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Good Fit CareersVichi Jagannathan - Co-Founder of the Rural Opportunity InstituteVichi Jagannathan, co-founder of the Rural Opportunity Institute, sits down with Ryan to walk through her path from Princeton, Stanford, and Yale to co-founding the Rural Opportunity Institute (ROI) focused on focused on trauma informed education in Rural North Carolina.Connect with Vichi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vichij/Learn More about the Rural Opportunity InstituteWebsite: www.ruralopportunity.orgInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ruralopportunityLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ruralopportunityinstitute
2024-08-071h 09
Nonprofit Nation with Julia CampbellHow to Center Communities in Social Change with Vichi JagannathanHave you heard of human-centered design? It is built on the idea that people who experience a challenge are best suited to solve it. More recently, human-centered design has been adapted to solve problems that have nothing to do with technology. For example, school districts often use variations of the approach to redesign schools, engaging students, parents, and teachers as the “expert users” who know what’s needed for an optimal learning environment. Social entrepreneurs use it to design ways to alleviate poverty.My guest today is Vichi Jagannathan, Co-founder & Executive Director of the Rural Opportunity Institute. Rural...
2024-01-1038 min
Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership231: Leadership Reimagined: Letting Your Community Take the Lead (Vichi Jagannathan)231: Leadership Reimagined: Letting Your Community Take the Lead (Vichi Jagannathan)SUMMARYAre you a mission-driven leader in the nonprofit sector with more passion than answers? Vichi Jagannathan was one such leader, and in episode #231 of Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership, she shares what it means to let your community take the lead and provide the answers you need as the nonprofit leader. Vichi explains how building on design thinking ideas from across...
2023-10-1249 min
Service Driven Life | Nonprofit and Service Based Business Growth68: Creating a Grassroots Organization w/Vichi Jagannathan
In 2017, Vichi co-founded Rural Opportunity Institute (ROI). ROI builds the capacity of rural communities to support people’s healing from generational trauma to achieve health, safety, connection, and self-determination. Based in rural Eastern North Carolina, ROI has grown from a small, grassroots effort to an influential organization that impacts more than 20,000 people in 15 states. ROI’s innovative approach has captured the interest of national state funders including New Profit and the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust.
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2023-10-0537 min
Volunteer Nation77. Engaging Communities in Social Change with Vichi JagannathanIn this episode, Tobi has a fascinating discussion on engaging communities in social change with Vichi Jagannathan. Vichi shares her personal journey and experiences in working towards social change in rural communities, specifically in eastern North Carolina. Full show notes: 077. Engaging Communities in Social Change with Vichi JagannathanThanks for listening to this episode of the Volunteer Nation podcast. If you enjoyed it, please be sure to subscribe, rate, and review so we can reach more people like you who want to improve the impact of their good cause. For more tips and notes f...
2023-09-281h 01
small business | BIG ImpactLike a Boss, with Vichi Jagannathan of Rural Opportunities InstituteVichi Jagannathan is the Co-Founder of the Rural Opportunity Institute (ROI). She started her career as a high school science teacher in North Carolina, before spending two years expanding Microsoft’s TEALS computer science education program into California. Then she worked with the design firm IDEO to develop “Real Talk,” a mobile sex education app with over 10,000 downloads. After graduating from Yale School of Management with her MBA in 2017, she co-founded Rural Opportunity Institute (ROI) with Seth Saeugling.ROI builds the capacity of rural communities to support people’s healing from generational trauma to achieve health, safety, connection, and self-determination. To date...
2023-08-0235 min
The Hummingbird StoriesEp. 3 - “Chop wood, carry wood” featuring Seth Saeugling and Vichi JagannathanIn this episode, Donnell and Jenny talk to Seth Saeugling and Vichi Jagannathan. Seth and Vichi are the cofounders of the Rural Opportunities Institute, which supports local agencies and organizations in understanding their role in creating healing from trauma. They also help organizations design and pilot new policies and practices that lead to healing and reimagine policies that may have caused trauma and harm. In this conversation, we dive into the impact of trauma and the ways in which we can all pursue pathways to healing.
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2020-11-3049 min