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 take the same focus as devising the next great widget.

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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 Stanford, and use those skills and try to think of the project that you're doing and put the same skills and attention to fixing that problem as you would to running a business. The world's a little topsy-turvy. Sometimes, our best and brightest go into business instead of into philanthropy. My hope is that we'll be able to change that balance just a little bit by the work that we're doing.

1. Strategic Philanthropy
2. Hunting for the Right Cause
3. A New Breed of Entrepreneur
4. Google.org's Five Core Initiatives
5. Unreliable Donations
6. Recruiting More .Org's

Larry Brilliant lectures on Entrepreneurship for Stanford University students, May 14, 2008. Dr. Larry Brilliant is the Executive Director of Google.org, where he leads major initiatives aimed at reducing global poverty, improving the health of the least advantaged in the world, and working to halt the effects of the climate crisis. In this Stanford lecture, he talks about hunting for the right cause and Google.org's five core initiatives.



Course Details:

- Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lectures

- Stanford University's Entrepreneurship Corner (ecorner)



Original Course Name: Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lectures