Philanthropy Is The Heartbeat Of The World!
October 31, 2022
BBC World News: Focus on Africa Interview. AgentsC's Founder and CEO, Olumide Akerewusi discusses the importance of African philanthropy and what makes it unique.

It's the time of year when I find myself listening moe intently to my body and my mind. Both of which are telling me it is time to take a break.
It has been a long and arduous six months that I have devoted to producing Series Two of The Giving Black Podcast, planning and delivering The Giving Conference, organizing

This conversation is with Christal M.Cherry Founder of Board Pro a consulting firm that supports non-profit governance boards to adopt new skills and tools for non-profit leadership.
Christal is a nationally recognized nonprofit consultant, speaker, fellow co-author of Collecting Courage, and board leadership expert

Here is our final series of conversations to honour Black Philanthropy Month 2025 and celebrate our theme: Sankofa: Remember, Reclaim, Rise!
I sit down with my dear friend, Brother Christopher Beck, Associate Director of Individual and Planned Giving at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia—one of a few Black m

In this episode of The Giving Black Podcast, we traveled—at least in spirit—to the home of the global philanthropic tradition of Sankofa: Ghana, West Africa.
We knew we had to include a Ghanaian perspective in this series, and I was introduced to exactly the right person. As fortune would have it, a close brother of

The Black Philanthropy Month Series - Sankofa: Remember, Reclaim, Rise. Dr. Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome
When I learned about the work of Dr. Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome—Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, New York, and Co-Founder of Black Philanthropy Month—I knew we had to speak!
Dr. Okome, a fellow Nigerian, is both an academic and a powerful advocate for pan-Africanism. In this episode of The Giving Blac






