{"author":"Jacqueline Novogratz","author_id":"Jacqueline+Novogratz","total_quotes":15,"quotes":[{"text":"Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.","author":"Jacqueline Novogratz","tags":["food","seed","security "],"id":38697,"author_id":"Jacqueline+Novogratz"},{"text":"Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity.","author":"Jacqueline Novogratz","tags":["freedom","insecurity","international-development","poverty"],"id":45120,"author_id":"Jacqueline+Novogratz"},{"text":"I've learned that generosity is far easier than justice and that, in the highly distorted markets of the poor, it is all too easy to veer only toward the charitable, to have low--or no--expectations for low-income people. This does nothing but reaffirm prejudices on all sides.","author":"Jacqueline Novogratz","tags":["charity","generosity","justice","poor"],"id":62067,"author_id":"Jacqueline+Novogratz"},{"text":"Philanthropists should find innovations that release the energies of people. Individuals don't want to be taken care of --they need to be given a chance to fulfill their own potential. (142).","author":"Jacqueline Novogratz","tags":["innovation","philanthropy","social-change"],"id":94183,"author_id":"Jacqueline+Novogratz"},{"text":"Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.","author":"Jacqueline Novogratz","tags":["change","tools","drive "],"id":120829,"author_id":"Jacqueline+Novogratz"},{"text":"In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions. But in truth, the mother in many areas, in certain parts of India, the mother has very little decision-making power at all. The real decision-maker is the mother-in-law.","author":"Jacqueline Novogratz","tags":["truth","mother","power "],"id":141982,"author_id":"Jacqueline+Novogratz"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jacqueline Novogratz","tags":["history","world","potential "],"id":170367,"author_id":"Jacqueline+Novogratz"},{"text":"Though either choice was good, one was truer to myself... Ultimately, I reflected on Geothe's invocation to 'make a commitment and the forces of the universe will conspire to make it happen' and chose the uncharted path.","author":"Jacqueline Novogratz","tags":["advocacy","life","passion"],"id":187666,"author_id":"Jacqueline+Novogratz"},{"text":"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 in now, it's almost impossible for just one person to do that.","author":"Jacqueline Novogratz","tags":["leader","world","impossible "],"id":218812,"author_id":"Jacqueline+Novogratz"},{"text":"My first grade nun had instructed me that from those to whom much is given, much is expected. I was learning that this lesson had to be combined with Shakespeare's wisdom that one must 'to thine own self be true.' Add to this humility, empathy, a sense of curiosity, courage, and plain old hard work, and I was finally seeing the real path to leadership. Of course, humor is always a plus. (158).","author":"Jacqueline Novogratz","tags":["courage","leadership","social-good"],"id":306637,"author_id":"Jacqueline+Novogratz"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}