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Jacqueline Novogratz: Murder, Philanthropy, Blue Sweaters

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Making a Difference: Micro-Financed Donuts in Rwanda

03 min 35 sec

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Jacqueline Novogratz describes her experience starting a micro-financed bakery for poor Rwandan women.

She describes her "favorite moment" when, to set an example for the other women, sold out her supply of donuts.
Jacqueline Novogratz Struggles With Rwandan Genocide

05 min 12 sec

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Jacqueline Novogratz struggles to understand how a woman she knew in Rwanda could have indirectly engineered the genocide of 800,000 people.

She describes how the principles of tolerance and diversity could have mutated into Nazi-like horror.
Jacqueline Novogratz Discovers Her Blue Sweater in Africa

02 min 02 sec

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Jacqueline Novogratz tells the story of how, ten years after donating her sweater to Goodwill, she finds it worn by a young boy in Kingali.

She says, "I hold it...as metaphor for how connected we are as a world."
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Vasil

Posted: 06.11.09, 11:17 AM

The idea of Acumen Fund is the middle road of the microfinance debate between pure philanthropists and entrepreneurs trying to make money from poor by lending to them. Nowadays almost everybody agrees that traditional international aid is ineffective as it often consumed by the corrupt governments and stays out of reach from those who really need it. Professor Yunus, a founder of Grameen Bank, whose original goal was to to empower women and to contribute to their financial stability by providing them short-term microcredits believes that "maximization of profit" is inappropriate when dealing with third world countries where majority of population lives below the poverty line. On the other hand, a founder of Ebay, Pierre Omidyer, treats "helping poor” as just another business model. For more info on this debate, please, read the following publication in New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/archive/200...?currentPage=2

Rdallas1

Posted: 06.11.09, 11:05 AM

It is so frightening how people can be so easily brainwashed to think ethnic cleansing is ok. When she talked about how Agnus had convinced herself that what the Hutu had done was right it just reminds me of how many people did that during WWII. It's like people don't take a step back and use their common sense of what is right and wrong. And she is so right on when she says that after such a horrible event we will say "never again" but it continuously happens even today. Even the U.S., the country of the "free", is responsible for such horrible acts only we have a government that can surprisingly easily hide this. I just hope it doesn't take another World War for us to understand that we must accept and respect our differences between cultures even if we don't agree with them.