Tips & inspo for start-up non-profits: SAY Australia

Tips & inspo for start-up non-profits: SAY Australia

Author: Small Non-Profits Alliance podcast for small charities March 4, 2021 Duration: 45:41
Rich Stephens was in his 30s before he gave himself permission to stutter, now he's the Founder of SAY Australia, a small non-profit inspiring and supporting Aussie kids living with a stutter. Bianca chats to Rich about his experience establishing SAY Australia from the ground-up in Australia, after working with the organisation's US version. Rich also shares his journey of living with a stutter as a child and adult, and how that's helped him lead SAY Australia, working to empower kids who ...

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