Jacqueline Novogratz of the Acumen Fund shares her big idea at the closing session of the Aspen Ideas Festival. Hosted by the Aspen Institute, The 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival will engage its participants in a variety of programs, tutorials, seminars and discussion events which together are guaranteed to charge the atmosphere with vibrant intellectual exchange. Think of it as a week-long summer university for the mind -- remarkable lectures and classes across a stimulating array of topics.

Sadaffe Abid, CEO of Kashf Foundation, which has provided microfinance and other financial products to more than 300,000 women in Pakistan, spoke recently at a breakfast hosted by Acumen Fund.

Plenary 1: Thinking Differently- Blending the Private and Social Sectors [Moderator] Iqbal Paroo, CEO, Omidyar Network Brizio Biondi-Morra, President, Fundación AVINA Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, Salesforce.com Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO, Acumen Fund Kurt Hoffman, Director, Shell Foundation [United Kingdom] Part of the Global Philanthropy Forum 2007, a project of the World Affairs Council of Northern California.

Global X interviews star Social Edge blogger and Acumen Fund Fellow Keely Stevenson in New York, as

This is the edited cut of a presentation on Google.org made at Mountain View offices on November 10t