"The whole premise of this fund is that...it provides more leverage and a better pipeline from social innovation to policy. In my mind this is the make or break piece of things for whether the SIF is the beginning of something immensely important or just another funding source - albeit a cool one."
"Measuring social impact is not like measuring height or counting dollars... Because there is no standard yardstick, one must be created for every ecosystem. There are a number of ways to do this... Central to the arithmetic of calculating a social return is the concept of a proxy."
"What I see in Obama's speech cannot help but remind me of the Asset Based Community Development philosophy he was surrounded with as an organizer in Chicago... The Africa that so many of those of us who care about the continent see is an Africa that is full of assets: talent, ideas, and skills"