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Deepa Chaudhary is the founder of Impact DAO Media. In conversation with Matthew Monahan. Watch this episode on video: https://youtu.be/t542Ypq7i_4 Impact DAO Media: https://impactdaos.xyz Deepa's Twitter: https://twitter.com/deeparocks Deepa's LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/deepachaudhary THE REGENERATION WILL BE FUNDED Ma Earth Website: https://maearth.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@maearthmedia Community Discord: https://maearth.com/community Podcast Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/theregeneration/feed.xml EPISODE RESOURCES ETHDenver: https://www.ethdenver.com Nouns DAO: https://nouns.wtf CryptoRelief Fund: https://cryptorelief.in Vitalik donated Shiba Inu for COVID relief: https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/vitalik-donates-1-billion-worth-shiba-inu-and-ethereum-to-india-covid-19-relief-fund-1802009-2021-05-13 Charity Water: https://www.charitywater.org/ Watsi: https://watsi.org Confessions of an Economic Hit Man book: https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081 ImpactDAOs book with Ale Borda: https://greenpill.network/pdf/ImpactDAO.pdf KlimaDAO: https://www.klimadao.finance Proof of Humanity: https://proofofhumanity.id Friends with Benefits: https://www.fwb.help Mercy Corps Ventures Crypto For Good Fund: https://medium.com/mercy-corps-social-venture-fund/crypto-for-good-fund-c7729a693327 Gitcoin: https://www.gitcoin.co The Network State: https://thenetworkstate.com RELATED SEASON 1 INTERVIEWS Yoseph Ayele (LAVA): https://youtu.be/5RjwgDKDVrE Alan Ransil (Filecoin Green): https://youtu.be/W036wU3IYLA Kevin Owocki (Green Pill): https://youtu.be/li52pnvmohE This interview took place during ReFi Summit 2023: https://refisummit.org SOCIAL Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/maearth X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/maearthmedia Lenstube: https://lenstube.xyz/channel/maearth.lens Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maearthmedia/ Mirror: https://mirror.xyz/maearth.eth LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/maearth/ Lenster: https://lenster.xyz/u/maearth Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maearthcommunity TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@maearthmedia
Shirin 'Mu Zagaya Duniya' yana bitar wasu daga cikin muhimman labarun lamurran da suka wakana a makon da ya gabata. daga cikin abbubuwan da shirin ya kawo muku, za ku ji cewa, manyan jam'iyyun adawa a Najeriya sun yi watsi da hukuncin kotun sauraron kararrakin saben shugaban kasa da ta tabbatar da nasarar da shugaba Bola Tinubu da ya lashe zaben da ya gudana a karshen watan Fabarairu. da sauransu.
Here I discuss how to pay tithing with stocks, called donations in kind. I'm surprised it's not more well known since it can save you a lot of money by avoiding the long-term capital gains tax of 15%! I'll discuss how and why we want to model charitable giving to our kids, some charities we like to support (Charity: Water and Watsi), where to find unbiased reviews of charities (Charity Watch or Charity Navigator) and what tithing is. Links to tithing and humanitarian aid by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints:https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/article/what-is-tithinghttps://www.latterdaysaintcharities.org/https://www.deseret.com/faith/2020/2/14/21133740/mormon-church-finances-billions-presiding-bishopric-ensign-peak-tithing-donations-byu-real-estateLinks to donations in kind:https://philanthropies.churchofjesuschrist.org/gift-planning/what-to-give/assets/securities/procedure-for-donating-securitieshttps://tech.churchofjesuschrist.org/wiki/Donations_in_kindhttps://support.vanguard.com/triage/coo/926106C5https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc506Please feel free to send any questions my way at onelessthingpodcast@gmail.comor DM @kaeliwood on Instagram
Wani rahoto da kungiyar da ke kula da ‘yan gudun hijira ta Kasar Norway NRC ta fitar, ya ce duniya ta yi watsi da wasu kasashen Afrika da rikici ya daidaita, wadanda a sanadiyar haka mutane da dama suka zama ‘yan gudun hijira, bayaga matsananciyar yunwa da mace-mace da ta addabe su. Cikin rahotan da Kungiyar ta fitar ranar Laraba, shugabanta Jan Egeland ya ce, sakamakon halin da ake ciki yanzu haka na Yakin Ukraine, Yankin Afrika zai cigaba da fadawa matsalolin da suka wuce tunanin kowa. A zantawarsa da Ahmed Abba kakakin kungiyar dake kula da yankin Tsakiya da Yammacin Afirka Tom Peyre - Costa, ya fara da bayyana kasashen da lamarin yafi shafa.
Shirin 'Al'adunmu Na Gado' ya duba sana'o'in gargajiya da muka gada kaka da kakanni a kasar Hausa, da kuma yadda aka yi watsi da su a wannan zamani. An fara ne da batun girke girken gargajiya.
Jam'iyyar adawa mafi girma a Najeriya PDP tayi watsi da tsarin karba-karba inda tace ta baje a tire mai rabo ya dauka. Wannan na zuwa ne baya lokaci mai tsaso da aka dauka ana fama kan yanki da za'a kai kujerar takarar shugaban kasa a jam'iyyar. Mohammed Sani Abubakar ya zanta mana da Hon. Shehu Liman One,daya daga cikin manyan ‘yan PDP a jihar Jigawa.
The Technopath Way: Productivity through tech for nonprofits
Sign up for our weekly newsletter, The Technopath Way Tips, here: echnopath.ac-page.com/the-technopath-way-sign-upChris Federspiel began his career at a young age, coding websites in middle school followed by Perl and CGI scripts in high school. He later moved into the field of sales and marketing for Internet Creations and Silverline. His entrepreneurial spirit led him to co-found Plative as a Salesforce Systems Integrator (SI), followed by Brainiac. Chris's latest venture, Blackthorn.io, was established in 2015 and has seen exponential growth and success since then, having received multiple Salesforce.org Partner of the Year awards. Under Chris's leadership, his dedicated teams have worked relentlessly to earn Blackthorn Events the honor of being the highest-rated events app on the Salesforce AppExchange, while Blackthorn Payments now has the most gateways and payment methods available on the platform.Chris's Tips for Taming the Event Tech Overwhelm:* Every event has a message to deliver whether it's a new piece of content, capital campaign or updates to stake holders * Think through what your event's message is and how you'll know if you've conveyed it to your audience/constituents/donors* Answer these questions to help you think through event metrics you'll need * Will this be in person, virtual or hybrid? * Do you know who attended which types of events in the past? * If they were virtual, do you know if they actually attended vs just registered? * Do you know how long they were at your event? (For in person: Did they stay the whole time, leave before the keynote, etc? For virtual: Did they log on early/late? Did they pop in and out of the event? When did they exit the virtual event space?) * Did this person register for and attend more than one of your events? Which ones? * Did they engage with you at the event? Did they type in the chat box, ask a question, participate in a poll? * Have you entered data from past events into your database? * What do you want these attendees to do after this event? (Ie, become a recurring donor, attend more events, volunteer regularly, make a planned gift)* Make your event as easy to engage with as possible * Have multiple ways for attendees to tell you what they're thinking with polls * Focus on making your event's content compelling* Have one system for everything (event attendance recording, donor/attendee information, payment processing, poll results) rather than seperate systems you have to cobble together or remember to update individually* If you're having sponsors consider a piece of technology that integrates with the rest of your system to be able to see if attendees engaged with sponsors, which ones and how * C-vent for virtual, in person and hybrid events with sponsors https://www.cvent.com/* Silent Auction management * Blackthorn.io event management and payment processing apps. They are native to Salesforce so you will skip having to do all of the extra data imports, tech management and typical scrambleOther Interesting Links* Stripe Climate * https://stripe.com/climate * Contribute a portion of the revenue you accept through stripe toward funding companies working toward capturing carbon in the atmosphere* Watsi * https://watsi.org * A nonprofit organization collecting donations to fund vital health care and procedures for people in developing countries.
In this episode, Tabreez and Jeffrey discuss mission driven tech, the entrepreneurial journey, how people interact with money, and much more… Watch this episode on YouTube Learn more: Tabreez Instagram, Twitter Devoted Health Long-Term Stock Echange (LTSE) Kiva.org Watsi.org Tabreez: Greetings everyone! I'm ethnically Indian with a family from east Africa and a Persian name. I grew up first in Brazil and then moved around various cities in the Midwest before settling in the San Francisco bay area before college at Berkeley. I've always seen money and business as energy to create and serve a future where all beings can thrive and be fulfilled. I love having the backs of amazing humans who are master artisans and builders of this kind of future. In the last decade, I've become increasingly fascinated with the relationship between our inner world and what we manifest in the world around us. Amongst many identities, I am also a three-time entrepreneur and technology start-up investor. We co-founded Uprising to invest in and radically support gifted technology entrepreneurs who see their companies as vehicles to serve the whole. I'm particularly drawn to heart centered, embodied teams with “goosebumpy” missions that not only address big problems and the systems that created them, but who also understand the significance of simultaneously transmuting the stories, culture, and consciousness from which those systems arise. Some of the many real life superheroes we have backed include the teams behind Devoted Health, Long Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), Lyft, Calm, Braintrust, ClassDojo, Virta Health, Good Eggs, Landit, SV Academy, and Change.org.I was also lucky to be a founding board member and funder at Kiva.org where I served for 11 years. The Uprising Crew has also helped catalyze a number of other initiatives including breakthrough treatments for Autism and Type I Diabetes, the Palo Alto Longevity Prize, and funding for several ground breaking non-profits like Watsi.org and CareMessage.
Nat Amoore chats to MacKinnon Engen from Watsi, a non-profit organisation.
TAKEOVER: Nat Amoore And MacKinnon Engen From Watsi
Kwanak 4 kafin gudanar da zaben kasar Cote d’Ivoire, shugaba Alassane Ouattara ya yi tsokaci kan aman da ya yi ya kuma tande cewar ba zai tsaya takara ba idan ya kammala wa’adin mulkin sa na biyu. Yayin hira ta musamman da RFI da Tashar Talabijin na France 24, Ouattara ya bayyana dalilin da ya sashi sake takara, da kuma wasu batutuwa da dama da suka hada da dawowar tsohon shugaban kasar Laurent Bagbo gida, bayan da ya zargi tsohon Franministansa tsohon shugaban Majalisa Guime Soro da kokarin kifar da gwamnatinsa ta hanyar tawaye. Zaku iya sauraran hirar da akayi da shi.
Shirin Al'adunmu na Gargajiya na wannan makon ya cigaba da tattaunawa ne kan gudanar bukukuwan kalankuwa na nuna al'adun garajiya a Jamhuriyar Nijar tare da Mahamman Salisu Hamisou.
Shirin Al'adunmu na Gado na wannan mako tare da Mahamman Salissou Hamissou ya tattauna ne game da bikin al'adun gargajiya da aka yi watsi da shi a Jamhuriyar Nijar duk da muhimmancinsa wajen hada kawuna al'ummar kasar.
Shirin Duniyar Wasanni na wannan makon tare da Abdoulaye Issa ya yi nazari ne kan yadda aka yi watsi da wasanni tsakanin daliban makarantu a Najeriya.
Shirin Duniyar Wasanni na wannan makon tare da Ahmad Alhassan ya tattauna ne yadda Najeriya ta yi watsi da tsarin zakulo matasan 'yan wasa daga sassan kasar domin wakiltar ta a gasa daban daban na Afrika da duniya.
In this episode, I interview Gustaf Alstromer, Partner at Y Combinator and former Product Lead of Growth at AirBnB. Prior to AirBnB, he led Growth at Voxer and was the Co-Founder and CEO of Heysan (YC W07), which was acquired by Good Technology in 2009. In October of 2018, YC published a Request for Startups that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere which YC President Sam Altman described as “the most elaborate RFS we have put out.” Gustaf is one of the partners at YC that spends a portion of their time working with these companies that are focused on addressing climate change. In this episode, we discuss: Gustaf’s background in consumer tech working at AirBnB and Voxer Where Gustaf spends most of his time at YC The background and reason for YC’s carbon removal focused Request for Startups (RFS) Why YC decided to focus specifically on carbon removal Gustaf’s view on the similarities and differences between “traditional” YC companies vs climate focused companies A few of the climate focused companies YC has invested in What YC looks for in climate focused companies I learned a lot about the YC model from talking with Gustaf and I hope you enjoy the show! You can find me on twitter @jjacobs22 and email at info@myclimatejourney.co, where I encourage you to share your feedback on episodes and provide suggestions for future guests or topics you'd like to see covered on the show. Links for topics discussed in this episode: Gustafs LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gustafalstromer/ Gustaf’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/gustaf Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/ YC’s Carbon RFS: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#carbon YC’s Carbon specific website: carbon.ycombinator.com Pachama: https://www.pachama.com/ Watsi: https://watsi.org/ ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/ Tarjimly: https://www.tarjim.ly/en Vote.Org: https://www.vote.org/ Good Food Institute: https://www.gfi.org/
I've been waiting for the right time and person to discuss the importance of coffee to our daily lives. Larry Istrail is a Hospitalist and a coffee aficionado (like your faithful podcast host) who has started a new coffee roasting company called Pheo Coffee. We discuss coffee as a ritual in medicine, connecting to our shared past through coffee, and the laudable intentions behind his business. Key Learnings 1. What's in our cups as we start the episode 2. The role of coffee in the day-to-day in the hospital 3. Why coffee is so tightly bound into the culture of healthcare 4. Surprising someone with a coffee 5. The origin of Pheo Coffee and the importance of social impact 6. Being affiliated with Watsi to help fund surgical procedures overseas & connecting each coffee purchase with a patient's story 7. How Larry tries to make coffee delivery part of the overall experience of enjoying coffee & honoring medical history 8. Creating awesome coffee-medical fusion swag, especially the caffeine deficiency diagnosis code cup 9. The importance of fresh-roasted coffee and the joy of home roasting 10. Enjoying the wonderful ritual of coffee cupping 11. Larry's tips for brewing a perfect cup on coffee, complete with video! 12. Connecting doctors and nurses to our shared past and our predecessors through the same wonderful drink they enjoyed 13. The road forward for Pheo Coffee and selecting the right roast for you Links Pheo Coffee: www.pheocoffee.com Twitter: @PheoCoffee Instagram: @PheoCoffee Washington Post article can be found here Sweet Maria's (everything you need to roast coffee): www.sweetmarias.com #coffee, #coffeeroasting, #healthcare, #medicine, #hospitalist, #aeropress
Ben is thankful for Tuple’s success so far. It is helping companies improve efficiency and countries improve the quality of their residents’ lives. Derrick also expresses gratitude for companies being interested in his product, Level. He is setting up a specific team in Level and addressing concerns to convert them. Today’s Topics Include: People want to work at Tuple, and specifically for Ben; it’s flattering, but Tuple is not hiring Tuple beat out a competitor during a company’s trial use Tuple will be given to Watsi, a non-profit that does crowdfunding for medical procedures in third-world countries and is developing a platform for countries to manage healthcare Core Competency: Keep your brain sane during challenges and changes Vice vs. Virtue: Coach and convince champions that Level may not be immediately gratifying, but a virtuous and better way to work Tuple is no longer offering free trials; pain of purchase and pre-qualification put up front Calls to action, connections, and surveys help identify ideal prospects and leads Links and resources: Watsi (https://watsi.org/) YNAB (https://www.youneedabudget.com/) Ultraworking (https://www.ultraworking.com/lights) Art of Product on Twitter (https://twitter.com/artofproductpod) Derrick Reimer (http://www.derrickreimer.com) Website Derrick’s Level Manifesto (https://level.app/manifesto) Derrick Reimer on Twitter (https://twitter.com/derrickreimer) Ben Orenstein (http://www.benorenstein.com/) Website Ben Orenstein on Twitter (https://twitter.com/r00k?lang=en) Level (https://level.app/) Tuple (https://tuple.app/)
In this episode, Eric talks about building a capital intensive business across multiple geographies and how he balances speed vs. scale. He also discusses his controversial take on hiring, how poker influences his outlook on business, and how to transition from an IC to a manager. Eric Wu is co-founder and CEO of Opendoor, a consumer technology company that is reinventing how people buy and sell real estate. Prior to Opendoor, Eric was the founder and CEO of Movity.com, a geo-data analytics company acquired by Trulia.com in 2011. At Trulia, Eric led location, social, and consumer product development. Eric also co-founded RentAdvisor.com, which was later acquired by Apartment List, and runs a real estate fund that has invested in over 100 multi-family units. Eric has been an investor and advisor to a number of startups and social enterprises including Watsi, CareMessage, and Color Genomics.
In this episode, Eric talks about building a capital intensive business across multiple geographies and how he balances speed vs. scale. He also discusses his controversial take on hiring, how poker influences his outlook on business, and how to transition from an IC to a manager.Eric Wu is co-founder and CEO of Opendoor, a consumer technology company that is reinventing how people buy and sell real estate. Prior to Opendoor, Eric was the founder and CEO of Movity.com, a geo-data analytics company acquired by Trulia.com in 2011. At Trulia, Eric led location, social, and consumer product development. Eric also co-founded RentAdvisor.com, which was later acquired by Apartment List, and runs a real estate fund that has invested in over 100 multi-family units. Eric has been an investor and advisor to a number of startups and social enterprises including Watsi, CareMessage, and Color Genomics.
NOTE: This is an encore presentation of an episode that first aired on March 6, 2017. Grace Garey and Watsi are featured in the book, Crazy Good Advice: 10 Lessons Learned from 150 Leading Social Entrepreneurs. To hear the original, extended interview, go here: https://tonyloyd.com/157. Watsi is on a mission to provide healthcare for every person in the world. A billion people around the world do not have access to basic healthcare. And, for those who are fortunate enough to have access, the cost of healthcare can create a life-crippling financial burden. Watsi enables anyone to directly fund life-changing healthcare for people around the world. You can go to their website, see photos and read stories of patients. You can donate as little as five dollars. All the donated money goes directly to the patient. Donors receive updates throughout the funding process. Once the patient’s healthcare is funded, donors receive updates from doctors and healthcare workers. Donors experience full transparency from the donation to the impact. Since launching four years ago, visitors to the site have raised $7.5 million to provide healthcare for more than 10,000 patients in 24 countries. Social Entrepreneurship Quotes from Grace Garey “We believe everyone deserves healthcare.” @gracegarey, @watsi “A billion people around the world don’t have access to basic healthcare.” @gracegarey, @watsi “It’s all through a network of local medical partners.” @gracegarey, @watsi “When you support a patient, by default, 100% of your donation goes to support that patient’s care.” “My parents are both progressive people who raised me and my sister to care about the rest of the world, outside of our bubble.” “When people are safe and healthy and have access to the basic things they need, they make good decisions and they make the world around them better.” “We started working on Watsi on nights and weekends.” @gracegarey, @watsi “We just started.” @gracegarey, @watsi “We employed the generosity of a lot of people who were excited about the idea.” “We really didn’t know if it would work or not.” @gracegarey, @watsi “We started with almost no systems.” @gracegarey, @watsi “Our initial goal was that we would fund healthcare for ten patients in the first six months, and we did it in the first six hours.” “I didn’t know what Y Combinator was.” @gracegarey, @watsi “We were more like the for-profit startups than we were different.” @gracegarey, @watsi “When we got to YC, everyone was thinking really big.” @gracegarey, @watsi “We told them that we wanted to change global health and they did not blink an eye.” “They assumed it was worth trying.” @gracegarey, @watsi “There are now a dozen or so non-profits and social ventures who have gone through Y Combinator. They’ve all meshed this idea of making an impact with the idea of reaching scale.” “Up to 40% of health funding is lost to inefficiency.” @gracegarey, @watsi “The hardest part throughout this whole journey is just scaling as a person.” “Everyone talks about what it takes to scale your startup, but you also have to scale.” “You have to get used to being really bad at your job most of the time.” @gracegarey, @watsi Social Entrepreneurship Resources: Watsi: https://watsi.org Watsi on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Watsi.org Watsi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/watsi Watsi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/watsi Book: Crazy Good Advice: 10 Lessons Learned from 150 Leading Social Entrepreneurs: https://tonyloyd.com/book
Watsi is on a mission to provide healthcare for every person in the world. In March, on Social Entrepreneur, we are focusing on Sustainable Development Goal 3, Good Health and Well-Being. A billion people around the world do not have access to basic healthcare. And, for those who are fortunate enough to have access, the cost of healthcare can create a life-crippling financial burden. Watsi enables anyone to directly fund life-changing healthcare for people around the world. You can go onto their web site, see photos and read stories of patients. You can donate as little as five dollars. All the donated money goes directly to the patient. Donors receive updates throughout the funding process. Once the patient’s healthcare is funded, donors receive updates from doctors and healthcare workers. Donors experience full transparency from the donation to the impact. Since launching four years ago, visitors to the site have raised $7.5 million to provide healthcare for more than 10,000 patients in 24 countries. Social Entrepreneurship Quotes from Grace Garey “We believe everyone deserves healthcare.” “A billion people around the world don’t have access to basic healthcare.” “It’s all through a network of local medical partners.” “When you support a patient, by default, 100% of your donation goes to support that patient’s care.” “My parents are both progressive people who raised me and my sister to care about the rest of the world, outside of our bubble.” “When people are safe and healthy and have access to the basic things they need, they make good decisions and they make the world around them better.” “We started working on Watsi on nights and weekends.” “We just started.” “We employed the generosity of a lot of people who were excited about the idea.” “We really didn’t know if it would work or not.” “We started with almost no systems.” “Our initial goal was that we would fund healthcare for ten patients in the first six months, and we did it in the first six hours.” “I didn’t know what Y Combinator was.” “We were more like the for-profit startups than we were different.” “When we got to YC, everyone was thinking really big.” “We told them that we wanted to change global health and they did not blink an eye.” “They assumed it was worth trying.” “There are now a dozen or so non-profits and social ventures who have gone through Y Combinator. They’ve all meshed this idea of making an impact with the idea of reaching scale.” “Up to 40% of health funding is lost to inefficiency.” “The hardest part throughout this whole journey is just scaling as a person.” “Everyone talks about what it takes to scale your startup, but you also have to scale.” “You have to get used to being really bad at your job most of the time.” Social Entrepreneurship Resources: Watsi: https://watsi.org Watsi on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Watsi.org Watsi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/watsi Watsi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/watsi More Stories of Sustainable Development Goal 3, Good Health and Well-Being In 2017, we’re emphasizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). In March, we are focusing on Sustainable Development Goal 3, Good Health and Well-Being. You can read more about Sustainable Development Goal 1 here, Sustainable Development Goal 2 here, or learn about all of the Sustainable Development Goals here.
Shirin Dandalin Siyasa ya tattauna game da batun yin watsi da amincewa da jekadu 46 da Majalisar Dattiajan Najeirya ta yi da rikicin shugabannin Jamiyyar PDP mai adawa a Najeriya da ta dare gida biyu inda wasu ‘yan jam’iyyar ke neman a raba-gari wasu kuma ke bukatar sake lale.
How do you know if your idea will work, without burning through all your time and money? To solve this problem, many nonprofits are turning to the “lean startup” approach, which emphasizes flexibility, pragmatism, and experimentation. The method, pioneered by entrepreneurs such as Steve Blank, allows organizations to learn as quickly as they can about what works, so that they can build and scale successful programs while avoiding huge up-front investments that might lead in the wrong direction. In this podcast, Blank and fellow author-entrepreneur Giff Constable lead a discussion of the lean process at our 2015 Nonprofit Management Institute. Chase Adam, founder of global healthcare crowdfunding platform Watsi, and Alethea Hannemann, who formerly served as vice president of product and national programs at the Taproot Foundation, share their personal experiences with the methodology. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/lean_experimentation_for_the_social_sector_build_smart_to_learn_fast
Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://onforb.es/1YiB5rW. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwitunes or on Stitcher by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwstitcher. Don’t you love it when you find someone who is out to change the world and is actually doing it–at scale! Young social entrepreneur Grace Garey noted that there are too many people in the world without access to healthcare so she decided to do something about it. In just a few years of operation, Watsi, a crowdfunding site designed to fund medical care for impoverished people in the developing world one at a time, has helped 5,000 patients in 20 countries. Not a bad start! Garey was motivated by a sobering statistic, she says. “1 billion people don’t have to access to healthcare, and million more are pushed into poverty each year trying to pay for it.” “Our goal is to make healthcare a reality for every person on the planet. I really believe there are no missing resources in the world, only missing connections, and everything we work on at Watsi is meant to make those connections,” she explained. Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://onforb.es/1YiB5rW. Please consider whether a friend or colleague might benefit from this piece and, if so, share it.
Grace and Jenna discuss Watsi's mission to fund universal healthcare, the effect of running their non-profit like a startup and why pragmatism is the team's defining characteristic.
This is the fifty-seventh episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Grace Garey (on Twitter @ GraceGarey), the co-founder of Watsi, a platform for funding healthcare for people around the world. Grace has a background in global and international studies. After living in Ghana and interning at the International Rescue Committee, Grace joined Kiva to help them grow their platform. While there she helped launch Watsi - which became the first non-profit company to ever be accepted into Y Combinator. Grace joins us to share her story, what lead her to becoming an entrepreneur, what she learnt while at Kiva, how Watsi got into YC, and much more!
This month we spoke with Thomas Bukowski of Watsi to talk about how they built their global crowdfunding platform that has now raised over $3M to fund medical treatment for patients across the globe. It all started with a small Rails site on Heroku. Listen in to hear how Watsi created a site that saves lives!
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Coming up in this episode of the KickCast the Freeloader is smaller, lighter and stronger than it’s opponents, using your foot to adjust pedals on the fly, a way to take your OS with you anywhere and what’s a Watsi?! Congratulations to Mike B for winning the Pebble sweatband! I hope you guys enjoy […]