Introducing a special podcast season: A donor’s journey to address firearm related suicide

My new podcast season offers a message of hope to address firearm related suicide in rural and remote communities of Oregon:

If you listen to my new podcast season you will take an intimate personal journey of discovery with me and my client, the Roundhouse Foundation. You will have the opportunity to get behind the scenes of what it takes to figure out how to be an effective philanthropist on an issue that otherwise feels highly polarized and intractable. Firearms and suicide are two important but often challenging problems to solve and it’s not always easy to fund projects that on their surface feel so hard to solve.

I think you will love this careful conversation about such a sensitive and important topic.

“This issue we are working on is people’s lives…it’s work we have to be willing to do… there are policies that actually work and it is not intractable” Jess Marks, Executive Director, Oregon Alliance for Gun Safety

“I think as a country we have gotten ourselves in this position where it is either this or it’s that … there is nothing in the middle ... especially on issues like gun rights… and other really divisive topics…you are right or you are wrong, but I don't think that’s reality. I think people are more than one dimensional, and issues are more than one dimensional.” Erin Borla, Executive Director and Trustee, Roundhouse Foundation

I hope that by listening to this podcast season you will be inspired to think expansively about addressing firearm related suicide, and also will model how you approach philanthropy on any issue you care about through careful research to find the true solutions that will work, like what I did with the Roundhouse Foundation.

I interviewed over twenty experts and reviewed over 100 scientific journals, research papers, news articles and websites to prepare a report for the Roundhouse Foundation, that you can download below for free.

To get a sense of this podcast season, please listen to my preview episode that will give you a good feeling for my four episode story arch, the official season launches on September 30th, with a new episode every Monday, through October 21st. Please listen to this season in the order sequence, starting with the preview.

I will post a new episode on this topic through October 21st, each Monday. Check back in here for the latest episode, or find it on your favorite podcast streaming site by typing in “Do Your Good.”