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#9 - Joey Savoie: Making it easier for great charities to exist
The Giving What We Can Podcast
33 minutes 14 seconds
3 years ago
#9 - Joey Savoie: Making it easier for great charities to exist
In this interview, we chat to Joey Savoie, CEO and co-founder of Charity Entrepreneurship, an incubator that helps launch high-impact nonprofits by connecting entrepreneurs with effective ideas, training, and funding.
Joey provides an overview of Charity Entrepreneurship and the problems they're working to solve; he also shares his thoughts on the charity sector, the concept of efficacy, and the role altruism plays in his life.
Since its founding in 2018, Charity Entrepreneurship has helped launch 18 impactful nonprofits, which have reached over 5 million humans and improved the lives of 1.2 million animals.
You can donate to Charity Entrepreneurship via Giving What We Can: https://donate.givingwhatwecan.org/partners/charity-entrepreneurship
WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT CHARITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP? 👉 Check out their website at https://www.charityentrepreneurship.com/
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Introduction to Joey and Charity Entrepreneurship
01:04 - The story behind Charity Entrepreneurship's founding
04:21 - Projects Charity Entrepreneurship has helped launch
07:05 - Cause areas Charity Entrepreneurship focuses on
08:48 - Charity Entrepreneurship's core propositions, benefits, and why donors might be interested in supporting the org
12:52 - What value can smaller donors bring to philanthropy?
15:29 - Joey's pitch that "efficacy" in charity can be evaluated, measured, and aimed for
17:39 - Some surprising realizations about the charitable sector
21:07 - The nuances of bottlenecks
24:50 - What mistakes do people make when thinking about the concept of effectiveness, especially at first?
26:38 - Joey's relationship with altruism
28:07 - How would Joey spend a billion dollars?
31:05 - Joey's advice/asks for viewers
CREDITS:
Production: Julian Hazell & Grace Adams
Videographer and video editor: Andy Brice
Video editor: Marco Shimabukuro
Interviewer: Luke Freeman
Guest: Joey Savoie
The Giving What We Can Podcast
Join us as we explore how to use our resources to do the most good. Learn more about effective giving, high impact charities, philanthropy, and effective altruism.