Building a Movement in an Interconnected World: A Conversation with Jacqueline Novogratz

Wednesday, July 8, 2009
6:30 to 8:00 pm ET
New York

In the face of global poverty that affects more than four billion lives, can one person make a difference? According to Jacqueline Novogratz—founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a nonprofit venture capital firm dedicated to bringing affordable and sustainable health care, water, energy, and housing to people who lack access to such critical goods and services—the answer is yes, if that one person builds a committed tribe around their cause. Innovative approaches to poverty require equally innovative approaches to communicating the message and spreading the word. Novogratz will discuss the challenges of leveraging social media networks to transform how people think about—and act on—problems of poverty.