http://www.rachellaudan.com/2009/08/the-question-of-small-loans.html A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:28:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.rachellaudan.com/2009/08/the-question-of-small-loans.html/comment-page-1#comment-26186 Judith Klinger, Aroma Cucina Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:37:58 +0000 http://www.rachellaudan.com/?p=1847#comment-26186 If you get the opportunity, there's a very interesting book called, "The Blue Sweater" by Jacqueline Novogratz who started the Acumen Foundation. After starting out with all the enthusiasm and knowledge of a secure white woman who had worked her way up the commercial banking ladder, she finds herself in Africa where she just wants to do good but its not until she lives and breathes the culture that she can begin to make a dent in the entrenched poverty. The book is a bit awkward: it starts out as a coming of age memoir and develops into an Acumen Foundation corporate document, but it does make you think about the underlying philosophy of philanthropy If you get the opportunity, there’s a very interesting book called, “The Blue Sweater” by Jacqueline Novogratz who started the Acumen Foundation. After starting out with all the enthusiasm and knowledge of a secure white woman who had worked her way up the commercial banking ladder, she finds herself in Africa where she just wants to do good but its not until she lives and breathes the culture that she can begin to make a dent in the entrenched poverty. The book is a bit awkward: it starts out as a coming of age memoir and develops into an Acumen Foundation corporate document, but it does make you think about the underlying philosophy of philanthropy

]]> http://www.rachellaudan.com/2009/08/the-question-of-small-loans.html/comment-page-1#comment-26145 Ji-Young Park Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:47:49 +0000 http://www.rachellaudan.com/?p=1847#comment-26145 More people going to school is a pretty big accomplishment. Having a few dollars more to buy clean water and a steady supply of fuel can be really nice. Not a major reduction of poverty, but still welcomed relief. More people going to school is a pretty big accomplishment. Having a few dollars more to buy clean water and a steady supply of fuel can be really nice. Not a major reduction of poverty, but still welcomed relief.

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