Mother’s Day is right around the corner and Trickle Up wants you to keep them in mind when picking a gift for your mom. The Seed a Dream campaign highlights the mothers around the world who rely on microfinance to climb out of poverty. From their press release: Through the campaign, donors can make gifts ...
Congratulations to our good friends over at Jolkona, who are doing great work in the micro-giving space (including microfinance). They just recently moved into new office space in downtown Seattle–a huge step for a fledgling non-profit.
Campus Kiva and the Princeton Microfinance Organization are hosting Microfinance and Beyond with featured speakers Brad Swanson and Jonathan Murdoch.
Just in time for Earth Day, Kiva is introducing “Green Loans”, which: “promote clean and renewable sources of energy by funding organic fertilizers, stoves, drip irrigation systems, solar panels, biofuels, and more.” They have also enabled Attribute-based search which allows you to add “Students” or “Green” when narrowing your search for loans. More information at ...
SeaMo and Fortunato Vega invite you to a VIP reception and the premiere of To Catch a Dollar. This one night only event, screened via simulcast to hundreds of theatres across the nation, will spotlight the promise of microfinance to lift people out of poverty in America through stories of brave women entrepreneurs. With millions ...
Is There a Role for Business in Ending Global Poverty? At the Bottom Billions/Bottom Line conference, you’ll hear inspiring stories, discover innovative business models, and explore challenges in creating social and financial value. It’s unlike any business conference you’ve been to before. Helping the Bottom Billions Through the Bottom Line Approximately 1 billion people live ...
Position: Director of Social Performance Monitoring and Market Research Reporting to: Director, Fonkoze Directly Supervising: Departmental staff (currently 12 field-based social impact monitors and 3 Port-au- Prince-based supervisors) Location: Port-au-Prince, Haiti Summary Fondasyon Kole Zepòl (Fonkoze) is Haiti’s largest, most innovative microfinance institution. Since 1994, Fonkoze has worked to fight rural poverty in Haiti by ...
Our neighbors to the north are hosting an excellent event on microcredit. If you are in Victoria, BC, Canada in a couple of weeks, this is a can’t miss event. For more information, visit: www.microcredit2011.org Speakers Phil Smith, keynote speaker on Friday, March 4. Phil is author of A Billion Bootstraps Joyce Lehman, the Gates ...
Position: Regional Director, Africa and the Middle East Report to: Vice President of Microfinance Location: San Francisco, CA – Downtown/Mission District Job Type: Full time with salary plus benefits About the Organization: Called the “hottest non-profit on the planet” by FORTUNE magazine and a Top 50 Website by TIME, Kiva (www.kiva.org) is the world’s first ...
From the Press Release: Seattle, Wash., – Global Partnerships (GP), a 16-year-old nonprofit that supports microfinance and other sustainable solutions to poverty, announced today that it has invested $4.5 million of its new $20 million social investment fund in six outstanding microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Latin America. Three of the partners are new to GP. ...