Chuck Slaughter of Living Goods: Digital First Healthcare Saving Lives at the Last Mile

Chuck Slaughter is the founder of Living Goods, which supports over 10,000 digitally-empowered community health workers who are reducing child deaths by over 25% at an annual cost of under $4 per person. As a Senior Advisor to TPG Rise (a $10 billion impact investing platform), Director of the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, and a successful entrepreneur, Chuck has a rich perspective on how digital is reshaping aid and development work. Tune in today to hear Chuck’s guidance on whether to ‘build or buy’ tech, why nonprofits struggle to deliver the best technology products, and how governments and the private sector need to work together to scale high-impact innovations.

Chuck serves on the boards of Yale’s School of Management, Tidepool, Reach Health, and the Horace W Goldsmith Foundation. He received a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a Draper Richards Kaplan Fellowship, and is a World Economic Forum Social Entrepreneur of the Year. 

A Few Highlights

• (6m27s) - How Chuck and Living Goods became digital first


• (13m45s) - The DESC metaphor of Living Goods: Digital, Equipped, Supervised and Compensated


• (22m01s) - Working with new technologies: the 'build or buy' debate


• (28m24s) - Why nonprofits struggle to build great tech


• (32m09s) - The digital transformation of aid: grantmaking through the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation


• (37m08s) - Financing scale: how governments and the private sector need to work together


• (40m19s) - Rapid fire questions, shoutouts, and recommendations

You can learn more about Living Goods on their website at livinggoods.org. 

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