Last week when speaking on the “Creating Private Capital Markets” Panel at the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference, I noted that one of the big opportunities for Acumen Fund and other organizations in our sector is to capitalize on a huge influx of talent. Demand to work in our sector is at an all-time high, the [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘hope’
March 4, 2009
44 reasons I blog
“Why do you blog?”
I get the question a lot. So here’s a list. I originally wanted to come up with 99 reasons, but 44 is where I ended up.
(If you have serious additions to the list please comment and I’ll approve. I’d still like to get to 99, and if I do I’ll repost the [...]
November 5, 2008
Obama: poetry on an historic day
A friend with a sharp eye saw this handwritten sign in a window in the midst of last night’s election coverage:
rosa sat so
martin could walk so
barack could run so
our children could fly
And this morning Maya Angelou read part of her poem “Still I Rise” on CBS:
Still I Rise
You may write me down in history
With your [...]
