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  Date
Outlet Title
       
  Aug 10 2011 The Global Herald Jacqueline Novogratz Hails the Success of "nonprofit venture capital fund for the poor"
  Aug 8 2011 The Hindu Social Entrepreneurs Making a Difference to the Lives of the Poor
  Aug 5 2011 Live Mint Jacqueline Novogratz: Cheerleader Who Invests In People
  Aug 2 2011 Huffington Post Taking the Next Step in Pakistan
  July 27 2011 BBC Health Series Feature: CircMed Tech
  June 26 2011 ABC News VisionSpring: Improving Lives, Saving Vision
  June 23 2011 The National Acumen Invests in a Better Future for Others
  May 28 2011 One World South Asia Interview with Husk Power Gyanesh Pandey: From darkness to light
  May 24 2011 Businessweek The Case for Patient Capital
  May 19 2011 Fast Company D.Light Launches An Ultra-Cheap Solar Lantern for Studying
  May 17 2011 Forbes Blog Tech Startup Uses Cell Phones to Root Out Counterfeit Drugs
  May 5 2011 GOOD Magazine Moms Matter Competition
  Apr 6 2011 Market Wire NRSP Launches Microfinance Bank in Partnership with Acumen Fund, IFC and KfW
  Apr 3 2011 Huffington Post Craig Newmark: Acumen Fund Gets Stuff Done Across the World
  Mar 22 2011 Afribiz Acumen Fund Invests in Sproxil, Inc. to Combat Counterfeit Medicine Using Mobile Technology
  Mar 17 2011 Business Daily Acumen Fund Raises Assets in East Africa to Sh 2.1 Billion
  Mar 16 2011 KCB Bank Launch of the KCB Foundation Acumen Fund Partnership
  Mar 15 2011 Rising Pyramid Housing Solutions for India's Underpriviledged 
  Mar 8 2011 Daily Beast 150 Women Who Shake the World: Jacqueline Novogratz
  Feb 13 2011 Fast Company Re-Booting Valentine's Day for Good
  Feb 10 2011 The Economist: Ideas Economy Video: Jacqueline Novogratz - The New Capitalism
  Jan 27 2011 Stanford Knowledge Base Acumen Fund Raises Kenya's Sanitation Expectations
  Jan 25 2011 Dowser  Interview: Sasha Dichter on trends to look for in 2011
  Jan 17 2011 Stanford Social Innovation Review Market-Minded Development
  Jan 14 2011 Fast Company Acumen Fund Co-Invests $2.2 Million in Ugandan Cotton Ginnery
 
   
  2010    
  Dec 23 2010 ABC News LifeSpring Hospitals: Bringing Maternity Care to Poor Mothers in India
  Dec 17 2010 Inside Toronto

Auction raises $10,000 for people in poverty

  Dec 6 2010
Huffington Post
Are you ready to change the world?
  Nov 28 2010
Chronicle of Philanthropy
A Nonprofit Organization Builds Bridges to Committed Donors Around the world
  Oct 7 2010 BusinessWeek Hard Choices: Jacqueline Novogratz
  Sep 14 2010 Huffington Post Humanity amid the horror
  Aug 27 2010 New York Times Pakistan needs the world's help
  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