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52 Faces of Community<\/a> is a Fort Worth Report weekly series spotlighting local unsung heroes. It is sponsored by Central Market<\/a>, H-E-B<\/a> and JPS Health Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n At the end of the year, these rarely recognized heroes will gather for a luncheon where the Report will announce one honoree to represent Tarrant County at the Jefferson Awards in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n That mindset \u2014 one learned over his lifetime and applied only recently to running \u2014 led to him completing dozens of marathons, he\u2019s lost count of exactly how many, since 2021, and raising over $200,000 for various charities.<\/p>\n \u201cCompare your yesterday with today: Is it better?\u201d said Joshi, a senior vice president in corporate banking at Hancock Whitney Bank<\/a>. \u201cMy pursuit is to make my tomorrow better than today. Not somebody else\u2019s today.\u201d<\/p>\n ENJOY READING THE NEWS AGAIN<\/strong><\/p>\n Discover refreshing, nonpartisan<\/strong> reporting on stories happening in your backyard.<\/p>\n Joshi\u2019s passion and commitment to running for a good cause earned him recognition in 52 Faces of Community<\/a>, Fort Worth Report\u2019s weekly series highlighting unsung heroes.<\/p>\n Heart of philanthropy, Nepalese roots<\/p>\n Joshi spent his childhood in rural western Nepal in an area torn by civil war. At 18, working as a journalist for state-sponsored media reporting on the war, he started taking in and sheltering children who had lost their parents in the conflict.<\/p>\n He didn\u2019t have much, but he knew a wide network of people in Nepal. With their help, he was able to house, feed and educate the children until they found other caretakers.<\/p>\n \u201cAt one point, I was a \u2018virgin dad\u2019 with 100 kids,\u201d Joshi said with a smile, citing what a local news article said about him at the time.<\/p>\n His main takeaway from his early philanthropic pursuits? Bringing other people joy in turn brings him joy, he said.<\/p>\n In 2005, Joshi had to flee to the U.S. from a militia group seeking his life. He spent the next few years helping relocate affected Nepalese children from overseas, and eventually became more involved in philanthropy in the U.S.<\/p>\n He\u2019s on the board of directors for United Way of Tarrant County, works with the Irving Healthcare Foundation, and is on the board for Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Irving.<\/p>\n \u201cAny time that I have extra time, I try to give back through charity work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Leah King, former president and CEO of United Way of Tarrant County who serves on the Tarrant Regional Water District board, said Joshi is a \u201cvery community-minded, focused individual\u201d as a United Way board member.<\/p>\n Know an unsung hero in Tarrant County?<\/p>\n Tell us about them by filling out the form below. <\/p>\n \u201cHe does marathons more than most people I know would ever dream,\u201d she said. \u201cHe almost always does it in honor of a particular cause. He has a foundation called One Step Foundation that supports other organizations that support folks in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c(Joshi) is just very focused on helping others and spends a tremendous amount of time when he\u2019s not working to really focus on making sure that people are able to do better for themselves,\u201d King said.<\/p>\n Joshi, King said, is a valuable board member because he was \u201calways the person to remind us who we\u2019re working on behalf of.\u201d<\/p>\n After Joshi\u2019s friend introduced him to running, he ran about 20 marathons before hitting the point of \u201cwhat\u2019s next?\u201d in 2024.<\/p>\n \u201cDo I just keep adding more marathons, or do I make something useful out of it?\u201d Joshi recalled asking himself.<\/p>\n He committed to running the Everest Marathon, an intense, high-altitude race starting at Everest Base Camp \u2014 17,598 feet above sea level. Working through the One Step Foundation<\/a> for that race, he raised $42,000 for health, child welfare and heritage preservation efforts in Nepal.\u00a0<\/p>\n After that, he committed to attaching every athletic event he\u2019s involved in to a charity.<\/p>\n \u201c(Joshi) is just very focused on helping others and spends a tremendous amount of time when he\u2019s not working to really focus on making sure that people are able to do better for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n Leah King, former president and CEO of United Way of Tarrant County and current Tarrant Regional Water District board member.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In late June, Joshi and his teenage children hiked Mount Kilimanjaro, a 19,000-foot climb. All three worked to raise $19,000 for HIV-affected children in orphanages across Tanzania, where the mountain is located.<\/p>\n \u201cRunning is the passion. Philanthropy is the purpose,\u201d Joshi said. \u201cI\u2019m using those two to support other people.\u201d<\/p>\n Through both, he hopes to inspire others to run and devote more of their spare time to helping others, he said, knowing that, in turn, they will be rewarded with satisfaction.\u00a0<\/p>\n He feels modern culture is too individualistic and finds that harmful to every individual.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe are just minding our own business and not even knowing what\u2019s going on with our neighbors, but everybody\u2019s doing that. Can we be a little better than that?\u201d he said. \u201cWe cannot help everyone, but everyone can help someone \u2014 that\u2019s not me, some wise person said that a long time ago.\u201d<\/p>\n Now Joshi spends his spare time training for more intense races, expanding his philanthropic works and thinking about how he could turn his story into a book that could help others once he\u2019s gone.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s nothing fancy about my life,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just that I was born in a family where helping other people was the most important thing, and that\u2019s exactly what I try to teach my kids.\u201d<\/p>\n Drew Shaw is a government accountability reporter for the Fort Worth Report. Contact him at drew.shaw@fortworthreport.org<\/a> or @shawlings601<\/a>.<\/p>\n Senior business reporter Eric E. Garcia contributed.<\/p>\n At the Fort Worth Report, news decisions are made independently of our board members and financial supporters. 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