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The Podcast 

Essential Listening for Development Leaders Who Want Real Answers

Beyond Grants features practitioners, not theorists. Every episode is a direct conversation about how organizations are rebuilding their financial foundations, and what that process entails, in every sense.

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Introduction of the Podcast Series 
Episode 1  
Chris Maclay - Jobtech Alliance
How Mercy Corps helped to build a market-based model that serves low-income workers without relying on donor capital. 
Episode 2
Shannon Hesel - Water for South Sudan
The executive director of Water for South Sudan on confronting a funding cliff, and what she's doing about it.
Episode 3
Bill Morris - Blue Star Recyclers 
How Blue Star Recyclers built a thriving social enterprise by employing people with disabilities in electronics recycling – and why they never needed a grant to prove the model works.
Episode 4
Perry Yeatman - Save the Children Global Ventures 
Save the Children Global Ventures on building an investment arm inside one of the world's most recognized humanitarian brands.
Episode 5
Scott Roy  - Whitten & Roy Partnerships 
Whitten & Roy Partnership on rewiring the NGO mindset — and why selling well and doing good have never been in conflict.
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