Microfinance Innovation Facility Offers Research Grants

The Microfinance Innovation Facility will be awarding $10,000 grants for academic research in the field of microinsurance. For more information, visit the official posting.
The Microfinance Innovation Facility is a program of the International Labour Organization.

Microinsurance: the logical next step in microfinancial services

Last week I had an opportunity to speak with someone working in the field of microinsurance. As a professional in the reinsurance industry, he become intrigued by the idea of how microinsurance–the provision of insurance policies to the same constituencies who benefit from microcredit and microsavings–could benefit from the same pooling of risks that the [...]

Agros Supporter to Perform at the Triple Door Monday December 1st

Agros Supporter to Perform at the Triple Door Monday December 1st

Oregonian: “Fast Company Honors Mercy Corps”

Oregonian: “Fast Company Honors Mercy Corps”

Toronto Globe and Mail: Interview with CEO of Mastercard Foundation on Financial Services for the Poor

Toronto Globe and Mail: Interview with CEO of Mastercard Foundation on Financial Services for the Poor

Communications Coordinator – Unitus

Description:
Unitus, an international nonprofit organization, works to reduce global poverty by increasing access to life-changing microfinance services. We seek out and partner with young, high-potential microfinance (MF) providers, helping them build capacity, attract capital, and achieve exponential growth. Through this leveraged approach, Unitus seeks to empower millions of the world’s working poor while transforming the [...]

Investment Performance Officer – Global Partnerships

Salary: Compensation: Competitive salary with comprehensive benefits package.
Education: Bachelor (BA, BS, etc.)
Location: Seattle, Washington, 98105, United States
Posted by: Global Partnerships 
Last day to apply: December 1, 2008
Position: Investment Performance Officer  Location: Seattle, WA
Reports to: Director of Investment Performance
Founded in 1994, Global Partnerships (GP) is a rapidly growing nonprofit organization whose mission is to expand opportunity for [...]

Associate Program Officer – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Nearly 2.5 billion people live on less than $2 a day. For one person in eight, hunger is a constant, potentially deadly, companion. The vast majority of the poor also lack access to the most basic financial services and only a tiny minority have access to the Internet. The foundation’s Global Development Program is working [...]

Wokai’s P2P Microfinance Website Up and Running

For those interested in microfinance in China, please check out Wokai.org. Similar to P2P lending sites, Wokai allows you to select the individual entrepreneur you would like to support. Wokai’s innovation is making this linkage available between Chinese borrowers and international donors. And I say donors not borrowers for a reason. Chinese banking regulations prohibit [...]

Unitus: “Ujjivan Raises $19 Million of Equity Capital”