355. Building Community Around the World: Meet A Child’s Hope Foundation - Cameron Outlaw

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Nov 25

Written By Andie Murphy

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This episode is part of Community Week, a celebration of the radical connections and community of belonging exploding here at We Are For Good.

Meet Cameron. He’s the Director of Global Partnerships at A Child's Hope Foundation, an org existing to break the cycle of poverty and trauma for orphaned and vulnerable children 🙌He recognizes there’s no magic cure to solving complex global problems, and he’s passionate about asset-based community development, collaboration, empowerment, and education. We’re fortunate enough to see this playout first-hand in the We Are For Good Community where he spearheads our Community channel for International Development 🌎Don’t miss this convo that’s centered around worldwide belonging and relationship-building🥰

Today’s Guest

Cameron Outlaw, Director of Global Partnerships, A Child's Hope Foundation

“People need to belong in order to believe that they belong.”

— Cameron Outlaw, Director of Global Partnerships, A Child's Hope Foundation

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Episode Highlights

Cameron’s story and journey to where he is today (3:30)
Overview of A Child’s Hope Foundation (10:30)
What makes a dynamic partnership (16:45)
We Are For Good International Community Subgroup (24:00)
Trends Cameron’s seeing in international development (27:00)
What community means to Cameron (31:50)
A powerful moment of philanthropy in Cameron’s life (36:25)
Cameron’s One Good Thing: Invest in the culture you're creating with consistent and effective inputs (40:20)
How to connect with Cameron and A Child’s Hope Foundation (42:45)

Powerful quotes

“My two words that I think will be banners for the rest of my life are connection and belonging.” -Cameron

“We are here to get the results we want in this world because it's necessary. The quality of people's lives are at stake if we don't do this.” -Cameron

“We recognize that a lot of orphanages if we're actually going to move the needle forward, are going to need a lot of coaching and partnership. They don't need me to do it for them.” -Cameron

“People who are doing good, don't need less resources, they need more resources.” -Cameron

“People need to belong in order to believe that they belong.” -Cameron

“I don't think that you give dignity to people. You can only raise awareness that their dignity already exists. I as a person can't take away somebody's dignity, I can only champion it, or smudge it.” -Cameron

“I want to be a champion of people's dignity. You can do that daily by having meaningful conversations, short snippets, a minute, two minutes, a high five, whatever, that recognize their humanity. And, you can do that in large ways by even thinking structurally of how the processes or systems of your organization are working together.” -Cameron