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My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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Jacqueline Novogratz
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 15
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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.
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I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.
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Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.
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Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
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Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.
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So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience.
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I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.
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What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.
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A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.
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There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid.
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All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.
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Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.
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Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.
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Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.
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Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.
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I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.
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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.
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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.
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The time for change is now.
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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.
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