140. Love Has No Limits: How to Organize + Mobilize Volunteers to Do the Most Good - Dominic Russo
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Overview
Meet Dominic. He's a humanitarian and innovator, and he knows how to mobilize massive audiences toward good. At the age of 20, he founded Missions.Me and began organizing strategic outreach campaigns in cities across Latin America. Today, his Love Has No Limits grassroots org has an audacious goal: calling all to be part of the greatest display of love Southern California has ever experienced through volunteer efforts addressing homelessness, poverty and other crippling community issues. Learn how to inspire and mobilize rabid fans, or join the Love Has No Limits event this month!
Today’s Guest
Dominic Russo, Founder, Missions.Me, 1Nation1Day, and Love Has No Limits
“I think that’s for every every philanthropist, humanitarian nonprofit, or just person wanting to do good. If you can find the people that are already doing something and not think that you have to reinvent all of it. And just bring those pieces together and bring scale to it. It’s incredible the impact you can make.”
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Episode Highlights
Dominic’s story and journey to where he is today (2:00)
Dreaming big: how Dominic followed his calling to dream big and impact nations (6:00)
Overview of Love Has No Limits (10:00)
How the pandemic expanded their mission (15:00)
Overview of the 7 initiatives of Love Has No Limits (18:00)
A powerful moment of philanthropy in Dominic’s life (35:00)
Dominic’s One Good Thing: Pursue your unique purpose with everything you have.
Powerful quotes
“The journey really began in the dorm room as a junior in college, and really just convinced that this is what my life's purpose was about helping people in developing nations specifically. And as time would go on, I would discover that it was not just for people in developing nations, but even people here and our own nation in America.” -Dominic
“Another thing I've learned in the journey is the clearer my vision, the more magnetic my life becomes.” -Dominic
“We didn't want to give the president an obscure target, we wanted to very clearly identify what the vision was what the project could look like, and paint a picture of what this collaboration could produce. And and he saw it, he believed in it, recognizing the desperate state of the nation. He went all in and, and we had an unbelievable result.” -Dominic
“In every nation, we've worked, there's always been a unifying narrative, a crisis, the whole country was facing together, that regardless of our differences, we could all agree this has to change.” -Dominic
“We can all agree that, that that severe shutdown and global pain and disease, these were all things that the world was facing together. And that was an opportunity for us to all inject hope and life and a new narrative together.” -Dominic
“And when we when we did the data dive, what we discovered was some a lot of nonprofits are are trying to address the homelessness crisis or trying to address human trafficking crisis or violence or incarceration issues. And what they realize what they're doing is they're trying to attack the worst of the fruit without identifying the root what is what is causing some of the greatest challenges for for the most vulnerable in our communities.” -Dominic
“When we discovered that 40% of people that age out of the foster care system, will be homeless within the first two years. And we discovered that 56% of girls that age out when they turn 21, they will be a single parent with no partner. When we discovered that, some some statistics, some data proves that 70% of all incarcerated individuals spent time in foster care, we begin to recognize that these vulnerable kids are are facing the greatest challenge.” -Dominic
“I think that's for every every philanthropist, humanitarian nonprofit, or just person wanting to do good. If you can find the people that are already doing something and not think that you have to reinvent all of it. And just bring those pieces together and bring scale to it. It's it's incredible the impact you can make.” -Dominic
The Love Has No Limits team is mobilizing 20,000 team members from across America and Southern California to join the team to serve and love LA for a full week, July 18-24, 2021. Practical, youth, sports, homeless, and medical outreaches will cover every corner of LA for a historic impact. Then on July 24, 2021 we will gather for a moment together in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to celebrate 1 year of LOVE HAS NO LIMITS.
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