Radhacal Good Radha Friedman

In this episode, I talk with Uma Mishra-Newbery, a badass women’s rights leader and former Executive Director of the Women’s March Global, the largest single-day protest is US history, as well as a global movement. Uma is also the co-founder of the Racial Equity Index, created in 2020 after the racial justice reckoning in the United States, where she has been working with a team of Black, Indigenous and Women of Color to build the first-ever index for accountability around racial equity in the global development and aid sector.

With a career that has taken her through different sectors and different parts of the world, Uma has a beautiful way of connecting people and building coalitions, especially coalitions supporting women human rights defenders and racial equity. Uma is also a somatic abolitionist in training, working to understand the impact that race has on our physical bodies, and she uses this knowledge in her work with organizations to provide grounded facilitation during difficult conversations around race, racism, and racial equity.

In this episode, we talk about the challenge of working in a sector that was not designed for people of color and which STILL doesn’t have good data on racial equity, as well as the importance of women—all kinds of women—telling our stories. Don't wait to tell you story, Uma urges us—do it now.








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In this episode, I talk with Jensine Larsen. Jensine is the founder and CEO of World Pulse, an independent social network that connects women all over the world for social change. She’s an international journalist and global women’s rights expert, as well as a frequent speaker on the power of technology to accelerate women's power. Jensine is also part of the Equals Global Partnership (a coalition bridging the gendered digital divide), a fellow of the Academy for Systems Change (a ten-year fellowship for the next generation of system change leaders) and has been awarded the Tribeca Innovative Disruptor fellowship and the United Nations Media Social Impact Award. In our conversation, we talk about breaking the silence for women around the world through a digital revolution--imagine an online social platform with with thousands of Malala's telling their own stories. 

If you’re interested in exploring how to support organizations like World Pulse that align with your values and are doing badass work to change the world, you can check out my Feminist Philanthropy Guidebook on my website, www.radhafriedman.org, completely free. And if you want more, you can book a free consultation with me. 

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In this episode, I talk with Stephanie Ellis-Smith, CEO of the philanthropic advisory firm Phila-Engaged Giving. Stephanie works with ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families, foundations, and corporations to make catalytic investments that advance racial and social justice. She is a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy (CAP), a 21/64 Advisor, a Partner at the National Center for Family Philanthropy, and more.

In 2020, Stephanie co-founded the Giving Gap (formerly known as “Give Blck”) to advance racial equity and mobilize positive action for Black lives by connecting people to causes they care about. The Giving Gap includes an online database of Black-founded organizations to support, making it easier for donors to connect with Black organizations and solving one of the primary challenges both Stephanie and I hear when people are seeking to support racial justice--knowing where to find the organizations that do this work.

In this episode, Stephanie reminds us not to let the IRS limit our ideas about how we give back--every one of us can be a philanthropist. 

If you’re interested in exploring how and where you give to nonprofits that align with your values and are doing badass work to change the world, you can check out my Feminist Philanthropy Guidebook on my website, www.radhafriedman.org, completely free. And if you want more, you can book a free consultation with me. (A portion of my proceeds always go back to BIPOC, women-led nonprofits) You can also connect with Stephanie at Philanthropy Engaged Giving.

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In this episode, I’m talking with Katie Carter, CEO of the Pride Foundation. The Pride Foundation was founded in the mid-80’s in the midst of the HIV/AIDS crisis. It’s a community foundation that stands on the shoulders of generations of leaders who brought the courage to truly see one another, the compassion to recognize our shared humanity, and the conviction to show up every day to protect one another. One the last few decades, the Pride Foundation has raised and invested over $70 million in LGBTQ communities to ensure that all LGBTQ people are able to live safely and openly as our whole selves in the communities we call home.

In the episode, Katie and I talk about what the HIV/AIDS crisis can teach us about the COVID pandemic and how we respond to marginalized communities, the challenge with data gaps that make the LGBTQ community invisible, and how for many grantees and recipients of scholarship funds just knowing that someone cares is more important than the money itself.

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In this episode, I talk with Sachi Shenoy, co-founder of Upaya Social Ventures, an organization that picks up where micro-lending leaves off by helping people who are living in poverty to build businesses and scale them to create jobs for others in their community. Nearly one billion women are completely excluded from the formal financial system. Without even a bank account in their own names, they lack the basic services like secure ways to save money, pay bills, and get credit. Microcredit--literally, providing small loans to women considered unbankable--has been a game changer for women, but it, too, has its limits. Upaya identifies early-stage entrepreneurs with the greatest potential for job creation and invests in them. Before co-founding Upaya, Sachi worked with Unitus, a microfinance accelerator, and before that, she worked at SKS Microfinance (now known as Bharat Financial Inclusion Ltd.) helping to provide small loans to women living in rural slums in India. In the interview, Sachi talks about what we’ve learned about the transformative power as well as the limitations of microlending in recent years. She also talks about how living with a disability has shown her that there will always be another way to do something—we just have to be creative.

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Less than 2% of philanthropic funds go to organizations focused on women and girls, and less than 1% go to women of color. I don't know about you, but I'm ready for the revolution! In this episode, I share why I started this podcast after being told to, "let the men worry about the finances, honey." 

Here’s what you’ll get in this episode:

* The most powerful thing each of us can do when it comes to donating and investing

* Unpacking the myths and misconceptions that have been intentionally created to shame women around the subject of money

* Why it's so important to make women's stories more visible


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