Give - A Philanthropy Podcast

Foster the Earth

Erin McBride

Today we bring you Foster The Earth’s founder, Erin McBride. Foster The Earth is dedicated to helping vulnerable children and young adults in the foster care system through exposure to the great outdoors. Their participants experience the challenges and healing power of extended time in the wild and come away with a deeper respect for themselves, their capacity, and their place in the natural world.

Foster The Earth removes their participants from their everyday stressors by exposing them to nature and giving them resilience and self-confidence to help with their everyday lives at home. Each month participants go on one hike over the duration of a seven month program which teaches them new backpacking skills while also increasing in altitude and mileage. At the end of the program, the participants embark on a life-changing seven day backpacking trip to the tallest peak in the lower 48 states, Mount Whitney. Erin, has spent 1,645 hours with at-risk youth transforming their relationship with nature and themselves.

In order to help Foster The Earth continue enlightening and healing our youth through outdoor therapy, donate on their website, become a sponsor and even start your own chapter! Foster The Earth is an uplifting reminder to motivate others to spend more time in nature and disconnect with the technological world so you can reconnect with yourself.

How can you help?

• Donate
• Start a chapter
• Volunteer
• Engage

Please don’t forget to share this episode! Sharing this episode will help Foster The Earth to achieve its mission and increase its impact and help us at the GIVE Podcast keep spreading the word about important charities and nonprofits.

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Where to find Foster The Earth

Website | Facebook | Instagram

Full episode transcription can be found here.

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Sea Shepherd

Captain Paul Watson

Today we are beyond excited to welcome Captain Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd Conservancy. You may already be familiar with him from the hit TV show “Whale Wars”. Sea Shepherd uses direct action to defend marine wildlife and protect their habitat in the world’s oceans.

Sea Shepherd has transformed into an international movement and exists in 40 different countries, all concentrating on different environmental initiatives. Captain Paul Watson believes in an interventionist approach, where they directly shut down the terrible things that are happening in our oceans. Sea Shepherd has successfully driven the Japanese whaling fleet out of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, shut down the toothfish poachers in the waters around Antarctica, stopped Chevron and BP from drilling in the Australian bite, and so much more. With poachers, illegal fishing, overfishing, and the diminishment of biodiversity within our ecosystem, they are ultimately fighting against the death of our ocean.

Sea Shepherd wants to remind you that one person can make a real difference. We all have the ability to change the world - all it takes is passion, imagination and courage. The oceans are our lifeline, yet they are dying more and more everyday and desperately need our help. Please contribute in the best way you can to help defend and protect marine wildlife and the world’s oceans.

How can you help?

• Donate
• Join a campaign
• Volunteer in your hometown
• Keep our shores clean

Please don’t forget to share this episode! Sharing this episode will help Sea Shepherd to achieve its mission and increase its impact and help us at the GIVE Podcast keep spreading the word about important charities and nonprofits.

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Where to find Sea Shepherd

Website | Facebook | Youtube | Instagram | Twitter |

Full episode transcription can be found here.

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Clean Cruiser Project

Steven Ploog

Today we bring you Steven Ploog, co-founder of the Clean Cruiser Project. This nonprofit began with two rusty Land Cruisers, a couple of beers and a dream to embark on a 60-day overland expedition from Paso Robles, California to Panama. Steve and his co-founder, Nathan Stewart, completed their trip carbon neutral, with the mission to encourage individual carbon footprint reduction and promote conservation efforts.

In order to offset the carbon emission from their trip, they calculated they would have to plant 200 trees. Taking it a bit further, the Clean Cruiser Team planted over 600 trees to offset the carbon emissions produced by their 2019 expedition through Central America. The co-founders partnered with multiple reforestation sites to showcase the different ways to utilize the forest as a carbon sequestration method. Their journey caught the eyes of many supporters, and the founders have partnered with Outside Magazine to produce an upcoming eco-adventure series.

The Clean Cruiser Project is focused on creating a more sustainable future through reducing carbon footprints, offsetting carbon emissions and utilizing biodiesel. Their story is an inspiring reminder to follow your dreams and get involved! The Clean Cruiser Project urges you to start using biofuels, biodiesel and support reforestation efforts to give back to our precious planet.

How can you help?

• Donate to plant more trees
• Share their story
• Support reforestation efforts
• Use biodiesel/biofuel

Please don’t forget to share this episode! Sharing this episode will help Clean Cruiser Project to achieve its mission and increase its impact and help us at the GIVE Podcast keep spreading the word about important charities and nonprofits.

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Where to find Clean Cruiser Project

Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Vimeo | Pinterest |

Full episode transcription can be found here.

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Miami Homes For All

Annie Lord

Today we bring you Annie Lord, executive director of Miami Homes For All. The mission of this nonprofit is to end homelessness in South Florida through policy research, advocacy and other initiatives for collective impact. Armed with the best research available, Miami Homes For All collaborates with people across the entire spectrum of their community to identify the best ideas in order to turn visions of a stable and safe Miami into reality.

Miami is the third least affordable city in the country due to a relatively high-priced housing market, and comparatively lower wages. Miami Homes For All works with youth homelessness, adult homelessness, affordable housing, and grant-making to help bridge this economic gap. A huge part of Miami’s workforce is in the hospitality and healthcare industry. Unfortunately, those average wages are less than $15 an hour, making the divide even larger for employed people who are helping to fuel the economy. Consequently, the citizens are cost-burdened and forced to make impossible choices between rent, childcare, their education, medications, and even food.

Miami Homes For All believes everyone deserves a place to call home. Miami-Dade County needs at least 130,000 more homes to meet its housing gap. The good news, we can help support their mission and help get people off the streets, to a place they deserve.

How can you help?

• Donate
• Vote
• Be involved
• Share their story

Please don’t forget to share this episode! Sharing this episode will help Miami Homes For All to achieve its mission and increase its impact and help us at the GIVE Podcast keep spreading the word about important charities and nonprofits.

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Where to find Fine Print Funding

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Full episode transcription can be found here.

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Science Connected

Kate Stone

Today on the GIVE podcast we are speaking Kate Stone, founder, and CEO of Science Connected. Science Connected was created to help make learning about science accessible to everyone, regardless of your economic or social background. They believe that education is critical in making informed choices, being successful members of society, and acting as responsible stewards of the planet.

The fact is, access to education is simply not equal across the board. Poorer communities lack resources to foster learning and the learning materials that they need to educate. This results in students choosing not to continue on to college or those that do continue on choose not to pursue an education in the STEM areas. With jobs in these areas exploding as technology improves, this results in a lack of educated adults available to take these often high paying and high demand jobs.

Science Connected provides all different types of educational material on their website - both for free and for a small fee. These resources include books, PDFs, and fun science experiments for children. In the wake of the current pandemic, these materials are now being requested from Science Connected by not only educators but also parents who are looking for ways to educate their children at home. Your donations help to fuel the development of these vital resources for everyone.

Ways to get involved with Science Connected

• Donate - every donation helps!
• Buy the publications
• Share the magazine + resources

Be inspired. GIVE.

Where to find Science Connected:

Website | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube

Read the full transcription of this episode here.