Growth Exponential Podcast: Recent Episodes
Bradley Caro Cook, Ed.D.
Telling the stories of non-profit leaders, consultants, and philanthropists and sharing their organization’s mission with the world to help them grow. Hosted by growth hacker and social entrepreneur Dr. Bradley Caro Cook, Executive director of CareerUpNow.org and Growth Exponential, co-founder of the Next Beverly Hills Entrepreneurship Incubator, and countless other endeavors. Since an early age Bradley has been dedicated to repairing and inspiring the world. Welcome to Growth Exponential Podcast to hear the stories of those repairing the world.
Interview with Maya McNulty/ Organization’s Name: Covid Wellness/ UpTheBiz/ Organization’s Mission: UpTheBiz marketing and advertising agency offers customized solutions to effectively solve problems and exceed client’s results./ Organization’s Website: www.upthebiz.com
Interview with Elizabeth Gossage/ Organization’s Name: Bridges613/ Organization’s Mission: Our mission is to help you curate a Jewish life that is meaningful, relevant and fulfilling by showcasing and connecting you to the numerous innovative and engaging organizations that exist in Jewish life. We provide opportunities to help bring these engaging ideas to you; as an individual, family, or community./ Organization’s Website: www.Bridges613.org
Interview with Leah Coss/ Organization’s Name: Build a Biz Kids/ Organization’s Mission: Our mission is to change the way we value and educate people and society in order to prepare today's kids for the future filled with artificial intelligence, technology, and ongoing change/ Organization’s Website: www.BuildaBizKids.com
Interview with Brian Jenkins/ Organization’s Name: Entrenuity/ Organization’s Mission: Our mission is to prepare entrepreneurs for true success through experiential entrepreneurship and spiritual development training./ Organization’s Website: www.entrenuity.com
Interview with Nancy Weissmann/ Organization’s Name: JIFLA/ Organization’s Mission: Helping fellow Jews in the Atlanta area maintain financial stability in challenging times./ Organization’s Website: www.jifla.org
Interview with Ross Kimbarovsky/ Organization’s Name: Crowdspring/ Organization’s Mission: Give Back is Crowdspring’s way of helping worthy nonprofits and charitable causes when those nonprofit organizations need design help but cannot afford it./ Organization’s Website: www.crowdspring.com
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The most complete nonprofit branding guide online: www.crowdspring.com/blog/nonprofit-branding/
A complete guide to how much custom design costs: www.crowdspring.com/cost-of-design/
Interview with Terri Bonoff/ Organization’s Name: Jewish Family & Career Services of Atlanta/ Organization’s Mission: to be guided by Jewish values and provide the best in-class person-centric solutions to adress the dynamic needs of the Atlanta community./ Organization’s Website: www.jfcsatl.org
Interview with John Winslow/ Organization’s Name: 1For1 Water/ Organization’s Mission: to connect people to address the global water crisis and its impacts through compassionate community, compelling content, and strategic partnerships./ Organization’s Website: www.141water.com
Interview with Leslie Lubell/ Organization’s Name: HAMSA (Helping Atlantans Manage Substance Abuse)/ Organization’s Mission: to provide support for individuals and families to achieve and live in recovery, breaking barriers of stigma and shame, by offering addiction and recovery related services with a Jewish voice./ Organization’s Website: www.hamsahelps.org
Interview with Jenna Shulman/ Organization’s Name: Jewish Educational Loan Fund/ Organization’s Mission: provides interest-free, “last dollar” loans to Jewish students in need from Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia so that they can earn their higher education./ Organization’s Website: www.jelf.org
Interview with Stu Heinecke/ WSJ Cartoonist/ / Stu’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stuheinecke
Interview with Lisa Greer/ Book: Philanthropy Revolution/ Lisa’s book showcases the latest research, as well as dozens of interviews with donors, nonprofit professionals and leading academics in the field./ Website: philanthropy451.com
Interview with Kareece Sacco/ Organization’s Name: Well Aware/ Organization’s Mission: Build 100% successful clean water systems in East Africa./ Organization’s Website: www.wellawareworld.org
Interview with Sarah Olivieri/ Organization’s Name: Pivot Ground/ Organization’s Mission: Help nonprofits make an impact with tools and processes that move the organization forward without the overwhelm
caused by traditional strategic planning./ Organization’s Website: www.pivotground.com
Interview with Asha Curran/ Organization’s Name: GivingTuesday/ Organization’s Mission: GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. GivingTuesday’s mission is to build a more just and generous world./ Organization’s Website: www.givingtuesday.org
Interview with Joselin Matkins/ Organization’s Name: Teton Regional Land Trust/ Organization’s Mission: To conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in Eastern Idaho for this and future generations./ Organization’s Website: www.tetonlandtrust.org
Interview with Melissa D. Kaiser/ Organization’s Name: DISCOVERY Children’s Museum/ Organization’s Mission: To foster a welcoming, vibrant, and inclusive environment where all are invited to engage in playful and educational experiences that ignite a lifelong love of learning./ Organization’s Website: www.discoverykidslv.org
Interview with Elchanan Poupko/ Organization’s Name: EITAN-The American-Israeli Jewish Network/ Organization’s Mission: To keep Israeli-Americans connected to each other, to members of the American Jewish community, and to the state of Israel./ Organization’s Website: www.eitanamerica.org
Interview with Jamie Schumacher/ Organization’s Name: West Bank Business Association/ Organization’s Mission: WBBA exists to engage the business community in the responsible economic development of the West Bank district while preserving the unique character and heritage of the Cedar-Riverside area./ Organization’s Website: www.wbba.thewestbank.org
Interview with Russell Robinson/ Organization’s Name: Jewish National Fund/ Organization’s Mission: To support the land and people of Israel./ Organization’s Website: www.usa.jnf.org
Interview with Rosy Vasquez/ Organization’s Name: Community Through Hope/ Organization’s Mission: To foster hope for a better life for those facing food insecurity and for those without a permanent home by providing a hand up through innovative and compassionate programs with equality, dignity and respect./ Organization’s Website: www.communitythroughhope.org
Interview with Gabby Spatt/ Organization’s Name: The Blue Dove Foundation/ Organization’s Mission: To educate, equip, and ignite our Jewish community with tools to understand, support, and overcome the challenges presented by mental illness and substance abuse./ Organization’s Website: thebluedovefoundation.org
Interview with Laura Shaw/ Organization’s Name: Paint Love, Inc./ Organization’s Mission: To bring extraordinary arts programming for youth facing poverty and trauma./ Organization’s Website: www.gopaintlove.org
Interview with Marcel Odina/ Organization’s Name: Mozaika/ Organization’s Mission: To promote all practice of Jewish culture in Barcelona and its surroundings, therefore engaging Jews and familiarizing non-Jews with that aspect of their heritage./ Organization’s Website: www.www.mozaika.es/en/
Interview with Justin Harlan/ Organization’s Name: Reading Partners-Tulsa/ Organization’s Mission: To help children become lifelong readers by empowering communities, provide individualized instructions with measureable results. / Organization’s Website: www.readingpartners.org
Interview with Emily Chambers Sharpe/ Organization’s Name: House of Mercy/ Organization’s Mission: The House of Mercy’s mission is to provide quality care in a residential setting for low-income people living with HIV who can no longer care for themselves and face homelessness. / Organization’s Website: www.thehouseofmercy.org/
Interview with Farra Trompeter/ Organization’s Name: Big Duck/ Organization’s Mission: Big Duck has been developing the voices of determined nonprofits for decades, so we’ve honed our process and structure to make communications projects manageable for our clients while delivering exceptional results./ Organization’s Website: www.bigduck.com
Interview with Dawn Coppin/ Organization’s Name: The San José Public Library Foundation/ Organization’s Mission: The San José Public Library Foundation provides advocacy, financial support, and leadership to our public libraries and educational programs throughout San José to create an educated, equitable, and engaged community/ Organization’s Website: www.sjplf.org
Interview with Christopher K. Morgan/ Organization’s Name: Dance Place/ Organization’s Mission: We build a community of artists, audiences and students through high quality performances, commissions, training and educational programs. We are committed to enriching the field of dance locally, nationally and internationally./ Organization’s Website: www.danceplace.org
Interview with Devra C. Aarons/ Organization’s Name: Contra Costa Midrasha/ Organization’s Mission: Contra Costa Midrasha’s (CCM) mission is to form and inform a pluralistic Jewish teen community (grades 8-12) and to develop and enhance personal Jewish identity for each member of this community. CCM aims to develop the habits of lifelong Jewish learning, practice and communal participation and to engage its teens with Israel through cultural exchange and education. CCM provides an educational and social environment and an interdenominational community for teens./ Organization’s Website: www.ccmidrasha.com
Interview with Katie Hyten/ Organization’s Name: Essential Partners/ Organization’s Mission: Essential Partners’ mission is equip people to live and work better together in community by doting trust and understanding across differences./ Organization’s Website: www.whatisessential.org
Interview with Mohan Sivaloganathan/ Organization’s Name: Students for Education Reform/ Organization’s Mission: Students for Education Reform’s mission is activate the power of students to advance educational justice through organizing, leadership development, and culture shifting./ Organization’s Website: www.studentsforedreform.org
Interview with Chandra Stephens-Albright/ Organization’s Name: True Colors Theatre Company/ Organization’s Mission: True Colors Theatre Company’s mission is to celebrate the rich tradition of black storytelling while giving voice to bold artists of all cultures./ Organization’s Website: www.truecolorstheatre.org
Interview with Lejla Bratovic/ Organization’s Name: Conflict Resolution Center of Santa Cruz County/ Organization’s Mission: The mission of Conflict Resolution Center of Santa Cruz County is to offer affordable, accessible mediation and training./ Organization’s Website: www.crcsantacruz.org
Interview with Janelle Irwin/ Organization’s Name: Hang Tough Foundation/ Organization’s Mission: The Hang Tough Foundation offers resources and encouragement to families during their journey with childhood illness and special needs./ Organization’s Website: www.hangtoughfoundation.org/
Interview with Eve Crevoshay/ Organization’s Name: Take This/ Organization’s Mission: is to decrease the stigma, and increase the support for, mental health in the game enthusiast community and inside the game industry./ Organization’s Website: www.takethis.org
Interview with Katherine Judson/ Organization’s Name: Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences/ Organization’s Mission: To make the criminal legal system more fair through reform in forensic sciences, crime lab, and the courtroom. / Organization’s Website: www.cifsjustice.org
Interview with Susan Musinsky/ Organization’s Name: Social Innovation Forum/ Organization’s Mission: To create positive social change in greater Boston by engaging leaders, strengthening organizations, and building networks./ Organization’s Website: www.socialinnovationforum.org
Interview with Joshua Banda/ Organization’s Name: Sequoia Symphony Orchestra/ Organization’s Mission: Foster an appreciation of symphonic music and to enrich and inspire the diverse communities of the Central Valley through the transformative power of live music, education and community partnerships./ Organization’s Website: https://www.sequoiasymphonyorchestra.com/
Interview with David Delugas/ Organization’s Name: Parents U.S.A./ Organization’s Mission: To serve the United States a 160 million married and unmarried parents and their children, to preserve and support the parent-child relationship taking positions only based on the U.S. Constitution./ Organization’s Website: https://parentsusa.org
Interview with Alon Meltzer/ Organization’s Name: Shalom College/ Organization’s Mission: Shalom aims to increase the vibrancy of the Sydney Jewish Community by fostering Jewish Life in an inclusive way, through cultural, educational and professional endeavors / Organization’s Website: www.shalom.edu.au
Interview with Erin Zaikis/ Organization’s Name: Sundara/ Organization’s Mission: Sundara recycles old hotel soap into new bars, giving them a second life. We hire local women to do this work, lifting them from poverty with fair wage livelihoods, and they distribute the soap to their communities while providing free hygiene education classes for vulnerable populations./ Organization’s Website: www.sundarafund.org
Interview with Tige Charity/ Organization’s Name: Kids In The Spotlight, Inc./ Organization’s Mission: To help foster youth heal and grow from trauma through the power of storytelling and filmmaking/ Organization’s Website: kitsinc.org
Interview with Sheri-Miller/ Organization’s Name: The Charmm’d Foundation/ Organization’s Mission: The Charmm’d Foundation’s mission is to strenghten leaders of tax-exempt organization through emotional intelligence and ethical reflection/ Organization’s Website: www.charmmdfoundation.org
Interview with Scott Goldstein/ Organization’s Name: EmpowerEd/ Organization’s Mission: To elevate the voices of diversed DC teachers to promote a more equtable education system/ Organization’s Website: www.weareempowered.org
Interview with Sara Stern/ Organization’s Name: The Schoolhouse/ Organization’s Mission: The Schoolhouse is a diverse community committed to advancing social justice and access to education./ Organization’s Website: www.schoolhouse.org.il
Interview with Rachel Gildiner/ Organization’s Name: Gather DC/ Organization’s Mission: GatherDC is a Jewish nonprofit that helps thousands of young adults across the DC-area find their people and place in our Jewish community/ Organization’s Website: www.gatherdc.org
Interview with Bunmi Esho/ Organization’s Name: Techbridge Girls California/ Organization’s Mission: Techbridge Girls excites, educates, and equips girls from low-income communities by delivering high quality STEM programming that empowers a girl to achieve economic mobility and better life chances./ Organization’s Website: www.techbridgegirls.org
Interview with Ariella Rosen and Khouloud Ayuti/ Organization’s Name: PresenTense Israel/ Organization’s Mission: PresenTense creates impact from the bottom up by leveling the playing field by using tools of entrepreneurship/ Organization’s Website: www.presentense.org
Interview with Janne Kouri/ Organization’s Name: Next Step Fitness/ Organization’s Mission: NextStep is an internationally recognized non-profit organization that makes life-changing rehab accessible and affordable to those living with paralysis./ Organization’s Website: www.nextstepfitness.org
Interview with Kyle and Brent Pease/ Organization’s Name: Kyle Pease Foundation/ Organization’s Mission: The purpose of the Kyle Pease Foundation (KPF) is to create awareness and raise funds to promote success for persons with disabilities by providing assistance to meet their individual needs through sports./ Organization’s Website: www.kylepeasefoundation.org
Interview with Deborah Meyer/ Organization’s Name: Moving Traditions/ Organization’s Mission: Moving Traditions emboldens teens by fostering self-discovery, challenging sexism, and inspiring a commitment to Jewish life and learning./ Organization’s Website: www.movingtraditions.org
Interview with Debbie Frisch/ Organization’s Name: HelloBaby/ Organization’s Mission: Mission is to support, inspire and empower families raising young children in underserved Chicago neighborhoods./ Organization’s Website: www.hellobabychgo.org
Interview with Curt Yagi/ Organization’s Name: Real Options for City Kids/ Organization’s Mission: To nurture the healthy development of children by listening attentively to their needs and by providing opportunities to those who might not otherwise have access./ Organization’s Website: www.rocksf.org
Interview with Charles Cohen/ Organization’s Name: Metro Chicago Hillel/ Organization’s Mission: Hillel’s mission is to enrich the lives of Jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the Jewish people and the world./ Organization’s Website: www.metrochicagohillel.org
Interview with Natalie Treat/ Organization’s Name: The C-10 Research and Education Foundation/ Organization’s Mission: C-10’s mission is to monitor and advocate for the safety of Seabrook Station nuclear power plant in order to protect public health and the environment in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and beyond. / Organization’s Website: www.c-10.org
Interview with Floor Koudijs/ Organization’s Name: Silicon Valley Talent Partnership/ Organization’s Mission: Joint Venture Silicon Valley provides analysis and action on issues affecting our region’s economy and quality of life. / Organization’s Website: www.jointventure.org
Interview with Elana Frank/ Organization’s Name: Jewish Fertility Foundation/ Organization’s Mission: The Jewish Fertility Foundation provides financial assistance, educational awareness, and emotional support to Jewish people who have medical fertility challenges./ Organization’s Website: www.jewishfertilityfoundation.org
Interview with Craig Montuori/ Organization’s Name: Global EIR/ Organization’s Mission: Global EIR partners with communities around the US to generate economic growth and create innovation economy jobs by solving the startup visa problem/ Organization’s Website: www.globaleir.org