VisionSpring founder (and Acumen investee) wins Skoll Award

Jordan Kassalow, Chairman and co-founder of VisionSpring, was announced today as one of the Skoll Foundation’s newest grantees. The award includes a 3-year, $765,000 unrestricted grant to VisionSpring, a non-profit social enterprise that empowers local individuals to become self-sustaining entrepreneurs by selling affordable eyeglasses to the millions of people in the developing world who need them. VisionSpring is also an Acumen Fund investee (and the Skoll Foundation is an Acumen Fund Leadership Partner - it’s all in the family!)

We’re thrilled to see Jordan - and the entire VisionSpring team - recognized in such a prestigious forum. Congratulations! And we’ll see you at the Skoll World Forum next week (rather, Brian Trelstad, Ann Macdougall and Varun Sahni will…)