Part 0 of the Acumen virtual bootcamp series can be found here.
Task: Watch Acumen Manifesto and Behind the Manifesto. And reflect on your work and the audacious vision that you are building toward.
The Acumen Manifesto reflects an attempt to explain the goals of Moral leadership, as well as the qualities inherent in the change makers. The story of Kenyan women contained pearls of wisdom. It was an informal education on how inspirations come in life, society, and career.
The bootcamp is a virtual community coming from the areas of public policy, entrepreneurship, rights-based work, and technology. There is a deep intellectual capability in understanding where things are going wrong, a bleeding heart for empathy, and courage in building a strategy for change. The diverse mindset present here will help me to understand how to facilitate systems change and create more inclusive social systems through the use of market forces. I am hoping to understand how each leader is providing services/products to their target community.
The perseverance for the livelihood of individual farmers and the millions who collectively rely on smallholder farmers for food security is an essential component of our work. But they are more than consumers; they are entrepreneurs and risk takers. I am trying to use interventions to achieve a triple bottom-line: increase farm productivity and incomes gradually, help farmers adapt to climate change, and mitigate the risk of market failures. I always work to transform NGO into social enterprises, developing go-to-market strategies, and strengthening the partners' ecosystem. Hoping to do this with the support of the community of change makers. For where there is life, there is hope.