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“The vision for The Global Fund was to transform the world through empowering women,” says Firth Murray. “But
I wanted to think of success differently: It was not about how much money we raised or how much we gave away.
To me, it was all about how that money was put to work. We needed different metrics, another way to describe
our impact.”
The process of change is as important as the result, she says. For Firth Murray, ensuring rights for women is a
strategy that will ensure rights for everyone: The key to improving conditions is to focus on developing and
building communities, nurturing leadership, and sharing responsibility. Her books, Paradigm Found: Leading and
Managing for Positive Change and From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice, discuss
how a feminist perspective of cooperation and sharing can be applied to global transformation.
Firth Murray says she sees love as the most powerful tool for social justice, a way to transform the status quo and
make the world a better place. To overcome the outrage that arises from global issues like war, poverty, injustice,
and health, individuals need to take part in activities that will help to make change, and realize that change may
come with small steps.
“The issues are large but not hopeless. An important way to deal with outrage is to control your own behavior,”
she says. “In the long term we have to change ourselves to make our world more compassionate. Love refers to
what people can do because ultimately we can control how we treat
each other. The big picture is affected by small gestures.”
Adds Firth Murray, “Violence is the issue central to our time. We need
to explore its opposite to make positive change. The important thing is
to get the message out.”
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