Would you love your name on a plaque, recognising your charitable contributions? Do you donate to causes and charities because helping others improves lives? Giving makes you feel good.

Lucy Bloom knows a thing or two about how charities run.

Lucy is a writer, speaker and consulting CEO who raised an impressive $7million for an international charity, only to have the rug pulled out from under her. Lucy Bloom chatted with Claudia Chan Shaw on Arts Friday about her new memoir “Get the Girls Out”; her charity work in Ethiopia and Cambodia; and love, loss and starting again.