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The New Recruits: Can Capitalism Save the World?

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: The New Recruits, d.light, Heide Kraul, WalletPop.Com, Acumen Fund, Daniel A. Miller, Seth Kramer, Rainn Wilson, Jeremy Newberger, Acumen Fellows, Ironbound Films, Andrea Chalupa, Heidi Krauel, Business News
Andrea Chalupa

Social entrepreneurism isn't charity; it's business as usual, tailored to those in high-need, and the subject of an upcoming documentary, The New Recruits: Can Capitalism Save the World?

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Fighting Poverty with Acumen

Marc Gunther | Posted 05.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Rwanda, d.light, LED Lights, Acumen Fund, Jacqueline Novogratz, Water Health International, The Blue Sweater, Business News
Marc Gunther

The Acumen Fund provides "patient capital" to for-profit businesses around the world that help people climb out of poverty.

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Moving Day in Mathare Valley

Jacqueline Novogratz | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

Read More: Jamii Bora, Poverty, Acumen Fund, Mathare Valley, Kenya, Nairobi, Mathare-Valley-Slum, Mathare-Valley, Political Humor, Kaputei, Mathare Valley Slum, Slum, Nairobi-Kenya, World News
Jacqueline Novogratz

I came to Mathare Valley to see if I could better understand the trajectory of people moving from this desperate slum to Jamii Bora's development of $4,000 houses in Kaputei.

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Housing the Poor? Nothing Is Impossible

Jacqueline Novogratz | Posted 04.12.2009 | World

Read More: Jamii Bora, The Poor, Acumen Fund, Housing, Kenya, Ingrid Munro, Slums, Nairobi, World News
Jacqueline Novogratz

Creating a housing development an hour or two drive from Nairobi for and with 2,000 slum dweller families seemed like an impossible dream.

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