The Charity CEO Podcast

<p>In the fight for children’s rights, the Global Fund for Children champions bold ideas that might otherwise go unheard. Global Fund for Children or GFC is a global nonprofit dedicated to discovering, funding, and...

<p>Sarah Elliott started as the new CEO of the UK charity, Shelter, in September 2025, having previously run the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) for 5 years.</p><p>Shelter exists to defend everyone’s...

<p>In August 2021, the Taliban swept back into power in Afghanistan after nearly 20 years, toppling the then democratic government in a matter of days.</p><p>Adela Raz, was serving as Afghanistan’s Ambassador to the...

<p>In the nonprofit world, we often celebrate beginnings—new initiatives, fresh funding, and ambitious strategies. But what happens when a charity needs to close its doors? Does closure mean failure, or can it be part...

<p>“Gender equality is a choice… working for greater gender equality is not a zero sum game, where you’re taking something from one group and giving it to another - it’s helping to level the playing field for...

"Empowerment is the ability to make choices... and... having economic tools, economic resources is a way of providing the means for those choices."<br><br>The world has come a long way since 1974 when women in America...

With an audacious goal to lift 20m people in Africa out of extreme poverty by 2030, Dianne Calvi, President and CEO of Village Enterprise, joins us to share how they plan to make this happen. <br>Centred around their...

“There is a problem! Business has a problem, the world has a problem, because we are just not utilising the talents, the ambitions, the drive of half the world’s population (the female half)... Economic gender justice...

Trigger warning: This episode explores and talks about miscarriage, stillbirth and baby loss. <br>Baby loss and miscarriage is something that many parents face and yet it is still something that is not openly talked...

“The humanity that connects us is stronger than what has been created to divide us”.<br><br>Nisha Anand is the CEO of Dream.Org, a nonprofit organization that brings people together across racial, social and partisan...

“It was thanks to this country that lots of those rights and protections that exist for refugees are in place … but now… you get that sense in lots of parts of the world, frankly, that the UK isn’t playing the active...

“Deceptively simple, but devastatingly effective”<br>This is how Ruth Marvel, Chief Executive of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in the UK, describes the Award. <br>The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award was started by His Royal...

“You change the world, when you change the lives of children… It is better for society to build stronger children, than fix broken adults.”<br><br>The Children’s Society believes that every young person deserves a good...

“We have won the war on climate denial… (but) we cannot underestimate what an enormous fight this is… the climate movement being mainstream doesn’t mean we have the power to make change happen yet.”<br>In this episode...

“Gift Aid, yes people know about it (but) they still dont understand it… there is about £750m unclaimed in Gift Aid every year, split between smaller charities unable to claim or dont have the skills to do it and higher...