The new philanthropists, says Charles Handy, combine charity with business. They are young rich people who have a lot of energy and ambition for social work. They break the tradition of donating to the local university, hospital, or church. Instead they are attacking social needs by starting their own operation and becoming an active part of it.

Charles Handy presents how four philanthropists put their energies into meeting some perceived social need -- something that government doesn't get around to and that private enterprise, on the whole, doesn't see a market for. So they became social entrepreneurs.

Learn about Jeff Gambin, a restaurateur in Sydney who gave up his up-market businesses to cook for the homeless every night, and who now feeds 500 people each day, and 1,500 at Christmas. Other new philanthropists presented are ex-Arsenal and England captain and former alcoholic Tony Adams; the ordinary executive Peter Ryan; and Mo Ibrahim, who is the founder of Celtel International, one of Africa's most successful companies.