Hello and welcome to Giving Ventures, a show to help you grow your giving and change the world for the better.

Our conversations with social entrepreneurs and generous philanthropists highlight innovative charitable efforts and smart ways to have more impact with your giving.

I'm your host, Peter Lipset, Vice President at Donors

Trust. This show is a production of Donors Trust, the oldest and largest donor advised fund

focused on serving conservative and libertarian donors of all capacities to simplify, protect,

and grow their giving. My colleagues and I talk with a lot of groups doing great work.

With Giving Ventures, we can share a bit of what we learn with you.

There is a Hall of Fame for just about everything in this country.

I mean, we all know about the big things, baseballs, Hall of Fame in Cooperstown,

football in Canton, Ohio, college football

in Atlanta, basketball, NASCAR, hockey.

They all have them.

Down in North Carolina where I go to the beach, there is the Shag dancing Hall of Fame.

I've not gone there, maybe one day, but everything has a Hall of Fame.

But where is the Hall of Fame celebrating the inventors, the creators, the entrepreneurs that have made America so great?

Well, there isn't one yet.

However, the great social entrepreneur I am going to talk to today is on the path to creating just exactly that.

John Tillman is known to some of you listening

for his longtime leadership at the Illinois Policy Institute,

a great free market think tank in a very tough state,

doing really important work.

He's also been founding or reviving other organizations

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