YP Name Change & New Acumen Fund Online Community

We wanted to make you aware of two exciting changes regarding Acumen Fund!

Firstly, we have formed a formal New York for Acumen Chapter (NYfA)! After discussions with the YP (now NYfA) leadership team and AF staff, we concluded that in order to be more inclusive of supporters who may not be young professionals and to be more reflective of our geography. Please note that the new email address for NYfA is NewYorkforAcumen@gmail.com, should you have any questions that you would like to ask the leadership team or AF.

If you are not in the New York area, don’t worry! Acumen Fund has created an Online Community on the Ning platform. It will evolve into a hub for all NYfA and AF communications and we will be transitioning the blog and email list to this site between now and January 2010, so we encourage you to sign up now.

We will continue to blog/ post announcements on the community site regarding NY related happenings and other groups are forming too! We have created a New York for Acumen Group as has the San Francisco for Acumen (SFfA) Chapter, along with volunteer groups in London and Dubai. You too can feel free to start a volunteer group or even start an official Chapter. To learn more about starting an official Acumen Fund Chapter in your area, read more about it here.

To begin using the Online Community is easy:

· First, sign-up!It takes 2 minutes to set up a basic profile

· Join NYfA (New York for Acumen) or other groups

· Introduce yourself and tell us why you joined the group

· Pose a question to the Acumen Fund community on the Forum page

In addition, you can announce an event, post photos, and find people who share a common passion for the work of Acumen Fund.

As a YP you are getting an early invite to the Community site, which will be launched in about a week. Since the site is still very new, please feel free to post a comment on our feedback forum or out to Jo-Ann Tan jtan@acumenfund.org for ways that we could improve the site.