Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.'

I've learned that generosity is far easier than justice and that, in the highly distorted markets of the poor, it is all too easy to veer only toward the charitable, to have low--or no--expectations for low-income people. This does nothing but reaffirm prejudices on all sides.

Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.

A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.

Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.

The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.