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Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.
You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.
I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with... →
Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe.
Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.
Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.
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.
I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.
I'm feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money.
The Pakistanis are very resilient people.
Too often people view idealists as naive.
By helping a woman, you help a family.
Changing the world is not easy.