The Blue Sweater读后感1000字
《The Blue Sweater》是一本由Jacqueline Novogratz著作，Rodale Books出版的Hardcover图书，本书定价：USD 24.95，页数：262，特精心从网络上整理的一些读者的读后感，希望对大家能有帮助。
《The Blue Sweater》精选点评：
●故事写得非常生动传神，值得每一位希望过一种不一样的人生的朋友阅读
●patient capital, accountability, business strategies, market mechanisms, community, trust
●。
●Impact investment
●if you dont like the way the world is, you change it. you have the obligation to change it. you just do it one step at a time. 伴随我非洲之旅的书
●strongly recommend.
●太好看了亲。强烈推荐给那些dream to change the world的人们。
●Sometimes the way to the hell is paved with good intentions
●inspiring!
●一边读一边飙泪，本年度最最触动我内心和让我收获最大的书。准备在接下来的两周细致地写三篇系列书评。（一）用心听世界那头传来的回音 （二）一趟没有地图的旅程，一条改变世界的路（三）想到就去做，现在出发不晚
《The Blue Sweater》读后感(一)：因为TED
看她的书，是因为TED的一次她的演讲。看着the blue sweater里阐述的她的人生，只觉得自己过的太小太小了。
也曾像小孩子穿高跟鞋似的把她的故事写进自己的梦想里，却仍未能坚持，有她的心，却实在太想回家。
《The Blue Sweater》读后感(二)：重要的是聆听
最近在读这本书，感觉这是一本很值得回味的书。
作者Jacqueline Novogratz是 Acumen Fund 的创立人（她也多次参加TED演讲），她年轻的时候特别想改变世界，甚至于在大学毕业的时候就想该怎么去实现这样一个梦想。她的母亲则告诉她需要更冷静的看待世界，并且她需要一些改变世界所需的技能。于是她去到一家大银行去工作，两年后她觉得火候到了（或者是耐不住在华尔街那样地方继续呆下去），就参加世行的一个扶贫项目被派往非洲。她在非洲经历了所有的酸甜苦辣，从被别人鄙视到参与到支援草根妇女的创业项目，整个过程让她看到了世相之复杂，也让她看到了很多传统扶贫项目失败的根本原因——没有聆听当地人的心声，只是强加扶贫项目自身的想法。她从帮助当地妇女推销蛋糕开始，慢慢的理解当地人的很多想法，并且一步步的帮助她们提升商业技能，最终走出贫困。
书中还记述了1994年卢旺达种族大屠杀前后发生的一些故事，读起来让人不禁作出各种反思：人性到底是善还是恶？为什么本来看上去很友好的人会突然间成为引导种族屠杀行为的内阁官员？在种族屠杀之后，民众如何恢复正常的生活？和解如何成为可能？这些在书中都有描述，颇为值得一读。
假如您也有改变世界之愿望，或者也曾有过类似的想法，或者您正在从事慈善活动，甚至是在从商，假如您真的希望听到世界向好的一种故事，不妨找这本书来读一读吧，它会给您带来很多启发。
感兴趣的朋友还可以看看作者的几个TED演讲：
《The Blue Sweater》读后感(三)：Made the world better just by being in it
There is a Jewish saying, "What is truer than truth？ The story." When it comes to who we will be, the more aspirational question of "who we wish to be" often reveals a truth deeper than truth.
The story started from seeing the abandoned blue sweater worn on a Rwanda boy.
When Jacqueline first arrived at Africa, she had no idea what will happen next or precisely how she will work her way out of crisis. Yet what does seem clear is that the conventional wisdom of the 20th century are not equipped for the century ahead.
Despite tease, threaten, cheat, even sexual interfere, she not only survived but made radical changes. At the Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurship, leadership professor Roger Martin argued that the most common characteristic of exceptional leaders - not good leaders, but exceptional leaders - is that when presented with opposing and undesirable options, their tendency is to reject the premise of the choice and find a superior path forward. Jacqueline is the very few exceptional leaders in my eye.
acking home and feeling privileged, she missed feeling useful. Then the story of founding Acumen seemed quite natural. I took Acumen ten years from a start-up to a big name.
I still remember the first time I got to know Acumen when awarded this book at Global Engagement Summit. The second time the head of Acumen India warmly invited me to take a photo with him at Clinton Global Initiative. I could read between the lines and words to feel the culture of Acumen—ambitious, astute, open and supportive, the very shining spirit of its founder.
quot;Made the world better just by being in it." Because despite the endless repetition of foreclosures and botched bailouts that cloud our news; despite the very real pain and injustice that remains all to common; despite talent denied the chance to thrive the world over, today is more full of potential, passion, and opportunity than any day before it.
Just keep in mind. "When you are weak, you are strong. "
《The Blue Sweater》读后感(四)：用心听世界那头传来的回音
1.
有很多原因都会让我犯拖延症。
可能是任务太大太艰巨。或者那是我被迫要做的。要么是精神状态不够好。
⋯⋯
但，我三个星期前就嚷嚷的要写的《蓝毛衣》书评却迟迟不动笔却不是因为以上的原因。
因为我太喜欢这本书，我怕，怕把它写砸了。我从这本书中获得了巨大的精神能量的，
可我可以用自己的文字把这份呐喊寄给遥远的你吗？
如果你听到了，可以给我一份回音吗？
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你喊，就有人听到，因为世界是相连的。
也许我的声音传递不了很远，也许我想讲的故事不够动听。但，我不讲的话，就更没可能让大家听到动人的故事，让这些感动的人和事传到更远的地方了。
世界到底有多平呢？我常常想。我出生的那年，柏林墙倒塌了。我2岁的时候，冷战结束了，苏联解体了。我5岁的时候，卢旺达爆发种族大屠杀，一个拥有800万人口的国家在两个月内死了80万人。这些都是我长大后才知道的事。甚至当我12岁时，作为一个初中生，目睹世贸大楼迸出的黑烟遮蔽了半座纽约，老师，同学还有我一起拍手称快，在接下来的几天里，看到电视机前哭泣悲伤的人，我浑然不觉。那是他们的世界，我当时想。
直到我慢慢长大，去一个又一个地方，我才知道世界是被多么紧密地相连着。也许是以你并没有留意到的方式。你的痛，别人也感受得到，而别人的痛，也会传染到你。在《蓝毛衣》的开头，贾桂琳跟我们讲了一个故事。25岁的她正行走在卢旺达首都基加利的丘陵路上，而眼前出现的一个小男孩让她震惊了。他瘦骨嶙峋，约莫10岁的样子，身上穿着的是她十多年前在弗罗里达州捐掉的一件蓝毛衣。毛衣上的一座小火山花式还依旧清晰可见，衣服标签上还绣着贾桂琳的名字。
这件蓝毛衣，以无法想象的方式完成了与它原主人的重聚。而震惊之余，贾桂林也深深的感受到，这个世界原来是如此紧闭地相连着。
3.
用心听，蓝毛衣还告诉了你什么？
对于这个小男孩来说，得到这件衣服是幸运的。为了让这件衣服落到这个男孩的手中，成千上万的公益工作者和志愿者付出了艰辛的努力。安插在小区里的废旧衣服回收箱，按类分拣，联系被捐国，国内物流，国际物流，当地政府发放物资⋯⋯
捐助的过程繁琐无比，运输成本几乎要赶上捐助物资本身的价值了。可大家都认为这是好事，这么做有意义。所以年复一年，人们继续捐助物资，而非政府组织们也悉心地排除万难要把这些东西送到需要的人手中。
想法很美好，现实很残酷。由于不断涌入的国际物资援助，受助国本国的制造业、零售业被严重打击。许多当地的衣物加工厂被迫倒闭，很多原来靠贩卖衣服鞋帽为生的小贩也不得不另谋出路。而资助物的控制者——政府，几乎永远也无法落实物资如何分配这个难题，有的甚至官商勾结，把资助物转手卖掉。
传统的慈善，传统的捐助，其实并不是我们电视上报纸上看到的那么风光无限，那么道义凛然的。好心办坏事的案例数不胜数。为什么会这样？因为当你想去帮助别人的时候，你没有听，没有认真听，没有仔细听，没有用心听。如果你想帮助贫穷的人，你最应该做的，是问他们需要什么。他们并不想要暂时可以蔽体的衣服或者可以充饥的几顿饭，他们想要好好安身立命，他们最要的是工作，是尊严。如果这些问题能解决，关联的医疗卫生疾病预防疫苗等等社会问题都会有翻天覆地的变化。
那么，什么样的慈善，才能给人们工作和尊严？
4.
要以什么样的方式，将蓝毛衣送到人们手中？
如果一开始，人们把运送蓝毛衣的物流成本用来投资当地的衣服加工厂，给他们更好的设备，引入更先进的生产技术，教给他们现代化的管理方法，那么结果就是另外的样子了。当地就业率可以改善，衣服生产的成本下降，人们可以买到更便宜的东西。工人们有了稳定的收入，可以给子女更好的教育和健康的保障。工厂的发展也能惠及靠税收吃饭的政府，给他们更多的资源和动力去兴建基础设施以便引入更多其他工厂。
如果，国际援助的不是现金，而是帮助当地人兴建起一所像尤努斯创建的贷款给穷人的格莱美银行（Grameen）。以小额信贷，互相担保的方式让村民方便地融到资本，当地的经济盘活后，解决教育卫生等问题，就有了更加坚实的社会基础，改善也是指日可待之事。事实上，在河南信阳的郝堂村，李昌平老师正是这样做的。他在全面评估了郝堂村后，首先做的不是教育和医疗项目，而是养老互助合作社的尝试。他带头兴建起来的这个信贷机构，不仅让老人成了一家之宝（贷款必须要家中老人来担保才行），而且迅速让当地的金融灵活运作起来，为大家所用。
但，没有一条道路是重复的，开路的方法有很多。所以，在《如何改变世界》一书中，有那么多勇敢无畏的社会创新者，执着地用实践和创新的方式，解决了诸多社会领域的问题（这本书的书评近期奉上）。
同样是一件蓝毛衣，用不同渠道获得它，结果天差地别。你想好用哪种方式了吗？ 长期的利益就意味着巨大的短期困难，兴建一个机构，彻底地系统性地解决问题都会遇到无以伦比的困难，这也是我从《如何改变世界》一书中体会到的。
5.
得到蓝毛衣以后，然后呢？
在贾桂琳花了两年时间在卢旺达建立了第一所专门针对妇女的小额信贷银行会，让她怎么也想不到的是，这么多美好的东西，包括那家银行，都在94年的种族大屠杀中被摧毁了。而大屠杀的带头人之一，居然还曾经跟她一起日日夜夜为兴建第一所妇女银行而努力工作。
这是如何令人无法接受。明明经济环境都已经比过去好了，为什么还会发生如此惨剧？为何一位深系妇女，愿意为改善她们生活而奋力拼搏的妇女领袖，最终会沦为权力的奴隶，转而将杀戮伸向无辜的人们？
每个人心中都有的一个小小的恶魔，你不控制它，它就会控制你。这也就是为什么，当贾桂琳在她事业后期为创建Acumen基金而组织未来领导工作坊的时候，会画3个星期让参与者读甘地传，读柏拉图的理想国，读圣经，读佛学思想。因为她知道，培养一个能改变世界的领导人还不够，还要让这个人把他的力量发挥在正确的地方。
发掘人性的善，抗争人性的恶，也是需要持之以恒的努力的。
6.
这篇文章，是我读了《蓝毛衣》以后发出的呐喊，你听到了吗？
听到的话，给我一个回音。
我会用心地听，耐心地等。
《The Blue Sweater》读后感(五)：Book Review of Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz
13Fall的一门选课International Development上的Reading，Book Review是结课作业的一部分，以下。
The book Blue Sweater shows us the path of Jacqueline’s 20 years’ working experiences in the third world and many thought ‐‑ provoking ideas she originated along the journey. The book got its name from the blue sweater that Jacqueline’s uncle gave her and she dumped and Jacqueline accidentally saw a boy in Rwanda wearing exactly her sweater 10 years later.
Jacqueline entered into banking industry miraculously, but she trained hard and a promising career lay ahead. However, she decided to quit her fancy job in the first world and explored a different kind of path, an NGO sending her to the third world. First, as a young and inexperienced American woman, she found it difficult to gain trust from local Africans. She gradually learned how to listen to people through setting up of the Duterimbere, a microfinance facility, and reinvigorating the 20 women of the Blue Bakery. After two years in Rwanda, focusing on helping women become economically independent, she figured out the reason why millions of dollars in charity did little to solve poverty. Jacqueline climbed a volcano in Zaire and ran down through golf ball sized hailstones and accidentally danced in Nairobi'ʹs slums after her car was stuck in the heavy rain. Then, She decided to apply to business school to gain a better understanding of management and how to build businesses. Upon graduation, she joined Rockefeller Foundation and later led the Next Generation Fellows program. After she knew the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, she paid several visits back to the country and tried to understand the behavior of her former colleagues Agnes and Prudence, shocked at the disorder of human existence. With reflections on the success of Duterimbere, Jacqueline decided to initiate a new kind of institution combining characteristics of philanthropy and venture capital fund, the Acumen Fund in 2001. Acumen Fund would provide entrepreneurs with a wide range of support from basic financial planning, manager recruitment to marketing. The Fund’s Patient Capital investment style has succeeded in India and Pakistan and now provides support and care to lots of people in poverty.
Of all the characters in the book, I want to specifically analyze the only three parliamentarians, Prudence, Agnes and Constance. When the writer first met them, Prudence seemed a visionary spokeswoman, Constance a workhorse and Agnes a true politician. However, after Constance was killed by a dubious hit ‐‑ and ‐‑ run for bride price issue and Agnes was forced to resign due to corruption, from my point of view, the writer begins to accept the notion that only when
women control money will they have the power to walk away from being hurt and this firstly echoes the final conclusion that solutions to poverty must be driven by discipline and accountability. After the genocide happened, Agnes and Constance were both held in prison for being killers. Agnes’s case reminds us that power corrupts on an equal ‐‑ opportunity basis regardless of gender. Prudence’s case makes us to think the ambiguity of human existence and at the same time, we can see the resilience and healing power of the people.
Another important thread to mention is the turn ‐‑ around of Blue Bakery. This bakery gave writer the opportunity to experiment her ideas and taught her that for every two steps forward, there is often one back. She finally gained respect of 20 women workers and successfully ran the business of bakery, a new model for philanthropy and enlightenment for the Acumen Fund.
trength: This book illustrates the thoughts of philanthropy and solution of poverty from a practical perspective, instead of a theoretical one. The writer has every details and stories that leads to her opinions and ideas. Furthermore, the book is really comprehensive and does not try to convince audience anything. It shows the whole process of writer’s mental transition and the causes for that, and leaves for audience to judge.
Weakness: The book is filled with too many boring details of her travel itineraries and other personal issues. You may find yourself struggling to read through the book, because it reads more like a diary than a book. What’s more, the book is not structured in a good way that we can find a natural flow that conveys the main ideas. The endearing "ʺwe ‐‑ are ‐‑ all ‐‑ connectedʺ story about that blue sweater sworn several years later by a young boy in Rwanda is mentioned in the first four pages of the book. It is not mentioned again until 250 pages later.
As Jacqueline said, “Solutions to poverty must be driven by discipline, accountability and market ‐‑ strength, not easy sentimentality. It is about building solutions from the perspective of the poor people themselves rather than imposing grand theories and plans upon them.” I, personally, recommend this great book to everyone interested in the third world or philanthropy.