President Obama has named Dr. Rajiv Shah to head the embattled US Agency for International Development (USAID). USAID long has been a backwater agency, helmed by hacks and captured by consultants who monetize AID budgets like farmers milking their cows. But Dr. Shah is a different kind of leader, someone with origins far from the Beltway and whose point of view promises a very new approach to development.
The US has benefited from the handiwork of a small group of social entrepreneurs who are caring for the world through action. Dr. Shah should find allies in remarkable Americans like John Wood of Room to Read; Bruce McNamer of Technoserve; and Gary White of water.org. These are the new leaders, true revolutionaries who are modeling change with powerful models of social enterprise that blossom, not from the top-down, but bottom-up, across what Paul Collier calls “Africa-+”. By Jonathan Greenblatt, Ethos Brands, blogging on the Huffington Post.
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