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<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; direction: ltr; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[https://acumen.org/ Acumen] is a non-profit venture capital organization that raises funds from charitable organizations and invests in poverty-eradication entrepreneurial ventures across the globe.&nbsp; Unlike any venture capital, Acumen capital invests in long-term debt and equity investments in early-stage companies providing reliable and affordable access to agricultural inputs, quality education, clean energy, healthcare services, formal housing, and safe drinking water to low-income customers.&nbsp;As stated by their website [https://acumen.org/regions/ here], "Latin America has made incredible progress in reducing extreme poverty, but more than 80 million people still live on $4 a day and another 200 million face the risk of being pulled back into poverty". Many other countries have large gaps within their economic status which Acumen aims to address and mitigate. This organization aims to assist and equip these regions with the tools to escape and assist others in escaping extreme poverty.</div>

By sourcing donations from charitable organizationsand trustees, Acumen invests the donations in ideas that would . These ideas provide not only provide a return, but also a tactical way to tackle povertythrough education rather than giving.

Unlike other venture capital firms, Accumen only invests in companies with ideas that have a social impact , especially in the areas of agriculture, health, water, housing and energy.

<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Supported by organizations such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google, and the Skoll Foundation, Acumen’s investments create long lasting social impacts and help to eradicate povertythrough empowerment rather than charity.</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;">'''LEADERSHIP PROGAMS:'''</span>

Acumen currently has three leadership programs: Global Fellows, Regional Fellows and +acumen. Participants in all three programs demonstrate a combination of financial expertise, operational expertise and moral imagination for succeedsuccess.

<span style="font-size:medium;">'''GLOBAL PROGRAMS:'''</span>

Accumen The Acumen Global Fellow program is a full-time one-year fellowship for 10-12 individuals from all over the world who spend two months in New York and undergoes undergo intensive leadership training, followed by nine months of working with one of Acumen’s portfolio companies (site&nbsp;[http://acumen.org/leaders/global-fellows/). http://acumen.org/leaders/global-fellows/).]&nbsp;Since its foundation, the global fellowship program have has trained 63 over 100 fellows from 21 countries and placed , placing them in numerous social impact ventures.&nbsp; Fellows take up leadership positions in these ventures divisions such as CEO, Marketingand Operations. To learn more about individual fellows, and operationscheck [https://acumen.org/fellowships/meet-the-fellows/?region=global here].

The training portion of the fellow starts from in September to Mid-and continues until the middle of November.&nbsp; Field placement starts lasts from&nbsp; November to August.

To be qualify for Accumen fellowship, a candidate must demonstratethe following:

2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Demonstrated passion Passion and commitment to creating positive social change

6.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A minimum of 3 years of work experience

<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Regional Fellowship:'''</span>

The regional fellowship is a year- round program that brings entrepreneurs and leaders within organizations to work on social change project projects that has have been operating for the last 2-3 years. Fellows learn about the Accumen business model, &nbsp;meet every 6-8 weeks throughout the year for 4 seminars and 2 collaborative projects. &nbsp;Learn more about current fellows [http://acumen.org/leaders/regional-fellows/ http://acumenhere].org/leaders/regional-fellows/]

Fellows have&nbsp; the opportunity to learn about financial tools for social impact projects, leadership, networking and emerging markets.:

The Though the application process &nbsp;timeline for is noted [https://acumen.org/fellowships/apply/ here], the regional fellowship this year areapplication process is traditionally as follows:

The applications for the Regional Fellows Program go online in Applications open: July/August 2014-September.

Telephone Interviews: September/October 2014&nbsp;

In-Person InterviewsSelection Conference: November 2014

Final Selection: December 2014

<span style="font-size:medium;">'''+Acumen'''</span>

+Acumen&nbsp; is the online leadership course created by Accumen Acumen that are organised&nbsp; is organized into chapters, and volunteer-run groups that actively support Acumen’s mission to change the way the world perceives and tackles poverty.&nbsp;&nbsp; +Accumen Acumen chapters and volunteer groups work together to raise money to engage in meaningful projects within their communities. Currently,&nbsp; 20 chapters worldwidethere exist more than 300, 90+ events organised and $360000+ funds raised 000 students in support of social impact projects created 190 countries worldwide. Read more about +Accumen chaptersAcumen [https://www.plusacumen.org/ here].

Universities and Colleges can take the opportunity provided by Accumen Acumen and apply directly to investments investment funding. Projects that are eligible for investments have to must be in mid-startup stage with a focus on poverty eradication. &nbsp;Acumen provides brochures, online courses and materials that teach train individuals how to use financial tools to create social impact projects.

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