Jacqueline Novogratz
Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.Collection: Beautiful
After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.Collection: Thought Provoking
Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.Collection: Thought Provoking
In today's world, the elites are growing even more comfortable with one another across national lines, yet at the same time, less comfortable with low-income people who share their nationality. How we create those bonds of community that are truly global as well as national is one of our generation's great challenges.Collection: Our Generation
Things are always harder than you think they're going to be.Collection: Thinking
We need moral leadership and courage in our world.Collection: Our World
What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?Collection: Thought Provoking
Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.Collection: Motivation
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.Collection: Thought Provoking
You should focus on being more interested than interesting.Collection: Interesting
Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.Collection: People
Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.Collection: Treatment
Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurityCollection: Insecurity
I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people.Collection: Believe
The time for change is now.Collection: Thought Provoking
What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.Collection: Thought Provoking
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 neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce.Collection: Trying
1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. And often the lamp will fall over and catch the house on fire. So mothers hate it, but it's their only option.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Live Life
I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.Collection: Dark
Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.Collection: Thought Provoking
Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.Collection: Thought Provoking
When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.Collection: People
The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.Collection: Thought Provoking
The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.Collection: Thought Provoking
I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.Collection: Charity
All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.Collection: People
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.Collection: Impact
Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.Collection: Thought Provoking
We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.Collection: Thinking
People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.Collection: People
The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.Collection: Smart
Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.Collection: Government
What would the world look like if we asked ourselves the following more often; are our actions helping others find a way to feel more freer, more dignified and more beautiful?Collection: Beautiful
People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they liveCollection: Believe
Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same time. In the next moment, it will tease you with its magnificent beauty, so even if you don't forget, you can find a way to forgive. Ultimately, it keeps you coming back for more.Collection: Forgiving
I finally understood: In order to contribute to Africa, I would have to know myself better and be clearer about my goals. I would have to be ready to take Africa on its own terms, not mine, and to learn my limits and present myself not as a do-gooder with a big heart, but as someone with something to give and gain by being there. Compassion wasn't enoughCollection: Heart
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.Collection: Way Forward
We have to remember that the girls and the women are most isolated and violated and victimized and made invisible in those very societies where our men and our boys feel disempowered, unable to provide.Collection: Girl
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, we've looked at needing to "save" these people - with an emphasis on "these people" - rather than removing the constraints keeping them from solving their own problems.Collection: Opportunity
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 desire for a clean solar lamps or biomass opportunities. But there is a strong status quo that really depends on selling diesel.Collection: Strong
There are 60 million generators in Nigeria. The generator owners and distributors have a strong incentive to not encourage the distribution of solar and other alternative energies, even though it's better for the country, it's better for people. As a world, we've got to get more serious about confronting those obstacles. This knows no culture, no race, no ethnicity.Collection: Country
I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.Collection: Real
I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.Collection: Determined
My whole life has been spent with people who have taken every knock in the world. No advantages. Yet they greet you with a big smile, they give you what they have, and they keep coming back. They are the fighters.Collection: Taken
By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be the biggest obstacle or roadblock to success. The kind of entrepreneurs in whom we need to invest are the kind who are willing to fight that status quo, bureaucracy, complacency, and corruption.Collection: Fighting
One of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works.Collection: Way
The best change that comes to the world is when all parties are seeing each other as equal, and all parties have the opportunity to be transformed. That really goes back to the idea of dignity.Collection: Party
When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world.Collection: World