CEO of RIP Medical Debt Talks About Innovation and Debt Cancellation

In the fourth episode of Season 3 of the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s Giving Done Right podcast, hosts Phil Buchanan and Grace Nicolette are joined by Allison Sesso, president and CEO of the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt, whose debt cancellation efforts have relieved Americans of over $7 billion of debt. Sesso discusses the enormous stigma and burden of medical debt in the United States and provides insight into her organization’s innovative model. She also pushes back on the idea that the nonprofit sector is stagnant and lacks inventiveness and talks about her organization’s $50 million gift from MacKenzie Scott.

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