Vu Le (“voo lay”) joins us today. He is a writer, speaker, vegan, Pisces, and the Executive Director of Rainier Valley Corps, a nonprofit in Seattle that promotes social justice by developing leaders of color, strengthening organizations led by communities of color, and fostering collaboration between diverse communities. Yes, we do talk about fighting the zombies of injustice. Vu’s passion is to make the world better. He believes that we should take the work seriously, but not ourselves. Vu can be found at his featured blog NonprofitAF.com. The NPR podcast "Invisibilia" is really good and the episode "The Pattern Problem" goes deeper into some concepts discussed in this episode. In this episode we traverse the following topics: The non-profit ecosystem Having leaders of color in the non-profit segment Poverty mindset The non-profit life Donor paradigm "Hose to water ratio" "We have to remember our kids will marry other people's kids" "I did just buy a new used care" Statistics on giving nation-wide (2015) found here Shirts!! We're selling "Be brave enough to start a conversation that matters" t-shirts. if you want one check out the apparel shop on our site, by clicking here. Music Credits: * Main Theme: I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 Ft: J Lang, Morusque * Guest Theme: The Long Goodbye by John Pazdan (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/flatwound/14476
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