Jacqueline Novogratz | Manifesto for a Moral Revolution
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
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🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Jacqueline Novogratz co-founded Rwanda’s first microfinance institution, Duterimbere, before launching the groundbreaking impact-investment and activist platform, Acumen. Nineteen years in, Acumen has helped build more than 128 social enterprises across Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the United States, bringing affordable education, health care, clean water, and energy to more than 300 million people. Novogratz sits on the Advisory Councils of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative, the Oxford Said Global Leadership Council, the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, and UNICEF. Her best-selling memoir The Blue Sweater chronicles her quest to understand poverty and challenges readers to grant dignity to the poor and to rethink their engagement with the world. Jacqueline's new book, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution (https://amzn.to/3c84n65) offers a revolutionary lens on leadership, activism, social responsibility, investing, and calls us to play a more active role in reshaping the future of the world we live in.
You can find Jacqueline Novogratz at: Website: https://acumen.org/ | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jnovogratz/
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| 0:00.0 | Growing up in a military family, the oldest of seven siblings, Jacqueline Novagretz, developed |
| 0:11.6 | this fierce sense of duty and responsibility, along with a scrappiness and a drive to make |
| 0:16.6 | the impossible possible. |
| 0:18.3 | And that led her into the world of banking, where she was kind of fast-tracked for a huge |
| 0:22.6 | career, before she did something that shocked everyone around her. |
| 0:27.6 | She quit her job to co-found Rwanda's first microfinance institution, and eventually |
| 0:32.7 | founded legendary impact investment platform, the Ackerman Fund. |
| 0:37.0 | Now along the way, she has learned to listen fiercely, to acknowledge the value of every |
| 0:42.4 | life. |
| 0:43.4 | She has stumbled many, many, many times and been incredibly open and transparent about |
| 0:48.9 | that journey. |
| 0:50.3 | And learn how to truly serve a bigger purpose. |
| 0:53.3 | 19 years later now after Ackerman has sort of embraced the world under her leadership, |
| 0:59.9 | they have supported the growth of over 128 social enterprises across Africa, Latin America, |
| 1:06.4 | South Asia, the United States, impacting more than 300 million lives. |
| 1:11.2 | She serves on the Board of the Aspen Institute. |
| 1:14.0 | It sits on advisory councils of Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative. |
| 1:19.7 | The Oxford SAID Global Leadership Council NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights |
| 1:25.1 | UNICEF. |
| 1:26.1 | And right now, she sees us all kind of in a moment of profound disruption that calls for, |
| 1:33.9 | in her words, a moral revolution. |
| 1:36.7 | That in fact is the name of a powerful new book of hers, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution, |
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