A Wealth of Knowledge
Acumen Fund’s investments support some of the world’s most innovative businesses. Yet, even if we reach our goal—$100 million in investments, touching 50 million lives—98% of the world’s poor will be unaffected by our work. We believe sharing what we learn with others will extend our impact beyond our portfolio. The Knowledge Center, an ever-growing library of stories, tools and lessons, allows others to leverage insights from our work to change how people and institutions fight poverty.
Acumen Spotlight
- Photo Essay
- Affordable Irrigation for Subsistence Farmers
- Low Cost Anti-Malarial
- In East Africa, a world-class facility is producing low-cost pharmaceutical-grade artemisinin, an essential ingredient in the new generation of effective malaria cures.
- Field Perspectives
- In addition to cultivating and manufacturing a key ingredient in the leading treatment for malaria, ABE is creating opportunities for thousands of farmers in East Africa to increase their incomes.
- Human Benefits of Producing Artemisinin
- Advanced Bio Extracts (ABE) is the first company in Africa to cultivate artemisia, bringing employment and treatment for malaria, a disease that kills a million people in Africa every year.
- Long-Lasting Protection Against Malaria
- Innovative design, technology transfer and local manufacturing of long-lasting bednets has meant the creation of thousands of jobs and the protection of millions from malaria in East Africa.
- Affordable Irrigation for Subsistence Farmers
The KB drip irrigation system is simple, inexpensive and infinitely expandable, so farmers can scale its use to the size of their plot.
- Building Kaputei
An hour outside Nairobi the beginning of Jamii Bora's town-to-be, Kaputei, is underway. The group is constructing not just the homes, but the building materials for those houses.
- Bringing Community Health Clinics to Kenya
- The SHF clinic in the tiny village called Gichoinjini, near Embu, is located at the end of a long dirt road, lined by tin-roofed shanties on either side. The clinic’s fresh green and gold paint, the gossamer door covering and the happy lettering of its sign send a message of confidence and safety.
- Vision for Villages
- An hour and a half outside of Hyderabad, we turn off the main road, passing bright green rice paddies and wheat fields, and arrive in Ramalu. Arunesh and Raman, the director and marketing manager of Scojo respectively, are eager to show us how much has changed since our last visit.
- Providing Hope and Tough Conversation
- Until BroadReach began its program in Hammersdale, a small suburb of Durban in South Africa, the people who live in the ticky-tacky houses on the hillsides had to find their way into town for treatment, and many did not.