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SunCulture’s new employee ownership program gives 500+ workers a stake in the company. go.acumen.org/4zRtTY3
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#GOGSFE2026, in one word.
After three days in Kigali, we asked members of our team to sum up the experience at the Global Offgrid Solar Forum and Expo in a single word.
#PowerON
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Last chance! Voting for The Anthem Awards closes today. Please vote for our two finalists:
Annual Report: go.acumen.org/47O9iaV
Love the World More: go.acumen.org/4shz5BJ
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Distributed renewable energy and electrification are more than just energy access solutions. Read more on how clean energy companies can build economic, physical, and social resilience for the customers they serve. go.acumen.org/4iayU7Q
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Early-stage African companies are short of two things: risk capital to build, and working capital to run.
Coconut Holdings, a Kenyan coconut processor, hit that wall in the 2023 drought.
Here’s what we’re testing at Acumen to help ⬇️ go.acumen.org/4s3Ua26
IMM should work for enterprises, not just for investors' reporting needs.
Here are five ways to right-size impact measurement and management so it works for the enterprises doing the work: go.acumen.org/47Fouqr
Announced in New York during #ClimateWeekNYC: Acumen's Hardest-to-Reach Catalyze is backing Sun King's expansion in Zambia!
Our Director of Climate Strategy, Sarah Bieber, is taking three questions to Climate Week NYC on resilience, AI, and the distance between a commitment and a disbursement.
She argues that what links them is design, not money. Learn more ⬇️ go.acumen.org/4Ajvvuc
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The communities we invest in are often the first to feel the effects of extreme heat, erratic rainfall, and resource scarcity, and the last to have the capital to adapt.
We’ll be at #AVPN2026 in New Delhi. If you’re attending, connect with our team to talk about how Patient Capital can help close that gap.
@avpn_asia
On this episode of Founder's Mentality, @jnovogratz joined @BainandCompany's James Alle. to talk about navigating complexity, staying anchored to your "why," and the cost of the risk.
Listen: go.acumen.org/4wO7Pw6
Our latest Substack piece is worth a read for anyone interested in impact work, whether or not you are a fan of the game. go.acumen.org/3TxbrUs
No school, no football. A rule that set Acumen Fellow Ashok Rathod on a path to impacting 40K+ kids in India. go.acumen.org/4v3J8uq
Acumen Public Voices Fellow Mohamed Okash writes on what a climate-resilient Mogadishu can look like and why the solutions already exist.
#WorldEnvironmentDay go.acumen.org/4g0sHdM
In our post on Substack, Acumen's Kristi Chon explores why and what it would actually take to make climate adaptation an exciting bet for private investors. go.acumen.org/3Qdx8re
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Get these and more insights by subscribing to our brand new Substack: go.acumen.org/4aa1XUr
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India generates an estimated 3.8M metric tons of e-waste every year, much of it handled through informal systems where workers face unsafe conditions and unstable incomes.
@scrapuncleapp is helping change that.
Acumen has invested in ScrapUncle, a company building a more transparent and dignified recycling system in India. Learn more ⬇️go.acumen.org/4nOFIcr
TED2026 asked big questions about the future. Acumen Fellows reminded us to ask a different one.
"Who is the future being built for?"
@bavidramohan’s reflections from Vancouver ⬇️ go.acumen.org/4tXeaDc
