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Guest Post: The Transformative Sector Approach in Latin America
Guest blogger Emily Fintel is Regional Representative for Strategic Initiatives at Fundaci?n AVINA, one of the largest private foundations in Latin America. AVINA partners with civil society and business leaders to promote sustainable development through a network of twenty-one offices in...
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NextBillion Announces Partnership With Acumen Fund
By Derek Newberry and Rob Katz NextBillion.net is happy to announce that, as of today, the site will be co-owned and co-managed by World Resources Institute and its newest partner, Acumen Fund. Since NextBillion.net’s launch in 2005, we have admired Acumen Fund’s innovative approach...
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Guest Post: What It Means to be Patient – Drip Irrigation in Pakistan’s Thar Desert
Guest blogger Sasha Dichter is Director of Business Development at Acumen Fund. Before joining Acumen, Dichter held senior positions in the corporate citizenship departments of GE Money and IBM. He earned a B.A., M.A., and M.B.A., all from Harvard University. By Sasha Dichter Today, we...
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Guest Post: Taking the BoP Movement To The Next Level
Guest blogger Sagar Gubbi is a technology graduate based in Bangalore with a deep interest in social and environmental sectors in India. He maintains a popular social entrepreneurship blog on Social Edge, and he is the co-founder of ’EcoForge’, an investment advisory and consulting firm...
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Base of the Pyramid Market Building in Disaster Areas
We live in a world obsessed with growth. According to the National Bureau of Economic of Research (NBER), there have been only four recessions in the US since 1980. Between March 1991 and March 2001, the US experienced the longest economic expansion in its history. It comes, therefore, as no...
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Guest Post: Show Me the Income
Guest blogger Ryan Gunderson writes about sustainable, scalable solutions to end global poverty on his Riches For Good blog. A finance professional with an MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and seven years of Fortune 500 experience, Ryan is transitioning to...
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Guest Post: Finding Good Capitalists
Guest blogger Blair Miller is a Manager of Business Development at Acumen Fund. She has lived and worked in Senegal, South Korea, India, and El Salvador. Her pursuit of a literature degree the University of Virginia opened her mind to the importance of social change and her MBA from Michigan...
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Guest Post: Brian Trelstad Responds to Al Hammond
Guest blogger Brian Trelstad is the Chief Investment Officer of Acumen Fund. Before joining Acumen Fund, Brian spent four years at McKinsey as a consultant in the healthcare and non-profit practices and as an editor of the McKinsey Quarterly. Prior to McKinsey, he worked as a case writer at...
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