Blue Sweater Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World

Name: Blue Sweater Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
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ISBN: 9781594869150

ISBN-10: 1594869154

ISBN-13: 9781594869150

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jacqueline Novogratz

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For Jacqueline Novogratz it all started back home in Alexandria, Virginia, with the blue sweater, a special gift that quickly became her prized possessionuntil the day she outgrew it and gave it away to Goodwill. Eleven years later in Africa, she spotted a young boy wearing that very sweater, with her name still on the tag inside. That the sweater had made its trek all the way to Rwanda was ample evidence, she thought, of how we are all connected, how our actionsand inactiontouch people every day across the globe, people we may never know or meet. It is this awareness that continues to drive her efforts to fight poverty worldwide. Like the best-sellingThree Cups of Tea, this book at once is…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony/Rodale
Publication date: 3/3/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Jacqueline Novogratz is founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a nonprofit venture capital firm for the poor that invests in sustainable enterprises bringing healthcare, safe water, alternative energy, and housing to low-income people in the developing world. A serial entrepreneur in the social sector, she travels frequently and currently resides in New York City.



Prologue



Innocent Abroad



A Bird on the Outside, a Tiger Within



Context Matters



Basket Economics and Political Realities



The Blue Bakery



Dancing in the Dark



Traveling without a Road Map



A New Learning Curve



Blue Paint on the Road



Retribution and Resurrection



The Cost of Silence



Institutions Matter



The Education of a Patient Capitalist



Building Brick by Brick



Taking It to Scale



The World We Dream, the Future We Create Together


Acknowledgments


Index