The Build Good Fundraising Podcast #74: How I Built Good: The Adventure Project, with Becky Straw
In a new segment of the pod we’re calling How I Built Good, we interview nonprofit founders, entrepreneurs and leaders on how they’re building good in the world.
Starting with Becky Straw.
She never set out to become a founder.
But when she was let go from her job at fast-growing water charity, she bought a wireless printer the next day to start building The Adventure Project.
With a passionate co-founder and a crew of volunteers by her side, Becky raised the first $40,000 with a clever marketing campaign.
Today, the organization provides people in 6 countries with the tools and skills to become profitable entrepreneurs—and fund their ventures to create solutions to poverty in their own communities.
The people they help learn a specialized trade and receive the mentorship and education to thrive. So they can earn an income, and wake up each day filled with purpose and pride.
In our chat with Becky, she gets into:
- how she started the org with $0 and a wireless printer
- how the org is finding a sustainable business model without having to only rely on campaign after campaign
- a life-changing moment on a rural, bumpy, washed out road in Liberia that still motivates her today
- the philosophy behind treating the $10 donor like the $1,000 donor
You can find out more about The Adventure Project right here
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