{"id":5845,"date":"2025-12-18T13:15:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/?p=5845"},"modified":"2025-12-21T21:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:35:14","slug":"raksha-bhayana-philanthrothink-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/2025\/raksha-bhayana-philanthrothink-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Raksha Bhayana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/12\/Raksha1600-768x368.png); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Raksha Bhayana\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                    \n\n<p>Podcast Episode 2, Season 2<\/p>\n\n\n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/12\/Raksha-Bhayana-and-Madan-Bhayana-with-their-children-Samir-Bhayana-and-Nina-Bhayana500.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5851\" style=\"width:575px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/12\/Raksha-Bhayana-and-Madan-Bhayana-with-their-children-Samir-Bhayana-and-Nina-Bhayana500.png 500w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2025\/12\/Raksha-Bhayana-and-Madan-Bhayana-with-their-children-Samir-Bhayana-and-Nina-Bhayana500-320x328.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Raksha Bhayana and Madan Bhayana with their children, Samir Bhayana and Nina Bhayana.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A Future Built on Recognition at the <a href=\"https:\/\/bhayanafoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bhayana Family Foundation<\/a>,&#8221; Episode 2, Season 2, of our <em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">PhilanthroThink Podcast<\/em>, features Raksha Bhayana (CEO and Co-founder of the Foundation). She tells the MPNL hosts, Megan Skivington and Fengwen Yu, about who gets recognized in the nonprofit sector \u2014 and who usually doesn\u2019t &#8212; and about her early career in social work and her family\u2019s values that led the Foundation on celebrating frontline nonprofit workers across Canada through partnerships with United Way Centraide Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also discusses the advocacy behind nonprofit appreciation initiatives in Nova Scotia, Ontario and BC, and how her adult children help to shape what&#8217;s next. Volunteering was always part of how Raksha raised her two children. In the early days, that meant time spent in seniors\u2019 homes and supporting people experiencing homelessness in Toronto. As the Foundation grew, they attended events and edited Raksha\u2019s speeches, offering feedback that made messages more relevant to younger audiences. Now, they\u2019re advising and helping to decide the next phase of the Foundation, including recognizing frontline workers in hospital emergency departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/nKMqCI28680\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube video <\/a>with Raksha (below), or listen on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/a-future-built-on-recognition-at-the-bhayana\/id1801197310?i=1000741823609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/78nRKAwez4Em9q8zn35UeS?si=PwVk93GdTVO9ni3j547q5g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">Thank you to IG Private Wealth Management for a grant to make the PhilanthroThink Podcast series possible.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Future Built on Recognition at the Bhayana Family Foundation\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nKMqCI28680?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/hdJ0J5\">Sign up for PANL Perspectives, our free, monthly newsletter.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A Future Built on Recognition at the Bhayana Family Foundation,&#8221; Episode 2, Season 2, of our PhilanthroThink Podcast, features Raksha Bhayana (CEO and Co-founder of the Foundation). 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