Limited Time Special Offer

In an effort to bring awareness to the wonderful work that ACUMEN FUND continues to do around the world, Seth Godin and 800-CEO-READ have created a special offer.

The offer?
Buy 2 copies of Seth Godin's new book "Linchpin" (one for you and one for a friend), and 800-CEO-READ will include a free copy of "The Blue Sweater" by Jacqueline Novogratz, the founder and CEO of Acumen Fund.

*International shipping costs will be $35.00*

Book Descriptions:

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
The bestselling author of "Tribes" and "The Dip" returns with his most powerful book yet.

"It's easy to see why people pay to hear what he has to say. Godin is a marketer, but in the broadest sense of the word. He's interested in not simply how products are marketed, but also how people sell themselves and their ideas, and how new technology can be a game-changer." - Time.com

"Thousands of authors write business books every year but only a handful reach star status and the A-list lecture circuit. Fewer still- one, to be exact-can boast his own action figure. . . . In the nearly ten years since his first bestseller, Godin has become a marketing phenom with a string of titles, including "Purple Cow, Unleashing the Ideavirus," and his newest, "Tribes." . . . Across [all] media, Godin delivers his combination of counterintuitive thinking and a great sense of fun." -BusinessWeek.com

"The marketing expert is a demigod on the Web, a bestselling author, highly sought after lecturer, successful entrepreneur, respected pundit and high-profile blogger. He is uniquely respected for his understanding of the Internet, and his essays and opinions are widely read and quoted online and off." -Forbes.com

The Blue Sweater
"The Blue Sweater" is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty and find powerful new ways of tackling it. It all started back home in Virginia, with the blue sweater, a gift that quickly became her prized possession--until the day she outgrew it and gave it away to Goodwill. Eleven years later in Africa, she spotted a young boy wearing that very sweater, with her name still on the tag inside. That the sweater had made its trek all the way to Rwanda was ample evidence, she thought, of how we are all connected, how our actions--and inaction--touch people every day across the globe, people we may never know or meet.From her first stumbling efforts as a young idealist venturing forth in Africa to the creation of the trailblazing organization she runs today, Novogratz tells gripping stories with unforgettable characters--women dancing in a Nairobi slum, unwed mothers starting a bakery, courageous survivors of the Rwandan genocide, entrepreneurs building services for the poor against impossible odds. She shows, in ways both hilarious and heartbreaking, how traditional charity often fails, but how a new form of philanthropic investing called "patient capital" can help make people self-sufficient and can change millions of lives. More than just an autobiography or a how-to guide to addressing poverty, "The Blue Sweater" is a call to action that challenges us to grant dignity to the poor and to rethink our engagement with the world.