Charles Handy is known throughout the world as a thinker on business organizations and their management. Recently, with his wife Elizabeth, he turned his attention to a different kind of entrepreneur in a book called The New Philanthropists. Caroline Hartnell talked to him about what makes the new philanthropists ‘new’, about whether it requires different characteristics to be a ‘philanthropic entrepreneur’ rather than a business entrepreneur, and about why there are so few women in the book.