Focus
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Interview Archives: Nonprofits
Friday February 19, 2010, 11:06 AM
Business as a Solution to Poverty in Africa
Ben Hafele, Founder, Haute: Empowering Entrepreneurs in Africa
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Economics • Labor/worker issues • Nonprofits • Poverty • Africa
Wednesday August 19, 2009, 11:06 AM
How the Economy is Affecting Illinois' Seniors
Mike O'Donnell, MUP, Executive Director, East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging
Host: David Inge
This program about the economy in central Illinois is part of WILL Connect. It grew out of community conversations WILL held this summer in Champaign, Vermilion, and Macon Counties.
If you or a family you know needs help keeping up, we encourage you to visit willconnect.org/economy. From there you can hear other reports and programs about the economy’s effect. You can also connect to agencies in your area for guidance and counseling. We thank First Call for Help Decatur, United Way of Danville, Family Service of Champaign County and the Community Service Center in Rantoul for their partnership. For more information, click on the link below.
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- East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging
- WILL's Conversations on the Economy and Community Resources
Categories: Aging/Seniors • Family • Health • Elder-Care • Nonprofits • United States • Illinois
Monday March 02, 2009, 11:06 AM
How Community Organizations Result in Community Savings
Lyn Jones, President and CEO, United Way of Champaign County
Brenda Davis Koester, Coordinator of Programs at the Family Resiliency Center, University of Illinois
Dale Morrissey, CEO of Developmental Services Center, Champaign
Host: David Inge
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- United Way of Champaign County
- Pampered Chef Family Resiliency Program
- Developmental Services Center of Champaign
Categories: Adolescents • Biography • Children and Parenting • Community • Health • Disabilities • Nonprofits • Champaign County
Wednesday September 24, 2008, 11:06 AM
Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises, and Architecture for Humanity
Kate Stohr, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Architecture for Humanity, San Francisco
Host: David Inge
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 11 am
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Categories: Architecture • Community • Nonprofits
Tuesday June 24, 2008, 11:06 AM
Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanistarian Crises, and Architecture for Humanity
Kate Stohr, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Architecture for Humanity, San Francisco
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Architecture • Community • Nonprofits
Thursday February 28, 2008, 10:06 AM
AIDS to Zen: Practicing Social Justice from the Nonprofit Sector
John Manzon-Santos, former Executive Director of Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center in San Francisco and Principal of pearldiving, a consulting practice
Host: David Inge
For more than 20 years, John Manzon-Santos has been an activist on social and policy issues affecting Asian Americans. He has served as Executive Director of the two largest nonprofits in North America working on issues of sexual health and HIV among Asians and Pacific Islanders. This morning, on Focus 580, we’ll talk about the ways that nonprofit organizations have worked to create a more fair distribution of power and resources…and about his belief that activist work is also human rights work.
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Categories: Gender issues • Health • Nonprofits • Race/Ethnicity • Asian/Pacific Islander
Wednesday January 26, 2005, 10:06 AM
United Nations Coordination of Humanitarian Relief & Non Governmental Organization Aid to Tsunami Victims
Stephanie Bunker,, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Advocacy & Information Section, United Nations
Joan Neal,, Vice President ,U.S.Catholic Relief Services
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Food • International Affairs • Nonprofits
