Sproxil will help combat the multi-billion dollar counterfeit drug market, empower customers, and give them the resources to make informed pharmaceutical purchasing decisions.
Companies like Husk Power Systems are working to impact positively not only the environment, but to ensure that someday everyone, including the poorest of the poor in rural India, will have access to clean and affordable electricity.
Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.
As both developed and developing nations search for alternative sources of energy in response to the growing energy crisis, we at Acumen Fund believe that investing in entrepreneurs who provide innovative energy solutions is an increasingly critical part of the solution.
Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.
People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.
Today, 30-year-olds are becoming social entrepreneurs.
I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital.
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.
Five days in Nairobi slums changes you.
Rockefeller viewed his philanthropy through the lens of his business, and it really mirrored the Industrial Revolution. It was highly centralized, it was top down, it was based on experts, and it was big-picture.
Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism.
I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.
For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.
Too often people view idealists as naive.
Changing the world is not easy.
I was an accidental banker. To please my parents, I went for an interview with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1983. They promised to send me into their offices in more than 40 countries and essentially audit the practices. It was an extraordinary job.
When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.
We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.
The Pakistanis are very resilient people.
