Most people picture a philanthropist as someone signing enormous cheques, not someone volunteering an evening a week or simply speaking up for a cause they believe in. Melinda French Gates has spent years pushing back against that narrow picture. "Philanthropy to me means using your voice, your time, your skills, or your money, your resources, to change the world for the better," she has said, listing money almost as an afterthought rather than the whole point. For someone who co-chairs one of the largest charitable foundations in the world, that ordering says something worth paying attention to. It suggests that the biggest barrier to doing some good was never really a lack of money in the first place, but a much simpler, more common excuse: waiting until you feel like you have enough to give.
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