Jacqueline Novogratz: Tossing the Rubric

Founder and CEO of Acumen Fund talks with Bruce Nussbaum about social entrepreneurship and Acumen’s work to fundamentally change what it means to “invest.”

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BIF-4 Summit

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Jacqueline Novogratz

Jacqueline Novogratz founded the Acumen Fund a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Since 2001, the fund has made over $25 million in investments in 18 businesses across Asia and Africa, proving that small amounts of philanthropic capital, combined with large doses of business acumen, can build thriving enterprises that serve vast numbers of the poor. 

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