3 Ways Acumen Fund is eliminating poverty - and how you can help

Ways Acumen Fund is

eliminating poverty. 3

And how you can help…

Patient Capital 1

Acumen uses philanthropic capital to make

disciplined investments – loans or equity, not grants

– that yield both financial and social returns.

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Business Acumen 2

Acumen Fund leverages brilliant and

experienced fellows, partners and

advisors.

Dignity, not dependence 3

“We want stability and dignity. Give us work

and not charity,'’

- Dut Duriya, a panch member from the Bahujan Samaj Party

It’s working…

New hospitals

Clean water

Factories making bednets

provide jobs and protect

millions from malaria

Improved irrigation

for farmers

It has people talking…

“Africa needs many things, but most of all it needs capitalists who can start and run legal companies….People grow out of poverty when they create small businesses that employ their neighbors. Nothing else lasts.”

- Thomas Friedman New York Times, April 20, 2007

But talk is cheap.

We need you to get involved!

“We have an opportunity to make change faster than it’s ever been made before. In fact, it’s not an opportunity at all. It’s an obligation. If we can do this, we have no choice but to do it.”

- Seth Godin Presentation for Acumen,� November 11, 2008

I have only two requests.

#1) Watch the video on the

next slide

#2) Get involved

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