Seen & Heard Around Acumen Fund
January 1 – January 20, 2012
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n & 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 our sector. Seen & Heard appears twice a month on the blog. For those of you who like keeping a pulse on the latest news as it’s happening, please consider following us on Twitter and Facebook! Finally, if you have ideas for how we can improve Seen & Heard, please don’t be shy and leave a comment below to let us know. Thanks for reading!
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Headlines
- Acumen Fund nominated as a finalist for the Zayed Future Energy Prize, along with two of our investees, d.light design and Orb Energy
- Jacqueline Novogratz is interviewed on Bloomberg TV’s MoneyMoves with Deirdre Bolton
Articles of the Week
AF and AF Family in the News
- Waterhealth International inaugurates its 500th Waterhealth Center, with the help of two US Senators
- LifeSpring Hospitals is featured alongside other primary healthcare organizations in India in the Business Standard
- Sasha Dichter shares his thoughts with Dowser.org on the year ahead in impact investing
- East Africa Fellow Joseph Nganga’s Solatern Initiative selected by Launch.org as one of 10 top energy innovations worldwide
Impact Investing in the News
- Bill Gates on India’s first polio-free year
- Lauren Burhill of The Money in the Middle Blog predicts 5 trends in Impact Investing in 2012
- Secondary markets come to the forefront of impact investing
- Cause Capitalism wants you to know about 10 social venture capital firms making a difference
- Philanthrocapitalism provides 10 predictions for 2012
Next Billion’s Best of 2011 Series Continues:
- Jazz at the BoP highlights the importance of improvisation in the sector
- Understanding Three Affordable Housing X-Factors, from Bryan Farris, AF Fellow Class of 2011
- Invest in Africa, on the economic rise of Africa
Other Relevant Articles:
- ‘Africa Not Fit For Print’ – The ‘light side’ of the ‘dark continent’
- The Stanford Social Innovation Review lists their Top 10 Books on the Economics of Poverty
- The Rise and Fall of Poverty Porn
- Arianna Huffington cites Jacqueline Novogratz as a ‘fearless leader’
- NextBillion.net writes on the rise of decentralization in bringing essential goods to low-income communities
- Our friends at IDEO.org are featured as a top 10 design idea in 2011
- A stunning series of pictures features providing access to water and sanitation in Afghanistan
- Frustrations in Nigeria grow over fuel prices, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes
- An interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep on his article, ‘Life and Death in Karachi’
- The New Groupthink goes up against the creativity of solitude
- The Economist profiles India’s new identity project to fight poverty
- Doing good to do well: WSJ reports that more companies are sending employees to emerging markets for service projects
- Tactical Philanthropy posts on financial structures for education initiatives in Australia
- The NY Times finds that economic mobility in the US is less than in Europe
- The Anatomy of a Thank You Note
Jobs
Jobs at Acumen Fund
- Pakistan Country Director
- India Health Portfolio Manager
- Pakistan Sr. Portfolio Associate
- New York Finance Volunteer
- Pakistan Fellows Program Manager
Other Jobs – Do you know people on the job market? Tell them about these other opportunities:
- StartingBloc Fellowship – Boston application open until January 30th
- Investor Relations Associate – Calvert Foundation, Maryland
- Centre Manager – Skoll Centre for Entrepreneurship, Great Britain
- IDEX Fellowship in Social Enterprise – IDEX, Gray Matters Capital, US
For more job postings, check out NextBillion’s Career Center, ANDE’s Jobs in the Network, GIIN’s Job Board, SocialEdge Job Listings, and this great list of Fellowships