MORGAN: How Sarah Turned a Nonprofit from Age 15 to a Global Movement
The Bobby Bones Show
Premiere Networks
4.8 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
From starting a nonprofit at just 15 to leading a multimillion-dollar organization serving hundreds of children daily in Uganda, Sarah’s journey is one of vision, grit, and heart. In this episode, she shares the challenges of leadership, balancing personal sacrifices with professional passion, and the power of staying present through it all. We dive into the lessons learned over 18 years, the launch of a new campus, and how one boy named Shaki changed everything. Whether you’re dreaming of starting your own impact-driven venture or just need inspiration to believe it will all work out, this conversation is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:17.1 | Take this personally. |
| 0:20.4 | With Morgan Helsman. |
| 0:22.4 | There are times I just want to do episodes with awesome people without a series in mind, but knowing I want to tell their stories. |
| 0:28.8 | So last week I had on Nate and Holly sharing their amazing mother and son duo. |
| 0:33.1 | This week I have Sarah Nininger joining me to share why she founded Action in Africa when she was |
| 0:38.7 | just in her teens and continues to do the work over a decade later. If you're someone who has |
| 0:44.0 | ever wanted to do nonprofit work or curious to how it all happens, this is the episode that's |
| 0:48.9 | going to get you. She reached out after listening to the podcast and I'm so glad she did. So let's get |
| 0:53.8 | into it. |
| 1:01.5 | Joining me this week is Sarah Nininger. |
| 1:03.5 | She is the founder and executive director of Action in Africa. |
| 1:07.2 | Sarah, how are you? |
| 1:09.3 | I'm awesome. |
| 1:10.6 | Thank you so much for having me today. |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah, it was so cool. You reached out to me on an email and I was like, wow, I love what she's |
| 1:16.1 | doing. This is so new to me. I was learning about it through your email and the stuff that you had |
| 1:22.4 | sent over and your guys' Instagram page. But I'm so curious, you started this when you were a sophomore in high |
| 1:29.6 | school. Tell me how, why, what does that look like when it happens? Yeah, I will preface this by saying |
| 1:37.0 | this was never a part of the plan. So it's been a really wonderful organic journey over the last 18 |
| 1:44.0 | years. But Action Africa started |
| 1:46.4 | simply as just a school project with a group of other students. |
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