Re: If you had $100 billion to give away, how would you spend it?

Description: Tilghman says that if she has $100 billion to give away, she would first research what philanthropic investments have worked and go from there.

Transcript: I don’t know how I would spend $100 billion if I had to give it away today. I think, in fact, one of the most interesting things that is happening in the area of particularly global philanthropy, is that there is a stepping back and asking of what we have done in the past, how much of it has actually made a difference. In other words, how to use resources to actually make progress. I think there are real questions in my own mind having lived in Africa for example, how much of the kind of foreign aid that has been invested in that continent has really helped in the slightest to improve conditions in that continent. So I would probably begin by trying to understand as much as possible the kind of philanthropic injections that have worked and the ones that have failed, and then follow accordingly.

Recorded on: 8/7/07