Listen Now: Good Things - How to Fight Back Through Giving

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Lemonada Media

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4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Good Things from Lemonada Media is a podcast about the good people in the world who are rolling up their sleeves and working hard to make things better. Each week, we'll be talking about this country's most complex and confounding issues in an effort to affect systemic change, with a rotating cast of incredible guests and Lemonada hosts. From the dire condition of the American foster care system to the decline of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, protecting democracy, and more, we’re focusing on solutions – with the people putting them into action

In this episode, as the federal government has been making unprecedented funding cuts, many communities are facing more uncertainty and less support. In response, the Marguerite Casey Foundation is making a bold move: they’re distributing $130 million this year to organizations working for racial and economic justice. In this episode, Carmen Rojas, the foundation’s president and CEO, gets into the reasons behind the move, which organizations will benefit and how this funding aims to fill critical gaps.

This episode is presented by the Marguerite Casey Foundation. MCF supports leaders who work to shift the balance of power in their communities toward working people and families, and who have the vision and capacity for building a truly representative economy. Learn more at caseygrants.org or visit on social media @caseygrants.

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1:06.0	Lemonada. Hello and welcome to Good Things.
1:26.3	I'm your host, Maya Rupert. We're living in a moment full of uncertainty, for our country and for philanthropy. As the Trump administration has been making unprecedented federal funding cuts, so many communities have been left vulnerable and without the support of vital institutions.
1:47.4	Amidst all of this, the Marguerite Casey Foundation is making a bold move this year,
1:52.9	giving away $130 million.
1:55.8	Where the government has stepped back, they're stepping in to support organizations fighting for racial and economic justice.
2:03.4	Here to break it all down for us is Carmen Rojas, the Foundation's president and CEO.
2:09.2	We'll get into the reasons behind her Foundation's commitment to $130 million, which organizations
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