Fixable: David - “How do I turn my passion project into my career?”

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🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

David and his brother have co-founded a non-profit helping Black youth in Miami… but David still has a full-time job. Wanting to turn his passion project into paid, full-time work, David asks Anne and Frances how he can grow his organization without losing his energy. After, Anne and Frances share strategies for fundraising and approaching non-profit work like an entrepreneur. This is an episode of Fixable, another podcast from the TED Audio Collective. You can follow Fixable wherever you are listening to this.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:08.0	Hi everyone, I have something different today.
0:10.0	This is an episode from Fixable,
0:13.0	another podcast in the Ted Audio Collective.
0:17.0	In each episode, business leaders and Morris and Francis Fry
0:22.0	take calls from listeners about particularly difficult work problems
0:26.0	and they fix them.
0:28.0	They're all about moving fast and fixing things
0:32.0	and believe that they can get to the bottom of almost any conundrum
0:36.0	in just one session.
0:38.0	Here's an episode I think you'll really enjoy.
0:41.0	To hear more, you can find Fixable
0:44.0	wherever you're listening to this podcast.
0:49.0	Francis, we have a great caller this week. His name is David.
0:54.0	He founded a local nonprofit with his brother. It's family affair.
0:58.0	And he's having an incredible amount of impact. He loves his job.
1:02.0	The problem is it's not his full-time job yet.
1:06.0	And he's also wrestling with the sustainability
1:10.0	and exhaustion of doing two jobs,
1:14.0	making this a side hustle and trying to figure out
1:16.0	is this the time to jump in fully and make the leap?
1:20.0	Awesome. And what does it not for profit do?
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