Fundraising, Storytelling, & Wellbeing in Perú with Alvaro Gonzalez | Ep 9

Season 2
Written By Pam Cheney

Today our exploration of global fundraising continues with Alvaro Gonzalez, who leads the fundraising at Minga Perú. 

Minga is a Quechuan word that means “collaborative community work” which is at the heart of their work with indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon for more than 25 years. 

Minga Perú started as a radio station which still designs its programming and content in response to the 64,000 letters it has now received from women living in indigenous communities within the Amazon Basin - these conversations are about health, gender equality, human rights, entrepreneurship, climate justice, and much more. Themes that remain central to Minga Perú’s work today.

I’ve been working with Alvaro for the past year as we’ve navigated the challenges and opportunities of connecting donors to the social justice work in these very remote communities - and I have come to love his openness when it comes to discussing the nature of fundraising, what it means to be a fundraiser, what the work of fundraising is, and how exciting, but also how hard fundraising can be.

This episode is for those of you who are in the early stages of your fundraising journey, or if you’re wrestling with what it means to be and become a fundraiser.

I know you’re going to enjoy meeting Alvaro and that he will bring clarity to some of your bigger questions in this space.

Some key takeaways in this episode were:

  • Alvaro’s metaphors of the bridge and nurturing those sparks which describe beautifully what it means to be a fundraiser and the nature of the work.

  • Lots of practical ideas to help us all become better and more authentic fundraisers

  • Importantly, how to ensure that we value our own wellbeing, and build our resilience, in what can often be an unforgiving work.

If you have been inspired by Alvaro or any of our other guests, please head to the Fundraising Radicals blog to find out more about global fundraising challenges. You can access it via the website at www.fundraisingradicals.com/blog 

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I hope you've enjoyed listening to this episode of the Fundraising Radicals podcast and that this conversation has challenged, informed, and maybe even inspired you and your fundraising leadership practice. 

This podcast has been made possible by the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network, Care International, the Ashmore Foundation, and our growing community of strategic partners.

We're excited to explore and share alternative views and experiences so we can all move beyond the narrow experiences that dominate global fundraising practise today so that we're all better equipped to resource our causes and communities wherever in the world we are.

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Pam Cheney

Graphic Designer and traveller

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