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 live

When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there.

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.

After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.

Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.