Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera. Jacqueline Novogratz More Quotes by Jacqueline Novogratz More Quotes From Jacqueline Novogratz When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world. Jacqueline Novogratz continentsworldfirsts Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered. Jacqueline Novogratz girlmenboys After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray. Jacqueline Novogratz being-realatrocitiesthought-provoking We don't see profit as a blind instrument. Jacqueline Novogratz profitthought-provokingblind I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best of development finance, and experiment with new ways to create this venture capital model of using philanthropy to back patient capital investments, and then build solutions that were measured in terms of the kind of impact and change they were making on people's lives and in the world, not just on the financial return. Jacqueline Novogratz impactdevelopmentpeople I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent. Jacqueline Novogratz african-continentthought-provokingworld We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet. Jacqueline Novogratz thought-provokingplanetsconnected Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me. Jacqueline Novogratz thought-provokingsavingwant Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written. Jacqueline Novogratz this-generationthought-provokingevents Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future. Jacqueline Novogratz thought-provokingbeautifulpast 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. Jacqueline Novogratz humilitybelievechildren Dignity is more important than wealth. Jacqueline Novogratz wealthdignityimportant On the one hand, I loved being a banker. I loved how numbers could tell a story and how you can invest in ideas and see them translate into products and services and create jobs. What I didn't like, particularly where I was working in Brazil during the debt crisis of the early '80s, was how the poor were excluded from the banking system. I made the decision to try and experiment with whether we could use the tools of banking to extend the benefits of the economy to the poor. Jacqueline Novogratz jobshandsideas Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda. Jacqueline Novogratz way-forwardsizepoverty 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. Jacqueline Novogratz thought-provokinglive-lifemay Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers. Jacqueline Novogratz kenyaacumenindependence If indeed we can create systems that allow individuals to access goods and services like health and housing and energy and water, in a way that they can afford, they'll all have greater choice, greater opportunity, greater dignity. Jacqueline Novogratz choicesopportunitywater For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential. Jacqueline Novogratz environmentalorderworld Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself. Jacqueline Novogratz feels What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying? Jacqueline Novogratz thought-provokingcosttrying
