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Using Patient Capital to Build Transformative BusinessesAcumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. We seek to prove that ...

If so, I'm not seeing it. When something is scarce, it's valuable and smart people try to make more of it. So, should we be trying to make more fear? Looking around, it appears as though the government, various media...

Swarthmore College classicist Susan Parker Cobbs believes, as Socrates did, that the unexamined life is not worth living. In her essay from the 1950s, Cobbs says all people have goodness within them, which can be expressed where there is freedom, faith and truth.

Some of the best kinds of gifts don’t need to be wrapped, just donated. Here’s a list of worthy, unknown charities.

Not to Scrooge your sentiment, but the demonym for people from Madagascar (and the language) is “Malagasy.” And although they do have an historic tradition of proverbs (”ohabolana”), this one, and its inaccurate attribution, seems to be an Internet meme. ...

Using Patient Capital to Build Transformative Businesses. Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. We seek to prove that ...

I've been thinking a lot about leadership lately. Specifically: why, today, when a wave of crises is sweeping the globe, does leadership seem to be almost totally absent?

Changed by their journeys, the authors started nonprofits to benefit the people they've visited, including 'The Blue Sweater,' by Acumen Fund founder and CEO Jacqueline Novogratz, 'Three Cups of Tea,' by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.

TED Talks Shaffi Mather explains why he left his first career to become a social entrepreneur, providing life-saving transportation with his company 1298 for Ambulance. Now, he has a new idea and plans ...

I’ll tell you a story... Once upon a time, there lived many, many poor people who used to raise many, many animals. Since the people were poor, they used to maintain their animals poorly, and in return, animals used to yield poor quantities of milk. This milk was poorly sold to middle men, who used...

The Challenge: More than 1.5 billion people in the world live without access to electricity. Many households rely on kerosene lanterns and candles to meet their lighting needs, but these light sources are expensive, hazardous, polluting and produce low-quality light.