It is also what Jacqueline Novogratz, founder of Acumen Fund, seeks as well.
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Jacqueline Novogratz, founder of Acumen Fund, echoed this sentiment when she said that opportunities are often disguised as problems.
Already, innovative companies like Google, Nike, and IDEO have a strong questioning culture, as do some nonprofit innovators such as The Acumen Fund.
If we are successful in our endeavor I hope that Acumen Fund will soon have hundreds of exceptional social enterprises to choose between for investment.
Acumen Fund has been doing its part to expand it by creating the Acumen Fund Fellows program in which they have supported 44 Fellows from 19 Countries.
Both the Acumen Fund and CDFIs have a social, rather than a profit-maximizing mission, long time horizons for the investment, and are built on an environment of management and peer support.
Joel and two other business-minded do-gooders portrayed in the film were some of the fellows sent overseas for 10 months by the Acumen Fund, a non-profit venture fund aimed at tackling poverty.
"It's one of the world's great models of social entrepreneurship--and an example of using a just-in-time approach to delivering affordable, quality health services, " says Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and chief executive of the not-for-profit Acumen Fund.
Investment from venture capital and private equity sources is growing quickly, led by relative newcomers like Bridges Ventures in Britain and Root Capital and Acumen Fund in the U.S. Triodos Bank, ICICI Bank, Deutsche Bank, Citibank and J.
Mailman suggests that novice investors check out the Acumen Fund, a non-profit venture fund that invests in innovative leaders and social enterprises throughout the developing world, and TONIIC, a network of investors, entrepreneurs, funds and thought-leaders working to provide early-stage funding for global social enterprises.
What should we expect from the private equity and hedge fund professionals who earn large sums of money from their investment acumen?
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