Rajiv Shah on making big bets

Together RI: A Podcast of The Rhode Island Foundation

I first met Rajiv Shah when he was the administrator for USAID under President Obama, where he did extraordinary things all over the world- including leading the US response to the earthquake in Haiti and the West African Ebola pandemic.

Now he’s the President of the Rockefeller Foundation- a global institution devoted to promoting the well-being of humanity around the world. He’s also the author of a new book called Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens. I invited him to launch our conversations about the role of philanthropy in addressing critical community, national, and global challenges because his book made me feel like anything was possible. Learn more about our work at https://rifoundation.org/.