Welcome to the Purposeful Pitch, a podcast focused on initiating positive change and addressing socio-economic challenges facing communities across the country. Conversations will feature school leaders, CEOs of not-for-profit organizations and public policymakers, among others.
Purposeful Pitch
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Welcome to the Purposeful Pitch, a podcast focused on initiating positive change and addressing socio-economic challenges facing communities across the country. Conversations will feature school leaders, CEOs of not-for-profit organizations and public policymakers, among others.
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July 20, 2020
Helping the Homeless Amid a Global Pandemic
<p>As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to put a strain on economies throughout the U.S., many nonprofits are feeling the impact, especially those focused on homelessness and poverty. With limited support from the public, and rising demands for food and supplies, these organizations have had an uphill battle since the start of the pandemic.</p> <p>This reality is all too real in Phoenix, Arizona, where the nonprofit Phoenix Rescue Mission is in the midst of its annual Code: Red Summer Heat Relief Campaign, a city-wide mobilization effort to prevent heat-related deaths and illnesses among Phoenix’s homeless population. The campaign is centered around a fleet of Hope Coach vans, armed with water and other heat-relief items, that travels the streets in search of those caught in the deadly heat. Add in the pandemic, along with diminishing resources, and the Mission is facing its toughest challenge to date.</p> <p>On this episode of the Purposeful Pitch, Phoenix Rescue Mission Chief Program Officer Nathan Smith joins my colleague, Josh Skalniak, and me for an in-depth conversation on the struggles and risks associated with homeless street outreach during a pandemic. We’ll look behind the scenes of what it takes for an organization like Phoenix Rescue Mission to be successful in preventing heat-related deaths while curbing the spread of the virus among the city’s most vulnerable population.</p> <p>Following his life’s passion, Smith has worked as a missions pastor, case manager, program director, board president, and executive in several churches and nonprofits. Smith has been with Phoenix Rescue Mission for the past six years, and he now oversees all of the nonprofit’s programs, including its public-private partnerships aimed at reducing crime, poverty, and homelessness in targeted regions of the metro area.</p> <p>Smith was instrumental in the expansion of the Mission’s reach into neighboring regions like Glendale, where he and his team saved the city’s largest food bank, Hope For Hunger Food Bank, from closing for good. His team reopened the food bank and increased the output of the previous ownership by more than 50% – serving more than 160 families per day. He was also a key player in the formation of Glendale Works, an integrated workforce development program aimed at reducing homelessness in Glendale by providing homeless individuals day-work cleaning city property.</p> <p>To continue the conversation or learn more about Lambert’s Education & Social Impact practice, contact Joe DiBenedetto at <a href="mailto:jdibenedetto@lambert.com">jdibenedetto@lambert.com</a>.</p>
July 2, 2020
A Time to Listen
<p>In his years of public service, Michigan State Senator Peter MacGregor has been a man of action. Serving as chairman of the appropriations subcommittee on health and human services, Senator MacGregor recently led the Senate in providing $524 million in federal COVID-19 funding to deliver much-needed supplies to front-line workers, help families in need of financial assistance, and to support critical state infrastructure.</p> <p>A former small business owner, Senator MacGregor can empathize with the challenges facing local businesses experiencing hardship as a result of the COVID pandemic. During this episode of the Purposeful Pitch, Senator MacGregor shares his thoughts on the pandemic’s impact on Michigan and the efforts needed to continue to build on the progress seen across Grand Rapids and Kent County over the past decade.</p> <p>In our conversation with Senator MacGregor, we also discuss the issue of systemic racism across the country and the protests taking place to institute necessary change. As all agree, the time to listen to voices calling for critical change to address racial injustice is long overdue, but that is where we must first start for such change to occur.</p> <p>To continue the conversation or learn more about Lambert’s Education & Social Impact practice, contact Joe DiBenedetto at <a href="mailto:jdibenedetto@lambert.com">jdibenedetto@lambert.com</a>.</p>
June 12, 2020
The Call to Serve
<p>The path to public service differs for many. For Michigan State Senator Winnie Brinks, it included serving as executive director for One Way House, a non-profit serving non-violent female offenders in a residential setting as an alternative to incarceration, as well as working with a number of public schools in the Grand Rapids area. It was her work assisting individuals and families in overcoming barriers to success that inspired her to run for office in Michigan’s House of Representatives in the early 2000s.</p> <p>After more than seven years in the House, Brinks became the first woman to represent Grand Rapids in the Michigan Senate since Eva McCall Hamilton was elected in 1920. While certainly proud of this distinction and acknowledging that we should celebrate such firsts, Senator Brinks shares during this episode of Purposeful Pitch that she would prefer that women in public office in West Michigan and across the state become the norm, not the exception.</p> <p>Of course, we can’t discuss any topic at present without including the impact of COVID-19. As the global pandemic continues to turn our world upside down, Senator Brinks remains confident that Grand Rapids—which has experienced remarkable growth over the past decade—will be able to recover given the city’s entrepreneurial and philanthropic spirit. Still, she admits, there will be many challenges due to funding uncertainties at the state and federal level. Learn more about the road ahead in this episode.</p> <p>To continue the conversation or learn more about Lambert’s Education & Social Impact practice, contact Joe DiBenedetto at <a href="mailto:jdibenedetto@lambert.com"><u>jdibenedetto@lambert.com</u></a>.</p>
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