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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.

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.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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

Too often people view idealists as naive.

Jacqueline Novogratz

What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice.

Jacqueline Novogratz

As a 25-year-old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make today - to escape the chaos.

Jacqueline Novogratz

I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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

There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the people they're serving.

Jacqueline Novogratz

This idea of universal access to basic healthcare has to be figured out as a world. No country has figured it out in part because it is driven by ideology.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Impact investing has become a broad umbrella that includes all investing with a focus on both financial return and social impact, but in its best form, impact investing prioritizes impact over returns and achieves outcomes that traditional investing cannot.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.

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When I see people that are my age and reaching 50, the ones that are really sparkly and full of joy are the ones that are committed to something bigger than themselves.

Jacqueline Novogratz

As both developed and developing nations search for alternative sources of energy in response to the growing energy crisis, we at Acumen Fund believe that investing in entrepreneurs who provide innovative energy solutions is an increasingly critical part of the solution.

Jacqueline Novogratz

I'm feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money.

Jacqueline Novogratz

What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.

Jacqueline Novogratz

When Jeff Sachs says every poor person should receive a free bed net, I agree - but in reality, many end up not receiving one. And I don't live in a world of shoulds.

Jacqueline Novogratz

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

Jacqueline Novogratz

By helping a woman, you help a family.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme poverty.

Jacqueline Novogratz

A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.

Jacqueline Novogratz

I dream a world in no one feels the need for or fear of predatory behavior, in which each of us walks with the knowledge of how beautiful - and valuable - is each human life.

Jacqueline Novogratz