How to solve the world’s biggest problems with Natalie Cargill

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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To get a free copy of the Infectious Generosity book, visit ted.com/generosity

What if the world’s biggest problems could be solved with just some simple math? Natalie Cargill, the founder of strategic giving consultancy Longview Philanthropy, works on finding funding for the most impactful solutions to global issues. In an exciting chat, Natalie and Chris talk about the numbers on what it takes to solve extreme poverty, how to prevent the next pandemic and what kind of money it takes to mitigate other risks to our planet.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	Hello,
0:09.0	Hello everyone, Hello everyone, Chris Anderson here.
0:14.1	Welcome back to the TED interview.
0:16.8	The season, we've been delving deep into all aspects of generosity,
0:21.2	which I've come to believe is the single most crucial idea we're spreading in our
0:26.0	modern world. I wrote a book about it called Infectious Generosity and thanks to the generosity of
0:32.1	a donor in the TED community, you can claim your own free copy of the book by going to Ted.com slash generosity.
0:40.0	Now, today we're focusing on the potential for financial giving, and I have a super ambitious
0:46.9	goal for this episode, namely to actually get you excited about philanthropy. Not necessarily your own philanthropy, though that would be lovely, but
0:56.7	more just rethinking the role that philanthropy could and should play in our world. Now I have the perfect guess for this. She has been a
1:06.3	key thought partner for me in thinking about philanthropy's potential and her work is at the
1:11.9	core of what many readers have described as the most exciting chapter in the book, and for good reason.
1:17.0	So I'm really pleased to introduce you to Natalie Cargill.
1:21.0	She's the founder of the Strategic Giving Consultancy Longview
1:26.1	philanthropy. She works with wealthy individuals from professional poker players to
1:31.0	CEOs to plan and execute their giving plans.
1:35.7	And a few years ago, she embarked on a truly remarkable research project into what problems
1:41.3	we could solve if we gave philanthropy its best shot.
1:46.1	Last year she gave a wonderful TED Talk outlining that work and I can't wait to discuss it with
1:51.6	her now.
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