Good...Better...Even Better

Want to do good? Everyone wants to do good, but when it comes to global poverty, we need to do even better. Acumen Fund has a solution to poverty that lasts. One that helps build business that serve the poor by providing choice, not charity, and dignity, not dependence. Join us, and let's show the world an even better way to make a lasting difference! Please share this video with your friends, family, and colleagues.

Visit http://www.acumenfund.org/evenbetter to learn more about how Acumen Fund is tackling poverty differently and ways which you can show your support.

Special thanks to Seth Brau (http://www.sethbrau.com) and Rives (http://www.shopliftwindchimes.com) for their brilliance, creativity, and tireless efforts in producing this video.

Thanks to Jon Kamen and Nicole Pusateri of @radical.media (http://www.radicalmedia.com) for their generosity, support, and spirit of partnership.

Thanks to Bridget Ritzinger (http://bridgetritzinger.com) for making our actors look and feel beautiful and at ease.

Thanks to the following members of the Acumen Fund family who gave generously of their time on a beautiful fall day to make this video come to life with their enthusiasm and sincerity:

Faiz Ahmad
Bob Alexander
Margo Alexander
Sule Amadu
Lavanya Attavane
Mazin Attia
Bryan Brady
William Charnock
Emmanuelle Chiche
Sarah Dimson
MacKenzie Fegan
Asim Hussnain
Dorothy Jean
Anusha Mehar
Joel Montgomery
Najmi Sarwar

Music: "MERP" by Savoir Adore (http://www.savoiradore.com) off the album In The Wooded Forest courtesy of Cantora Records (http://www.cantorarecords.com)

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[neddotcom]

$40 million dollars invested in 44 companies to create over 22,000 jobs in developing countries and emerging markets. That's an incredible job, up there with Paul Polak who has built models (IDE & D-REV) for the poor and taken over 17 million people out of poverty during the last 25+ years. Keep up the great work.

[nethyc]

I'm pretty sure the business makes the profit. If it makes a profit, it can expand & grow without additional donations or investment.

If they are making products or services that improve the lives of poor people, expansion & growth means reaching more people.

That's the idea this video is trying to portray.

[mommilner]

What a wonderful video. I really enjoyed watching it. I've tweeted it and posted it on my facebook page. Keep up the good work and there is no lack of need only participants in the solution.

[sonrosado]

@anotherfoolonthehlLL that isn't how it works at all. Try reading The Blue Sweater, honestly and then if your opinion is still the same after that we should chat. But it is worthless talking to you before you have educated yourself about it

[anotherfoolonthehlLL]

I appreciate your educated answer, and your sense of social duty; I think you and I butter the same side of the bread. I like your sensibility on pursuing maximum "good" by acting collectively. But ultimately I tend toward that philosophy which suggests that, rather than supplying resolve, it is always better to empower the individual. "Give a man a fish and feed him for a day... but teach a man how to fish and he will never go hungry." At any rate, this was a nice exchange.

[JLB500]

The ones making profits are the social entrepreneurs that have created a business to help solve social issues. The profits ensure financial sustainability.

Acumen Fund itself is entirely non-profit and as a social venture capital firm has an enormous amount of leverage in creating economic impact that individual donors cannot achieve.

All this information is available on their website -- it's admittedly difficult to get all the details into one 90 second video. You should check them out!

[nutbutt00]

dayum the woman in the blue scarf is on fiyaaahh

[hobo59]

I agree, maybe they should tell us who gets this "Profit" they say the business will make ?

[anotherfoolonthehlLL]

I will be surprised if my comment is allowed on this commercial video. All I see is a company who wants to become the middle-man between people giving money, and people doing work. That's basically what they're saying. Give us your money and we'll decide how to spend it, so that WE can take a share -- and this video makes you feel like they know better than you do. You should just give them your money and let them do your "good" for you. Sounds entirely democratic. HAHA.  What a joke.