The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World

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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 have in mind 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 the entire way to Rwanda used to be ample evidence, she thought, of how we are all connected, how our actions―and inactiveness―touch people each 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 products and services for the poor against unattainable odds.

She shows, in ways both hilarious and heartbreaking, how traditional charity frequently fails, but how a new form of philanthropic making an investment referred to as “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.

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