Philanthropy United

We are a non-profit organization that works to mobilize the music industry in the fight against hunger.

We work with artists, promoters, management, and venues nationwide to donate unused, backstage meals to community organizations comprised of at least 50% veterans and who focus on feeding the homeless, hungry, and food insecure.  

Musically Fed identifies the opportunities, procures the resources, and coordinates all aspects of food handling, transport, and distribution.  Our goal is to make it easy for promoters and performers to leave each city they visit with a lasting, positive impact.

https://www.musicallyfed.org/

Shiloh Karshima co-founded The Leader Team in July 2021, when she and her family sold everything and decided to move to Nigeria.  With over two decades of experience in development and nonprofit work in 14 countries (United States of America, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Liberia, Mozambique, China, Mexico, Egypt, Israel, Nigeria and Great Britain) Shilohs bring a wide range of expertise to the table as Executive Director. 

Shiloh has consulted, collaborated and/or worked with the World Bank MENA, World Vision, University of the Nations, William Jessup University, FGI Finance, Jobs Partnership, Oasis Church Winter Garden, Peace and Justice Institute, Orlando MLK Foundation, Safe Families for Children, Bethany Christian Services, New York University’s Wagner Student Alliance for Africa, HopePark Church, Iris Ministries, River City Community Church, Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church, and Madona’s Raising Malawi.  Shiloh was the Panel Discussion Moderator for The United National Female Genital Mutilation Forum in partnership with the not-for-profit Sauti Yetu, Columbia University and NYU.  She was Co-Founder of RISE: Conversations on Race and Unity in Winter Garden, Florida.  

Shiloh received her Masters in Public Administration in Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy with a specialization in International Economic Development from New York University.  Her area of research was post war reconciliation efforts in sub-Saharan Africa and girl child education.  Shiloh completed her undergraduate studies in Religious Studies: Pastoral Leadership at Vanguard University of Southern California.  

The Karshima family has lead refugee relief efforts to the Texas and Mexico border, lead volunteer trips to Missisippi for Hurricaine Katrina clean up and rebuilding, and hosted foster children in their home.  Together they founded RISE: Conversations on Race and Unity in Winter Garden, Florida.  Shiloh was honored to be the Moderator for the United Nations panel discussion on Female Genital Mutilation in partnership with the NGO Sauti Yetu.  

Shiloh holds a strong belief that if business, governance, and community leadership would function with integrity and social impact there would be no need for charity efforts.  

Learn more at www.theleaderteam.org 

• Improved Livelihoods
  Equipping students with knowledge and skills for innovative and adaptive livelihoods 
• Improved Governance

• Improved Social Capital

STEP Equips highly motivated low-income Arizona high school students with the knowledge, confidence, and self-advocacy skills needed to enroll in and graduate from college. STEP consists of two programs:  the College-Prep Program and the Leadership Program. 

STEP is headquartered in the Phoenix and Tucson metro areas.

The mission of STEP is to educate and empower low-income Arizona high schoolers to enroll in and graduate from college. At STEP we believe that every student who is putting in the hard work to excel in the most challenging courses at their school should receive the focused guidance needed to successfully prepare for and apply to top colleges, secure scholarships to make college affordable, navigate the transition from high school to college and advocate for themselves in college and life.
https://www.stepexpedition.org/impact

The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of our founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family's ability to pay.

Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food — because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.

St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and from around the world.

Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened more than 50 years ago.

Meet our patients, families, supporters, and staff and experience the innovative research, pioneering treatments and inspirational stories that happen at St. Jude every day. Experience our stories.

It Takes a Village, Fostering a Community for Animals with Gordon Sims 
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Gordon Sims brings 25 years of non-profit program development experience, leadership in building community engagement programs and a successful fund development and major gifts track record. Before coming to Heidi’s Village, he worked at Sojourner Center as the Director of Philanthropy and served as the Director of Major Gifts for the Franciscan Renewal Center’s capital campaign.

Gordon loves the mission of Heidi’s Village and sees it as more relevant today in our community than ever before. His focus is building a robust fund development/marketing plan with his team, which includes an increase in major gifts and individual support, broadening foundation and corporate relationships, developing well-attended fundraising events, legacy and planned giving and helping to make Heidi’s Village a household name in the valley.

Gordon serves on several boards in the valley and is a self-proclaimed social services geek. At a very young age, Gordon saw individuals being treated as if they should be invisible or disposable and decided to be a person to engage the community on behalf of those who either cannot or do not know how to use their voices. Gordon and his spouse have lived in Tempe for 15 years, spend a lot of time with family and of course that includes their geriatric rescue kitties Henri and Esther.

Randy Spencer is the Partnerships and Development Director at Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Centers. In his tenure with the 501(c)(3) non-profit teen centers in Phoenix and Mesa, he has created revenue generating partnerships and programming with City of Mesa, City of Phoenix, City of Goodyear, Arizona Bike Week, Arizona Lottery, Taco Bell, Danzeisen Dairy, Sweet James, Arizona Cardinals, Mesa Public Schools, Hopdoddy Burger Bar, Los Sombreros, Arizona State University, Local First Arizona, Fiesta Bowl Charities, Safeway/Albertson’s, Aioli Gourmet Burgers, Arizona Coyotes and many others. 

In the music industry he has represented many well known recording artists such as Brian Setzer, Marcos Curiel of P.O.D., Jason Newsted of Metallica and as a music supervisor, he has negotiated music rights for many national television commercials for brands such as Ryka, Wienerschnitzel, Taylor Made, Toyo Tires, Hilton Hotels and Callaway Golf. 

Randy Spencer
Partnerships/Development
Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Centers

Meet Ken Ungar, President & Founder of the sponsorship consulting agency Charge. 

Ken believes that the essence of a successful sponsorship is a truly genuine relationship, and he’d be the ideal guest to share his insight into how your listeners can best choose corporate sponsors that will elevate their nonprofits!

Ken came into sponsorship consulting completely by accident. His unique career path brought him from lawyer to government official and from league representative and events promoter to business leader at the highest levels in professional sports. Through this experience, Ken came to understand the power that truly great sponsorships have to form strong mutually beneficial relationships. Through his work with Charge, Ken has had the opportunity to collaborate with corporations like Honda, Coca-Cola, and Disney, as well as more than fifty professional athletes in the NFL, NASCAR, and IndyCar. He is the author of Sponsorship Strategy: Practical Approaches to Powerful Sponsorships.

ABOUT CHARGE:
As the leading source of sponsorship advice for brands and properties, we will help you achieve your best results.

Our mission is to help clients unlock the power of sponsorship to enhance their brands and grow their business.

BUY THE BOOK:
From neighborhood youth sports to major festivals to the Olympic Games, sponsorship is big business, generating an estimated $62 billion worldwide. It is now one of the most valuable tools to enhance a brand’s image and promote sales. However, “strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory,” and organizations risk wasting valuable resources without the right approach.

Combining decades of sponsorship experience with the insights of industry insiders, Ken Ungar, president and founder of CHARGE, developed Sponsorship Strategy: Practical Approaches to Powerful Sponsorships as a resource for anyone wanting to up their sponsorship game. This book blends research-based strategies with real-world experiences to help sports organizations, nonprofits, and corporate brands achieve the best results.

Sponsorship Strategy offers straightforward advice, including how to:

• Identify the shared target audience for sponsorship
• Evaluate the potential impact of a sponsorship property
• Leverage the “superpower” of image transfer
• Employ B2B sponsorships, corporate social responsibility, and the first-mover advantage

It provides the reader with a strategic toolbox to improve sponsorship’s return-on-investment.

For the professional starting out in sponsorship, this book teaches the fundamentals of effective strategy. For the sponsorship veteran, Sponsorship Strategy offers a checklist of issues vital to making every sponsorship work better. Every marketer who wants powerful sponsorships needs to read this book.

@charge_agency

Why You NEED to Build Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn with Ducks Unlimited Digital Marketing Director, Anthony Jones 
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A strong personal brand can...

✅ Establish yourself as a thought leader

✅ Expand the reach of your business to new customers

✅ Build trust and credibility with current and prospective customers

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✅ Position yourself for the next level of your career

LinkedIn is no longer simply a site to upload resumes, post jobs and share corporate news. It’s the world’s largest professional networking event where business deals are taking place 24/7 across the globe.

Unless you’re actively participating, you’re not part of that conversation. Period.

It starts by building your personal brand.
Pre-order this course today to receive massive early bird discount!

Course launches on or before Dec. 20, 2021. Order now and you'll receive an email once it's launched.

What's Included in the Course:

💼 Lifetime access to step-by-step LinkedIn training materials. See outline below.

💼 Bi-weekly, live group Q&A and coaching sessions led by me.

💼 Admission to an exclusive community of professionals who are on the same personal branding journey. In this private Facebook group, you can exchange ideas, ask questions and share lessons with other customers of this course. I will also actively participate in this community.

💼 A 45-minute, one-on-one profile consultation with me (first 20 responders only).

💼 Ongoing updates to course materials for the next year. You’ll be notified whenever new content is added.

💼 A downloadable swipe file of my top 50 performing posts with metrics and lessons from each one.

Enriching & Strengthening The Great State Forty Eight with Mike Spangenberg, Founder of The State Forty Eight Foundation
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At State Forty Eight Foundation, our mission is to enrich and strengthen Arizona through thoughtful partnerships, inspired community action, and investment in the changemakers of tomorrow.

We fulfill our mission through our four pillars:

• Creating Meaningful Partnerships
• Activating Our Community
• Supporting and Empowering Our Youth
• Fostering the Entrepreneurial Spirit

OUR HISTORY

In 2019, State Forty Eight launched a new initiative called State Forty Eight Community Impact, where we made it our commitment to do good by empowering others to do good. Our mission has been to inspire actionable giving that will contribute to wellbeing of our community and create a platform for local organizations to be seen, heard, and supported.

We were blown away by the support. In our first year, we managed to draw out more than 250 volunteers and donate more than $21,000 to local charities and nonprofit organizations.

After witnessing the incredible support from our community, we recognized a desire from the people of Arizona to contribute and be part of the solution. That is why in 2020 we officially launched the State Forty Eight Foundation, which is dedicated to the prosperity of Arizona and its community members, through the support of our local organizations, local people, and natural landscapes.
https://statefortyeight.com/state-forty-eight-foundation/