Giving Heart Beat

Giving Heart Beat podcast episode 19 features an interview with Nichole Reed, Event Coordinator for Family Promise of Sussex County, New Jersey. Family Promise is a national nonprofit with a unique model of serving individuals and families that are experiencing homelessness or at high risk for becoming homeless.

Episode 18 of Giving Heart Beat podcast is an interview with Odunola "Ola" Ojewumi - Entrepreneur, Nonprofit Founder, Model, Public Speaker, Patient Advocate, Public Policy Worker.

Episode 17 of Giving Heart Beat podcast features an interview with Kimberly Igel - Director of The Church at Hemlock Farms Second Harvest Food Pantry, located in Lords Valley, Pennsylvania.

Episode 16 features an interview with Andy Arias - actor, model, federal policy worker, civil rights advocate. Andy shares how his experiences growing up as a Hispanic LGBTQ boy with a disability in the California foster care system shaped his desire to serve others with love and compassion.

Episode 15 - Interview with Nikki Brown-Booker, Program Officer, Disability Inclusion Fund, Borealis Philanthropy, shares insights and wisdom from the funder's side of the table. Nonprofits focused on social justice and civil rights should listen closely!

Giving Heart Beat Episode 14 features a fascinating interview with Nancy Gonzalez, Founder of Mustard Seeds Bags of Courage, a nonprofit organization with the mission to encourage victims of domestic violence to become survivors. She has won multiple awards for her work and was nationally recognized in Woman's Day magazine.

Episode 13 - Letters for Superman, The Reluctant Entrepreneur, Panic Attack on Route 80 [Trigger Warning] is the first solo recording by Giving Heart Beat podcast creator, host and producer Donna Valente. Giving Heart Beat updates are shared, upcoming guests are announced, and three poems are read.

Episode 12 features a longer interview with Barbara Crowell-Roy, President of Eve's Fund for Native American Health Initiatives. Barbara discusses the devastating effect that COVID-19 has had and continues to have on the people living on the Navajo Nation. Sub-standard housing, scarcity of running water and electricity, along with multi-generational families living together in close quarters makes preventing the spread of virus extremely difficult. Navajo children are particularly impacted and many have lost grandparents and parents. Despite these challenges, Barbara is heartened by people with giving hearts that have found out about Eve's Fund and are motivated to support their important work.

Episode 11 features a longer interview with Edna Sutton, Founder of Compassions Training and Awareness Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

Giving Heart Beat host Donna Valente welcomes back Jodi O'Donnell-Ames, Founder of Hope Loves Company, the only nonprofit organization in the world exclusively dedicated to providing educational and emotional support for families affected by ALS (also known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Lou Gehrig's Disease), particularly children caregivers.