Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes
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Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.
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I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?
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I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.
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In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions. But in truth, the mother in many areas, in certain parts of India, the mother has very little decision-making power at all. The real decision-maker is the mother-in-law.
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I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.
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President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true.
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Changing the world is not easy.
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There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid.
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Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.'
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What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.
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Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.
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I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.
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We see very, very high rates of C-sections, Cesarean sections, in India. Lots of reasons for it, high levels of malnutrition have meant that women have very small pelvic areas often, so if they have larger babies, it's very hard to deliver.
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Companies like Husk Power Systems are working to impact positively not only the environment, but to ensure that someday everyone, including the poorest of the poor in rural India, will have access to clean and affordable electricity.
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I am an insomniac. Most of my nights include a moment of wakening. Often I will make my way to the kitchen to make tea and read for awhile.
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Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.
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Rockefeller viewed his philanthropy through the lens of his business, and it really mirrored the Industrial Revolution. It was highly centralized, it was top down, it was based on experts, and it was big-picture.
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Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.