Isaboo. Isaboo, oh, my gosh. Isabella is my favorite name and I don't have time to have human children.And my first pit bull was named Boo and when she passed, I got Isaboo because she had bindi dot right in the middle of her forehead
is even there are more distractions today and more reasons to not do something I talked to the novelist Isabella yende uh I've talked to lots of the people we've talked to about that nitty-gritty of how do you work where doyou do how do you get started how do you keep doing she uh is this novelist who's written I suppose nine or 10 novels at
Lauren: I'm always looking on the bright side of things as everyone can tell. Isabella and -- male #5: Lulu.
And if someone has information, those paintings could bring you a ton of money if you have the information and it turns out. So the Isabella Stuart Gardner heist is the largest art heist in US history, probably the largest-- other than Nazi looted art-- in the world. Today, it's valued at $500 million.
And the scholastics are like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And Queen Isabella says, I like that guy. I'm going to give him money.
million a year. And I think your question is right. How--you can't do the kind of due diligence that Ferdinand and Isabella do when you're giving away the amount of money that most of us in this room, myself included, do for our personal account. What aspects of strategy work? Well, one is being clear about your goals, you know, for example, you know, what do you expect before you look for the organizations, if you're doing disaster
it's very difficult to say if she was a lesbian or not. So what I think of as Isabella Beeton before we came to research for this book, I thought of this matronly lady stalking
And then Peck and Brown go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They got it from Queen Isabella , and Queen Isabella hawked her jewels. And Tesla says, ah, but what did Columbus do to convince Queen Isabella ?
what's going to get you to your philanthropic goal? Well--so there was an overall strategy that Columbus had and Ferdinand and Isabella , his philanthropists. But an overall strategy like sail west needs to be implemented, right? It's pretty vague. So what you need next is a plan. So--oh, I'm sorry. Once again, I'm ahead of myself. So the particular strategy we're going to use in this example, by the way, is adaptive learning. And let me tell
And so their son then inherited the crowns of a unified Spain. Maximilian also arranged for his grandson to marry Isabella of Portugal. And so within just 50 years, within just two generations of this carefully plotted out system of dynastic marriages,
Now, why would you think Ted Kennedy from Boston would want to make it a federal crime? How many people here have heard of the Isabella Stuart Gardner heist? There you go-- a couple of you.
And what it shows basically is the following, most importantly I'm gonna tell you about the curiosity that relates to it, is that people tend to be happiest as adults when me to come up to his ranch with his wife Isabella in Montana for three days and to just talk about flow which was like the coolest thing in the world.
Lauren: I'm always looking on the bright side of things as everyone can tell. Actually two of them, Isabella and Lulu. Scotty: Yeah, I'd love to.
Lauren: I'm always looking on the bright side of things as everyone can tell. Hey, Isabella , hope you're going good.
But again, nobody gets rewarded for something that doesn't happen. And one of the people who I interviewed, Isabella , who runs the Business and Human Rights program at Yahoo. And she was brought in after Yahoo was compelled to turn over user information about the Chinese government for Shi Tao, a journalist who was in jail.
it's very difficult to say if she was a lesbian or not. It's difficult, but there's one historical homemaker, Isabella Beeton, who maybe ought to have felt imposter syndrome, but seems to have laughed in the face of it
And Tesla says, ah, but what did Columbus do to convince Queen Isabella ? And as the legend goes, Columbus was in the court of Queen Isabella and basically was trying to convince all of the experts, all the scholastics that were around the court, that, indeed, the world was round.
in all of us that just likes to share um there's very little ego in involved when it comes to just sharing your work it's I have three kids my my middle daughter is five she's Isabella she's adorable and she you know she's we have this art table it's got glue and stuff is stuck to it a tape it'll never come off and
oranges and lemons. It uses rum. Typically, it's some sort of citrus zest with rum or brandy in with some sweet milk or cream. It's really good, right? Mr. Countryhouse takes a milk punch. Bitterness peeping through. And finally this. "Here is Isabella perusing a volume. She loves
more to art than being exact. There's something magical about it. Um, my daughter, Isabella , I have three kids, she's my middle child, she's four and she, ah, she has this wonderful, thin membrane between what's real and what's not real. And if any of y'all have kids, you know exactly what I mean. It helps you to realize the wonderful
And I still live there, so that definitely influences a lot of what I do. Also, really quick, before I get into things, I just have to shout out a friend of mine, Isabella Montoya. I don't know where you are.
the Greater Los Angeles area, my team, Brandon, who is here somewhere behind. Hey. Hey, hey. Right in front of Isabella . There we go. This is my corner right here.
should be taught on a basis of a lot of access to the artworks themselves. So she said, go to the Phillips, go to the Isabella Stewart Gardner, go to the Frick, the Morgan, all of which I've been lucky enough to visit a lot of times.
You probably know that Columbus-- it was possible to organize this expedition because Columbus came to Spanish kings, Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492.
Yeah, your daughter, too, Isabella .
They got it from Queen Isabella , and Queen Isabella hawked her jewels. And Tesla says, ah, but what did Columbus do to convince Queen Isabella ? And as the legend goes, Columbus was in the court of Queen Isabella and basically was trying to convince all of the experts, all
sound theory of change, which is the sort of non-profit term for the theory of how the world works. You need feedback and you need to talk about risk. So I'm going to begin by talking about some earlier philanthropists. Does anybody recognize these guys? Ferdinand and Isabella , right? Ferdinand and Isabella are my philanthropists, and their goal was--I would think you could describe it too. One of their goals was to have their grant to get to India, but it was better trade routes to the Far East. More effective--I should
Okay. So before, you know, no philanthropy happens on a blank slate, right? There's always something that has gone before. And the first thing to do if you're a philanthropist starting in an area is learn what the relevant knowledge is in the field. At this point, Ferdinand and Isabella looked to the Hogwarts Press' classic book on, "Navigation In The 15th Century." And they learned about navigation, whether ships--whatever they need to learn about.
And they learned about navigation, whether ships--whatever they need to learn about. Well, I'm talking about philanthropy that is grant-making philanthropy. And if you're a grant maker, you need to look for a grantee. So maybe what Ferdinand and Isabella had in mind was Horatio Nelson, a great--since I'm playing with history, you know, a great leader of a great organization, the British Navy. For better or worse, they ended
anybody to be great during the discussion if you can allude to some of your own examples. Okay. Something that's really helpful in philanthropy is to have targets, right? So the target for them, Isabella and their grantee, Columbus was India. In this case, the philanthropist and the school superintendent have agreed that in 2008, only 60% of fifth graders were doing math at grade level and the goal is by 2012, to have 80%. You might say, "Gosh,
learning might work in general and might not work in a particular case. It might be that the population is a different one or if it's just not implemented very well. Why, because I mean, you know, implementing any social change strategy and educational strategy, for example, is difficult. So I mentioned the failed philanthropy of Ferdinand and Isabella , and let's talk a little bit about risk in philanthropy. The risk for Columbus and his
ah, she has this wonderful, thin membrane between what's real and what's not real. And if any of y'all have kids, you know exactly what I mean. It helps you to realize the wonderful things the brain can do, and the bad things it does to adults. And, you know, so I'm with my daughter, Isabella , I don't know where she got this, but she got this idea that whenever we see Christmas lights around trees or on a house, she goes "Tinkerbelle's been here." She gets really excited and so I start to wonder does she really think that Tinkerbelle's
Rossellini, having three more children -- one of whom you know, Isabella Rossellini, making a number of very interesting films that never did anything at the box office.