Since April 2001 Acumen
has been working as a non-profit global venture fund that uses
entrepreneurial approaches to solve problems concerning poverty. Their
headquarter is situated in New York with regional offices in India,
Pakistan, Kenya and Ghana. Acumen raises charitable donations to
invest in companies, leaders, and ideas that are changing the
way the world tackles poverty.
What Acumen does is to take the best ideas that are distilled from more than a decade of investing in companies and leaders and sharing them globally so others can benefit from their impact. In one of the courses, volunteers and willing participants are helping Acumen by creating new and innovative ideas for the future. This course is called «Human-Centered Design for Social Innovation».
This course is a seven week course that helps people to create innovative, effective, and sustainable solutions for social change. During the course, the human-centered design process will be learned by applying it to a real world design challenge. To learn more about Acumen you can go to their website: http://acumen.org/
As stated in the information bar, we are four students taking this Acumen course. This blog is apart of the course where we decided to help inform you about social entrepreneurship so that we know about the social impact we can have on others. After doing a study on our fellow classmates and students we found the core of the problem that limits the impact that social entrepreneurship would be able to have; very few people actually know what social entrepreneurship is. We then set up our own ideas on how we could have an impact on as many people as possible using the resources we had. The pictures below shows some of our ideas.
What Acumen does is to take the best ideas that are distilled from more than a decade of investing in companies and leaders and sharing them globally so others can benefit from their impact. In one of the courses, volunteers and willing participants are helping Acumen by creating new and innovative ideas for the future. This course is called «Human-Centered Design for Social Innovation».
This course is a seven week course that helps people to create innovative, effective, and sustainable solutions for social change. During the course, the human-centered design process will be learned by applying it to a real world design challenge. To learn more about Acumen you can go to their website: http://acumen.org/
As stated in the information bar, we are four students taking this Acumen course. This blog is apart of the course where we decided to help inform you about social entrepreneurship so that we know about the social impact we can have on others. After doing a study on our fellow classmates and students we found the core of the problem that limits the impact that social entrepreneurship would be able to have; very few people actually know what social entrepreneurship is. We then set up our own ideas on how we could have an impact on as many people as possible using the resources we had. The pictures below shows some of our ideas.
The ideas for how we could make social entrepreneurship
seem like a more viable career path
After deciding on creating a blog, we further discussed and developed this idea.
Our outline for the blog
We think that the most fundamental part of learning about social
entrepreneurship is to be informed about it. I hope you enjoy this blog, and feel more informed about SE after reading this! If you did enjoy this blog, don't hesitate to share it with friends and family! Enjoy your day :)
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