Mam Joof & Anika Austrie from Right to Food, based in Toronto, Canada. The two navigate listeners through the journey finding grantees and donors to support their mission of ensuring Canadians no longer experience food insecurity.

Vincent Mwangi of Mama Hope talks buzzwords, grassroots accountability, and how his own experiences have allowed him to be a true resource for local nonprofits in his native Kenya.

Rona Peligal from The Fund for Global Human Rights walks discusses how to mirror model donor behaviour for nonprofits and donors, as well as how to juggle competing crises on a global scale.

Negar Tayyar of Global Whole Being Fund and Josie Naughton of Choose Love join the tour to talk about working and funding in emergencies and crises.

Kady Sylla walks listeners through a tour of how King Badouin Foundation US works and how the US branch should best be engaged.

Director of Partnerships at the Segal Family Foundation talks about how nonprofits can get to know the foundation, but also what grassroots leaders should know when reaching out to new potential donors.

Julie Davitz, the Head of Impact Solutions for Wealth Management at BNP Paribas Bank of the West takes listeners on a virtual tour of the organization, but also provides insight into fundraising in the Wealth Management space.

CEO of The Forbes Funds, Fred Brown takes us on a virtual tour of how to engage his organisation, but also discusses how both, philanthropy and the nonprofit sector can navigate this moment of social justice reform.

Usually, Virtual Philanthropy provides philanthropic expertise focused on how to maximize the search for nonprofit resources. In this episode, we focus on our biggest resource: ourselves. Best-selling author of Middlescence and Life Coach Barbara Waxman walks us through the steps nonprofit leaders and staff should take, especially during this unprecedented time of uncertainty.

In addition to an in-depth tour of self-care, Waxman offers The Five To Thrive quiz on her website that can be found at www.BarbaraWaxman.com. Further resources can be found on our site. This episode also broadens its scope to include philanthropists as well, as the entire sector needs to focus on well-being now more than ever.

The Novel Coronavirus has crippled the world economy and claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands. It's impact on the nonprofit and philanthropic sector have been no less significant.

There are luckily some great foundations stepping up to advise nonprofits in this time and also fund them in this time of uncertainty. The "Emergency Room" of philanthropy, Open Road Alliance is the leader of emergency funding and its CEO, Maya Winkelstein joins Virtual Philanthropy to guide nonprofits through the process of getting emergency funding, not just from Open Road, if qualified, but how to approach other donors in the time of the Coronavirus.

Sarah Miers of the Mulago Foundation gives insight on what it takes to become a Mulago fellow, as well as what start up organizations should know before reaching out to donors.