SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Schwab Charitable, one of the country’s largest and fastest growing nonprofits and facilitators of charitable giving with over $2 billion in assets and $350MM in annual ...
In the first year of the Schwab Charitable Microfinance Guarantee Program, donors set aside $10-million from their gift funds to guarantee small loans to poor entrepreneurs in developing countries. As ...
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Citi Foundation today announced a three-year US$11.2 million international grant program, in partnership with the SEEP Network to advance the integration of microfinance ...
A new microfinance loan program from Schwab Charitable allows investors to double-dip their charitable giving assets. The San Francisco company, the charitable giving arm of Charles Schwab Corp., said ...
BlueOrchard Finance, a Switzerland-based impact investment manager, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have entered a $50 million risk-sharing agreement for microfinance coverage in ADB’s developing ...
BOSTON, MA - April 13, 2007 - The Harvard Business School-ACCION Program on Strategic Leadership for Microfinance convenes this week on the HBS campus in Boston for the second consecutive year, ...
Microfinance has been touted as a miracle cure for poverty in the global south. The reality has been a lot messier. Illustration by Adrià Fruitós. Yabom was lucky. She heard a flat tone, then an ...
Toronto, ON, May 14, 2008 - The MasterCard Foundation launched its Scholars Program today by awarding grants totaling $600,000 to six leading microfinance training institutes. The program will fund ...
The Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 50, No. 3 (Summer 2016), pp. 305-318 (14 pages) Although the microfinance movement has developed rapidly in Bangladesh over the last three decades, there has been ...