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On Air: Team Speaking Engagements

July 31, 2025: Our Board Chair, Dan Weingartz, joined the BLTnT Podcast. You can hear their discussion about International Samaritan, starting at 33 minutes into the episode.

Dan Weingartz

Detroit, Michigan

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Epiphany Podcast - Ave Maria Radio

by Epiphany Host: Vanessa Denha Garmo

May 1, 2025: Our President, Mike Tenbusch, dropped by the studio at Ave Maria Radio to chat about International Samaritan.

Mike Tenbusch

President

USA

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If you’d like to have a member of our team speak at your next event, send us an email at communications@intsam.org.

About Dan Weingartz

Dan is a partner in a successful, third-generation family-owned business.  He is passionate about the important role of small business in our economy and in people’s lives and is proud to say that his family has been successful in the difficult task of running a business and still staying very close personally.  Their business focuses on sales, parts and service of outdoor power equipment – from chainsaws to mowers to 100-HP loaders. Their primary customers are homeowners, landscapers, golf courses, rental yards, cemeteries and municipal organizations.  Outside of the family business, Dan is involved in many charitable causes and organizations.

Mike Tenbusch
President & CEO

A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, Mike co-founded Think Detroit with Dan Varner in 1997, which was named Crain’s Detroit Business Best-Managed Non-Profit in 2004 and merged with Detroit PAL in 2006. After serving on Detroit’s school board, Mike then led an effort at the United Way for Southeastern Michigan to move graduation rates from less than 60% to 80% or higher in the region’s most historically challenged high schools. He also served as the founding executive director of the SAY Detroit Play Center and interim CEO of the Detroit Parent Network. He is the author of The Jonathan Effect: Helping Kids and Schools Win the Battle Against Poverty, called a “moving, inspiring and important book” by bestselling author Dan Heath. Since 2019, Mike has led International Samaritan, a Christ-centered organization whose mission is to walk hand-in-hand with people who live and work in the garbage dumps of developing nations to help them break out of poverty. International Samaritan provides holistic scholarships for students from kindergarten through college, currently supporting nearly 1,000 scholars in Central America, the Caribbean, and East Africa. Mike and his wife, Maritza, have three children: Grace, Julia, and Jacob.

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