Your Mark On The World

April 17, 2014 - Read the Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://onforb.es/QdFhs7. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwitunes. Robert S. Kaplan, co-chair of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, the largest venture philanthropy firm in the U.S. will join me for a live discussion of the strategies and impact of their approach: treating nonprofits like tech startups. Draper Richards Kaplan (DRK) is the product of venture capitalists William H. Draper and Robin Richards Donohoe, along with Kaplan, a Harvard Business School professor and former Vice Chair of Goldman Sachs. DRK begins by selecting a dozen high-impact startup nonprofits each year, typically giving them $300,000 to develop a model and prove their potential. Upon “graduation” the nonprofits typically begin to scale rapidly, jumping up to an annual budget of $2.5 million thereafter. In addition to startup funding, DRK provides training to help each nonprofit learn best practices in governance, st