Transcript
A (0:03)
Students in the Luminos program were learning in just one year, 90% of what the average adult in the same country knew.
B (0:12)
Oh, wow.
A (0:13)
And learned in their lifetime. 90%. And that is both an enormous testament to our students and our teachers. And it's also really stark reminder of exactly how many adults as well as children have been left careful out of the landscape of educational opportunity.
B (0:32)
This is Dr. Rob Harder with the nonprofit Leadership podcast, Making youg World Better. What does it take to be an effective nonprofit leader today? What are the biggest challenges? What are the biggest obstacles? How should nonprofits fundraise in an economy that is constantly changing? All of these reasons combined led me to start this show and it's my hope that through this series people can learn not only what it takes to be an effective non profit organization, but but to hear from effective leaders who are successfully making a positive impact in their communities. We hope you enjoy the show as together we hear how they are making their world better.
A (1:07)
Welcome to the Nonprofit Leadership Podcast with Rob harder. I'm Lena LaRue, based currently in Mexico, and I'm a listener just like you who cares about the nonprofit world and the people leading it. If you're looking to learn and grow as a nonprofit leader, you're in the right place. Thanks for listening. Now here's Rob.
B (1:32)
This podcast is sponsored by Donorbox. Donorbox, helping you help others with the best donation forms in the business. Well, welcome back everybody to the show. We're so glad you're here. I've got Caitlin Barron on the show here. Caitlin, thanks so much for being on the show today.
A (1:47)
Rob, thank you so much for the kind invitation to be here.
B (1:50)
Thank you, absolutely. No, I always enjoy having a variety of guests and you're going to talk about a lot of interesting things with the work that you're doing with Luminas. But maybe I always like to start with this. Give the listeners just a bit about your background, give us a bit of your story and particularly what led you to work now with what is Luminas? And yeah, how did you get there? Tell us a bit about your mission journey, if you will.
A (2:13)
Yeah, no, absolutely. I guess everyone's story begins somewhere and mine begins in Brooklyn, New York. So I, I was born and raised in Brooklyn and way back in the dark old 1970s, which was an amazing place to grow up and a rich and stimulating environment, but very much an environment where it was very clear to me from a very young age that education made a life changing difference in the landscape of opportunity before children. And I think it's sort of, it might be unusual, like as a young child for you to have that stark kind of discrepancy in different levels of educational opportunity. So, so clear and in your face. But that was a big, that was a big part of my growing up. And I think, you know, when I look back on that now, it's a, it's sort of, it's not an accident that I wound up in, in the business of expanding education opportunity for children around the world.
