About this title: Eleven years after donating her blue sweater to Goodwill, Novogratz spotted a young boy in Africa wearing that very sweater. In that moment, she realized how all people are connected, which set the author on a lifelong course to fight poverty worldwide.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rodale Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781594869150ISBN:1594869154
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rodale Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781594869150ISBN:1594869154
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781594869150ISBN:1594869154
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rodale Pr
Date Published: 2009-03-03
ISBN-13:9781594869150ISBN:1594869154
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"I think I really want to give this book 3.5 stars. I started it on a plane ride and when I got back from the trip, with it not yet finished, I set it down on the coffee table only to completely forget about it for a week or more. So obviously it didn't completely enthrall me. On the other hand, once I started reading it again, I did find the information very thought-provoking. This book is about philanthropy, but not the kind that only makes the giver feel good. It talks about how to use philanthropy in a business-minded manner so that poor people are not thought of as "those poor people" but as customers and consumers. And by changing that underlying ideology, changing how philanthropy works and becomes accountable and sustainable. As I said, a very thought-provoking book."
"I had high expectations for this book: I read it alongside Muhammad Yunus'"Banker to the Poor", thinking that Yunus could be the representative of the beginnings of micro-credit, and Novogratz of the more recent direction of the movement.
However, this book, in the end, is more autobiographical than informational. Novogratz has undoubtedly lived a fascinating life, but in the end much of the book felt more like fluff than substance.
My sense is that she'd have been better served by focusing more tightly on the most interesting part of the her store, which is the establishment of a bakery in Rwanda pre-genocide, and her post genocide return, alongside the stories of what had become of the women she had once worked with. That is rich stuff indeed, as her contacts range from high-level officials in the Hutu government to everyday women are caught up in and respond to the genocide and its aftermath in a variety of ways.
On the plus side, I think Novogratz does a very good job of describing what it's like to work in development: the idealistic-but-not-yet-grounded early stages, the difficult and strange experience of first working in Africa, and a later transition working in more distal but potentially wider-impacting positions.
I'd also recommend to people Novogratz talk on ted.com."
"This is a terrific book. It made me feel good to know that there are such people as Jacqueline Novogratz (JN) in the world. If you liked "Three Cups of Tea," you'll also like this book. In one respect, it's better - the author doesn't get lost in the middle of the book; the narrative continues in a straightforward manner.
JN's desire, from a very young age, was to make a difference in the world. When she began a successful career in the financial world, she still longed for a job that would make the world better. She gave up her career and went to Africa. Her goal was to teach women how to be entreprenuers and thus help themselves. She tells of acceptance, rejection, and successes admist the violence of Rwanda, the sophistication of Niarobi, the snobbery of the Ivory Coast and the poverty of Pakistan, et al. She is convinced that teaching people, especially but not exclusively women, to learn to support themselves (and their families) is a much more effective answer than hand-outs. She makes you think carefully about how you make your charitable contributions. It's not all serious. She also writes very well and has a sense of humor.
Title: Her uncle gave her a blue sweater when she was in middle school. She loved it and wore it all the time. In high school, the "IT" girl made fun of her sweater in front of a potential boyfriend. JN, humiliated and angry, put the sweater in the Goodwill bin. Years later, in Rwanda, she saw her blue sweater on a young boy. The sweater still had her name tag on it. Thus, she learned about our interconnected world!"
"A well articulated story of what we learned in Bangladesh. In her story, I found significant pieces of our story -- the corruption, the widespread inefficiency of NGOs. Her focus is our focus now: creating businesses in the developing world. Her insights were so encouraging. (Though our focus is on a much smaller scale.) This is a must read for anyone interested in serving the poor."
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