- Sustainability Champions
- Big Challenges
- Environmental
- Social
No More Deaths- Farming and Food Production
- The Sustainability Mindset
- What is Sustainability?
- Black Lives Matter
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- Conflict-free Minerals
- One Water
- Design and Architecture
- Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism
- Equal Rights for Women and Girls
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Empathy and Consciousness
- Health and Wellness
- Culture and Consciousness
- Leadership Development
- Economic
- Events
- Places
- Series
- Called From Darkness
- AI for Good
- Global Warming Teaching Circle
- Reconciling Ways of Knowing
- Sustainable Today
- Native Perspectives on Sustainability
- Peak Moment
- The Natural Way: Indigenous Voices: Speaker Series
- Sustainability Pioneers
- 24 Hours of Reality by The Climate Reality Project
- Ray Anderson Memorial Interviews
- The Ways: Great Lakes Native Culture & Language
About This Collection
Jacqueline Novogratz is the founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of poverty. Acumen Fund aims to create a world beyond poverty by investing in social enterprises, emerging leaders, and breakthrough ideas. Under Jacqueline's leadership, Acumen Fund has invested more than $72 million in 65 companies in South Asia and Africa, all focused on delivering affordable
healthcare, water, housing and energy to the poor. These companies have created and supported more than 55,000 jobs, leveraged an additional $200 million, and brought basic services to tens of millions.
Curated by earthsayer
The Blue Sweater |
Jacqueline Novogratz brings us a series of insightful stories and unforgettable characters — from women dancing in a Nairobi slum, to unwed mothers starting a bakery, to courageous survivors of the Rwandan genocide, to entrepreneurs building services for the poor against impossible odds. Her book, The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who has spent her life on a quest to understand global poverty and to find powerful new ways of tackling it.
EarthSayer Jacqueline Novogratz |
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Acumen Fund Fellows - A New Generation of Leaders
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Power In Our Interconnectedness by Jacqueline Novogratz