Imagine we could get the world's smartest people working on the world's biggest problems.
This is possible - and not at sometime in the distant future but this year.
Hour for Good's mission is to get employees in the world's biggest organisations - companies, universities, multilateral organisations - to each spend just one hour a week working for a social enterprise, of their choice, that's tackling one of the world's biggest problems.
It's a modest figure, but let's just take big companies as an example. (Companies are a good place to start as they are under increasing pressure to improve their social impact and give more autonomy to their employees.) If just 10% of people in the world's top 500 companies spent 1 hour a week working for a social enterprise, it would release 100,000,000 hours a year!
The idea came out of a question Bill Gates posted on Facebook. He tweeted afterwards that he liked the idea. Since then some great companies have said they're interested and I am working on creating a non-profit organisation, Hour for Good, to make it happen.