![Acumen: Over two decades of changing the way Africa and the world tackle poverty](https://dailytalks.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/35140-acumen-over-two-decades-of-changing-the-way-africa-and-the-world-tackle-poverty.jpg)
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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