+Acumen Courses

This is a 6-week introductory course that will take you through a variety of materials Acumen has designed to train leaders who wish to change the way the world tackles poverty, and build a world based on dignity.

• Independent
• 6 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Finished
• Free Online Course

For almost 15 years, Acumen has been making long-term debt and equity investments in early-stage enterprises tackling poverty and striving to provide low-income consumers with critical products and services—from affordable education, housing, and healthc…

• NovoEd
• 5 weeks, 4-5 hours a week
• Finished
• Free Online Course

You've come up with an amazing prototype for a new product or service that could benefit villagers in rural Kenya or slum dwellers in India. Now how do you figure out if there is a sustainable business model to get this innovation into the hands of your…

• NovoEd
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Finished
• Free Online Course

+Acumen desarrolló este curso conjuntamente con el Grupo de Impacto de Acumen para ayudar a responder estas preguntas: '¿Qué significa crear impacto social?' '¿Cómo es el proceso?' y '¿Por qué medir el impacto social y qué medir?' Este curso se centra en…

• NovoEd
• 6 weeks, 4-5 hours a week
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Learn to scale agricultural innovations for smallholder farmers with +Acumen's 2-hour course. Gain insights from experts, understand the "4As to Adoption" framework, and apply these tools to your work.

• Independent
• Finished
• Free Online Course

You’ve developed an innovation, program or service to help the poor. Now how do you assess whether you’re really reaching your target market? Customers at the bottom of the pyramid are diverse. They span different ages, poverty levels and occupations and…

• NovoEd
• Finished
• Free Online Course

In this 2.5 hour On Demand course from +Acumen and the Center for Creative Leadership, you’ll complete interactive diagnostic activities that will help you and your team unearth the social capital & relationships that you bring to the table. You’ll be ex…

• NovoEd
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Scaling Smart: How to Grow Your Impact

• NovoEd
• Finished
• Free Online Course

This Short Course from +Acumen and Grameen Foundation will teach you about market segmentation, or how to divide your market into clusters that have relatively similar needs.

• NovoEd
• 4 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Finished
• Free Online Course

+Acumen desarrolló este curso conjuntamente con el Grupo de Impacto de Acumen para ayudar a responder estas preguntas: '¿Qué significa crear impacto social?' '¿Cómo es el proceso?' y '¿Por qué medir el impacto social y qué medir?' Este curso se centra en…

• NovoEd
• 6 weeks, 4-5 hours a week
• Finished
• Free Online Course

In this 2.5 hour course, you’ll learn about the 4A’s framework, a simple and practical model that can help you understand the drivers of adoption among base of the pyramid consumers: advantage, affordability, awareness and access. Drawn from the “Growin…

• EdCast
• 5 weeks
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Learn to scale your social impact with +Acumen's 5-week course. Gain insights from Bain & Company's Repeatable Models framework and successful case studies. Ideal for social businesses.

• Independent
• 5 weeks
• Finished
• Free Online Course

What does social impact mean? How does Acumen assess social impact when considering potential investments? How can you apply the same concepts elsewhere? One of the most common questions we get is how we measure our impact. Is it just the number of live…

• NovoEd
• 4 weeks, 4-5 hours a week
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Learn to market social innovations to base-of-the-pyramid customers with +Acumen's 4-week course. Gain insights from their experiences and a unique 4Ts framework.

• Independent
• 4 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Finished
• Free Online Course

Accion Venture Lab's 5-week course guides social enterprises in forming effective boards, managing relationships, running meetings, and adapting strategies for organizational growth.

• Independent
• 5 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Finished
• Free Online Course