The blue sweater

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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 understand 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 all the way
to Rwanda was ample evidence, she thought, of how we are all connected,
how our actions―and inaction―touch people every day across the globe,
people we may never know or meet.<br>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 services for the poor against
impossible odds.<br>She shows, in ways both hilarious and heartbreaking,
how traditional charity often fails, but how a new form of
philanthropic investing called "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.