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Welcome to Progressive Pockets! Formerly known as Spend Donate Invest. After two years and about a hundred episodes, the show has a new name!

Tune in this week to learn about the change!

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Somehow we've come to the end of 2023! As we look back on the year, it's a great time to think about what impact our money had on the world. This week's episode will help you do exactly that!

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This week on the show you'll find out which episodes were the most popular downloads in 2023, as well as some non-podcast related predictions for 2024.

Enjoy this week's episode and stick around, new episodes will be uploaded through the holidays!

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Results from a study of the impact of cash donations to 30,000 adults in Kenya have been released and the findings could lead to a paradigm shift in how most charities think about helping people.

Links from today's episode

It's one of the biggest experiments in fighting global poverty. Now the results are in. NPR. December 7, 2023

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/12/07/1217478771/its-one-of-the-biggest-experiments-in-fighting-global-poverty-now-the-results-ar?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_8499655_nl_Philanthropy-Today_date_20231208&cid=pt&source=&sourceid= 

Universal Basic Income: Short-Term Results from a Long-Term Experiment in Kenya September 2023

https://conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f192616.pdf

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Donor advised funds...are they a handy tool to help be thoughtful about our donations or just another form of wealth hoarding?

Share your thoughts at https://spenddonateinvest.world or visit the site to request another topic for a future episode and to sign up for the monthlyish newsletter.

Links from today's episode:


Charitable Tax Reform For the 21st Century by Roger Colinvaux and Ray D. Madoff https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3462163

Until the River Runs Dry by by Chuck Collins Helen Flannery Dan Petegorsky Bella DeVaan https://inequality.org/great-divide/charity-reform-video/

The 2023 DAF Report released by National Philanthropic Trust https://www.nptrust.org/reports/daf-report/

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Today the podcast hits the 100th episode! Thank you for listening, subscribing and sharing episodes with the people you know!

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Today's episode will help you make your plan for this year's Giving Tuesday.

If you want to support the show, please consider:

1. Sharing an episode with someone you know. Podcasts grow by word of mouth!
2. Leaving a review for the show on your podcast app.
3. Let me know what other podcasts you recommend. Shows with similar general topics and vibes. Doesn’t have to be about money per se, but maybe there’s a show that you enjoy that is generally on this topic of doing what we can to make the world a slightly better place. 

https://www.cnet.com/culture/giving-tuesday-2023-when-it-is-what-it-means-and-how-you-can-help/ 

https://www.catchafire.org/ 

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This week we're exploring the topic of decolonizing our Thanksgiving plates.

Links from today's discussion:

Chef Sean Sherman Interview and Projects
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1131051237/the-sioux-chef-sean-sherman
https://owamni.com/
https://sioux-chef.com/

Decolonizing Thanksgiving and Reviving Indigenous Relationship To Food by
https://ndncollective.org/decolonizing-thanksgiving-and-reviving-indigenous-relationships-to-food/?fbclid=IwAR2N4_aL_EZtV-EvvtGoDHL_8E2b1VmsUO0bWv8cP0rByuR1RpRmnD8f_6c

How to Decolonize Your Thanksgiving Dinner
https://www.vice.com/en/article/9a8axe/how-to-decolonize-your-thanksgiving-dinner

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What happens when a bunch of trust fund kids grow up and get fed up? Tune in this week so we can discuss!

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/1/13/20827389/young-donors-philanthropists-resource-generation-politics-trump 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2020/03/02/their-families-built-fortunes-these-millennials-are-trying-figure-out-how-undo-their-class-privilege/ 

https://twitter.com/ResourceGen 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/style/trust-fund-activism-resouce-generation.html   

https://resourcegeneration.org/choosing-to-talk-about-ugly-stuff/ 

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