Today on Cause Talk Radio, Megan and Joe talk to Chris Baylis, President & CEO of The Sponsorship Collective, about all things sponsorship! Chris is a leading consultant to nonprofits and businesses on sponsorship and how to build win-win partnerships.

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Today on Cause Talk Radio, Megan and Joe talk to Bjorn Erland, Vice President of People & Experience at Taco Bell and Jennifer Walker, Director of Strategic Development at Taco Bell Foundation, about the award of $3 million in scholarships through its Live Más Scholarship program. This includes $500k in scholarships for Taco Bell employees!

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Today on Cause Talk Radio, Megan and Joe talk to Perry Yeatman, CEO, Perry Yeatman Global Partners, External Director, Mission Measurement about how companies and nonprofits can measure the success of social impact programs.

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Today on Cause Talk Radio, Megan and Joe talk to Marty Posch, President, Finish Line Youth Foundation, which is the nonprofit arm of athletic apparel and shoe retailer Finish Line about their work with Special Olympics. This includes a very successful checkout charity program that raised $825,000 over the holidays.

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Today on Cause Talk Radio, Megan and Joe talk to Dashel Schueler, Associate Director of Development & External Relations, at Seattle public radio station KEXP, about International Clash Day. The day celebrates the music of the English punk rock band The Clash and others as enablers of social consciousness.

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Today on Cause Talk Radio, Megan and Joe talk to Chris Mann, National Vice President of Corporate Partnerships for City Year, about their corporate partnership program and its growth during Chris' tenure.

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Today on CauseTalk Radio, Megan and I talk to Josh Abramson, Founder & Chief Solutionist at ALLBRiGHT 1-800-PAINTING, about Paint It Forward, a charity paint program that gives back to the local community.

Since completing the first Paint It Forward event in 2005, the effort has produced over $1 million worth of free painting services and materials delivered to deserving families and nonprofit organizations across the United States and Canada.

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Today on Cause Talk Radio, Megan and Joe talk to Jennifer Lindenauer, Chief Marketing Officer at Good Media Group about the 2017 merger between viral news and video site Upworthy with media and consulting company GOOD Worldwide. We get an update on the merger and their plans for 2018.

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Today on Cause Talk Radio, Megan and Joe talk to Rahama Wright, Founder & CEO of Shea Yeleen, about her efforts to innovate the shea butter supply chain in West Africa.

Her social enterprise, Shea Yeleen, markets and distributes high-quality skincare products while providing living wages to cooperative members in Northern Ghana. The line of shea butter products is being distributed through retailers such as Whole Foods, MGM Resorts, and Amazon.

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Today on Cause Talk Radio, Megan and Joe talk to Andrei Cherny, CEO and Co-Founder of Aspiration, a financial firm that helps investors make money and make a difference. The firm has also launched an app — Aspiration Impact Measurement (AIM) — that lets investors see the impact they're making on people and the planet based on where they are shopping and spending every day.