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Following on from her previous blog post, Alexandra Christy expresses her thoughts on our growing Acumen Fund community.
As you may have read above, Acumen investor and Woodcock Board Member Lindsay Shea and I traveled to India to see Acumen on the ground, and one of the highlights of the trip was going to the Indian School of Business (ISB) and meeting four of the students who had volunteered to work with Acumen while students. This was quite a group, and indicative of the kind of talent Acumen is drawing as its reputation accrues.
One of the four, Vikram Raman, has just now been hired at Acumen as an India Country Associate; another, Ayeleen Ajanee, one of the first Pakistanis to be educated in India, was one of eight chosen from 600 applicants to be an Acumen Fellow; and yet another, Anjali Patel, had been selected by the ISB to be one of a very few students to meet and interact with President Bush when he visited the school in March (turns out she was also the Net Impact rep on the ISB campus).
My head swims with the talent of the people who are so eager to be in Acumen’s “world,” and I keep hearing their answer to my deceptively simple question of why they wanted to be part of Acumen: “NGO’s have this model of living from one grant to another. We have to change the mindset of the NGO sector, and Acumen is offering a new model to do that. They are converting the charity mindset.” (We decided that “Convert the Charity Mindset” would make for a great Acumen bumper sticker.)
Alexandra Christy, Executive Director, Woodcock Foundation
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