Jacqueline Novogratz
Jacqueline Novogratz
Jacqueline Novogratz is an American entrepreneur and author. She is the founder and CEO of Acumen, a non-profit global venture capital fund whose goal is to use entrepreneurial approaches to address global poverty. Acumen has invested over $90 million of patient capital in 80 businesses that have impacted more than 125 million people in the past year. Any money returned to Acumen is reinvested in enterprises serving the poor. Currently, Acumen has offices in New York, Mumbai, Karachi, Nairobi, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
CountryUnited States of America
The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.
All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.
Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.
Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.
What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.
Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.
After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.
It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.
When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.
We need moral leadership and courage in our world.
What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.
We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.
We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.