One of the Acumen Fund fellows at my organization,

And so with patient capital from Acumen and other organizations,

It is also a tribute to your own personal integrity and diplomatic acumen.

I can only talk from my own experience, but in eight years of running Acumen fund,

The CACG, for example, advocates that the director has to have integrity, common sense, business acumen and leadership.

Aman Foundation, to set up a self sustainable life support ambulance service in Karachi, facilitated by Acumen Fund.

I am certain that her political acumen and diplomatic skills will contribute greatly to the work of the Committee.

And so, it was really those lessons that made me decide to build Acumen Fund about six years ago.

Bashar may lack his father s acumen, but he, too, knows a simple truth peace with Israel is the price to pay.

And no historical acumen is needed to understand that nationalism was the source of Hitler s National Socialism and, therefore, World War II.

One of the best known is Acumen Fund, led by Jacqueline Novogratz, a TEDster who got a big boost here at TED.

I can only talk from my own experience, but in eight years of running Acumen fund, I've seen the power of patient capital.

True, Yasser Arafat was not a model democrat, but his charisma and political acumen were crucial for holding all the Palestinian factions together.

During the 1990 s, private investors looked at big, lumbering central banks as cash cows, long on money and short on financial acumen.

And so, Anuj and Acumen have been talking about testing the private sector, because the assumption that the aid establishment has made is that,

My final story is about a young, beautiful man named Josephat Byaruhanga, who was another Acumen Fund fellow, who hails from Uganda, a farming community.

My final story is about a young, beautiful man named Josephat Byaruhanga, who was another Acumen Fund fellow, who hails from Uganda, a farming community.

The ability of women to exercise these rights is dependent upon their level of education, employment, legal knowledge, financial acumen, support and access to legal services.

My delegation is confident that, under your guidance and with your diplomatic acumen, it will be able to make considerable progress and achieve the same successful results.

I was 13 miles away from those mosques, visiting one of our Acumen investees, an incredible man, Jawad Aslam, who dares to live a life of immersion.

And one in particular, is one that we're working on with the Acumen Fund, in a project that's been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Acumen came in with the patient capital, and we also helped to identify the entrepreneur that we would all partner with here in Africa, and Exxon provided the initial resin.

Acumen came in with the patient capital, and we also helped to identify the entrepreneur that we would all partner with here in Africa, and Exxon provided the initial resin.

One of the Acumen Fund fellows at my organization, Suraj Sudhakar, has what we call moral imagination the ability to put yourself in another person's shoes and lead from that perspective.

Policies must not be based on the fiction that good loans were made, and that the business acumen of financial market leaders and regulators will be validated once confidence is restored.

But less than 24 hours, I was 13 miles away from those mosques, visiting one of our Acumen investees, an incredible man, Jawad Aslam, who dares to live a life of immersion.

And then IDEO and Acumen spent several weeks working with them to help design new social marketing campaigns, community outreach strategies, business models, new water vessels for storing water and carts for delivering water.

And so with patient capital from Acumen and other organizations, loans and investments that will go the long term with them, they built a low cost housing development, about an hour outside Nairobi central.

And then IDEO and Acumen spent several weeks working with them to help design new social marketing campaigns, community outreach strategies, business models, new water vessels for storing water and carts for delivering water.

These funds are to philanthropy what venture capital, private equity, and eventually mutual funds are to investing, but with a twist because often a community forms around these funds, as it has at Acumen and other places.

These funds are to philanthropy what venture capital, private equity, and eventually mutual funds are to investing, but with a twist because often a community forms around these funds, as it has at Acumen and other places.

In tribute and remembrance of 26 11 attacks over the last one year, we have actually helped a Pakistani NGO, Aman Foundation, to set up a self sustainable life support ambulance service in Karachi, facilitated by Acumen Fund.

You bring to the presidency vast experience in the area of international relations as well as diplomatic skill and acumen, which puts you in good stead to steer the deliberations of the General Assembly to a successful conclusion.

Lifespring Hospital is a joint venture between Acumen and the government of India to bring quality, affordable maternal health care to low income women, and it's been so successful that it's currently building a new hospital every 35 days.

Lifespring Hospital is a joint venture between Acumen and the government of India to bring quality, affordable maternal health care to low income women, and it's been so successful that it's currently building a new hospital every 35 days.

Confidence is important, but it must rest on sound fundamentals. Policies must not be based on the fiction that good loans were made, and that the business acumen of financial market leaders and regulators will be validated once confidence is restored.

When a man is in trouble , he prays to God but when We bestow a favour on him he says It has come to me through my acumen . In fact , this is an illusion , but most men do not know .

In fact, many of the organizations that are here the Acumen Fund, I think ApproTEC we have running, I'm not sure if that one's up yet and many of the people who have presented here are running through Google Grants.

And so, Anuj and Acumen have been talking about testing the private sector, because the assumption that the aid establishment has made is that, look, in a country like Tanzania, 80 percent of the population makes less than two dollars a day.

And ( remember ) ' Ad and Thamud . It will be clear to you from their habitations ( how they were destroyed ) , for Satan had made their deeds look attractive to them , and turned them away from the path and yet they were a people of acumen .

And it was that that whole philosophy that encouraged me to start my current endeavor called Acumen Fund, which is trying to build some mini blueprints for how we might do that in water, health and housing in Pakistan, India, Kenya, Tanzania and Egypt.

Although no one should expect the British to join the euro any time soon, political leadership within the EU requires the acumen to take account of the central interests of one s own country and those of the other member states without indulging in threats.

And it was that that whole philosophy that encouraged me to start my current endeavor called Acumen Fund, which is trying to build some mini blueprints for how we might do that in water, health and housing in Pakistan, India, Kenya, Tanzania and Egypt.

At Acumen Fund, we take philanthropic resources and we invest what we call patient capital money that will invest in entrepreneurs who see the poor not as passive recipients of charity, but as full bodied agents of change who want to solve their own problems and make their own decisions.

At Acumen Fund, we take philanthropic resources and we invest what we call patient capital money that will invest in entrepreneurs who see the poor not as passive recipients of charity, but as full bodied agents of change who want to solve their own problems and make their own decisions.