Podcasts about living goods

"...they were willing to take risks for the experience .... and I think I've really taken that on." Liz Jarman   Liz Jarman and I discuss her planned departure as CEO of Living Goods at the end of 2024. She shares her fascinating approach to succession planning, leadership transitions and a non-linear career path. We chat through some of her achievements, including fostering a strong organisational culture, scaling operations sustainably and spearheading a digital transformation in community health. Liz reflects on the influence of her upbringing on her leadership style, her emphasis on a high-performing team and giving people recognition - all offering invaluable lessons on leadership and managing change.    Liz Jarman was named CEO of Living Goods in 2018 and is a member of the Living Goods Board of Directors. Liz has 25 years of experience from various sectors, Liz joined Living Goods in 2014 as Director of Product Strategy and was promoted to Kenya Country Director in 2015 and at the end of 2017, she was promoted to Chief Strategy Officer. Born in Zambia, Liz spent a large portion of her career at Sainsbury's, a $30 billion UK grocery business where she rose to lead Sainsbury's Product Development and Fairtrade strategy and worked with thousands of global suppliers with a particular focus on African sustainable supply chains.    Connect with Liz On LinkedIn   Resources Mentioned Living Goods Squiggly Careers Podcast

In today's conversation, co-hosts Jonathan Jackson and Amie Vaccaro are joined by Nan Chen, Co-Executive Director of Africa Frontline First. Africa Frontline First is on a mission to increase financing for community health worker programs across Africa to save and improve lives. Half of the world's population lack access to essential health services and community health workers, who expand primary health services door-to-door even in the hardest to reach communities, are an essential part of the solution. But financing remains the primary challenge to scale and sustain community health worker programs, despite a 10:1 return on investment. Today's conversation centers on the ways that Africa Frontline First, a partnership from the Community Health Impact Coalition, the Financing Alliance for Health, and Last Mile Health, is working to make financing more available and effective for these life-saving programs, as well as the role of technology in accelerating impact. Show Notes: Africa Frontline First Website Africa CDC Community Health Reform Cycle  Reaching the Last Mile commitment that was the outcome of the process discussed of “listening to aligning to committing” US $100M Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund launch  AFF partner, Living Goods, supported the launch of new Community Health strategy in Burkina Faso Sign up to our newsletter⁠, and stay informed of Dimagi's work We are on social media - follow us for the latest from Dimagi: ⁠LinkedIn⁠, ⁠X, ⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠, ⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you enjoy this show, please leave us a 5-Star Review and share your favorite episodes with friends.  Hosts: ⁠Jonathan Jackson⁠ and ⁠Amie Vaccaro

Chuck Slaughter is the founder of Living Goods, which supports over 10,000 digitally-empowered community health workers who are reducing child deaths by over 25% at an annual cost of under $4 per person. As a Senior Advisor to TPG Rise (a $10 billion impact investing platform), Director of the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, and a successful entrepreneur, Chuck has a rich perspective on how digital is reshaping aid and development work. Tune in today to hear Chuck's guidance on whether to ‘build or buy' tech, why nonprofits struggle to deliver the best technology products, and how governments and the private sector need to work together to scale high-impact innovations. Chuck serves on the boards of Yale's School of Management, Tidepool, Reach Health, and the Horace W Goldsmith Foundation. He received a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a Draper Richards Kaplan Fellowship, and is a World Economic Forum Social Entrepreneur of the Year.  A Few Highlights (6m27s) - How Chuck and Living Goods became digital first (13m45s) - The DESC metaphor of Living Goods: Digital, Equipped, Supervised and Compensated (22m01s) - Working with new technologies: the 'build or buy' debate (28m24s) - Why nonprofits struggle to build great tech (32m09s) - The digital transformation of aid: grantmaking through the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation (37m08s) - Financing scale: how governments and the private sector need to work together (40m19s) - Rapid fire questions, shoutouts, and recommendations You can learn more about Living Goods on their website at livinggoods.org.    Let us know what you thought of this episode on LinkedIn or Twitter (@AidEvolved). You can also access show notes at AidEvolved.com.

We meet Miles from Living Goods.https://www.instagram.com/living_goods_/We record at Essen general store (and Sam joins in at the end)https://shows.acast.com/food-glue/episodes/3-food-glue-essen-special-all-the-cheese-ep003Get your gob on his food at Mesa on April 24thhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-cultured-burger-night-at-mesa-tickets-520382868167Miles started experimenting at Pricky Pear - which you can find at The Golden Fleece, Mansfield Road,https://www.facebook.com/pricklypearnottm/Inspired by Koji Alchemy https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/koji-alchemy/Tom and I snuck in to the pop up at Oscar and Rosie's and it was AMAZING!You can eat Miles's food at Mesa, and see all his busy summer happenings over on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/living_goods_/*Miles' Favourites*Slice N Brewhttps://www.slicenbrew.co.uk/Kushi Yahttps://kushi-ya.co.uk/Okende, West Bridgefordhttps://www.okende.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

https://youtu.be/tpj_kaoQleQ Charlie Bresler – The Life You Can Save (https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/) You have an interesting story- do you mind talking a little more about how you became the director of The Life You Can Save? Sure. I'm not sure where to begin exactly… I have always been interested in wealth and equality, and thought that I would do something about it. When I was younger, I thought it would be in a more structural way like changes in tax laws that would help address situations relating to poverty- but then I took a lot of side trips and became a psychologist in grad-school and started a clinic that specializes in dealing with anxiety, OCD and agoraphobia. Then my wife and I decided to move to the San Francisco Bay area, and just as we were moving I got recruited to join the Men's Warehouse that had just become a public company and I became the president of the company- almost CEO, when back in 2008 I decided I better get off of this treadmill I got on accidentally and try to do something that has more social value than selling suits. Then in 2012, I read Peter Singer's The Life You Can Save and it hit me that I was actually reading about the very things I'd been thinking about, my moral obligation to help people living in poverty, and I wrote Singer an email that said I'd like to help with the start of an organization that my wife, Diana, and I were willing to fund.  We decided it was a good place to put our money with the goal of multiplying the number of dollars we raise by having our own marketing organization. That was 7 years ago, and you can say that's how I became Peter's executive director of The Life You Can Save. Could you talk a little more about Effective Altruism or Utilitarianism? What is your organization moving towards? Basically, the similarities between effective altruism and our team is that we ask the question “How can you do the most good?” And we feel a sense of obligation to use our personal and financial resources to do things that we think are highly effective. So we answer the question by curating non-profits that have a really effective, high impact work on people living in extreme poverty. These non-profits empower livelihood, save lives, and they reduce suffering among this group of people. There are about 734 million people around the world that live on less than $1.90 (US) a day. We support 22 organizations. We believe that we have evidence that you can save lives very inexpensively in the developing world and that's the reason why I got excited about doing this work. So you're screening non-profits looking for some data-based, efficient and well-executed organizations… Are you looking for funds as well? So, we curate these organizations and currently we have 22 on our website that we believe have the most effective, highly impactful interactions in the developing world. So a lot of this is about impact per dollar spent. We spend money that we raise from The Life You Can Save to make money for these recommended non-profits. We are essentially marketing the idea of effective, high impact giving and one's obligation to help, but more specifically we are trying to raise money for these non-profits. I like your broader address of clean water, hunger, women and girls issues. Can you tell us more about this? We do have a broader list than most organizations. We do have non-profits that empower women's livelihood and put them in groups of people to start small businesses and there's tremendous evidence that this is highly effective. These programs are called graduation programs. There's one called Living Goods where women go around and sell valuable health products that are hard to get in rural areas, so it's a win-win because they make money by selling the products and inexpensively so people can have easier access to them, especially during COVID times. We also support a Malaria organization that distributes bed matts in Africa,

When a monkey joined her in playing the piano, 12-year-old Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka knew she wanted to work with animals. Little did she know that her passion for primates would eventually lead to her to become Uganda's first wildlife vet. This week, we look at the topic of agriculture and conservation, and hear how Gladys' love for gorillas grew into a community coffee and conservation project.Whilst Gladys tries to clean up the practices of local communities in rural regions of Uganda, another of our contributors this season, Nzambi Matee, is fervently trying to clean the streets of her capital city Nairobi. Just a few years ago, Nzambi decided to do something about the plastic pollution that she saw all over Kenya. Now, she has designed and built a thriving recycling and brick production facility, and her social enterprise Gjenge Makers has recycled plastic waste weighing more than five elephants.Finally, we look at the role of sustainable home-grown farming, and good nutrition, and speak to Diana Nambatya Nsubuga from the non-profit Living Goods, who tells us how good food can be just as important as having easy access to medical expertise.Catch up on the full interviews included in today's show:Gorillas, coffee, and communitiesBuilding a future from plastic wasteIntegrating public health, urban farmingAfrica Science Focus, with Harrison Lewis. Do you have any comments, questions or feedback about our podcast episodes? Let us know at podcast@scidev.net

What would you do if you had millions of dollars to invest in impact? Would you put it in an existing charity - or would you try to do something different, something better? Kevin Starr needed to answer these questions when, in 1993, he unexpectedly found himself at the head of a new foundation named Mulago. Instead of taking the path well traveled, Kevin decided to experiment with creating impact that lasts. And so, through the twists and turns of many years, he developed the Mulago Foundation fellows program and investment approach. In today's conversation, Kevin shares how he found his way in the early years of Mulago. He talks about the challenges of early investments and how those lessons are applied to his current approach. Over time, he shares how the Foundation really started to gel once he was able to build common ground with his investors and his awardees. Kevin dives into some of the fallacies and idiosyncrasies of the aid sector, and how he's established a more efficient way of working. Mulago runs lean because it builds on talent and trust - and skips the bureaucracy. Finally, Kevin presents his “playbook for scale”, the six systemic accelerators he sees again and again in his most successful investments. In addition to leading Mulago, Kevin is one of the primary instigators of Big Bang Philanthropy, a group of funders that work together to direct more money to those best at fighting poverty. Mulago Foundation was an early funder of Digital Green, Nexleaf Analytics, Medic, One Acre Fund, Living Goods, Last Mile Health, VillageReach, and Mothers2Mothers.   To find out more, access the show notes at https://AidEvolved.com  Let us know what you think of this episode on Twitter (@AidEvolved) or by email (hello@AidEvolved.com)

Community health workers are the backbone of many health systems around the world. But, their contributions to public health are rarely recognised, and many go unpaid. Diana Nambatya Nsubuga, from the non-profit Living Goods, is working with governments across Sub-Saharan Africa to build these community heroes into their public health systems. Not only is Nsubuga a high-level public health advocate and maternal health specialist, she's also an award-winning urban farmer who teaches the tricks of the trade at her Integrated Health Kwagala Farm. Nsubuga tells Africa Science Focus reporter Halima Athumani why farming, nutrition, family and public health go hand in hand. Music:"Artifact" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed : By 4.0 License, Music promoted by The Free CatAfrica Science Focus, with Michael Kaloki. Learn more about Diana Nambatya Nsubuga's careerDo you have any comments, questions or feedback about our podcast episodes? Let us know at podcast@scidev.net

If you live in rural Uganda and are about to give birth, you can't just call an ambulance to drive you to the clinic. The infrastructure we take for granted is not established in much of the world. Living Goods increases access to medicine in developing countries with a network of digitally-trained community healthcare workers. Find out how your donation can help overburdened governments improve their health sector. Want to support Living Goods? http://www.livinggoods.org/  Find the episode on Great.com: https://great.com/great-talks-with/how-trained-healthcare-workers-relieve-the-pressure-on-ugandan-doctors

The Global Education Policy Dashboard (GEPD), funded by a partnership between the World Bank, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, U.K.'s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and government of Japan, provides policymakers with a system for measuring the drivers of learning outcomes in basic education around the world. As part of this initiative, the Edtech Readiness Index aims to help countries assess the readiness of their ecosystems in leveraging 'edtech' to promote learning for all. The Index not only includes device availability or connectivity but also institutional capacities, school management, educational resources, quality of the learning experience, and development of digital competencies which constitute an ‘ecosystem' essential for an effective ‘edtech' implementation. Imaginable Futures supports the EdTech Readiness Index and today Cristobal Cobo, Senior Education Technology Specialist at the World Bank, is speaking with Amy Klement, Managing Partner of Imaginable Futures, and Sergio Venegas Marin, Young Professional at the World Bank Global Education Practice, about monitoring countries' readiness to support education with digital technologies and the EdTech Readiness Index. Learn more: Scaling Access & Impact Report: Realizing the Power of Edtech: https://www.imaginablefutures.com/learnings/scaling-access-impact-realizing-power-edtech Learning to Overcome podcast: https://www.imaginablefutures.com/learnings/learning-to-overcome Amy Klement is the managing partner and a board member of Imaginable Futures. She leads Imaginable Future's team and strategy and is responsible to the board for running the organization. Previous to spinning out into Imaginable Futures, Amy was a partner at Omidyar Network and led the Education initiative since 2013. Prior to this role, she was responsible for Omidyar Network's work in Financial Inclusion, Property Rights and Consumer Internet & Mobile initiatives in key geographies. She has held board seats or observer roles with Teach For All, Andela, NewGlobe, Imagine Worldwide, Kiva, Living Goods, Social Finance US, Mimoni and Off Grid Electric. Prior to Omidyar Network, Amy worked for eBay where she served as vice president of product strategy and operations driving the development of the company's long-term product vision and leading user experience and design and as well as vice president of relationship marketing, leading email, on-site and other retention marketing channels. Amy formerly worked for PayPal, joining as one of its earliest employees in 1999. As vice president of product, she and her team developed the company's payments platform, facilitated overseas expansion into Europe and Asia, and was instrumental in the launch of PayPal Mobile. Earlier, Amy worked in corporate strategy and development at Gap Inc., and as an analyst at JPMorgan. Amy received her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Bucknell University, where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Amy is a proud mom of two miracles and wife of another.

What are you looking for? Living Goods or Life? The subject of your search will determine your destination.

Charity Talks welcomes Jennifer Hyman to the podcast.  Jennifer is the Director of Communications for Living Goods, which provides critical healthcare solutions to women and children in Africa by deploying a network of community health workers.  Partnering with local governments, Living Goods ensures that quality healthcare is available to those who need it most, and is using technology and data to maximize the impact it is having in these underserved communities.  (0:21). Website:  www.livinggoods.orgFacebook: www.facebook.com/livinggoods.healthare.1Twitter:  www.twitter.com/Living_Goods 

The following is a conversation between Chuck Slaughter, Founder of Living Goods and Denver Frederick, the host of the Business of Giving. Need to focus on the spread of other diseases and not just coronavirus Living Goods “No Contact Care” service model Benefits of people self reporting through COVID Near You

To learn more about Living Goods, check out their website at livinggoods.org.More information on this and other episodes can be found at codelouder.org.

This interview will help you put yourself into the shoes of government so you can work with them effectively. Ruth Ngechu is the Deputy Country Director in charge of partnership with Living Goods in Kenya. Ruth shares her strategies and tactics she's developed over the course of her 17+ year career working in Public Health, which includes some time within the Ministry of Health On this episode, you'll learn: A different engagement strategy is needed in every county or district you work in, because each one has their own policies and priorities. They're like separate governments. Ruth's role is to understand policy frameworks to make sure Living Goods approach is aligned in each county. When Ruth was in government, and NGOs would make requests for collaboration, Ruth would look for support to help them execute some of the initiatives they had going on, since government budgets were quite thin. Governments have their own priorities and agendas. When you approach government you have to align your approach with them. So first thing to do is to find out their needs and priorities. Because government only supports the things that they think are contributing to their priorities. A bad example of an organisation approaching government is when they come with a ready made plan that does not align with the needs of the government. Living Goods' model has evolved. A key reason for this is the changing priorities and capacity of government. Living Goods' tailor their program to the needs of the government. For example, in one county, the government is paying a good stipend to their community health workers, so Living Goods provides other support. Champions are needed to support an effective partnership with government. Ruth stresses the need for champions within technical departments but also from elected leaders. If you don't build several good relationships, your programme could be seen as a political initiative and your support stops when the elected leadership changes. Investing in time is also important. You can't try to go faster than government - this is a recipe for disaster. So invest time into building the relationship. Also take stock of the government level of preparedness (i.e. their capacity or level of skills and experience) to ensure it is adequate to engage. So this needs to be understood: what their priorities are, what infrastructure is in place, and the capacity of the infrastructure (like HR support). Ruth recommends we need to listen more and let government move at their pace. Invest time in co-creating projects that address the needs of government. NGOs and social enterprises sometimes see each other as competitors, competing for the same resources and attention of government. They need to speak and work out ways of collaborating, to support government in the best possible way, by leveraging each others strengths, and work together. Ruth urges all NGOs and social enterprises to support systems strengthening, so for example, helping government to establish policy frameworks. This is essential for sustainability as well, since without these strong systems in place, the work of the NGO or social enterprise can easily be undone when leaders change. Links to resources livinggoods.org Connect with Ruth Twitter: @ngechu_ruth

In this interview talk with Skoll Social Entrepreneur Award Winner, Chuck Slaughter, to uncover how he built his company Living Goods and is scaling incredible impact in developing countries.

Chuck Slaughter is Founder and CEO of Living Goods, a social enterprise building a sustainable distribution platform for products designed to fight poverty and disease in the developing world. Living Goods operates networks of independent entrepreneurs (currently in Uganda, Kenya, and Myanmar) who make a living by selling medicines and products to poor people that...

Violent, extremist movements have continued to build around the world, and diplomacy and military power have failed to stem the tide. Why have the past responses to these crises fallen short? Steven Koltai argues that terrorist groups are fueled less by ideology, and more by a lack of attractive economic prospects for the young men who join the fray. If joblessness is an important root cause of extremist movements, then good jobs and economic growth may provide security where past responses have failed. Have traditional approaches to development adequately invested in entrepreneurship as a means of creating economic opportunities in the developing world? What lessons from the US startup culture can be translated to these volatile markets? Steven Koltai's new book, "Peace through Entrepreneurship" builds a case for a renewed emphasis on entrepreneurship in US foreign policy. Speaker Steven Koltai is an author and guest scholar at the Brookings Institution. The conversation is moderated by Charles Slaughter, Founder and CEO, Living Goods. For more information about this event please visit: http://www.worldaffairs.org/media-library/event/1634