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