[1] The organization claims to seek the eradication of poverty by training and assisting poor small business owners and helping microentrepreneurs grow their businesses through education and mediating loan negotiations.

For its efforts, AE has received international recognition from the Inter-American Development Bank as one of the 40 best social projects in Latin America.

To measure its effects, Acción Emprendedora has implemented a database system, innovative methodologies, rigorous monitoring.

AE currently has 6 entrepreneurial centers in Chile located in Santiago, Valparaíso, Concepción, Antofagasta, San Pedro de Atacama, and Coronel.

Future plans include opening a learning center in Durham, NC, because AE finished as a finalist in the Duke University Start-Up Challenge.