The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World (edit title)

Jacqueline Novogratz edited the table of contents of The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World Thursday, August 20 2009.

• Prologue
  1 - Innocent Abroad
  2 - A Bird on the Outside, a Tiger Within
  3 - Context Matters
  4 - Basket Economics and Political Realities
  5 - The Blue Bakery
  6 - Dancing in the Dark
  7 - Traveling Without a Road Map
  8 - A New Learning Curve
  9 - Blue Paint on the Road
  10 - Retribution and Resurrection
  11 - The Cost of Silence
  12 - Institutions Matter
  13 - The Education of a Patient Capitalist
  14 - Building Brick by Brick
  15 - Taking it to Scale
  16 - The World We Dream, the Future We Create Together

Jacqueline Novogratz edited the first sentence of The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World Thursday, August 20 2009.

• It all started with the blue sweater, the one my uncle Ed gave me.

Shelfari edited the description of The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World Friday, July 31 2009.

• For the first 5,000 copies of The Blue Sweater purchased, a $15 donation per book will be made to Acumen Fund, a nonprofit that invests in transformative businesses to solve the problems of poverty. The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty and find powerful new ways of tackling it. It all started back home in Virginia, with the blue sweater, a gift that quickly became her prized possession—until the day she outgrew it and gave it away to Goodwill. Eleven years later in Africa, she spotted a young boy wearing that very sweater, with her name still on the tag inside. That the sweater had made its trek all the way to Rwanda was ample evidence, she thought, of how we are all connected, how our actions—and inaction—touch people every day across the globe, people we may never know or meet. From her first stumbling efforts as a young idealist venturing forth in Africa to the creation of the trailblazing organization she runs today, Novogratz tells gripping stories with unforgettable characters—women dancing in a Nairobi slum, unwed mothers starting a bakery, courageous survivors of the Rwandan genocide, entrepreneurs building services for the poor against impossible odds. She shows, in ways both hilarious and heartbreaking, how traditional charity often fails, but how a new form of philanthropic investing called "patient capital" can help make people self-sufficient and can change millions of lives. More than just an autobiography or a how-to guide to addressing poverty, The Blue Sweater is a call to action that challenges us to grant dignity to the poor and to rethink our engagement with the world.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Jacqueline Novogratz:

Peiyu W edited the quotations of The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World Monday, July 20 2009.

• Added a quotation: “The path to hell is paved with good intentions”
• Added a quotation: “Give people a way to walk so that eventually they can run, and then you'll see them dance”
• Added a quotation: “Never before in history have we had the skills, resources, technologies, and imagination to solve poverty that we do now”
• Added a quotation: “Today, I believe more strongly than I did as a young woman that we can end poverty”

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World Monday, July 20 2009.

• Added a contributor: Jacqueline Novogratz: (Primary Author)