Nuru International is a young start-up non profit fighting extreme poverty in the developing world one community at a time through training and empowerment with the goal to equip the poor to become the answers to their own problems. Suite 101 recently profiled Nuru in From Fighting Terrorism to Fighting Extreme Poverty. CEO Jake Harriman was available for an exclusive interview with Suite101.
Q What are the top three to five challenges you are facing right now and how do you plan to overcome them?
JH From a business perspective, as a young start up, we are constantly trying to get the word out about Nuru in order to attract both financial and human capital to help us scale our programs more quickly on the ground. Secondly, raising funding in a down economy is another challenge. We recently created a new diversified funding strategy to help hedge against down cycles in the economy. We are committed to creating high quality media to show funders the impact of their donations in a concrete, tangible way.
On a human level, we witness new friends and partners on the ground in our communities lose loved ones as they fight daily for the survival and future of their families. This fight against extreme poverty is an all out war, and the urgency to prevent continued needless loss of life motivates and inspires me and my team to press on relentlessly in this fight to innovate and overcome.
Q Donor fatigue seems to be a big issue in the non profit world, what are your thoughts about that?
JH Donor fatigue happens when donors indiscriminately give money because they are overwhelmed. I encourage donors to do their homework and find models that are sustainable with scalable gains in the fight against extreme poverty. Those are initiatives that are committed to empowering individuals to change their own lives in ways that transform families and communities permanently - not providing relief for a week, a month, or a year...but for generations.
It is the donor’s responsibility to do some research and fund an organization that is making a lasting difference, hold them accountable and stick with them for the long haul. You don't have to do everything...just do something and stick with it.
Q What are the differences between domestic non profits and charities looking to serve a community internationally (e.g. Africa)?
JH Both are needed, but domestic nonprofits face very different challenges international ventures. The key difference is to learn to see the world through the eyes of someone who is suffering extreme poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. A comment I often hear when I speak is, "Why should I try and help the poor in far away countries? There's plenty of poverty right here for us to address on our own soil." That is, indeed, a true statement. Poverty certainly exists in the US. Extreme poverty, however, does not.
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