San Antonio+Acumen

02/11/2015

Hello everyone!

San Antonio+Acumen is growing and searching for enthusiastic individuals to join our leadership team! Defeating poverty requires our collective effort as a city, and as a global community. Our challenge is to take Acumen's value of "Dignity not Dependence", and empower empoverished San Antonians with choice.

If you're interested in taking a hands on role in growing the social enterprise sector in San Antonio, please reach out to us here, on Twitter , or on our website. Let's change the way the world tackles poverty!

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07/10/2014

Thanks Texas Young Professionals - San Antonio for hosting us as your charity of the month tonight! We had a great time meeting everyone and cannot wait to continue growing and making an impact in San Antonio. We look forward to seeing many of you at at our upcoming salon "A Life of Purpose," which will be hosted at Barbaro.

06/26/2014

Who is excited for tomorrow? Our first SA+Acumen Happy Hour! Excited to meet some new and local faces! :) See you all at Bar Louie La Cantera!

06/11/2014

Need motivation to rise from failure... even repeated failure, and continue toward greatness? Look no further.

Our FAVORITE blog post this month - Caren Wakoli applied twice for the fellowship and was not accepted, but she did not give up. Her resilience allowed her to persevere, and this year we are proud to have her as an East Africa Fellow. Below she shares her story on why everyone needs a ‘Rikki,’ and failure is never final. http://acumen.org/blog/why-we-all-need-a-rikki/

06/03/2014

Some good in the world to brighten your morning.

Cosmos Green aggregates small parcels of unfarmed land to create 100/150-acre hubs

05/27/2014

Another awesome free course from our Acumen friends. Business friends, how about a free course on Lean? Add a social change emphasis and you have a great opportunity here!

This course covers a process for taking a social impact idea and assessing its potential for creating long-lasting impact and achieving financial...

04/13/2014

Having established itself as a European tech start up capital, Ireland could now be on track to become a continental leader in social entrepreneurship. While attention has mainly been focused on Ireland’s financial recovery, in a country synonymous with close community ties, no one is overlooking th...

04/12/2014

“Flash Boys” by Michael Lewis is mostly a book about finance and high-frequency traders. But it’s also a morality tale.

03/30/2014

Check out this Ted Talk by Acumen founder Jacqeline Novogratz! Such an inspiring woman.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jacqueline_novogratz_inspiring_a_life_of_immersion

We each want to live a life of purpose, but where to start? In this luminous, wide-ranging talk, Jacqueline Novogratz introduces us to people she's met in her work in "patient capital" -- people who have immersed themselves in a cause, a community, a passion for justice. These human stories carry po...

03/28/2014

About Acumen : Manifesto from site-

"It starts by standing with the poor, listening to voices unheard, and recognizing potential where others see despair.
It demands investing as a means, not an end, daring to go where markets have failed and aid has fallen short. It makes capital work for us, not control us.
It thrives on moral imagination: the humility to see the world as it is, and the audacity to imagine the world as it could be. It’s having the ambition to learn at the edge, the wisdom to admit failure, and the courage to start again.
It requires patience and kindness, resilience and grit: a hard-edged hope. It’s leadership that rejects complacency, breaks through bureaucracy, and challenges corruption. Doing what’s right, not what’s easy.
Acumen: it’s the radical idea of creating hope in a cynical world. Changing the way the world tackles poverty and building a world based on dignity."


http://acumen.org/manifesto/

Our manifesto serves as a moral compass for the kinds of leaders we hope to be and to reflect the values of leadership required in an interconnected world. We urge you to not only stand with it, but to use it.

03/28/2014

Three thoughts for leaders who tackle poverty....

03/28/2014

A great opportunity to develop yourself while expanding your worldview!

Human-Centered Design for Social Innovation is a seven-week course thatwill introduce you to the concepts of human-centered design and help youuse the design process to create innovative effective and sustainablesolutions for social change. No prior design experience necessary. Acumenbelieves in the...