Acumen Fund invested in Husk Power Systems (HPS) in 2010 to help them scale their innovative business model of using discarded rice husks as a source for rural off-grid electricity generation. HPS has since expanded to over 90 plants all over Bihar, India, and has launched Husk Power University (HPU), a technical training institute for[.....]
Kenya has come a long way in a short time, and we still have a long way to go! I remain optimistic that as a country, we will be able to realize our collective national aspirations: my optimism stems from that which is Kenya’s greatest resource, her people! While we have made our fair share[.....]
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Rising Pyramid on May 23, 2012.
Last night, I spoke at The SF Acumen Fund Chapter‘s event and someone asked a question that struck me as important. They asked about Acumen’s perspective on design. My gut reaction was that Acumen Fund is not a design firm, but the question warranted more[.....]
Seen & Heard Around Acumen Fund
What you might be missing
May 2 – May 24, 2012
Seen & Heard is a collection of recent headlines in the news about our world, our work, and the spaces and places in between. In each post, we also share a list of job openings at Acumen Fund and in[.....]
Below is the full-text of Jacqueline Novogratz’s Commencement Address given at Gettysburg College on May 20, 2012.
Thank you, President Riggs.
David, you’re a hard act to follow. In the past 24 hours as I was listening to your classmates speak, I was thinking that I finally have a sense of what it means to be “Gettysburg[.....]