Leanne Brown’s final project in food studies at New York University, has become a cookbook that blends food with forgiveness. GOOD ENOUGH: A Cookbook, is also from the author of the award winning, New York Times bestselling cookbook, GOOD AND CHEAP: Eat Well on $4 a Day.

This week the Queens-based non-profit 100 Suits celebrates it’s 11th year of helping underprivileged New Yorkers build dignity, self-esteem and improve their role in society. Founder Kevin Livingston talks about how they address socio-economic issues with community involvement and activism. For more, visit 100suitsnyc.org.

Written by author and anthropologist Dr. Rooane Van Voorst, ONCE UPON A TIME WE ATE ANIMALS imagines of a future where animal consumption is a thing of the past. Dr. ROANNE VAN VOORST, is a researcher, writer, speaker, and moderator. As an anthropologist of the future, her core research focuses on what she calls ‘sustainable humanity’. For more, visit www.roannevanvoorst.com

The New Jersey based non-profit Hunters Helping The Hungry, one of the largest game meat donation programs in the country, is in need of more participating butchers. Treasurer Bud Thomas talks about how they work with food banks and about a new grant to waive some of the processing cost for participating deer hunters. For more, visit huntershelpingthehungry.org.

STACKED: Your Super-Serious Guide to Modern Money Management, is a
A step-by-step financial literacy book featuring a blend of shrewd financial information and humor. Joe Saul-Sehy, is the self-described money nerd behind the award-winning podcast Stacking Benjamins, and Emily Guy Birken, is the bestselling author of THE FIVE YEARS BEFORE YOU RETIRE. For more, visit stackingbenjamins.com.

Making photographs can transform people’s lives. That’s the belief of the Josephine Herrick Project, who has been helping people do just that for over seventy years. JHP teaches photography to and exhibiting work by a broad range of people, from veterans, to immigrants to people living in public housing. Our guest is Executive Director Miriam Leuchter, who also tells us about their work, and how to take a good photo, whatever your camera. For more, visit jhproject.org.

THE MINDFUL WAY TO A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP, by mindfulness teacher and dream therapist Tzivia Gover, guides people to rediscover the pleasure of sleep and discover creative nighttime dreaming. For more, visit Tzivia Gover.com.

Since 1967, The Fortune Society, has advocated on criminal justice issues and helped people with criminal justice histories become assets to their communities. Andre Ward, Associate Vice President of the David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy, discusses a new tool kit for prosecutors focused on a public health response to drug use, and The Fair Chance Housing Act, designed to protect people with conviction records from discrimination. For more, visit fortunesociety.org.

A POCKET GUIDE TO PIGEON WATCHING: Getting to Know the World’s Most Misunderstood Bird, by author and naturalist Rosemary Mosco, tells the story of how these seemingly mundane birds are actually marvels of creation.

The Salvation Army is a leading NGO in the fight against human trafficking, a form of modern slavery. The short film “Hope: Stories of Survival” is a first person story of three women trafficked since they were young children. Our guests are the documentary’s director, Joe Pritchard, and Arielle Curry, the Salvation Army’s Eastern Territory Anti-Human Trafficking Program Coordinator. For more, visit hopefilm.org and salvationarmyusa.org.