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Acumen Blog
The Acumen Global Fellowship is an intensive and immersive one-year journey that deepens participants' understanding of poverty, exposes them to new models of social change—and enhances their capabilities as leaders to take on some of society’s greatest challenges. Each fall, the selected Fellows come to New York for a...
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There is article after article about why businesses and investors should seek new ways to be more inclusive of women in their business models. But what we’ve learned at Acumen, where we invest in business that solve problems of poverty, is that leaders of social-purpose...
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New York, NY – Acumen, the nonprofit global venture fund, announced today the launch of Acumen America, a portfolio of American social enterprises focused on tackling poverty within the United States. Since its founding in 2001, Acumen has invested $101 million to build nearly 100 innovative enterprises...
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Acumen and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Colombia announced today the first investment in a joint $4 million initiative aimed at generating rural economic growth in Colombia through private-sector investments. Called the Investing for Peace Fund, or Invirtiendo Para la Paz, the...
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Acumen announced today its new investment in Aarusha Homes, a chain of professionally managed hostels catering to the growing migrant population in India’s cities. The company, which provides migrant students and workers with affordable temporary accommodation, is helping address the country’s urban housing shortage while also...