Meeting Urgent Needs with Patient Capital

Jacqueline Novogratz
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Jacqueline Novogratz: CEO of Acumen Fund, a nonprofit venture fund that seeks to prove that small amounts of philanthropic capital, combined with large doses of business acumen, can build thriving enterprises that serve vast numbers of the poor. Acumen Fund's investments focus on delivering affordable, critical goods and services-like health care, water, housing and energy-through innovative market-oriented approaches.

Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, 2007, vol. 2, issue 1-2, 19-30

Date: 2007
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