Sunday, December 20, 2009

Acumen Fund Announces Release of Jacqueline Novogratz's 'The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World'

Novogratz's Inspirational Memoir Is a Testament to the Indomitable Quality of the Human Spirit and the Power of Hope and Optimism to End Poverty

New York, NY -- Acumen Fund today appear the absolution of "The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World," a acutely claimed and alarming account by Acumen Fund CEO Jacqueline Novogratz.

The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to affect added humans to become affianced in alive to break the problems of all-around poverty The private, public, and nonprofit sectors have to all plan together. Markets play a role in the solution, as do accessible action and philanthropy. The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World "I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to affect added humans to become affianced in alive to break the problems of all-around poverty," said Jacqueline Novogratz, columnist of "The Blue Sweater" and CEO of Acumen Fund. "The private, public, and nonprofit sectors have to all plan together. Markets play a role in the solution, as do accessible action and philanthropy."

Eleven years afterwards adolescent Jacqueline donated a admired sweater from her uncle to a Goodwill in Virginia, she came above a adolescent boy in Rwanda cutting the actual aforementioned pullover, with her name still on the tag. To Jacqueline, this arresting acquaintance is a accurate allegory for the added commutual apple in which we live.

In means both amusing and heartbreaking, "The Blue Sweater" relates how Jacqueline larboard all-embracing cyberbanking in the 1980s for an adventitious in Africa that became the starting point for a career as a philanthropist with a mission to break the problems of all-around poverty. Along the way she founded and directed The Philanthropy Workshop and The Next Generation Leadership affairs at the Rockefeller Foundation, and Duterimbere, the aboriginal microfinance academy for women in Rwanda. In 2001, Jacqueline founded Acumen Fund, a nonprofit adventure armamentarium that invests in market-oriented approaches to carrying critical, affordable appurtenances and casework to the world's poor.

More than just an adventures or a how-to adviser to arrest poverty, "The Blue Sweater" challenges readers to admission address to the poor and to amend their assurance with the world. Jacqueline's adventure is a attestation to the dogged above of the animal spirit and the ability of achievement and optimism to end poverty. Published by Rodale Books, "The Blue Sweater" will be featured by Barnes & Noble from May through July as allotment of the Discover Great New Writers program.

To apprentice added about "The Blue Sweater," or to adjustment copies of the book, appointment http://www.thebluesweater.com/.

About "The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World"

"The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World" is a acutely claimed and alarming account by Acumen Fund CEO Jacqueline Novogratz. At already the coming-of-age adventure of a adolescent idealist bent to change the apple and a alarm to action to all those anxious with growing asperity about the globe, Jacqueline's adventure is a accurate attestation to the dogged above of the animal spirit and the ability of achievement and optimism to end poverty.

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