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What it takes to make change | Jacqueline Novogratz

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🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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What can you do to build a better world? Sharing stories from her pioneering career dedicated to tackling poverty, Jacqueline Novogratz offers three principles to spark and sustain a moral revolution. Learn how you can commit (or recommit) to creating big, positive change in your lifetime -- and give back more to the world than you take from it. “It is in the darkest times that we have the chance to find our deepest beauty,” Novogratz says.



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Hey, y'all, it's TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hugh. Today on the show, a call for wholesale change in the world that starts with a mind shift, not just a systems shift. In her TED 2020 talk, Jacqueline Novagrads, the founder and CEO of the nonprofit impact investment fund, Acumen, asks us to prioritize what makes us human and our social

0:56.3

fabric instead of just profit potential. How do we see and support each other during such a

1:01.6

difficult collective crisis? Novagrat says we can move forward so long as what we do is based

1:07.9

in imagination and equity.

1:18.5

A few years ago, I found myself in Kigali, Rwanda, presenting a plan to bring off-grid solar electricity to 10 million low-income East Africans. As I waited to speak to the president

1:24.5

and his ministers, I thought about how I'd arrived in that same place, 30 years before,

1:30.3

a 25-year-old who left her career in banking to co-found the nation's first microfinance bank

1:36.3

with a small group of Rwandan women.

1:39.3

And that happened just a few months after women had gained the right to open a bank account without their husband's signature.

1:46.1

Just before I got on stage, a young woman approached me.

1:51.0

Miss Novograt, she said, I think you knew my auntie.

1:54.6

Really? What was her name? She said, Felicula.

2:00.8

I could feel tears well.

2:04.1

One of the first women parliamentarians in the country, Felicula was a co-founder.

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