Jacqueline Novogratz is the founder and CEO of Acumen, a global organization that fights poverty and builds dignity through patient investment in companies and leaders.
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Ending Poverty Requires More Than Charity
03-03-2026
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Too often, our dominant approaches to poverty see people as objects of aid or control rather than as individuals with agency. We overlook and underestimate people, and in doing so we stifle enormous human potential.