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How Founder Syndrome is Stifling the Muslim Charity Sector (ft. Asim Lone)


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Asim has been in the Muslim charity sector for over 20 years and has a huge amount of insight to share both as a charity founder and as charity volunteer and employee. He has worked for several charities and delivered on numerous projects. He is the Deputy CEO of Charity Right at the time of recording and is soon to be the CEO of Charity Right UK.


Chapters:


00:00 Intros

01:39 Sincerity in the Charity Sector

04:14 Logistics

06:17 Leaving the Muslim charity sector

07:42 Founder Syndrome

13:57 Volunteer Guilt

16:29 Bonding between volunteers

19:52 The other side of founder syndrome

22:26 Mainstream charity sector

27:14 Battlefield Syndrome

29:42 Tortoise vs Hare

32:30 Strategy vs Tactics

35:31 Coming back to a muslim charity

37:29 Strategies for preventing founder syndrome

39:01 Shaykh Tawfique Chowdhury

41:43 Founder DNA

48:06 Community Building

50:22 Anecdote

51:54 Rounding Up

54:20 How to choose a charity for donation

01:06:23 How to pick a charity to donate to



https://www.charityright.org.uk


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DistillBy Khuram Malik