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Jacqueline Novogratz has certainly led a rare and privileged life, and not merely because she became fabulously wealthy as an international banker. Novegratz was blessed with a single moment of extreme, singular clarity, the sort of experience that captures and contains every person's hope that there is an underlying beneficent system hidden in the tawdry chaos of living. While traveling in Africa, she noticed a boy wearing a familiar blue sweater--it was, in fact, her sweater, a favorite garment from her youth that she had given to Goodwill some years before, and it still had her name on the tag. Inspired by this synchronous event, she dedicated her life to helping impoverished people around the world. Amazing though it is, her life story is of secondary importance in her book, which focuses instead on providing essential advice for effective philanthropy through microfinancing, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning idea pioneered by Muhammad Yunus. Her considerable experience as a financier in the poorest parts of the world provides a wealth of insight on how to improve the way charity is employed and distributed, and challenges each of us to play a role in fighting the global plague of poverty.
| Size | | Length: | 262 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 15.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[Novogratz's] inside view of global poverty initiatives and politics at the most basic level makes for interesting reading....[and she] provide[s] enough information on microfinance to make readers curious to learn more."
(03/01/2009)
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