Starting & Managing a Nonprofit with Sanela Ovnovic (Helping Hearts of BiH)

Starting & Managing a Nonprofit with Sanela Ovnovic (Helping Hearts of BiH)

Author: Emina Pelja July 3, 2020 Duration: 48:58

After seeing how residents were affected by the 2014 floods in BiH, Sanela Ovnovic took initiative by starting a GoFundMe page and even personally visited a family in Maglaj to distribute donations. On the plane ride back to Chicago, she decided to start a FB group called Helping Hearts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which later turned into her nonprofit organization.

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Instagram: @helpingheartsofbih

www.helpingheartsofbih.com

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