The ARPA for Philanthropy: Kumar Garg on Funding 'Big If True' Ideas in Science and Tech
After spending time in the Obama White House, Kumar Garg came away with a toolset of skills to help drive change, spotlight good ideas and scale them. Now he’s applying those ideas to philanthropy. As the co-founders of Renaissance Philanthropy, Kumar and Tom Kalil have built an organization around a deceptively simple idea: What if philanthropy could help scientists, technologists, and innovators think bigger — and then actually fund the work at the scale required?
Kumar and Claudia dive into:
Renaissance Philanthropy’s approach: time bound and thesis driven funding
How Kumar would spend…
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