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Acumen: Over two decades of changing the way Africa and the world tackle poverty | TechCabal

Twenty-one years ago, the idea befuddled donors and people in the nonprofit sector. Jacqueline Novogratz, a former banker at Chase Manhattan and manager of special projects at the Rockefeller Foundation proposed a venture, Acumen, that looked like a philanthropic venture capital fund. Acumen would be a nonprofit charity that also invests in companies tackling global […]

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