Post on 15-Jan-2015
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Building aWorld
beyond Poverty
Jacqueline Novogratz
“Los seres humanos no nacen para siempre el día en que sus madres los alumbran, sino que la vida los obliga a parirse a sí mismos una y otra vez.”
Gabriel García Márquez
Illustration: Penelope Dullughan
Genocide slide
Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth
What is patient capital?
$74 MILLION
86 MILLION
55,000+
invested in 65 companies
lives impacted
jobs created & supported
Five industries transformed or extended to low-income people
Scores of leaders & a new sector
Husk University
200,000 people
with affordable electricity
~$600,000saved per year by families
switching from kerosene
FreedomDignity
PICTURE OF THE SINGLE HOUSE (THE ONE IN THE ACUMEN ENTRYWAY