Name: Ep 17: What's So Great About Harvard? by The Nonprofit Experience
Duration: 31 min 2 s
Description: In our debut episode of Season 2, philanthropist Chuck ReCorr, whose Harvard 100 program provides Triangle-area nonprofit leaders an immersive learning experience, and nonprofit consultant Staci Barfield, a Harvard 100 alum, discuss the value of investing in human capital.

Executive Director Mona Johnson-Gibson and longtime volunteer Marguerite Rupar discuss establishing and running the Ronald McDonald House of Charlotte, and the role volunteers have played in its survival and success.

Ep 5: Volunteers Make the House a Home

Researchers Jason Coupet and Jessica Berrett discuss their recent paper "Does the Overhead Ratio Measure Efficiency?" and the complex dynamics between academic research and nonprofit practice.   

To read a translation of their research, visit https://pj.news.chass.ncsu.edu/2018/10/22/the-overhead-ratio-is-not-a-measure-of-efficiency/

Ep 10: Rethinking Efficiency

In our debut episode of Season 2, philanthropist Chuck ReCorr, whose Harvard 100 program provides Triangle-area nonprofit leaders an immersive learning experience, and nonprofit consultant Staci Barfield, a Harvard 100 alum, discuss the value of investing in human capital.

Ep 17: What's So Great About Harvard?

Mark Little shares plans for combatting economic disparity in North Carolina’s poorest counties, while on the personal level creating strong historical and ancestral foundations for his children. Co-founder of the Black Communities Conference, his work facilitates and fosters community-engaged research partnerships, between universities and communities, in support of Black community life. Little is Executive Director of CREATE, Co-Founder of SmartUp and former Executive Director of the Kenan Institute. He launched NCGrowth, a program that helps North Carolina’s rural and under-served communities grow and retain business, facilitates strategic regional economic development, and researches solutions to pressing energy, environment, and climate related problems. This music composer is also a native North Carolinian with a Ph.D. in geology and geophysics.

History + Culture = Everything: Mark Little

The Nonprofit Experience is a podcast project that brings together nonprofit practitioners, supporters, academics, and service beneficiaries for conversations about what it's like to be impacted by the sector. These creative collisions show us that there is no one nonprofit experience, but a whole community of people dedicated to and affected by nonprofit work.

Ep 17: What's So Great About Harvard?

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