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Acumen was founded on April 1, 2001 with capital from the Rockefeller Foundation, Cisco Systems Foundation and three other individual philanthropists. The foundation envisions an organization that seeks to promote and venture entrepreneial ideas with substantial social impact on poverty reduction.  Acumen currently operates in five regions around the world namely USA, India, Pakistan, East Africa and West Africa. As stated by their website, Latin America has made incredible progress in reducing extreme poverty, but more than 80 million people still live on $4 a day and another 200 million face the risk of being pulled back into poverty. This organization aims to assist and equip these regions with the tools to escape and assist others in escaping extreme poverty.