We always say at CARE that we would love to see if we can work ourselves out of business.

The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that message at the grassroots level.

You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.

As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

What keeps me motivated is going out to the field and seeing programs that incorporate a focus on both people and the planet, and seeing how mutually reinforcing they can really be.

If you educate a girl, you educate a nation.