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Welcome to the Idealist Podcasts! We distribute stories and interviews created by our staff as well as features from guest contributors. If you have a story about social good you want to get out to our community, please check out the Contribute section. We offer three types of podcast episodes:

The Idealist Community Podcast (highlighted below in blue) which tells the stories of Idealist.org members and other related organizations from around the world doing good in their communities.
The Idealist Careers Podcast which covers topics specifically related to professional and educational development for people in the nonprofit world through interviews with professionals in the field.
The New Service (highlighted in green) features interviews about term of service programs.
Questions With (highlighted in yellow) are brief interviews with leaders in the social sector about their work.

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7/23/2009	Questions with Nandini Narula of GreenMango Nandini talks about how she started GreenMango with Yasmina McCarty, internet usage in developing parts of India and how the website is integrating mobile technology.
7/23/2009	Questions with Anne Tamar-Mattis of Advocates for Informed Choice Anne talks about the issues facing intersex children and their parents and how her organization is filling the legal void for this community.
8/3/2009	Teach For America: An Interview with Aaliyah El-Amin Amy Potthast talks with Aaliyah about the impact corps members are having in underserved classrooms across the country, how applicants can demonstrate the qualities Teach For America seeks, and how Teach For America alums are going on to become lifelong leaders in the field of education.
7/23/2009	Questions with Suzanne Seggerman of Games For Change Suzanne talks about how she got started in G4C, her work and how anyone can create social issue games.
7/15/2009	Questions with Eric Hilton of Technically Learning Eric talks about how he got involved with creating educational materials, LEGO robots and the difficulty in starting a new nonprofit.
7/2/2009	Common Nonprofit Career Search Questions with Meg Busse Jung Fitzpatrick interviews Meg Busse to get some answers to ten of the most common questions we hear from folks who are looking for a nonprofit job these days.
6/9/2009	"Crazy Radio": Live from Argentina Idealist's Celeste Hamilton and Ceci Gil Mariño went behind the scenes for an intimate glimpse at Radio La Colifata, the first radio show to be broadcast from a mental hospital.
6/9/2009	Nonprofit Sector Switching Advice with Steven Pascal-Joiner Steven Pascal-Joiner recently sat down with his colleague Jung Fitzpatrick to discuss some of the common answers he shares with experienced professionals 'sector switching' into the nonprofit world.
6/9/2009	A Pride Month Interview - Lesbian and Gay Perspectives in AmeriCorps and Peace Corps We take a closer look at the experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals serving in Peace Corps and AmeriCorps.
6/9/2009	Past, Present, and Future…The Voices of Girls and Women This episode is the project of the women in our Portland, OR office and a small group of teenage girls. It explores the diverse and shared perceptions of women and girls, the stories they tell, and the common themes they share.
6/2/2009	Questions with Stefanie Faucher of Death Penalty Focus Stefanie Faucher talks about her anti-death penalty work and her role as the Program Director at Death Penalty Focus, an organization that advocates for the abolition of capital punishment.
5/19/2009	Cross Sector Relationships, Corporate Responsibility and Citizen Service: An Interview with Alan Khazei and Shannon Schuyler Scott talks about the need for professional global exchanges, starting up a new service corps, and his experiences that led to developing Atlas Corps.
5/4/2009	Graduate Education: Financial Aid Myths, Ins and Outs Whether you're thinking about graduate school–or are already on your way–this podcast helps answer many questions about the financial aid process.
4/17/2009	Nonprofit and Volunteer Resources: Laura Norvig and Jason Scott from the Resource Center Laura and Jason talk about how you can access, benefit from, and contribute to the Resource Center.
4/7/2009	Volunteer Abroad: Your Questions Answered by Erin Barnhart Are you interested in taking some time to volunteer in another country? Have you already started your search and now you have even more questions? Or do you have no idea where to begin? In either case, this podcast episode is for you.
3/23/2009	AmeriCorps for Legal Experts: Equal Justice Works's Cole McMahon and Marty Costello Marty Costello and Cole McMahon from Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps talk about the Summer Corps, a 300-hour AmeriCorps Education Award program for law school students, as well as its one-year, full-time AmeriCorps Legal Fellows program.
3/9/2009	The Musical Peace Corps: Kiff Gallagher's Music National Service Initiative Kiff Gallagher talks about the need for music and arts education in the schools, about his role in developing the national service legislation that shaped AmeriCorps in 1993, and the future of the Music National Service Initiative.
2/17/2009	Starting a New Service Corps: Scott Beale of Atlas Corps Scott talks about the need for professional global exchanges, starting up a new service corps, and his experiences that led to developing Atlas Corps.
2/2/2009	Sure We Can This is an audio portrait of a "canner" named Eugene “The King of Can’s” Gadsen and the work that he and his friends and colleagues Ana Martinez De Luco and Eugene Gadsden are doing to improve the conditions of their community.
1/16/2009	Peace Corps in China: Country Director Bonnie Thie Bonnie Thie talks about the impact of Peace Corps experience on its Volunteers, the role of a Country Director, and the inevitable cultural confusion that comes with crossing borders.
12/19/08	City Year: An Interview with Col. Robert Gordon, III Amy Potthast talks wit Rob about how City Year develops its corps members as leaders; how the program is unique among AmeriCorps programs; and about its long-standing partnership with The Timberland Company.
12/4/2008	Idealist.org's Career Author: Meg Busse We talk with our own Meg Busse about the value of building relationships to begin and sustain a nonprofit career through volunteering and through informational interviews.
11/19/2008	Faith and Service, Pt. 2: AVODAH -- The Jewish Service Corps In this podcast we discuss the organization Avodah, a nonprofit that offers young people a chance to affect social change while deepening their commitment to Jewish life by serving for a year at anti-poverty organizations.
11/01/2008	Real Food and the Fort Greene, Brooklyn CSA Guest contributor Cambra Moniz-Edwards follows the Fort Greene CSA Coordinator Jen Datka as she explains the ins and outs of one of Brooklyn's newest "Community Supported Agriculture" ventures.
10/17/2008	Faith and Service, Pt. 1: The Catholic Network of Volunteer Service We speak with Nikki Roehling and discuss CNVS, a network of Christian faith-based volunteer programs.
10/1/2008	The Poverty Initiative: Redefining Christian Charity "The poor will always be among you" is a biblical quote often cited by Christian leaders as a reason to not focus on poverty work. Some Christians, however, believe the quote means the exact opposite and that although 1.4 billion people live on less than $1.25 a day, poverty can end.
9/16/2008	Green Building One Piece at a Time: The Rebuilding Center We speak with Shane Endicott, Founder and C.E.O. of Our United Villages, the organization that runs Portland's environmentally sound The Rebuilding Center which recycles used building and remodeling materials.
9/5/2008	Cultures in Harmony Our guest contributor, Eric Hanser, brings us this story about the nonprofit group "Cultures in Harmony" an organization that encourages cross-cultural understanding through music.
8/25/2008	Freeing the Internet: Outdoors and Online with NYCwireless A feature about NYCwireless, a group that is trying to open free internet to everyone in parks and affordable housing.
8/15/2008	Eight Years Out: The Public Impact of AmeriCorps Service with Bob Grimm Bob Grimm, Director of Research and Policy Development & Senior Counselor to the CEO at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), discusses an eight-year longitudinal study about AmeriCorps' effect on pursuing a public service career.
7/31/2008	How to Learn-a-Palooza This past May in Washington, D.C., people came together in the neighborhoods of Adams Morgan and Dupont Circle to teach each other everything they know. Literally.
7/10/2008	Peace Corps & Graduate School: Eileen Conoboy Listen Now Eileen Conoboy, Director of the Office of University Programs at Peace Corps, speaks with Idealist’s Amy Potthast about Peace Corps and its two graduate school partnership programs, Masters International and Fellows USA.
6/9/2008	Born to be BAADS Listen Now Features the Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors (or BAADS), a sailing group that pairs two people with complementary disabilities as well as uses inventive technology to enable the more daring to sail alone.
5/14/2008	Lifelong Service: AmeriCorps Alums' Amity Tripp Listen Now Amity Trip talks about the role of AmeriCorps members, the long-term benefits of serving in AmeriCorps and achievements of alumni, and the work of AmeriCorps Alums nationally and locally.
4/17/2008	Going Loco: The Ubuntu Community Listen Now We explore Ubuntu Linux and open source software's history, what it does, how open source is changing technological development-- and why some people want to stop it.
3/31/2008	Career Guru: NYU Wagner School's David Schachter Listen Now An interview with David Schachter, Assistant Dean for Career Services and Experiential Learning at The Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU. David manages Wagner’s career-related support of students and alumni.
3/13/2008	Two Fools. One Adventure. No Idea: Tuxedo Travels and CouchSurfing.com Listen Now We highlight two projects, Tuxedo Travels and CouchSurfing.com, that are making the world a little bit friendlier to live in.
2/25/2008	PolitiCorps: Shaping Leaders for the Politics of Tomorrow Listen Now Idealist.org's Amy Potthast talks with Caitlyn and Emily about the Bus Project, PolitiCorps, and careers in political campaigning.
2/4/2008	Check Your Debt at the Door: Community Banking in the Bronx Listen Now We explore what it means for a neighborhood to have an absence of banks—and what it takes for a few people to start one from scratch.
1/11/2008	Lara Galinksy of Echoing Green Listen Now Lara Galinksy talks about risk-taking in social entrepreneurship, how to measure social returns on an investment, common characteristics of the visionaries funded by Echoing Green, and the book Be Bold that she co-authored with Cheryl E. Dorsey on creating a career "with impact."
12/21/2007	New Year's Wishes From Future World Leaders Listen Now We hear wishes and dreams for the upcoming year from kids ages 3 to 13. We were inspired, moved and tickled by their honest ideas to make the world a better place—let's just say that robots are in the plan.
11/26/2007	Pledgebank Listen Now We discuss one of the success of Pledgebank, a project of the UK-based organization mySociety, where people pledge to take an action as long as a certain amount of others do too.
11/2/2007	Interns Outside the Box Listen Now When you hear about interns, you most likely think about someone being trapped in a boxy cubicle sending emails, fetching coffee for an angry manager or well connected kids kicking back their feet on the desk for a summer. We found otherwise.
10/22/2007	Katrina Mathis, AmeriCorpsNCCC* Listen Now An interview with Katrina Mathis, the Recruitment Specialist with AmeriCorpsNCCC. AmeriCorpsNCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) is one of three branches of AmeriCorps, the domestic Peace Corps.
10/3/2007	Walkers Part 2, Val Listen Now In this two part episode we hear from two people who are connecting people, issues and organizations through the act of walking. More than just a leisurely stroll, they are raising awareness and money for important issues by walking an astonishing one thousand miles.
9/25/2007	Walkers Part 1, Iain Listen Now In this two part episode we hear from two people who are connecting people, issues and organizations through the act of walking. More than just a leisurely stroll, they are raising awareness and money for important issues by walking an astonishing one thousand miles.
9/7/2007	Chris Asch, U.S. Public Service Academy Listen Now Chris Asch discusses the mission of the USPSA-- the first national civilian university in the United States-- to develop and educate future leaders in public service.
8/21/2007	Startup Meeting: Chicago Listen Now We highlight the Chicago Idealist Network by interviewing the hosts (Dave and Katie) and some attendees (Ryan, Jeff and Jackie). They discuss how this group that grew from 9 to 150 members is now making connections within their community.

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