• MAGNUM in Motion: Our friend and advisor, the MAGNUM photographer Susan Meiselas, just completed a powerful photo essay with Human Rights Watch on maternal mortality in India.  “In Silence” makes the case for Acumen Fund’s investment in LifeSpring hospitals and 1298 ambulance service.

• Interview with LifeSpring’s CEO: You can hear Anant Kumar, the visionary head of LifeSpring, in a podcast in the Social Innovations Conversations series.

• Congrats to D.light: D.light Design was awarded the Social Venture Network 2009 Innovation Award, which recognizes and supports the leaders of emerging enterprises.

• Kashf on Oprah: Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s new book, Half the Sky, includes the story of a Kashf Foundation client, which they recently shared on the Oprah Winfrey show.

• Design thinking in BusinessWeek: A BusinessWeek blog post talks about Acumen Fund’s work with Ripple Effect, featuring a video clip of our own Yasmina Zaidman.

• Share/Bookmark

Tags: 1298, Anant Kumar, awards, D.light, Kashf, LifeSpring, Ripple Effect, Susan Meiselas

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 at 6:56 am and is filed under Acumen News, Investee News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.