Ubuntu’s Big Vision: A Q&A with CEO Jacob Lief

Why We Changed Our Name

Eighteen years ago, I embarked on a crazy yet incredible journey with an unlikely new acquaintance. Malizole “Banks”…

Failures from the Field

19 Reasons to Love Ubuntu

It’s been almost two decades since our founders, an American university student and a South African school…

Ending Poverty: The Next Big Idea Is To Stay Small

What Running a Nonprofit Has Taught Me About Fatherhood

From Locust Walk to South Africa and Back

During my senior year at University of Pennsylvania in 1999, I ran a raffle on Locust…

From HTML to HIV

Seventeen years ago, I started Ubuntu Education Fund with my friend, Banks Gwaxula. Apartheid had just ended in South Africa, and…

On Getting Older and (Hopefully) Wiser