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Get ready to be inspired by our amazing guest in this episode. We have the privilege of speaking with Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, a renowned climate and environmental rights activist from Uganda. As the founder of Uganda's Fridays for Future movement, Hilda has been a leading voice in advocating for greater gender equality and racial diversity in the climate change movement. Her inspiring activism includes empowering more women to join the fight against climate change, advocating for saving Lake Victoria, and using her social media platforms to encourage digital awareness about climate change. Hilda's outstanding efforts have earned her international recognition, with features in major news outlets.

In this episode, we talk to Joyeux Mugisho, a refugee, an advocate for the rights of children and a champion against climate change. He has taken on the challenge of addressing the climate crisis through the Gigatonne Challenge - a decentralized global strategy with a focus on equity. In just 48-60 months, this challenge has the potential to completely change the trajectory of the climate crisis. Teams from communities all over the world, including Uganda, are taking part by focusing on composting food waste, transitioning to zero-emissions transportation, food production, renewable energy, and afforestation. Don't miss out on this exciting conversation of Uganda's progress and the global impact of the Gigatonne Challenge.

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Comm-UNITY! Podcast series | Season 10

This season we take you on a journey of climate philanthropy that is powered by the generosity of communities, foundations, and philanthropy support organizations from Africa and all over the world. We’ll hear from those that have joined one of the greatest climate philanthropy movements, a movement led by the Worldwide Initiative for Grant makers Support.

In this episode, we are hosting the General Manager of the largest family foundation in Turkey Sabanci Foundation – Ms. Nevgül Bilsel Safkan. Their experience exemplifies the best of what responsive philanthropy can accomplish when it is timely and thoughtfully directed. From responding to wildfires through an emergency fund, to the use of art and film to relay the message of climate action, they are taking phenomenal strides in the right direction as they combat the climate emergency.

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The Alana Foundation espouses philanthropy at the crossroads of children's rights and the climate crisis. The Alana Foundation's Executive Director, Las Fleury, discusses the fascinating approaches the Foundation is taking to address these challenges. To raise awareness about the reality of the climate crisis, the foundation is producing films based on the lived experiences of communities in Brazil and around the world that have felt the full brunt of it.

Do you wonder if your current philanthropic strategy can address the climate challenge? This is the conversation for you. The Executive Director, Naila Farouky, brings a fresh perspective to this conversation, walking us through what it means to rethink an organization's or foundation's philanthropy strategy in order to incorporate climate philanthropy into their work. She describes her own rite of passage into all things climate, which occurred while she was working with foundations that were also learning on the fly. The Arab Foundations Forum has chosen an audacious path, and we are all about audacious philanthropy!

While individuals, organizations, and foundations are all working to address climate change, they are focusing on specific target groups or thematic areas affected by climate change. Conservation and reforestation are key focus areas for the Belantara Foundation, which works with Indonesian farmers to find solutions to this problem. Dr. Dolly Priatna joins us to discuss this further.

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The African Climate Foundation is a forerunner Pan-African foundation dedicated to climate change on the African continent. They take on the work of addressing climate issues from a development standpoint. Saliem Fakir, Executive Director of the African Climate Foundation (ACF), joins us from South Africa for a discussion on climate action from a pan-African and development-oriented perspective.

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Philanthropy is inherently proactive; it is conscious of our challenges and provides resources to advance the necessary solutions. Recognizing the power of effective philanthropy, the Independent Philanthropy Association of South Africa is preparing its members to address one of the world's most pressing issues: climate change. Louise Driver, Executive Director of IPASA, joins us on the Comm-Unity Podcast to share the association’s story.

CivSource is chronicling the steps philanthropy is taking to address the current climate crisis. In the spirit of collaboration and calling to mind the power of partnerships, we will be chatting with leaders and givers from Africa and beyond, on the subject of climate: the climate challenge, climate action and philanthropy’s role in the middle of all of it.

We host Benjamin Bellegy, leader of WINGS, a global network that is growing and strengthening philanthropy to ensure it reaches its fullest potential as a catalyst for social progress. We talk about the Philanthropy for Climate movement, the movement’s journey, its dreams, wins and everything in-between.

Theme: A growing movement of philanthropy taking action on climate change.

In the month of July and August, residents of Eastern Uganda had the gut-wrenching experience of losing loved ones, their homes, livestock and livelihoods because of floods from heavy rains.

Back in the heart of a very hyper-urban Kampala, every downpour is a waterlogged reminder of the essence of wetlands which we do not see that much of anymore.

Episode 11 | Season 9

Title: Generosity in Favor!

Name: Dorothy Nabunjo

Artist Manager, Creative Entrepreneur and CEO of KARIZM

Join us for this episode as Dorothy, a renowned creative entrepreneur, art enthusiast, artist manager, and CEO of Karizm, an artist management firm that is growing and taking brave leaps of faith in the artist sector, talks about her experiences. speaks to us about Love's Generosity And seeking favor as a means of unlocking kindness.

Episode 10 | Season 9

Theme: Giving Beauty

Title: Generosity In Being Present!

Ugandan gospel musician and visual artist

The multidisciplinary creative Sandra Suubi working mostly in music and performance, with a discography that includes religious, motivational, and environmental albums.

She now considers herself a sculptor, and her wearable works of art and the unexpected places they end up are the result of dialogues sparked by her installations. The interplay between her music, art, creativity, performance, and critical thinking causes listeners and viewers to pause and reflect.

Season 9 | Episode 9

Title: The Generosity in Solidarity!

Guest: Youma DJIGUÉ

Communication & Partnership Manager African Culture Fund

Youma, a Mali native and the communications and partnership manager for the Africa Cultural Fund, joins us to discuss how she has come to view acts of kindness and sacrifice as more of a calling than a chore. She goes on to say that there isn't just one way to give.

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Title: Generosity In Alternative Spaces: The Arts

Guest: Andrew Kaggwa

Andrew Kaggwa, a well-known magazine editor, writer, journalist, and film curator, discusses donating in alternative cultural venues and how it comes from the heart. He speaks of giving that is significantly dependent on one's abilities. What you have in plenty and your ability to share.

Lena Godfrey Lokwang, a project specialist in the Kaabong district and a creative entrepreneur, discusses how God multiplies the virtue of generosity by providing mankind with occasions to accept blessings in this episode. The Lena who is now the proud father of eight children (four boys and six girls) describes the path that lead him to become a priest and how he has served his community from many different perspectives. In his view, helping others without expecting anything in return is the surest way to reap the rewards of your work.

Comm-UNITY! Podcast series

Lena Godfrey Lokwang, a project specialist in the Kaabong district and a creative entrepreneur, discusses how God multiplies the virtue of generosity by providing mankind with occasions to accept blessings in this episode. The Lena who is now the proud father of eight children (four boys and six girls) describes the path that lead him to become a priest and how he has served his community from many different perspectives. In his view, helping others without expecting anything in return is the surest way to reap the rewards of your work.

In Episode 5 of season 9 of the comm-UNITY! Podcast series, courtesy of CivSource Africa. Nabou Fall, a cretaive entrepreneur, coach and author committed to Africa, from Senegal speaks to us about her work in the incubation and acceleration of artists by equipping them with the tools to become artistically viable entrepreneurs. She opens up about her work with artists to develop a long-term business plans centered on the value chain, which facilitates the sale of artwork and increases the artists' global profile.

Loupa describes in this episode how the growth of the Manyatta institutions has led in a shift in emphasis from collective to individual acts of kindness. And how preserving the Kraal as communal property encourages a sense of belonging and sharing among members of the community. When asked what it means to give in the Karamojong Pastoral communities, he says it means keeping what is given secure until it is time to pass it on to another member within the community.

In this episode, we speak with Raul Rugamba, the CEO of Rwanda's Hobe Agency, who has more than ten years of experience in the African cultural and creative industry. He also founded Africa in Colors, a pan-African business effort devoted to collaborating with varied creative and innovative organizations in the development and production of African content, as well as promoting and developing the African creative industry ecosystem. Raul tells us about what it means to "do things differently" and about his own experiences as a creative entrepreneur.