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Acumen Fund, Jamii Bora and Ecotact featured on CNBC World

July 31, 2010 -- Earlier this year, when CEO Jacqueline Novogratz was in Kenya, a production crew accompanied her as part of a program called What the Future, which focuses on individuals and organizations who are, in the show's words, "creating the future, right now. "What the Future launched on CNBC World, and the first episode - aptly named "Choice Not Charity" - features the work of Acumen Fund and of investees  Jamii Bora and  Ecotact.

Video is available on the What the Future website - watch  part 1,  part 2 and  part 3.

See below for select mentions in the media.

For Acumen Fund announcements and press releases, click here.


Date

Outlet Title
2010    
Jul 31 2010 CNBC World What the Future: Choice Not Charity
Jun 9 2010 The News (Pakistan) Why we will all be okay
Jun 7 2010 PBS NewsHour Housing Hope for Kenya's Poorest
Jun 2010 Stanford Business Magazine

D.light's Lofty Goals Meet Practical Challenges in India

May 14 2010 CNN International Jacqueline Novogratz as Connector of the Day
May 11 2010 Politico The great pakistan aid debate
May 3 2010 Glamour Jacqueline with Katie Couric: Our Actions Impact People All Over the World
Apr 26 2010 Foreign Policy Epiphanies: Jacqueline Novogratz
Apr 14 2010 PBS NewsHour Investors Help Bring Sanitation to Kenya's Poor
Apr 7 2010 Huffington Post Could We Live in a World without Predators?
Mar 24 2010
Huffington Post
Despite Living Through Genocide, One Can Still Seek Out The Goodness In People 
Mar 22 2010
EarthSky
Podcast interview with Jacqueline Novogratz
Mar 19 2010 Huffington Post Dignity Is More Important than Wealth
Mar 18 2010 CNN Jacqueline Novogratz on Amanpour.
Mar 9 2010
The Daily Beast
Women in the World 
Mar 2 2010
Washington Post
On Faith: The real angel investors
Feb 25 2010 Business Outlook (India)
The New Colours of Venture Capital
Feb 19 2010 WSJ blog Varun Sahni of Acumen Fund says Scale Must Drive Social Enterprise
Feb 16 2010 Huffington Post How One Blue Sweater Started A Book Club And Changed Lives
Jan 28 2010 Speaking of Faith Jacqueline Novogratz and the Re-invention of Aid
Jan 28 2010 Financial Times Putting the public good ahead of profits
Jan 26 2010 Financial Times Technology: Some rubber tubing and a foot pump
Jan 26 2010 Financial Times Exploring a market-based approach to malnutrition
Jan 13 2010 NPR Jacqueline Novogratz on the Faith Middleton Show
     
2009    
Dec 24 2009 The New York Times A Most Meaningful Gift Idea
Dec 22 2009 Vancouver Sun Big Ideas: New blood, new ideas shake up old notions of philanthropy
Dec 20 2009 Los Angeles Times Travel literature that may inspire you
Dec 7 2009
Business Daily Africa
Plan for clean water to slums kicks off
Nov 30 2009 The Daily Beast The 25 Smartest People of the Decade
Nov 30 2009
The Star Ledger
Redirect Pakistan aid to its people
Nov 30 2009 Foreign Policy
The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers
Nov 25 2009 Chicago Public Radio Worldview
Nov 12 2009
The Economic Times
Socially sustainable enterprises that focus on the poor 
Nov 10 2009
The EA Standard
Acumen to fund eye care among Kenya's poor
Nov 7 2009 The National m-magazine Investor in People
Nov 1 2009 Financial Times MBAs and Social Enterprise
Oct 30 2009 Gulf News Patient Capital in an Impatient World
Oct 2009 Success magazine From the corner office: Funding the future
Sep 25 2009 The Economist Financial Innovation and the Poor
Sep 11 2009 Forbes.com Getting Water to the World's Poorest
Sep 11 2009 TIME Community Service 2009: Responsibility Pioneers
Sep 2 2009 CNN Kenya's Toilet Mall
Aug 25 2009 DAWN 'Patient Capital' and Power
Aug 23 2009 The New York Times A Banker for the World's Poor
Aug 23 2009 The Financial Times The heart of the matter by Summer Associate Abhay Nihalani
Jul 6 2009 CNN Jacqueline Novogratz on Fareed Zakaria GPS
Jun 17 2009 Minneapolis Public Radio Broadcast of Jacqueline Novogratz book reading
Jun 16 2009 Wisconsin Public Radio Jacqueline Novogratz as guest on "Here on Earth"
Jun 1 2009 Forbes.com Steve Forbes video interview with Jacqueline Novogratz
May 27 2009 The Financial Times The cost of living
May 27 2009 The Financial Times Profit for good
May 27 2009 The Financial Times Credit crunch: 'Talent tsunami' from downturn floods sector
May 25 2009 CNBC
Consumers feeling green fatigue
May 23 2009 The Economist The patient capitalist
May 11 2009 LiveMint Crossing the Divide | The business of social good
May 2009 Verve
Gravity-defying startups
Apr 20 2009 LiveMint Striking a balance between profit and philanthropy
Apr 16 2009 The Economist Lessons from a Frugal Innovator
Apr 13 2009 Huffington Post
Fighting Poverty with Acumen
Apr 8 2009 Duke Chronicle Acumen CEO gets Fuqua CASE award
Apr 6 2009 Forbes.com How A Sweater Changed My (Business) Life
Apr 1 2009 Slate.com Banker bridges wealth gap
Apr 1 2009 Alliance On metrics
Mar 30 2009 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Water-engineering firms see potential, challenge in developing countries
Mar 30 2009 Huffington Post
Moving Day in Mathare Valley
Mar 26 2009 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Engineering global change
Mar 26 2009 The Brian Lehrer Show
NPR radio interview with Jacqueline
Mar 25 2009 Fortune.com Building Value in the Developing World
Mar 25 2009 The Charlie Rose Show
TV interview with Jacqueline
Mar 25 2009 The Takeaway on NPR
Radio interview with Jacqueline
Mar 23 2009 Forbes.com
In Pictures: 10 Eco-Friendly Innovations
Mar 14 2009 Deepak Chopra Wellness Radio
Interview with Jacqueline
Mar 11 2009 Huffington Post
Housing the Poor? Nothing Is Impossible
Mar 11 2009 McKinsey Quarterly
Developing Entrepreneurship Among the World's Poorest
Feb 24 2009 Huffington Post
The Deep Imperfections of Life
Feb 24 2009 Financial Times
Hard Lessons Learnt in the War on Poverty
Feb 11 2009 Philanthropy News Digest Acumen Fund, Partners Launch Company to Develop Products to Combat Malaria
Feb 2009
O, The Oprah Magazine
Tightly Knit: An African Odyssey
Jan 30 2009 Financial Times Charity alone not the answer in tackling poverty
Jan 2009 Blue Chip Magazine Jacqueline Novogratz: Transforming lives
     
2008    
Dec 2008 Fast Company
Social Enterprise of the Year Honor Roll
Nov 25 2008 Business Week
A For-Profit Brings Clean Water to the Poor
Nov 7, 2008 Forbes ExecutiveLife
Thinking Big -- and Small
Oct 27 2008 Financial Times Power to the People
Sep 27 2008 The Economist Jacqueline Novogratz on Charity
Sep 25 2008 New York Times A New Tool for Venture Philanthropists
Sep 25 2008 BusinessWeek
Tracking Social Entrepreneurs Gets Easier
Sep 12 2008 Wall Street Journal Starting Up: Funding Your Social Venture
Aug 20 2008 Fora TV
Jacqueline Novogratz on Charity vs Empowerment
Jul 25, 2008 Financial Times
Practical skills that now support philanthropy
Jul 25, 2008 India Today
The right prescription
Jul 25, 2008 Business Daily (Kenya)
Private equity funds tap into SMEs growth
Jul 9, 2008 New York Lawyer
Bonds for the Poor
Jun 24, 2008 MSNBC Rockefeller 2.0: Gates relaunches philanthropy
Jun 23, 2008 Financial Times Investors boost the ‘missing middle'
Jun 14, 2008 The Hindu
U.S. fund invests in AyurVAID
Jun 9, 2008 SmallBiz (SmartMoney)
Starting Up: Funding Your Social Venture
May 14, 2008
Christian Science Monitor Private philanthropy's global reach
Apr 14, 2008 Conde Nast Portfolio
The Brilliant Issue
Apr 4, 2008 Red Herring
Acumen Fund's Big Ambition
Mar 9, 2008 New York Times Magazine
For Good, Measure
Jan 24, 2008 Financial Times
Youthful force for change in society
Jan 21, 2008
Entrepreneur
Making Progress
Jan 11, 2008 Fortune The Face of Philanthropy
Jan 4, 2008
BusinessWeek
Mosquito Nets: Caught in a Tangle
     
2007    
December 2007 Alliance magazine
Measuring market-based approaches
Dec 3, 2007
PRWeb
Acumen Fund Honored with Social Capitalist Award by Fast Company & Monitor Group
Dec 1, 2007 American Enterprise Institute
Entrepreneurial Philanthropy in the Developing World
Oct 17, 2007 OnPhilanthropy Revolution in Kenya: Refocusing Microfinance on the World's Poorest
Sep 13, 2007
Reuters Websites Let You Be Banker to World's Poor
Aug 25, 2007 Financial Express (India) In the Business of Service
Aug 14, 2007 Wall Street Journal
Behind One Effort to Tap Into India's Water Market
Aug 1, 2007
BusinessWeek online
On Campus, a Different Pyramid Scheme
Jul 24, 2007
International Herald Tribune
Cheap glasses bring hope, and wages, to poor villagers
Jul 5, 2007
Economist
More money than sense
Jul 1, 2007 BusinessWeek
Where Venture Capital Never Ventured Before
Jun 1, 2007
Forbes
The New Activist Givers
Apr 20, 2007
New York Times
Patient Capital for an Africa that Can't Wait
Apr 11, 2007
Reuters
Viewing the poor as customers
Apr 11, 2007
Reuters Acumen fund for poor expects investment to soar
March 2007
Foreign Affairs
From "Marvelous Momentum" to Health Care for All
Mar 5, 2007
BusinessWeek
Designing Change
Jan 26, 2007
Financial Times
One Fund Stretches Charity Dollar