[Unedited] Jacqueline Novogratz with Krista Tippett

Published: Aug. 19, 2010, 4 p.m.

The devastation of the Haiti earthquakes and the lack of infrastructure for responding to the disaster have deepened an ongoing debate over foreign aid, international development, and helping the poorest of the world\u2019s poor. Jacqueline Novogratz, whose Acumen Fund is reinventing that landscape with what it calls \u201cpatient capitalism,\u201d is charting a third way between investment for profit and aid for free. Krista\u2019s unedited conversation with Jacqueline Novogratz. She\u2019s the founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund and author of the memoir, \u201cThe Blue Sweater.\u201d Krista spoke with her on January 8, 2010, from the studios of American Public Media in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was in a private recording studio in New York City. This interview is included in our program \u201cA Different Kind of Capitalism \u2013 Jacqueline Novogratz and the Reinvention of Aid.\u201d See more at http://onbeing.org/program/different-kind-capitalism/50