It was inspired to begin the search by the government, which had highlighted the issue of dormant accounts and plans to use unclaimed money to fund good causes.
Anyone thinking about reducing endowments should think long and hard about what that might do to the overall ability to generate jobs and fund good ideas".
In my experience, most funders work out which issues they want to focus on, then try to fund good projects, but not actually to solve social problems.
The most common arrangement is to fund good researchers but refrain from being overly prescriptive about outcomes, and, in turn, the way to identify good researchers has been to look at the publications that follow the research they fund.
Streaming companies such as Netflix have complex "peering" arrangements with cable companies to fund good service and make up for some of the vast percentage of the cable traffic Netflix uses.
The greatest challenge, in ensuring patients rest in peace before they die, lies not in correcting an insouciant attitude to dying, but in providing the resources to fund good quality palliative care - including meaningful education for every healthcare professional involved in death and dying.
