In the opinion of Jean Case, Chief Executive Officer of the Case Foundation, philanthropy has been reticent to take risks in their investments out of a fear of failure. She started her foundation alongside her husband in 1997. It has been their mission to encourage new ideas, free thinking and even failure as a means of eventual success. Case feels that there cannot be real success without failure and that people need to embrace their failures as necessary and good.
These ideas led to the implementation of the Be Fearless campaign. This campaign encourages philanthropists to take risks in order to make a greater impact on their communities and the world. It also seeks to reach out to millennials and involve them in a greater way in changing the world we live in.
Case herself comes from a background where she has seen the benefit of philanthropy in her own life and wishes to pass her positive experience on to others through her innovative ideas.
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