A Blueprint for Change: Market Solutions for Global Poverty

Produced

• 2005

Key Features

49-minute VHS or DVD video

Learn why it's okay to make a profit when helping the poor, and how to create financially sustainable sources for critical goods and services.

Amazingly, something as essential as clean water is more difficult to come by for two-thirds of the world’s population. People are made to pay more for basic life services while earning far less. Novogratz describes how you can put systems in place to start chipping away at this daunting problem. But doing your part in aiding the world’s poverty dilemma doesn’t mean that you aren’t allowed to make a profit. Learn about successful programs that have used established business techniques to produce quantifiable results in some of the world’s most destitute areas.

This program features Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO, Acumen Fund

Acumen Fund is a nonprofit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Before developing Acumen Fund, Jacqueline Novogratz served as Manager of Special Projects at the Rockefeller Foundation. There, she created and directed The Philanthropy Workshop, an international education program that built a network of 100 philanthropists in the U.S. and Argentina; and The Next Generation Leadership, a program focused on building a corps of 21st century leaders. Ms. Novogratz founded a micro-enterprise organization in Rwanda, and has worked as a consultant to UNICEF and the World Bank in various African countries. She has also worked at the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation. Ms. Novogratz began her career in international banking, and she holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from the University of Virginia.

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