Seen & Heard Around Acumen Fund
January 21 – February 10, 2012
Seen & 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 prepares to celebrate Generosity Day 2012 on February 14: take the Generosity Pledge here!
- Acumen Fund’s Pakistan office holds a successful community gathering featuring a keynote address from Asad Umar, CEO of Engro Corporation
Articles of the Week
AF and AF Family in the News
- Brian Trelstad and Rob Katz release a new report, “Creating a Capital Curve for Social Enterprise” focusing on how to help enterprises achieve scale and sustainability
- Circ MedTech’s PrePex device is featured in the NY Times and TIME Magazine
- LifeSpring Hospitals’ innovative healthcare model is featured in the Economic Times The Democratization of Social Entrepreneurship features d.light design, PULSE and quotes from Blair Miller
Impact Investing in the News
- Paul Farmer on Why the Global Fund Matters
- Harvard’s Julie Battilana takes the Pulse of the Social Entrepreneurship Movement
- Vilcap features new organizations that fund seed stage social enterprise in India
- Impact Investing: How do we Harness the Hype? via Huffington Post
- The Trouble with Impact Investing by Mulago’s Kevin Starr
- Oxfam and Symbiotics launch a $100M fund for SMEs
- The founder of one of the first social funds in Brazil tells his story
- Lok Capital’s new fund is featured in the Economic Times
Other Relevant Articles:
- Bill Gates strongly endorses the role of foreign aid in development
- Bill Clinton on why charity alone will not solve the world’s problems
- A selected overview of the sustainable light sector at the BoP
- Guernica Magazine features the education landscape in Pakistan
- Compelling environmental research shows that India has the world’s worst air quality
- A detailed piece on the fate of the cleantech industry appears on Wired Magazine
- Scratch (and sniff?) solar power in Kenya
- Haiti commits to a greater use of solar power
- Debating the future of capitalism at Davos’s World Economic Forum
- Kalsoom Lakhani writes on Unlocking Pakistan’s Enterprise Potential
- David Brooks of the NY Times on How to Fight the Man
- Bill Gates publishes his Annual Letter on why we must keep helping extremely poor people build self-sufficiency
- Outside Magazine profiles Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong organization in, “It’s not about the lab rats”
- Thomas Jefferson’s Ideals Revitalized in ‘Declaration of Principles‘ for an Innovative and Entrepreneurial Society
- Aung San Suu Kyi has a choice, reports Al Jazeera English
- ‘Pakistan is beautiful, and it’s mine’
- Members of the transgender community in Pakistan will now be issued voter ID cards, the Express Tribune reports
- Is this how Africa tweets?
Jobs
Jobs at Acumen Fund
- India Director
- India Portfolio Consultant
- New York Business Development Manager
- Pakistan Country Director
- Pakistan Business Development Manager
- Pakistan Fellows Program Manager
Summer Associate Opportunities
- East Africa Summer Associate – 4 Openings
- West Africa Summer Associate – 3 Openings
- India Summer Associate (Research) – 1 Opening
- India Summer Associate (Portfolio) – 1 Opening
- Pakistan Summer Associate – 4 Openings
Other Jobs – Do you know people on the job market? Tell them about these other opportunities:
- Ghana Country Director – Innovations for Poverty Action, Ghana
- Multiple Positions – BusyLab/Esoko, Accra
- Hub Ventures Incubator – Hub Ventures
- Country Manager, Uganda – Impact Carbon, Kampala
- Assistant Program Manager: Social Entrepreneurship – Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, Delhi
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
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As a Business Development Analyst, Rohit supports Acumen Fund’s fundraising efforts, and manages Acumen Fund’s blog and social media presence.


