Acumen Fund’s patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya’s smallholder farmers.
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.
Monsters will always exist. There’s one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other.
Our actions- and inaction- touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.
The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.
What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?
We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.
Africans didn’t want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.
I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.
The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.
There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.
When systems are broken, it’s an opportunity for invention and innovation.
May each of you live lives of immersion. They won’t necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.
Nothing important happens in life without a cost.
Being poor doesn’t mean being ordinary.
After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.
The time for change is now.
Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.
What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.
Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.