For World Poverty Day, nonprofit venture capital fund Acumen debuts a series of portraits of people living on less than $5 a day--and shows how the projects it's funded are helping. Dynamic Duos: ...

At a time when one out of four office spaces in Lower Manhattan are collecting cobwebs, one century-old tower is teeming with tenants who want to stay put for the long run. The 22-year-old charitable ...

Jacqueline Novogratz founded Acumen in 2001, six years before the Rockefeller Foundation coined the term “impact investing” to describe investing to realize specific positive social and/or ...

Some 35% of Americans report missing a mortgage payment due to the pandemic and more than 50% are cutting back on essential expenses to afford to make their mortgage payment, according to the National ...

Jamie Metzl, Executive Vice President of the Asia Society, in conversation with Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a non-profit global venture fund that invests in entrepreneurs who ...

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Acumen Fund (acumenfund.org) seeks to improve the lives of the world’s poor by investing in groundbreaking social enterprises and ideas. Founded in 2001, the organization provides investments, not ...

Novogratz: The privilege for me has been to see Jocelyn going from being a fellow at Acumen to creating an organization and becoming a leading voice around design for low-income people that connects ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Acumen, a non-profit private equity fund that invests in basic services for the poor in emerging markets, plans to boost its funding by four times in the next three to five years, ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fueling its efforts to expand access to credit and greater financial health, Atlanta-based fintech lender VIVA Finance has closed a $2.3 million seed round led by Acumen Fund ...