoping to return to our in-person conference in 2023. Visit the site to see past sessions and sign up for the newsletter to find out when we will meet in person again at the next Create Good Conference. www.creategoodconference.com--------------About BC/DC IdeasWe are a full service marketing and communications agency who focuses exclusively on nonprofits for the last 11 years. From strategy and social media to web sites and video production, we can do it all. Let's talk about how we can bring your vision to life. www.bcdcideas.com--------------Intro Music by ItsWatR  from Pixabay

Join Jon + Becky for this Friday's episode alongside a panel of legit experts on Building Better Storytelling. We talk about shifting the lens on the storylines we share, the words we use, and leaning into authentic and ethical storytelling. Special thanks to Virtuous for convening this discussion with our panel experts: Kimberly O'Neil (The Giving Blueprint), Chery Miller-Houser (Creative Breed), Dulari Gandhi (D. Gandhi Communications), Becky Straw (Adventure Project)

Becky Straw is the Co-Founder of The Adventure Project, and a true believer in the ability to build community through entrepreneurship and move people out of poverty for good. There are so many amazing elements of The Adventure Project but in this episode, we look into their monthly giving program because it uses some innovative strategies to create strong memory peaks with the members of The Collective (both when donors are first inspired to join and throughout their time in The Collective). We go deep into why storytelling is so effective to build a sense of belonging for the donor and real impact on the ground. Join in and listen to this nonprofit leader that is creating a new partnership and international development model that we can all learn from. This series is inspired by Neon One's new donor report: titled ‘ Donors: Understanding The Future Of Individual Giving'. Get early access to the report by going to neonone.com/mallory. Episode highlights :  02:28 - A passionate volunteer with a dream job: Becky Straw's first experiences working in the nonprofit sector. 8:28 - The Adventure Project's partnership model: Becky's process of knowing, engaging and retaining funders. 13:43 - The collective adventure: How monthly giving became a sustaining force for The Adventure Project throughout the pandemic. 18:23 - Exploring the donor's experience: Personalization, touchpoints and fundamental aspects of The Adventure Project's monthly giving program. 22:10 - Addressing the right message: How Becky approaches storytelling to engage with donors looking for alternative models of investment. 27:41 - Supporting female founded organizations in Africa: How did the nonprofit's new initiative for the women's fund arised?

Meet Becky. This tenacious social entrepreneur is the Co-founder and Chief Enthusiast of The Adventure Project, a nonprofit movement “adding venture” capital to empower entrepreneurs in developing countries. The Diane von Furstenberg People's Voice Award for female founders and recent recipient of a $1M bitcoin donation is chatting with us about creating movements that marry good intentions with measurable impact

Throughout her career, Becky Straw has seen the affect stable employment can have on families and the communities they live in. A self-described “advocate for the unsexy,” Becky has repeatedly gotten involved with causes that created or supported entrepreneurship and job creation in communities that need them. Turning a surprise setback into an opportunity, Becky launched The Adventure Project in 2010 to give people the tools, education and resources to become social entrepreneurs in their own communities.Learn more about The Adventure Project.

This week we are joined by Becky Straw, co-founder and CEO of the Brooklyn based non-profit organization, The Adventure Project. She shares her experiences that lead her to lead such an altruistic life.

One billion. That's the number of people still living in extreme poverty. But give them 10 years, and The Adventure Project will make that number dwindle. In this episode, Becky Straw, co-founder and president of TAP, is telling us about the amazing organization she started and how they are fighting poverty in countries across the globe. To view the full show notes, continue reading here or visit my website: www.heartfelthippie.com A few years ago I was looking for some meaningful Christmas gifts I could give my family that we're ethically made and had some kind of a positive impact on the world through my purchase. In my search I came across the charcoal soap that TAP makes. I didn't know much about the organization, but from some brief research I knew I could vibe with it. A few years and several bars of soap later and here we are! I was ecstatic to connect with Becky and learn more about TAP, and I was not disappointed. Becky and I bonded over being moms to littles, our faith, watching The Bachelorette, and most of all our love for people and the planet. TAP takes a unique, four-pronged approach to addressing poverty. The focus is entirely on creating jobs in developing countries to empower locals and boost economies. These jobs include training healthcare workers, farmers, well mechanics, and sales people. While all of these are vital to helping the community thrive, my favorite is the training of women to sell charcoal-efficient stoves and run their own small businesses. I was shocked to learn about the horrible impacts that cooking over open fires has on so many women and children's health as well as the health of our earth. The charcoal-efficient stoves are cost-effective solutions to eliminate carbon emissions from the air and protect women's health. It's solutions like these that set TAP apart. Hearing about Becky's boldness to start this organization and the amazing ways that God has provided for her to keep going is unreal. You will be compelled by her stories to want to be a part of something bigger. Becky expresses that whatever it is - donating, buying charcoal soap, or simply joining their email list - that you have the power to make a difference right where you're at. Listen in and figure out how you can impact the lives of people who are just like us with a little less privilege. Links from the show: The Adventure Project: https://www.theadventureproject.org/join-the-collective TAP Charcoal soap: https://shop.theadventureproject.org/ Apotheke Soap: https://apothekeco.com/ Charity Water: https://www.charitywater.org/ Episode 1 - Water Conservation w/ Jess Villie: https://theheartfelthippie.wordpress.com/episode-1-water/ Episode 7 - Alleviating Poverty w/ Nate Montgomery: https://theheartfelthippie.wordpress.com/episode-7-alleviating-poverty/ Episode 10 - The Mocha Club w/ Emily Blackledge: https://theheartfelthippie.wordpress.com/episode-10-african-development/ Lingua Franca Sweaters: https://linguafranca.nyc/ Catbird Jewelry: https://www.catbirdnyc.com/ Connect with Mackenzie: Instagram and Facebook: @theheartfelthippie Website: www.heartfelthippie.com Email: mackenzie.heartfelthippie@gmail.com Connect with Becky: Instagram: @theadventureproject Website: https://www.theadventureproject.org/ Email: becksystraw@theadventureproject.org

Nikolai DiPippa, Clinton School Director of Public Programs, sat down with Becky Straw, co-founder and CEO of the Adventure Project, a nonprofit creating jobs in developing countries. Instead of giving money and products away, The Adventure Project works somewhat like a venture capital firm for effective nonprofits: funding entrepreneurial activity that will both provide jobs and help in the four most needed areas – water, hunger, health, and environment. The 10-year goal of the organization is to create one million jobs worldwide. Prior to The Adventure Project, Becky spent three years helping to launch Charity: Water, an organization bringing drinking water to people in developing countries.

On Episode 103 of the Mama Bear Dares Podcast, Becky Straw, co-founder and CEO of The Adventure Project (TAP), shares the empowering work of her organization in the battle towards worldwide justice and equality. Becky, who has been a major player in international aid for over a decade, talks about what her nonprofit is doing to ensure clean water to those who go without and shows us how she has engaged her Mama Bear in battle. Tesi and Leslie listen as Becky shares the origin story of TAP, tells inspiring stories from the field, provides research and observations on global needs and reality, and reveals the importance of the people who tend to be most supportive to the work of TAP. Can you guess who that might be? MOMS and Millennials, of course! Listen in to this Mama Bear Dares episode to be inspired by Becky's heart for social justice and consider joining her this World Water Day! Read complete Show Notes on the Mama Bear Dares website.

The Adventure Project is a social enterprise designed to give people jobs, not handouts. Becky Straw’s journey started at Columbia Graduate school where they taught social enterprise administration and nonprofit management. She worked at Unicef which led her to a connection with Scott Harrison who is currently the founder of charity: water. At the time Scott was just getting started and Becky persistently pushed to get on board and help Scott out. This led to a stay on his couch in Soho, NYC, and tremendous experience in learning how to scale impact. Find out how they are scaling their nonprofit and impacting the lives of people around the world.

I want to start a movement around the conversation of GIVING, generosity, and our unique ability as entrepreneurs to earn more and give more than ever before.  This past week I had a phone conversation with my friend, Becky Straw, from The Adventure Project about how we're going to be giving even MORE to her organization than ever before and how I wanted to get more of my community involved in her monthly giving program, The Collective.  She's currently running a contest where YOU can win a trip to go with her and her team to Kenya to see how The Adventure Project is making an impact with entrepreneurs in local communities and I wanted her to share exactly what that looked like.  I just so happened to be recording it as well and wanted to share it here with you. If it calls to you, I'd love for YOU to start your giving with The Adventure Project this month in their Collective and be entered to win a trip to Kenya. I also share with Becky why I think it's so important for me to share this message of Good Businesses Do Good in a bigger way, and I want to SHOW YOU that you CAN start giving right now.  If you're interested in joining The Collective and being entered to win a trip to Kenya -- join us here!  www.adriennedorison.com/kenya Becky Straw on her original interview on the show.

There’s a perception in our culture that if we face obstacles, the world is warning us that we are on the wrong path...or that if an idea terrifies us, it’s probably not worth doing. But on today’s podcast, Jody Landers proves that Mama Bears are born when we lean into fear and do what scares us. If anyone knows about doing big things in life despite being terrified, it’s Jody. With three healthy young boys already part of their brood, Jody and her husband Andy delivered Quincy. Born with a rare birth defect, Quincy spent weeks in the hospital and months in a body cast. It was in that hospital room that Jody’s Mama Bear was born. With the tenacity she found in that hospital room, Jody went on to adopt twins from Sierra Leone, organize a handful of moms to fill backpacks for foster care children, and raise over a half million dollars for clean water. A few years after that she and Becky Straw founded The Adventure Project from her home with her six children underfoot. Most recently Jody dove into a Kickstarter campaign to help launch her husband's musical career from a cult-like following to a national audience. Jody was terrified of doing all of these things—whether she entered willingly or was forced into them—but she did them anyway. A lesson to our Mama Bear community is to stop running from fear and dare to “do it scared.” A special thank you to Andrew Landers and Mainstreet Struggleville for our music for this episode. Learn more about Andy and download his extraordinary music at

Becky Straw is the Co-Founder and Chief Adventurist for The Adventure Project, a new nonprofit “adding venture” capital to support entrepreneurs in developing countries. Her and her co-founder were inspired by a passion to revolutionize giving, and create a movement to marry good intentions with measurable impact. Becky was 29-years-old when they launched. In their first four years, The Adventure Project has engaged 6,000 Americans to help create 894 jobs in India, Kenya, Uganda and Haiti. Those entrepreneurs will go on to serve over one million people to better health care, food and water. Their goal is to create one million jobs in the next ten years.  Prior to The Adventure Project, Becky spent three years helping to launch the nonprofit, charity: water and graduated from Columbia University with a Master's in International Social Welfare. Becky is also the recipient of this years Diane von Furstenberg People's Voice Award for female founders making a difference.    In this episode Becky shares: - how to launch a nonprofit with $4,000  - why to jump in w/ faith when dealing with obstacles/rejection  - how to ask for help  - how to fundraise from grassroots supporters - how / why she decided to start a nonprofit focused on jobs  - how to be sure you are creating impactful change in the world - why jobs are critical to ending extreme poverty World Food Day is today - Friday, October 16th - we're asking for supporters to specifically support farmers, with a $5,000 matching gift challenge!  Did you know most farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa don't grow enough to feed their families? I know, it's crazy. But, when they are able to buy an irrigation pump, everything changes.  One irrigation pump can lift a farmer and his family out of poverty and into the middle class in only one harvest. On average, each farmer grows enough to sell produce to 77 community members, and earns enough to send one child to school for the first time.   We're joining forces with The Adventure Project to raise money to support farmers in developing countries. You can make a contribution here -- anything helps! www.adriennedorison.com/adventureproject

Your business is an extension of you, so while it IS separate, there will always be some ways that you're reflected in it. It will always reflect your strengths and weaknesses.  It will always reflect your personality.  And most importantly, your business will always reflect your personal core values.  They are the foundation and framework that your business is built on.   When you intentionally develop your core values, they increase your speed for decision making, help you avoid costly mistakes, reduce stress, and allow you to stay true to yourself and your customers. The business will always reflect what you care about. So what are your core values?  Here are a few of mine as an example: ✔️ Authenticity: I always want my community to know I am being real with them. This means I don't only share the good stuff, I share it all. I want them to have the whole story and see even the ugly parts of my business and my life.  ✔️ Relatability: I always want people to connect with my message and say “Oh wow, me too!” I want them to feel like we are in this together in our struggles and experiences.  ✔️ Humor: I've got a naturally sarcastic and playful sense of humor in my everyday life. I want to use this to entertain and engage people and also lighten the mood so that they can hear the hard truth sometimes.  I always tell my clients we need to lighten up and have some fun because believe it or not, we're not creating oxygen.  ✔️ Approachability: Regardless of how big my network and community eventually becomes, I always want to be approachable, this is one reason I have my dog in my branding, that's part of who I am and I know it makes me look and feel more approachable.  ✔️ Generosity: I am a giver to the core and my business is no exception. I want generosity to shine through everything I do, and I also want to influence others to be generous as well. With our time, money and energy.  I have a few more that I won't go into major detail on, but they are things like: integrity, personal responsibility, challenge, encouragement, etc. By being clear on my core values, I can make decisions for my business and for the future that align with these (and other) values.  Even as my life changes and my business evolves, knowing my core values for my business allows me to stay true to myself. So what are yours? What do you care about that you also want the business to be about? What is a passion or purpose in your life that you want to transfer to be a business passion or purpose? What do you value that the business also needs to value?   I'm partnering with Becky Straw, co-founder of The Adventure Project, a new nonprofit “adding venture” capital to support entrepreneurs in developing countries. If you'd like to help support entrepreneurial farmers in developing countries, please click here to donate! Adrienne Dorison - The Adventure Project Campaign.  -- adriennedorison.com/adventureproject

Becky Straw, CEO of The Adventure Project, and I talk about big goals making great stories.  Becky has the goal of erradicating poverty in the developing world and giving basic human rights like access to drinking water to all. Becky also kindly reminds me that we met because I was hitting on her intern years back...  This is a fun conversation about some serious topics.  Gain a new perspective and world view on a multitude of issues, hear travel stories, and find empowering takeaways about what true hustle is really about. Epsiode sponsored by our travel company Under30Experiences. Show notes can be found on our website for entrepreneurs Under30CEO.com.

Getting your 501.c.3 just got faster, easier and cheaper. In this podcast we talk about the new form 1023 EZ with Nonprofit Ally contributor James Gilmer. But once you get that 501.c.3, then what do you do? Well, that is just what Becky Straw, co-founder of The Adventure Project, talks to us about. The Adventure Project helps people in developing […]