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ACV11: How to Start a Charity (Dr Goh Wei Leong, Healthserve Founder, Part 2)
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Dr Goh Wei Leong, founder of Healthserve, shares practical advice about starting a charity in this episode. Even if you're not intending to start a charity, these are principles that are applicable more generally to any endeavour you may undertake.
Dr Goh Wei-Leong, a general practitioner, co-founded and chairs HealthServe (instagram, twitter: @HealthServeSG), an NGO that reaches out to under-served foreign workers in Singapore. HealthServe and Wei-Leong were awarded the ‘Singaporean of the Year 2017’. He has a personal mission to be a ‘Catalyst Bringing Life!’ and is passionate about social justice and connecting people to one another. He also thoroughly enjoys engaging millennials over a good cappuccino. Dr Goh cares deeply about life and keeps a regular rhythm of rest, reflection and work to constantly calibrate true north.
3 things I learned
- When staring a charity, you need a team around you. Don’t be afraid to sell your friends about your vision, and look for domain expertise amongst them and then ask for help - people with the skillsets that can help solve your problems (e.g. provide legal or financial advice)
- You might face rejection, but choose instead to celebrate the little successes - the people who say yes and get behind you. And even the people who say no at first - they may come on board a couple of years later
- Practically - funding structure for charities. You want to tap on the larger corporate CSR budgets, but at the same time it’s useful to mix that with a broad base of individual donors so that you’re not beholden to one giver.
48 episodi
Manage episode 246261687 series 2565202
Dr Goh Wei Leong, founder of Healthserve, shares practical advice about starting a charity in this episode. Even if you're not intending to start a charity, these are principles that are applicable more generally to any endeavour you may undertake.
Dr Goh Wei-Leong, a general practitioner, co-founded and chairs HealthServe (instagram, twitter: @HealthServeSG), an NGO that reaches out to under-served foreign workers in Singapore. HealthServe and Wei-Leong were awarded the ‘Singaporean of the Year 2017’. He has a personal mission to be a ‘Catalyst Bringing Life!’ and is passionate about social justice and connecting people to one another. He also thoroughly enjoys engaging millennials over a good cappuccino. Dr Goh cares deeply about life and keeps a regular rhythm of rest, reflection and work to constantly calibrate true north.
3 things I learned
- When staring a charity, you need a team around you. Don’t be afraid to sell your friends about your vision, and look for domain expertise amongst them and then ask for help - people with the skillsets that can help solve your problems (e.g. provide legal or financial advice)
- You might face rejection, but choose instead to celebrate the little successes - the people who say yes and get behind you. And even the people who say no at first - they may come on board a couple of years later
- Practically - funding structure for charities. You want to tap on the larger corporate CSR budgets, but at the same time it’s useful to mix that with a broad base of individual donors so that you’re not beholden to one giver.
48 episodi
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