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About Us
Our Mission
To support emerging nonprofit leaders by providing the knowledge, tools, and network they need to build strong, sustainable organizations that make a real difference.
Our Co-Founder: Mammad Mahmoodi
Mammad Mahmoodi is an economist, community builder, and tech entrepreneur based in New York City. He co-founded Ondamove, a platform connecting users to local services and events. He co-founded and served as the Executive Director at Open Data Science Inc., the world’s largest AI and data science global conference company that is a foundation in the world of AI.
In the tech world, Mammad also developed the ODSC X AI app, helping users navigate sessions and connect in real time.
He’s also the co-founder of EVLovesNYC, a volunteer-driven non-profit that began during the pandemic to support the other food insecurity nonprofits by providing meals to those in need across NYC. What started as an emergency response grew into a vibrant, collaborative mutual aid network serving hundreds of thousands in NYC. EVLovesNYC started in food but expanded to immigration, housing, basic necessities and education too.
His work has been featured in the New York Times, ABC News, CBS news, TIME Magazine, Forbes and numerous other outlets underscoring his unique blend of social impact and technological innovation. He also has served as a mentor on multiple tech incubators as well as teaching Entrepreneurship at NYU Stern Business School.
GoodConnect is a natural extension of his life’s work—formalizing years of informal mentorship and support he’s provided to individuals with missions to do good. With his network of changemakers, experience across sectors, and deep commitment to community, Mammad is building the support system he wishes existed when he first started his own non-profit.
Our Co-Founder:
Sasha Allenby
Sasha Allenby is dedicated to creating a world of socio-economic equality where all human beings have access to the resources that they need to enable them to thrive. Growing up in an industrial town in the north of England, Sasha saw firsthand the impacts of inequality on community, and made a decision early on to contribute to creating a fairer and more just world.
During the global pandemic while New York was in lockdown, Sasha co-founded EVLovesNYC: a non-profit to address the increase in food insecurity brought on by the COVID-19. Sasha was awarded New Yorker of the Week by NY1 news channel for her work on this project. She appeared in a documentary about tackling food insecurity in New York alongside politician and activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), and was featured in the award winning documentary Roads of Fire about the asylum seekers “crisis” in NYC.
Earlier on in her career, Sasha co-author a book in the field of emotional trauma which was published in around 20 languages globally. She taught thousands of people all around the world how to overcome trauma, and the methods she developed are widely used in the National Health Service in the UK, and by institutions globally around the world.
She also wrote a book called Catalyst: Speaking, Writing and Leading for Social Evolution, which was a bestseller in the field of creating messages for social change.
As well as writing 5 books of her own, Sasha has ghostwritten and co-written over 50 non-fiction books for some of the most profound thought-leaders of our time in the field of spirituality and human consciousness, helping leaders to articulate profound messages that make a deep impact in the world.
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