BTM184 - Kari McDonough - Welcome.US, The Welcome Corps, and the Veteran Sponsor Fund
About Today’s Guest
Kari McDonough serves as Vice President for Welcome.US, an initiative to welcome newcomers from around the world, and Senior Advisor for the Welcome Fund, the philanthropic arm of Welcome.US. Since 2021, the Fund has served as a source of nimble and responsive grantmaking, investing over $20 million to over 200 community based organizations, galvanizing thousands of volunteers and helping solidify sponsorship as a permanent part of our resettlement infrastructure.
Prior to her role at Welcome.US Kari served as President and Co-Founder of Vets’ Community Connections, a community-based initiative designed to involve a greater number of individuals in the support of veteran and military families. She also worked as a management consultant for Accenture, assisting government, private industry and non-profit clients to design, develop and implement large organization change, and with the Council on Foundations optimizing grant maker and corporate giving programs.
PsychArmor Resource of the Week
This week’s PsychArmor Resource of the Week is Episode 47 of the Behind the Mission Podcast. On this episode of Behind the Mission, we have a conversation with Jen Wilson, Co-Founder of the Army Week Association, a New York City-based Nonprofit that provides support to returning service members and their communities. In this episode, we discuss AWA’s mission and how their network was engaged to respond to the need to support US and Coalition Force Allies during the Fall of Kabul. You can see find the resource here: https://psycharmor.org/podcast/jen-wilson.
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Theme Music
Our theme music Don’t Kill the Messenger was written and performed by Navy Veteran Jerry Maniscalco, in cooperation with Operation Encore, a non profit committed to supporting singer/songwriter and musicians across the military and Veteran communities.
This Episode Sponsored By:
This episode is sponsored by PsychArmor, the premier education and learning ecosystem specializing in military culture content. PsychArmor offers an online e-learning laboratory with custom training options for organizations.
Producer and Host Duane France is a retired Army Noncommissioned Officer, combat veteran, and clinical mental health counselor for service members, veterans, and their families. You can find more about the work that he is doing at www.veteranmentalhealth.com
