3 ways acumen fund is eliminating poverty - and how you can help
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Ways Acumen Fund is
eliminating poverty. 3
And how you can help…
Patient Capital 1
Acumen uses philanthropic capital to make
disciplined investments – loans or equity, not grants
– that yield both financial and social returns.
.
Business Acumen 2
Acumen Fund leverages brilliant and
experienced fellows, partners and
advisors.
Dignity, not dependence 3
“We want stability and dignity. Give us work
and not charity,'’
- Dut Duriya, a panch member from the Bahujan Samaj Party
It’s working…
New hospitals
Clean water
Factories making bednets
provide jobs and protect
millions from malaria
Improved irrigation
for farmers
It has people talking…
“Africa needs many things, but most of all it needs capitalists who can start and run legal companies….People grow out of poverty when they create small businesses that employ their neighbors. Nothing else lasts.”
- Thomas Friedman New York Times, April 20, 2007
But talk is cheap.
We need you to get involved!
“We have an opportunity to make change faster than it’s ever been made before. In fact, it’s not an opportunity at all. It’s an obligation. If we can do this, we have no choice but to do it.”
- Seth Godin Presentation for Acumen,� November 11, 2008
I have only two requests.
#1) Watch the video on the
next slide
#2) Get involved
Learn. Connect. Donate. http://www.acumenfund.org/get-involved.html
One last request.
Vote for us.
The $5,000 prize will go to �Acumen Fund.
Thank you. �
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