VisionSpring Founder Jordan Kassalow Wins $100K Aspen Prize

I just returned to my apartment for a quick break between Acumen Fund’s annual Investor Gathering (which was today) and our benefit Celebration (which is tonight). More on both events later - I have 7+ pages of notes from today that are waiting to be turned into a blog post (or two)!

One of the nice things about being in the Rubin Museum of Art all day today was that I didn’t have access to the Internet, which meant I wasn’t tempted to check my work e-mail compulsively (which is the norm for me, sadly). So, on returning home, I connected back to the world. Among the new messages in my inbox was a note from VisionSpring, an Acumen Fund investee, with the subject line “VisionSpring Wins Aspen Prize“.

Intrigued, I opened it to find out that Jordan Kassalow, the tireless co-founder of VisionSpring, was recently awarded the prestigious John P. McNulty prize, which “supports extraordinary young leaders making creative, effective, and lasting contributions to their communities” and comes with a $100,000 award. We at Acumen Fund are thrilled to see Jordan and his deserving team honored by one of our closest allies, the Aspen Institute. Congratulations to everyone at VisionSpring on this wonderful endorsement of what you do every day.

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