Hosted by nonprofit coaches Tim Needham and Mary Valloni, each episode of the Start and Grow Your Nonprofit Podcast is designed to bring together nonprofit entrepreneurs who have successfully built impactful organizations from the ground up. Join us as we dive into their journeys, share their insights, and learn how to start and grow a strong, sustainable nonprofit that transforms lives, communities, and the world. In this episode, Tim & Mary sit down with Emily Houser. Emily is the Executive Director of the Smoky Mountain Dream Center, a nonprofit on a mission to meet the needs of women in the Appalachia region by implementing a work-release program to bring female inmates out to the SMDC farm for job training, additional life skills classes, and continued spiritual discipleship. The program is already proving to be beneficial, with more inmates requesting applications for the program daily. For more information about the Smoky Mountain Dream Center, visit https://smokymountaindreamcenter.org/ For more information about the Nonprofit Academy, visit http://startandgrowyournonprofit.com/. To contact Tim, email [email protected]. To contact Mary, email [email protected].