Seen & Heard Around Acumen Fund
March 17 – April 11, 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 celebrated its 11th anniversary on April 1 – thank you to all of our generous supporters!
- The Skoll World Forum took place from March 28 – 30 on the theme of “Flux” in the social enterprise sector
Articles of the Week
AF and AF Family in the News
- What it means to really stand for the poor – Jacqueline Novogratz writes about Katherine Boo’s “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” in the Huffington Post
- Husk Power Systems is featured as a successful early social enterprise in India
- World Water Day 2012: Pharmagen Healthcare Limited makes a dream of clean water in Lahore a reality
Impact Investing in the News
- CEO Nick O’Donohoe announces the launch of Big Society Capital, the UK’s dedicated social investment fund
- Dr. Judith Rodin reflects on the Rockefeller Foundation’s role in the history of impact investing
- Cisco invests in Aavishkar, a venture fund to drive rural entrepreneurship in India
- Vox Capital’s Daniel Izzo is featured in Forbes
- A new social enterprise accelerator in Argentina looks to ’swarm’ impact
- Lok Capital joins a $5M investment in IFMR Rural Channels in India
Other Relevant Articles:
- Ashoka and Nextbillion.net release an e-book from their affordable housing series
- Lessons from 10 years of the Global Social Benefit Incubator
- Why social innovation needs design thinking
- Food for 9 Billion: Brazil delivers on ‘no hunger’ promise
- In Chile’s slums, a lesson on how to make mobile apps for good
- The East African ride to middle-income
- The NYTimes features Naandi Community Water Systems on ‘Fixes’
- USAID’s Development Credit Authority uses development dollars to substitute for missing private capital
- Alliance Magazine interviews Kurt Hoffman, CEO of the Shell Foundation
- McKinsey & Company and Nextbillion.net highlight the story behind the low-cost incubator, Embrace
- Residents of Dharavi address a housing crunch one floor at a time
- The lower-spending Nigerian middle-class switch brands to save
More on Kony 2012
- Teju Cole in the Atlantic on the White Savior Industrial Complex
- In Uganda, Joseph Kony is not the only problem
Measuring Social Impact
- Can better data end global poverty? Esther Duflo contributes to The Atlantic
- The IADB evaluates the results of One Laptop per Child in Peru
- Lunch with Esther Duflo
- Poor people do not live on eggs and bananas – Abhijit Banerjee on development misconceptions
- Is M-PESA increasing banking for the poor?
- The Center for Global Development examines the costs of the Millennium Villages Project
- Has India’s economic growth truly decreased poverty? Dowser.org sees how the numbers stack up
Jobs
Jobs at Acumen Fund
- India Legal Counsel
- India Administrative Assistant
- Pakistan Director
- Pakistan Portfolio Associate
- Pakistan Portfolio Associate – Lahore
- Pakistan Business Development Manager
- Pakistan Fellows Program Manager
- West Africa Business Associate
Other Jobs – Do you know people on the job market? Tell them about these other opportunities:
- Brazil Program Director – Global Citizen Year, Salvador, Brazil
- India Program Director – Global Citizen Year, India
- Fellow – Lok Capital, Gurgaon
- Junior Business Wizard – Sustainable Health Enterprises
- Program Manager – The Unreasonable Institute, Boulder
- Managing Director – The Rockefeller Foundation, New York
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. Follow him on Twitter @RohitG6