<a href="https://x.com/rajshah">Rajiv Shah</a>, president of <a href="https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/about-us/leadership/">the Rockefeller Foundation</a> and former head of <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-officials-circulate-plan-that-would-overhaul-usaid-283e8ee1?mod=WSJ_BNPOD">USAID</a>, has spent his career on the frontlines of the fight against global poverty. That gives him <a href="https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/big-bets/book/">unique insight</a> into <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-officials-circulate-plan-that-would-overhaul-usaid-283e8ee1?mod=WSJ_BNPOD">the rapidly changing world of foreign aid and philanthropy</a>. How are NGOs attempting <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/judge-says-doges-dismantling-of-usaid-likely-unconstitutional-9352cf1a?mod=WSJ_BNPOD">to fill the funding gaps left</a> as the Trump administration turns inward? Shah speaks to WSJ’s <a href="https://www.wsj.com/news/author/christopher-mims?mod=WSJ_BNPOD">Christopher Mims</a> and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/news/author/tim-higgins?mod=WSJ_BNPOD">Tim Higgins</a> on the latest episode of the Bold Names podcast.

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