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On GPF 2011’s opening day, Jeff Raikes of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation reminded us that successful philanthropy takes not only a strategic focus and leveraging of core competencies, but also great partnerships. This is one of the new fundamentals we are exploring at GPF 2011: aligning philanthropic investments to achieve greater impact.

Filed in Blog Topics: Climate Change, Jeff Raikes, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Brizio Biondi-Morra, Sally Osberg, Amazon rainforest, aligning philanthropic investments, Ruth Levine, evaluation methods

This afternoon, on the opening day of the 10th anniversary Global Philanthropy Forum, I had the pleasure of speaking in conversation with Jeff Raikes, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Among its many tremendous contributions, the Gates Foundation has been an intellectual leader when it comes to measurement and evaluation, or M&E.

Filed in Blog Topics: Philanthropy, global health, M&E, measurement and evaluation, Global Philanthropy Forum, Jeff Raikes, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, data, Guinea Worm, The Carter Center, public health