Merging market forces with humanitarian instincts, Acumen funds entrepreneurs offering critical services to people living on less than $4 a day. Its 24 investments--in enterprises ranging from a maker of antimalarial nets in Tanzania to a Pakistani builder of low-income housing--have created more than 20,000 jobs and changed an estimated 10 million lives. Novogratz's goal: to reach 50 million people by 2011.
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