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Acumen Blog
Acumen has invested in Viva Finance, a fintech business that offers affordable loans to improve the financial health of underserved Americans who are otherwise forced to rely on expensive lending products The Challenge: Exploitative Lenders In 2019, financially underserved consumers in the U.S. — encompassing...
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New Acumen report, “Resilient. Farmers.” provides investors and agricultural businesses with recommendations to help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change, build their resilience, and increase their incomes. Salana has been a farmer for 18 years, long enough to know that the weather did not use...
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Earlier this month, Analynn Salvato rode 530 miles from New York City to the Canadian border. In her day job, Analynn is a project manager for an equity research firm. On this eight-day journey, however, she rode for a different kind of equity, the kind...
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In 30 minutes, a promising harvest can turn to crop failure. The ability to make a living or feed your family can disappear. For farmers, this isn’t an abstract risk, it is the reality of climate change, a daily threat that can strike any time...
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Boulder Care is a health care company that conforms neither to the accepted practice of 28-day rehabilitation centers nor the requirement of place-based centers that expect individuals to show up daily for treatment.