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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Jacqueline Novogratz: More Than Money Alone

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Bobi NYC

Science, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Jacqueline Novogratz has recognized the need among the poor for something more than just money: dignity. Employing a new kind of capitalism, her company, Acumen, has invested $128 million to build more than 128 social enterprises across Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the United States. These companies have leveraged an additional $611 million and brought basic, critical services like affordable education, health care, clean water, energy and sanitation to more than 300 million people. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid

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0:00.0

I'm Alan Olga and this is Clear In Vivid, conversations about connecting and communicating.

0:15.6

I think if there's one thing I've learned in 35 years that the opposite of poverty isn't

0:19.6

wealth, that opposite of poverty is dignity.

0:22.4

What we really yearn for as human beings is choice, opportunity, the ability to make

0:27.6

our own decisions, the capability to participate, interact, contribute and feel valued by society.

0:36.0

And that's what's missing right now for too many people.

0:40.0

That's Jacqueline Novagratz.

0:42.4

She's the founder and CEO of Acumen.

0:45.0

That's a non-profit she created out of her first-hand experience of the shortcomings of

0:50.0

convention-late organizations.

0:53.1

By investing in and supporting entrepreneurs, Acumen has brought healthcare, education,

0:58.7

housing, agriculture and above all, Jacqueline argues, dignity to hundreds of millions of

1:05.4

low-income people around the world.

1:09.5

This is so great to be talking with you today.

1:12.0

I'm so impressed by your work.

1:14.3

Thank you so much.

1:15.3

I'm so excited to be here.

1:16.3

You can't even know.

1:18.3

That's great.

1:20.5

You knew book The Manifesto for a Moral Revolution.

1:24.2

It's such a helpful handbook for people who want to do good in the world, because there's

1:30.7

so many wrong turns you can take.

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