Our Inner Spark Creates Beauty Through Shared Kindness
I've always wanted to create something beautiful in my lifetime: that something can be different for each individual. Mary Oliver names that desire as the piece of God inside each of us. Maybe that is the part that knows, in its very cells, that we are not just interconnected, we are an essential part of all living things. And if we are part of each other, then we belong to each other. This, too is beauty. The world doesn't grow kinder on its own. It grows kinder one act at a time — when someone takes what is generous and generative in them and spends it on what's needed. What is the spark inside of you that yearns to build a thing of beauty, be it a community, a garden, a solution to one of the world’s big problems, a song?
Off‑grid Solar Powers Dreams and Futures in Malawi
What does off-grid solar make possible for a family that has never had reliable electricity? In Lilongwe, Malawi, I spent time with Maya Stewart, cofounder of Yellow Malawi and one of the best entrepreneurs I've met, who is working in one...
Closing the Impact Investing Gap with Courageous Capital
It's been 25 years since we started Acumen, when "social investing" was barely a whisper. Today, impact assets are measured in the trillions. And yet in too many of the places where poverty is deepest and climate shocks are most...
Active Attention Sparks Love, Connection, and Service
What we notice, we begin to love. And what we love, we are called to serve. But attention is not passive. It can be a radical act, one that connects us to those too many don't see. When...
Lead Courageously: Decide Now, Flow Like the River
In this moment of so much uncertainty, the ability to make decisions and move forward takes a particular kind of courage. If I try to decide based on all that could happen, I risk not being able to move at all....
Redefining Success: A Pandemic Talk Hits 3M Views
When my book Manifesto for a Moral Revolution came out, I was preparing for a 14-city tour and a TED talk. Then Covid happened. The tour was canceled. @TEDTalks moved online. And I ended up doing my talk straight to an...