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Denver Frederick is the Host of The Business of Giving. The program is the only show of its kind that focuses on solutions to today's complex social problems. What's working? Who are the changemakers? How is it all being financed?
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What If Philanthropy Funded Capability Instead of Reputation? (opens the original)
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For decades, philanthropy has chased the illusion of certainty, funding polished proposals while starving the quiet, trusted organizations actually doing the work on the ground. My next guest has spent a career trying to rewrite those rules. David Bonbright pioneered Constituent Voice—putting the people closest to a problem directly into the decisions of how to solve it. Now, through Keystone Accountability and DeepFathom , he is proposing something even more radical: shifting the social sector
Why Ultra-Wealthy Giving Lags Behind Ambition (opens the original)
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Most philanthropists want to do more good, faster, than they actually do. My next guest has spent twenty-five years inside that gap, watching enormous wealth sit still even as donors say they want it moving. Jeffrey Bradach co-founded The Bridgespan Group and recently wrote an essay called Slow Philanthropy , Why giving by the ultra-wealthy often lags behind their ambitions—and what could help move money faster. What he found were small frictions, quiet allergies to failure and waste, and a stra
The Secret Sauce is Love (opens the original)
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Most mentoring programs ask for a year, maybe two, and rely on volunteers who come and go. My next guest built something almost radical by comparison: a paid, professional mentor for every child, for at least twelve years, no matter what. Terri Sorensen leads Friends of the Children , which selects some of the most vulnerable four- to six-year-olds in the country—kids facing foster care, homelessness, and deep poverty—and pairs each one with a mentor who stays for their entire childhood, tested
Who Gets to Build What’s Next? (opens the original)
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Many companies that survive their first year have something working quietly in the background: an early check from a parent or a well-off friend. My guest today leads an organization for founders who never had that check.. Shawna Young is the CEO of Camelback Ventures , a New Orleans accelerator that puts fifty thousand dollars, and a community, behind early-stage founders whom traditional capital routinely overlooks. A chemist by training and a former science teacher, she thinks hard about who
The Cancer Treatments Hiding in Plain Sight (opens the original)
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There is a strange injustice sitting on pharmacy shelves. Some of the drugs there, already approved, already cheap, may hold real power against cancer. Not after another decade of trials. Now. The evidence often already exists. What doesn’t exist is anyone with a financial reason to bring it forward. My guest built her organization to close that gap. Dr. Laura Kleiman ran a data science center at Dana-Farber when her own mother was diagnosed with cancer there, and kept finding promising resear
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