Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder fa….

How you see where you are always depends on where you've been..

As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neithe….

One of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works..

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 ….

Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us..

The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity….

Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself..

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….

I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership..

The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives, they will. For too long….

If you're looking at distributing alternative energy in Nigeria, for instance, what gets in your way is not people's ability to pay, not people's des….

Entrepreneurs are the seekers of solutions, and that they will go into these places where both market and traditional aid has failed or traditional c….

When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garba….

There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But th….

I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live….

When it comes to solving problems of poverty, impact investing can act as a catalyst, but it is not a silver bullet. Successful businesses serving th….