"If you want to do good, make money." Po-Shen Loh, a social entrepreneur and Carnegie Mellon math professor who coached the US Math Olympiad team for a decade, learned this from a philanthropist he’d approached for a donation. The answer: don’t ask for money, make it, then use it to do good. He’d already seen the trap: if you lose money on every person you help, you stay dependent on philanthropy forever. Impact without sustainability doesn’t last. So for 10 years, he’s been building situations where, in his words, "2+2=5," in which everyone involved comes out ahead. And he finally…
Sunday, July 26
