In this video, I'll describe the process that we will use throughout this course to structure our individual giving. This specific process, as is the case with philanthropy more broadly, is highly iterative. Most successful philanthropists incessantly learn, evaluate, and improve. In philanthropy we deal with challenges that are enormously complex, often global in scale. And we're approaching them with limited resources. Therefore, I've designed a road map to guide your philanthropy through this course and beyond. This road map is focused on applying reflection and strategy to understand personal motivations and resources, as well as the problems we hope to address and the specific actions we can take to create change. Importantly, the road map also integrates evaluation from the very beginning to facilitate continuous improvement now and into the future. The road map consists of five main phases, reflect, assess, decide, act, and refine. Or as I like to call it our philanthropic R.A.D.A.R.. This is a road map that you will typically proceed through chronologically, but in our class we are going to jump around a bit more than usual. So let's start at the beginning, reflect. Reflect is the process of exploring new or unique values, inclinations, and philanthropic capacity. It is introspective and shapes your given goals and activities. It is really the heart of your philanthropic process. Activities within this phase of the framework include, taking stock of how you want to express your generosity, your unique philanthropic resources and understanding lessons learned from any past giving you have done. If reflection is the heart, then assess, or assessment, is the intellectual element of your giving. Throughout our course, you will have to make some challenging decisions about which issue area to focus on, which strategic approach to take and which high impact non-profits are ultimately the best investment of your resources. Strategy is the key to making these decisions in the most effective way. We will learn about integrating evaluation into your strategy, identifying highly capable organizations and measuring progress towards your philanthropic goals. Once your reflection and assessment have yielded specific opportunities for investment, you will then decide which non-profit or non-profits you will fund. At the end of our course, I want you each to be able to move forward with your philanthropic strategy to achieve specific tangible outcomes in a timely manner. We have to make the very best use of every resource we have, because making a decision to fund one non-profit is in essence making a decision not to fund hundreds and thousands of others. But once you've selected a non-profit, you will take action by deploying your entire portfolio of philanthropic resources, ideally, that is. We'll talk more about this concept in weeks four and five, but for now know that this where you will act, actualizing your strategy into positive measurable social impact. And finally we'll discuss ways to refine and improve our work as philanthropists. As I mentioned earlier, philanthropy is an evolutionary process that progresses and improves as we gain new insights, incorporate feedback and fine tune our approach. Much of this will happen after our time together is over, but I will provide opportunities for each of you to stay connected to the course community and continue to involve your philanthropic activities into the future. Throughout our course, we will apply our road map, our RADAR road map in three key phases. First, we'll select an issue area and social problem. Next we'll assess and select the approach, or intervention strategy, to be used to solve that problem. And finally, we will decide the specific non-profits that we each want to support.