For World Poverty Day, nonprofit venture capital fund Acumen debuts a series of portraits of people living on less than $5 a day--and shows how the projects it's funded are helping. Dynamic Duos: ...

At a time when one out of four office spaces in Lower Manhattan are collecting cobwebs, one century-old tower is teeming with tenants who want to stay put for the long run. The 22-year-old charitable ...

A US based poverty eradication organisation has partnered with local entrepreneurs to provide water and sanitation to slum dwellers. Acumen Fund, a non-profit global venture has selected four local ...

For World Poverty Day, nonprofit venture capital fund Acumen debuts a series of portraits of people living on less than $5 a day--and shows how the projects it's funded are helping. Dynamic Duos: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- The world’s biggest climate fund is backing Acumen, a US-based company that promotes universal energy access, in ...

Social venture capital investor Acumen Fund has made an equity investment of Rs 9 crore into BASIX Krishi Samruddhi Ltd. Part of Vijay Mahajan's Basix Group, the company provides agriculture-related ...

Jacqueline Novogratz sees business as part of the solution to poverty in developing countries. The organization that she founded, the Acumen Fund, in New York, raises philanthropic dollars, which it ...

The Big Money's biweekly podcast on important new books. In this edition, host Daniel Gross interviews Jacqueline Novogratz, founder of the Acumen Fund and author of The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap ...