
Kumar Garg: How philanthropy can fuel scientific innovation
What if we reimagined philanthropy not as a slow, bureaucratic process but as a dynamic engine for innovation?
Kumar Garg, founder of Renaissance Philanthropy and former White House advisor, offers a compelling vision for how philanthropic capital can flow more effectively toward solving the world's biggest challenges.
Drawing from eight years of experience in the Obama White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) and his subsequent work with Eric Schmidt, Kumar says there's a fundamental disconnect in how philanthropy approaches edge-case science and technology.
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