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On the latest episode of Givers, Cliff Sloan sits with Jed Foundation’s Executive Director and CEO, John MacPhee and Jed Storyteller, Brett Epstein. Jed is a suicide prevention nonprofit that partners with high schools and colleges to strengthen their mental health, substance misuse, and suicide prevention programs and systems. Jed encourages community awareness, understanding and action for young adult mental health. In this episode learn how Jed is preparing school’s to cope and prevent mental health crises and how they’re encouraging kids to ‘Seize the Awkward’. Brett discusses his own experiences with depression as a college student and how the Jed foundation helped him with recovery.

Host Cliff Sloan is joined by award-winning  writer, Arthur Longworth who is calling in from Monroe Correctional Complex where he is serving a life without parole sentence and Robert Pollock, PEN America’s Prison Writing Program Manager. Listen to an insider’s perspective on the freedom of speech (or not) of incarcerated people, education and the art of writing behind bars. Rethink your perception of incarcerated people while learning about a controversial cause too often swept under the rug.

On the latest episode of Givers, host Cliff Sloan sits down with Jojo Annobil, Executive Director of Immigrant Justice Corps (IJC) and Nicole Alanko, a second year legal fellow at the organization. Founded in 2014, IJC is the country’s first fellowship program dedicated to meeting the need for high-quality legal assistance for immigrants seeking citizenship and fighting deportation. Join us as we explore how the USA’s immigrant justice system fails to support people in need and how the political climate has changed the way the Nation views immigration. As a New York Times organization to support, IJC inspires and educates us all in this important episode of Givers.

Donorschoose.org is on a mission to increase public education equity by partnering with teachers across the country to get them the classroom resources and funding they need to thrive. Their impact skyrocketed when Ripple, a blockchain specializing in global financial transactions, donated $29 million to fund every DonorsChoose.org classroom project request in a single day. On that day, over a million students were given resources and learning opportunities, but the impact reached far beyond the classroom. Listen as Orly Michaeli, Senior Partnerships Manager at Donorschoose.org, talks about their partnership with Ripple and the effect it continues to have on schools across the nation.