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Acumen Fund Launches New Web Site, Fellows Blog
Time to update your RSS feeds: Acumen Fund has launched a new, RSS-compatible web site (the site is a re-design of their previous effort).? In addition to being syndication-friendly, the new site is rich with stories, photos, videos and lots of dynamic content.? I like how they’ve...
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Are We Making a Difference? Measuring the Social and Environmental Impacts of Small and Medium Ente
Guest blogger Mareike Hussels is Latin America Manager for New Ventures. Prior to joining WRI, Mareike worked with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), where she was responsible for outreach to financial institutions in Latin America. Mareike pursued her...
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Echoing Green’s 2008 Fellowship – Apply Now
Echoing Green is an angel investor for entrepreneurs focused on social change. I wrote about a couple of their 2007 fellows earlier this summer. They provide seed funding and support to entrepreneurs with innovative ideas for social change. As an angel investor in the social sector,...
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Shengchang Bioenergy ? Building China’s BOP Biomass Market
Biofuels have become a fashionable and controversial topic of late (just yesterday, the New York Times reported on resistance to ethanol in Iowa). Debates range from lauding the benefits of renewable energy sources to questioning whether biofuels will raise prices of staple comestibles, leaving...
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Katherine Fulton on “Acumen’s Moment”
I am in New York City today, attending the 2007 Acumen Fund Investor Gathering.? This annual event is an opportunity for NextBillion ally Acumen Fund to engage its stakeholders - investors, entrepreneurs, partners and supporters - in a discussion of where the fund has been and where it’s...
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Latin American Forum for Inclusive Business: Al Hammond Goes to Chile, and The Next Four Billion Deb
This week, AVINA, FUNDES, and MASISA are hosting a regional 3-day workshop for Inclusive Businesses and a special Business Forum in Santiago, Chile. WRI’s Al Hammond is participating as a panelist at the Forum today and sent the following comments in from Santiago:Inclusive Business...
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Exciting Times in the Base of the Pyramid Movement
It has been an exciting week in the “base of the pyramid” (BOP) world, at least from my vantage point.? From mainstream media coverage of key BOP issues to off-the-radar developments in organizations like Endeavor and Acumen Fund, a lot is going on.? A brief wrap-up: On Sunday,...
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Job: Acumen Fund India Portfolio Associate
Acumen Fund is currently seeking highly qualified applicants for the position of India Portfolio Associate.Location: Hyderabad, IndiaAcumen Fund is a global non-profit venture capital fund serving the four billion people living on less than $4 a day. Its objective is to create a blueprint...
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