Dec 8, 2020
A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:
My guests on this episode of Talking Taiwan are Gary Reloj and Bonnie Chan, co-founders of the PPE Relief Initiative (PRI). I had Gary on as a guest previously in episode 79, only a couple of months into the COVID-19 pandemic. He talked about his own personal battle with COVID and the PPE Relief Initiative’s crowdfunding campaign. Since then, the PPE Relief Initiative has surpassed its goal of raising $30,000, and has also been selected by GoFundMe to be a featured campaign on their COVID page.
When asked about the mistakes they’ve made and lessons they learned, Gary responded that he’s not afraid of failure and embraces it as long as there’s something that can be learned from it. Gary and Bonnie talked how they’ve tweaked things since phase one of the crowdfunding campaign and shared some of the work productivity tools that PRI uses. Bonnie offered some general advice for people interested in doing crowdfunding for a cause. The two also shared a lot of exciting updates.
Here’s a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:
Related Links:
PPE Relief Initiative’s (PRI) website: https://pperelief.org/
PRI’s social media accounts:
PRI on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ppe.relief/
PRI’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ppe.relief.initiative/
PRI’s LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ppe-relief-initiative/
PPE Relief Initiative’s Go Fund Me crowdfunding campaign: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/every-superhero-needs-armor-ppe-relief-for-healthcare-workers-fighting-covid-19
PPE Relief Initiative’s volunteer page: https://pperelief.org/join-our-team/
Healthcare workers (in New York and New Jersey) who’d like to apply for PPE can STILL do so here: https://pperelief.org/apply
Belinda and Mary (Mother & Daughter share their stories) with PRI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNlmUL6iAMo
The note from healthcare worker KP Mendoza that went viral: https://helphopehonor.org/thank-you-to-our-heroes/kp-mendoza---do-not-call-me-a-hero-listen-to-an-icu-nurses-plea-for-fighting-the-coronavirus.html
PPE Relief Initiative’s YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/channel/UC_ncFI3RKutGY1D6QQL8cow
Recommended websites to recruit volunteers from:
Idealist: https://www.idealist.org/en/
Volunteer Match: https://www.volunteermatch.org/
Productivity tools that PPE Relief Initiative uses:
Workplace: https://www.workplace.com/
Asana: https://asana.com/
Google Drive: https://www.google.com/intl/en_in/drive/
The Promise Society: http://www.thepromisesociety.org/