"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.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. 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.

杰奎琳·诺佛葛拉兹（Jacqueline Novogratz）斯坦福大学MBA，非营利投资机构“聪明人基金”（Acumen Fund）创办人兼CEO，该基金旨在解决全球贫困问题，目前已在纽约、肯尼亚、印度和巴基斯坦等地设立办事处，为非洲和南亚地区的贫困民众提供饮水、住房、医疗和能源等基本民生服务。身为不断创业的拓荒者，她被称为“华尔街的良心”，并与2006年诺贝尔和平奖得主、孟加拉国穷人银行创始人尤努斯一起，被视为“社会企业家”的代表人物。杰奎琳经常往来世界各地，目前居住在纽约。