Fw: Q&A with Gates Foundation CEO Jeff Raikes
| "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." George Washington CarverWhat is Social Entrepreneurship?Statement of Faith You can find other "Market with Meaning" but you definitely want to see "Profit with Purpose". I personally "Believe in Kingdom Transformation" because I know there is only ONE "Life for Significant". --- 2010年1月15日 星期五，Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) <info@ssireview.org> 寫道﹕
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Jeff Raikes grew up on his family's 3,000-acre farm near Ashland, Neb. He learned to drive a tractor at age 7, and by age 9 he was working evenings and weekends in the cornfields. He left Nebraska for Stanford University, planning to pursue a career in agricultural policy. Bitten by the high-tech bug, Raikes stayed in Silicon Valley after graduation and joined Apple Computer. After a two-year stint working for Steve Jobs, Raikes ventured north to join Bill Gates at Microsoft. Over the next 28 years Raikes led many important tasks, eventually becoming one of the software giant's top executives. Last fall, Raikes was named CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Raikes didn't have much experience in philanthropy, but he did have Bill Gates' trust. And when you are in charge of spending several billion dollars of the Gateses' money each year, it is essential to have that trust. In this interview with Stanford Social Innovation Review Managing Editor Eric Nee, Raikes discusses the reasons that Bill and Melinda Gates selected him to lead their foundation. He goes on to explain how managing a foundation and managing a business are similar, particularly when it comes to taking risks and investing for the long term. Raikes also talks about why the Gates Foundation increased its grantmaking by close to 10 percent in 2009, even as the foundation's endowment fell. 
Social enterprise crosses borders in the area of education with Enseña Chile, a project without precedent in Latin America that seeks to transform young professionals from different areas into teachers of excellence for the pupils of the country's most vulnerable schools. In this audio interview with Stanford Center for Social Innovation correspondent Sheela Sethuraman, Executive Director Tomás Recart talks about what the organization is doing to create educational change in Chile using the Teach For America model. He discusses how Enseña Chile recruits teachers and evaluates its impact on students, as well as how it is sharing its knowledge with efforts in other Latin American countries. He considers challenges to the program's acceptance in Chile, and offers advice to entrepreneurs interested in starting a social enterprise. 
Three young social entrepreneurs—setting a radical precedent in the social innovation sector—have just announced they will offer up a portion of their future income in exchange for immediate resources to scale their social enterprises. The trio has created a Web site and a name for their request—the 
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