The Good Fortune filmmakers sat down with four of the world's most respected experts on the subject and asked them to discuss the development organizations they support.
Wangari Maathai is a Kenyan environmental activist who founded the Green Belt Movement, which trains rural women to plant trees, combat deforestation and generate income for impoverished communities. Maathai points out that aid organizations cannot expect communities to change overnight and explains Green Belt's holistic approach to addressing poverty.
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Amartya Sen is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in welfare economics. Sen talks about how we can all work to make each others' lives better, and focuses specifically on the organization FXB International, which empowers children affected by AIDS in impoverished communities by strengthening families and communities.
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The filmmakers are still in the process of finishing these video interviews. Check back in September 2010, to watch videos with Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University economist and Special Advisor to the United Nations, who discusses community involvement in the Millennium Villages Project, and George Ayittey, Ghanaian economist and acclaimed author, who talks about the importance of African entrepreneurs in what he calls the "Cheetah Generation."