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The article discusses Jacqueline Novogratz and the Acumen Fund, a venture-capital organization she is founder and chief executive officer of. Acumen specializes in providing funds to small entrepreneurs in developing countries who are striving to address such pressing needs as affordable housing and safe water. In Pakistan Novogratz's fund invested $1.9 million in a bank that provides small loans to farmers at favorable interest rates. Novogratz is a graduate of the University of Virginia who first became acquainted with troubled economies around the world while working for financial company Chase Manhattan Bank.