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Pod#135 - All About The Citizen's Foundation (TCF) feat. Hasan Ali

17 Jan 2022

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Finally, we return! Back with our first episode of the new year, this one's a in-depth look at one of Pakistan's most well known charitable organizations, TCF! Shot LIVE in Karachi (s/o to Kazi for opening up his space for us), we sit down with Syed Hasan Ali who is Head of Global Partnerships at the organization. Hasan talks about how he found his way to TCF, how the organization came to be, the work they do, and the effort being put into the future. Great chat! Things discussed in this episode: 00:00 Intro 04:00 How and why the episode came about 06:31 Hasan’s own education - Agha Khan College & LUMS 14:22 Hasan finds his way to TCF - jobs along the way & his current role 19:03 TCF origin story - the original idea and how it was first set up 26:30 Pakistan’s education emergency - What is TCF even trying to fix? TCF’s operations 30:55 Flagship Model - Finding land to build schools, class setup, finding teachers 41:30 What is the donor relationship like and what forms of donations are there? 45:46 Quality Control at TCF - principal assessments, teacher re-training, KPIs TCF’s future 53:52 Strategy 2030 - Introducing new models, new targets, govt liaisons, schools for teens, publishing their own books 1:04:45 Alumni counselling, starting colleges 1:10:23 Mother-tongue based education - schools in local languages 1:17:33 Play-based education for young children, writing their own storybooks 1:20:47 TCF’s digital ops - raising $1M annually, digital marketing 1:23:23 How working in TCF has impacted Hasan personally, schools commodifying education 1:28:30 Why TCF is a “difficult product” for people to support vs other charities 1:36:52 Outro & closing thoughts LINKS: The TCF website: https://www.tcf.org.pk/ Support the podcast by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/tprpod) or send a one-off token on Ko-fi (https://ko-fi.com/tprpod)! Find all our previous episodes on SoundCloud, Spotify & Apple Podcasts and follow us all on Twitter! Links to everything below! SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/tprpod Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6PvTahp... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tprpod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TPRPod Ali: https://twitter.com/themaholupper Rizwan: https://twitter.com/RizwanTakkhar Sarkhail: https://twitter.com/Sarkhail7Khan

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3ª PARTE | 17 DIC 2025 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

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3ª PARTE | 17 DIC 2025 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

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