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Description
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... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“The path to hell is paved with good intentions”
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“Give people a way to walk so that eventually they can run, and then you'll see them dance”
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“Never before in history have we had the skills, resources, technologies, and imagination to solve poverty that we do now”
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“Today, I believe more strongly than I did as a young woman that we can end poverty”
First Sentence
It all started with the blue sweater, the one my uncle Ed gave me.
Table of Contents
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
Authors & Contributors
- Jacqueline Novogratz (Author)
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