Seen and Heard
What you might be missing
November 20, 2012 - January 25, 2013
Seen & Heard is a collection of recent headlines in the nws about our world, our work, and the spaces and places in between.
Launch of the Pakistan Fellows Program
Acumen launched its inaugural class of the Pakistan Fellows Program
Closing the Pioneer Gap
Acumen follows up on From Blueprint to Scale report with "Closing the Pioneer Gap" in SSIR, emphasizing the importance of early-stage, risk-oriented capital
Acumen Fund is Hiring
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Articles of the Week
- Ziqitza Health Care Limited wins Times of India Social Impact Award
- d.light design wins the Zayed Future Energy Prize
- Jacqueline is featured in The Wall Street Journal’s Wealth Management section – with accompanying video interview – about Acumen’s approach to investing
- PBS NewsHour profiles Husk Power Systems, sharing what’s innovative about its model in the context of India’s energy crisis
- SmartPlanet’s Pure Genius blog profiles Jacqueline and Acumen’s work
- India Director, Sachin Rudra, shares his perspective on impact investing in India in this StartupCentral interview
- Emma Vaughn gives 7 tips for landing a job in impact investing
- LifeSpring Hospitals is featured in Wall Street Journal India for delivering maternal care to low-income mothers
- Vinay Nair makes the case for philanthropy-backed capital for social innovation in The Guardian
- Avani Bio Energy uses pine needles to provide renewable energy and reduce the risk of forest fires in northern India
- Jacqueline is included among those doing great things for Pakistan in Dawn Pakistan
Impact Investing in the News
- JPMorgan and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) release a report claiming that the impact investing market will grow by $9 billion in 2013
- ANDE discusses how impact investing can spark a jobs revolution in Forbes article
- Antony Bugg-Levine demonstrates that mobilizing “complete capital” is not for the faint of heart in an SSIR article
- The GIIN received £10.5 M from UK’s DFID to build the impact investing market in Africa and Asia
- The NYT examines the growing impact investing sector and the role of philanthropy in investing
- Endeavor Insight claims that if social enterprises want to scale impact, they should focus on financial returns over social returns
Spotlight: Africa Rising?
- Foreign Policy argues that reports of Africa’s explosive growth have been greatly exaggerated
- The Economist explores how slums like Kibera in Kenya may be the most entrepreneurial places on the planet
- Step aside, growth skeptics, the continent’s rise is very real
Other Relevant Articles:
- India launches its innovative, poverty-fighting direct cash transfer program this year
- NextBillion presents the top health care innovations of 2012
- The Daily Beast/Newsweek profiles economist and ‘poverty rock star’ Esther Duflo who was recently appointed to the White House’s new Global Development Council
- Foreign Policy investigates the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation investments in luxury hotels in Ghana
- Ending polio in Pakistan is within reach, but still dangerous work
- Newsweek makes a case that Rwandan President Kagame is guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity
- The Power of Failure: why we shouldn’t be so afraid of the f-word
Jobs at Acumen
- Pakistan Business Development and Communications Manager
- Pakistan Portfolio Associate
- West Africa Business Development and Communications Manager
- West Africa Portfolio Manager
- Summer Associate – New York
- Summer Associate – West Africa
Other Jobs - Do you know people in the job market? Tell them about these other opportunities:
- Innovation Analyst – Enterprise Community Partners, NYC
- Communications Officer – Results for Development (R4D)
- Investment Officer – Accion International, Washington DC
Niklas Peters is a Business Development Analyst at Acumen Fund
Email: npeters@acumenfund.org
Website: acumenfund.org