It’s in our DNA. It guides our ideation, our investments, and underpins our insights. It’s led us to re-invent the rules of return.
Our impact-first approach has informed our strategy from the beginning. In the last two decades, we have learned how to bring together the right capital,community, and knowledge at the right time.
Every metric tells a story. Our impact framework helps us collect and convert meaningful data into action. We measure impact across customer, company, and ecosystem.
Customers are the experts on the impact a new product or service has on their lives. We listen deeply to track metrics like first-time access to critical goods and service and improvements in quality of life, income, and climate resilience.
Impact measurement across our portfolio and regions has three pillars: poverty focus, breadth, and depth. These metrics help drive our investment decisions and build inclusive markets delivering products and services to the poor.
We measure poverty focus as the percentage of customers living under the globally standardized World Bank poverty lines per country.
We measure breadth of impact as the number of lives impacted, the number of jobs created, improved, or sustained, and how many metric tons of carbondioxide emissions were avoided.
We measure depth of impact by how much change an individual experiences and what impact means to them, beyond counting lives and ensuring povertyfocus. Some sample metrics we measure here include quality of life, first time access and, and how likely a person is to recommend a product or service toothers (Net Promoter score).
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In 2019 Acumen spun off an impact measurement company, 60 Decibels, based on our unique lean data approach. Lean Data is now widely used by impact investors to hear and learn directly from customers.
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We combine the best qualities of philanthropy and business to break the cycle of poverty.
We focus on solving problems across the five strategic sectors of energy, agriculture, workforce, health, and education.
We work in some of the hardest to reach communities on the planet, from Africa to India, Latin America to the United States.
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