Larry Brilliant, Executive Director, Google.org Jane Wales, President and CEO, World Affairs Council and the Global Philanthropy Forum Part of the Global Philanthropy Forum 2007, a project of the World Affairs Council of Northern California.
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A candid conversation with Larry Brilliant about pandemic bird flu, the risks we face, the uncertainties, and to talk about the accuracy and inaccuracies in the mass media. Keywords: Health, Bird Flu, Avian, Google.org, Sensationalism
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And I really am very optimistic because what has happened against this background of all of these grave issues that we face, largely out of Stanford and colleges like Stanford, a new breed of entrepreneurs and philanthropists have emerged; the Pierre Omidyars, the Jeff Skolls, the Mark Benioffs,...
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In addition to dollars, Google.org harnesses the company’s engineering talent to try to make the world fairer, more just, and safer, says the corporate non-profit's Executive Director Larry Brilliant. The company made a decision to dedicate one percent of its profits to global causes. It took 18...
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Young people with mammoth commercial success have bred a new kind of philanthropic entrepreneur, says Google.org’s Executive Director Larry Brilliant. And Brilliant also explains his optimism in smallpox, using it as a case study on a managed disease that once killed half a billion people worldw...
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Larry Brilliant, Executive Director for Google.org, confesses that the company stole the idea for a profit-driven non-profit from Salesforce.com. Brilliant reminds us that only privately-held companies can give their money to charity, but that Google is optimistic about recruiting other large en...
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After a mock trial session to whittle down the most critical causes from an applicant pool of 10,000, Google.org chose just five areas of concentration: renewable energy, plug-in vehicles, prevention of pandemics, famines, and floods, public services for the poor, and job creation. And the organ...
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I’ll tell you a little bit now about our five core initiatives. We started off with those 10,000 ideas. We boiled them down to 900 concrete initiatives, and then we held the equivalent of a mock court which went on for about six months, where anyone who wanted to bring forth an initiative that w...
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So when I got to Google, Larry and Sergei had created this organization called Google.org. They tried to do something new. Instead of making a 501(c)(3), a regular foundation that used tax advantage money, instead, they made a pledge to shareholders that they would put 1% of Google’s equity, 1% ...
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Find something in the world you’re capable of fixing, and use all the skills at your disposal to make it work. Acting for the common good should be as commonplace and as devotional as going into business, says Google.org Executive Director Larry Brilliant. Making the world a better place should ...
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Money that often fuels traditional philanthropic efforts comes from government money or a foundation. But relying on these sources for income is not a sure bet, says Executive Director of Google.org Larry Brilliant. Great causes can lose their financial footing easily, particularly when caught i...
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We talk about strategic philanthropy in a way that’s different than charity and a way that's different than just giving money. It's trying to find something in the world that is wrong or could be better that you can fix, and use all the skills that you're learning right now in school, at Stanfor...
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