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Robert Wright's Nonzero

Manifesto for a Moral Revolution (Robert Wright & Jacqueline Novogratz)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Jacqueline's new book, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World ... Female saints as childhood role models ... How Jacqueline helped start Rwanda's first microfinance bank ... Jacqueline's "patient capital" investment nonprofit, Acumen ... The four steps toward building moral imagination ... Toilet entrepreneurship in Nairobi ... Changing the market for coffee and chocolate farmers ... Can identity connect as well as it divides? ... Jacqueline: A moral revolution must come from inside us ...

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0:00.0

You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.

0:08.8

Hi, Jacqueline.

0:10.4

Hey, Bob.

0:11.5

How are you doing?

0:12.5

I'm great.

0:13.7

I'm glad you could find the time to join us.

0:16.4

I'm really excited about this conversation.

0:18.1

Let me introduce us.

0:18.8

I'm Robert Wright.

0:19.4

This is a right show available on both streaming video and via audio podcast. You're Jacqueline Novogratz, if I got that

0:26.2

right. You got it perfectly. Why, thank you. And you have just written a book that I just

0:33.3

finished listening to on Audible called Manifesto for a Moral Revolution,

0:39.0

practices to build a better world.

0:42.6

And I guess there are a few reasons I'm looking forward to the conversation.

0:45.8

One is that I am in favor of moral revolutions.

0:48.6

I'm interested in having you talk more about the kind that you want to see

0:51.9

and how you're going to help us bring it about.

0:55.4

But also the book has a lot of stories in it that are interesting and they're relevant to the fact that you are the founder and CEO of Acumen,

1:06.3

which is what best described as a what, a nonprofit investment fund or an impact investment organization or what's the

1:15.0

yeah really either we essentially take the right kind of capital we invest it in the right kind of character

1:20.8

surrounded with the right community for change okay and you do that in lots of parts of the world, you know, Africa, South Asia, and so on.

1:33.6

So there are a lot of, including the U.S.

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