Eleanor Horowitz

Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family—that’s impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love. – Paul Bloom, The Case Against Empathy

Now that I’ve reached the halfway point of my FMS placement, I thought it would be a good chance to list out some of the highlights of what I have been up to at Unitus Seed Fund since starting here: USF announced two new investments into iStar and Jack on Block USF won Villgro’s “Best Indian […]

Last month, I had a chance to attend India’s largest and leading impact investing and social enterprise conference, the Sankalp Unconvention Summit, in Mumbai. The conference, which attracted 1,000 attendees, plays host to several social impact awards, serves as a venue for entrepreneurs to meet investors, is a massive networking opportunity, and offers a quasi-think […]

What would you do with $2,300,000,000?    You could buy 4500 Maybachs, a stay at Burj Al Arab for 600 years, 45 luxury yachts or 100 private jets — OR — You could improve education in 10,000 schools, give healthcare to thousands, provide power to 1,000 villages, or invest in agriculture that will impact 10,000 [...]

What would you do with $2,300,000,000?    You could buy 4500 Maybachs, a stay at Burj Al Arab for 600 years, 45 luxury yachts or 100 private jets — OR — You could improve education in 10,000 schools, give healthcare to thousands, provide power to 1,000 villages, or invest in agriculture that will impact 10,000 [...]

Slightly unrelated to the geographic focus of this blog, but I had to share because the video is so inspiring. This is Salamatu’s Story, and the story of how Community Water Solutions empowered her to become an entrepreneur and enabled her to increase her income by providing clean water to her entire community. I worked [...]

Slightly unrelated to the geographic focus of this blog, but I had to share because the video is so inspiring. This is Salamatu’s Story, and the story of how Community Water Solutions empowered her to become an entrepreneur and enabled her to increase her income by providing clean water to her entire community. I worked [...]

The prevalence of women’s rights issues* in India combined with my search for promising Indian entrepreneurs focused on the BoP has made me extremely interested in the power and potential of women entrepreneurs. Today, in preparation for International Women’s Day on March 8, I’ll be participating in my first ever Twitter chat with Milaap and [...]

The prevalence of women’s rights issues* in India combined with my search for promising Indian entrepreneurs focused on the BoP has made me extremely interested in the power and potential of women entrepreneurs. Today, in preparation for International Women’s Day on March 8, I’ll be participating in my first ever Twitter chat with Milaap and [...]

The Akshaya Patra Foundation was founded with the mission that “no child in India should be deprived of education because of hunger.” Despite laws requiring that all government primary schools provide mid-day meals to students, as of about ten years ago, only 8-10% of schoolchildren were actually being fed. Government inefficiencies and corruption meant that money [...]

The Akshaya Patra Foundation was founded with the mission that “no child in India should be deprived of education because of hunger.” Despite laws requiring that all government primary schools provide mid-day meals to students, as of about ten years ago, only 8-10% of schoolchildren were actually being fed. Government inefficiencies and corruption meant that money [...]