TeachForAll's video: Teach For All Talks: Wendy Kopp with Jacqueline Novogartz Founder CEO Acumen

Jacqueline Novogartz is a global leader in a growing movement that uses market-based approaches to tackle poverty. Acumen works with entrepreneurs, leaders, and investors to provide investment capital, talent and management support to early-stage companies aimed at creating sustainable, lasting change for low-income populations. Leadership is a core component of their approach to tackling poverty, which started with the Acumen Global and Regional Fellows programs. Recently, Acumen has built a robust online learning curriculum that brings insights and lessons from their work on the ground and with their Fellows to the rest of the world, made publicly available through free, online +Acumen courses. To date, Acumen has invested more than $88 million in 82 companies across Africa, Latin America and South Asia and boasts nearly 300,000 course sign-ups.