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
Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.
When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.
It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.
People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.
The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.
Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.
What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.
Things are always harder than you think they're going to be.
Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.
Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.
Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.
We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.
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.