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Acumen (formerly known as Acumen Fund, legally Acumen Fund, Inc.) [1] is a nonprofit impact investment fund based in the U.S. that focuses on investing in social enterprises that serve low-income individuals. [2] [3] Acumen was founded in April 2001 by Jacqueline Novogratz. It aims to demonstrate that small amounts of philanthropic capital ...
Community Action Agencies. In the United States and its territories, Community Action Agencies ( CAA) are local private and public non-profit organizations that carry out the Community Action Program ( CAP ), which was founded by the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act to fight poverty by empowering the poor as part of the War on Poverty . CAAs are ...
Not to be confused with SBIRS. The Small Business Innovation Research (or SBIR) program is a U.S. government funding program, coordinated by the Small Business Administration, intended to help certain small businesses conduct research and development (R&D). Funding takes the form of contracts or grants.
Summer is almost here, and as the sunshine beckons, employers should get ready for a less motivated workforce. Around 36% of U.S. workers say they are less productive during the summer, according ...
2. Save, invest, and don’t claim early. To reduce the stress you might have about whether Social Security will be there for you, take ownership by saving and investing, and start as young as you ...
An individual development account ( IDA) is an asset building tool designed to enable low-income families to save towards a targeted amount usually used for building assets in the form of home ownership, post-secondary education and small business ownership. [1] In principle IDAs work as matched savings accounts that supplement the savings of ...
The United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) was created by UN Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan in 2005 as a United Nations General Trust Fund to support democratization efforts around the world. It was welcomed [1] by the General Assembly in the Outcome Document of the 2005 World Summit (A/RES/60/1, paragraphs 136–137) and was created by the UN ...
The Global Fund for Women is a non-profit foundation funding women's human rights initiatives. It was founded in 1987 by New Zealander Anne Firth Murray, and co-founded by Frances Kissling and Laura Lederer to fund women's initiatives around the world. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Since 1988, the foundation has awarded over ...