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Acumen Fund is a pioneering not-for-profit venture fund that is changing the way the world addresses poverty. Vancouver for Acumen, a volunteer-run chapter, supports this mission by actively championing Acumen Fund’s innovative model of investing patient capital in enterprises that solve the problems of poverty. Since its founding in 2001, Acumen Fund has invested more than $45 million in enterprises that provide access to water, health, energy, housing and agriculture inputs to low-income customers in South Asia and East Africa.