MICROFINANCE

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THE WORLDPOST
How Microfinance Reduces Gender Inequality In Developing Countries
By The Conversation Global, Contributor
The Conversation is a collaboration between editors and academ...
We found evidence of a negative relationship between women’s participation in microfinance and gender inequality.
WORLDPOST
How Islamic finance can help address global inequity
By Naser Haghamed, Contributor
CEO of Islamic Relief Worldwide, an independent humanitarian a...
IMPACT
The Impressive Impact of Village Banking in Paraguay
By FOMIN, Contributor
The Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Develop...
The benefits go beyond access to money. Over the time, the groups who borrow money learn how to work together, increase the
IMPACT
Passionate About Potential
By Andy Bryant, Contributor
Andy Bryant is the Executive Director of Segal Family Foundati...
We recently celebrated Financial Inclusion Week, sponsored by the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion. The theme was
BUSINESS
How a Microloan Helped My Business Grow
By NerdWallet, Contributor
Providing clarity for all of life's financial decisions.
Many nonprofit lenders are local, serving specific regions or communities. California-based Opportunity Fund is one. The
WOMEN
How a Sanitary Pad Project in India Benefits Both Girls' Education and the Environment
By Deborah Burns, Contributor
Author and co-founder of Skirting the Rules
Why Financial Freedom Is So Important for Living Your Dreams Despite strides in feminism, menstruation is still far from
WORLDPOST
A Better Way Forward In Afghanistan
By Nake M. Kamrany, Contributor
Professor of Economics, University of Southern California
At the NATO summit in Warsaw, German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered her support for a continued NATO presence in Afghanistan, citing a need to stem the persistently high levels of Afghan immigration to Germany and Europe.
WOMEN
Why Women Entrepreneurs Are Underrated Investments -- And What To Do About It
By Gina Harman, Contributor
CEO, U.S. Network, Accion
Companies with gender and ethnic diversity on their leadership teams perform better than their peers in the field, and the
IMPACT
Ugandan Farmers Put Savings in a Digital Wallet
By Lutheran World Relief, Contributor
Non-profit working with local partners to provide lasting solu...
The move to mobile in the savings and lending groups capitalizes on the increasing accessibility and use of mobile technology in Africa, even in some of the remotest areas.
IMPACT
Orphanages that hate orphanages
By Bekka Ross Russell, Contributor
Founder and Executive Director of The Small Things, an NGO wor...
I founded and run an organization that includes an orphanage, and I hate orphanages. Just one of the many mind-bending situations you find yourself in when working in community development, halfway around the world.
IMPACT
This Entrepreneur Raised $9.2M to Bring Banking to Underserved Areas
By Jason Choi, Contributor
Investing in an inclusive and sustainable future
Single mothers running small stores, struggling to buy their children school uniforms as they work long hours to make ends meet. That was the image that stuck with Matthew Flannery when he was in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya more than a decade ago.
IMPACT
But Aren't Those Kids Broken? Poverty Porn vs. Reality
By Bekka Ross Russell, Contributor
Founder and Executive Director of The Small Things, an NGO wor...
When I decided to spend most of a year living and volunteering in Tanzania, I said early on that I didn't want to do orphanage work. I love kids, always have, and for exactly that reason, I thought it would be too sad to be around traumatized, orphaned children. I couldn't have been more wrong.
IMPACT
The Story of Zidisha: Dramatically Reducing Microloan Interest Rates
By Julia Kurnia, Contributor
Director, Zidisha
Our vetting process was originally very cumbersome. In an attempt to mimic local banks, we would ask applicants to scan in
IMPACT
Megan Tamte - A Dream Come True
By Renata M. Black, Contributor
Paradigm Shifter
The night we signed the lease I Googled "How do you open a store?" I went to the library the next day and got about ten books
IMPACT
Lynne Coté & Kimberly Inskeep : Women Empowering Women
By Renata M. Black, Contributor
Paradigm Shifter
Everything I have ever done has been focused on this underlying theme of shifting the paradigm because, "What we think determines
IMPACT
The Progress and Promise for Women Around the World
By Elizabeth L. Littlefield, Contributor
President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporati...
Likewise with the research from female-led hedge funds, where the evidence in favor of women's leadership mounts. When we
WOMEN
International Women's Day: A Day for Offering Opportunity
By Kimberly Inskeep, Contributor
Chief Culture Officer and President, cabi
On March 8, International Women's Day will be here again -- and while this is a prompt to celebrate all the great things women are accomplishing around the world, this year, I cannot help but have a heavy heart around a sobering message.
IMPACT
A Groundbreaking New Kind Of Tourism Makes Rural Mexican Villages Smarter, Stronger And Richer
By Carly Schwartz, Contributor
Editor in Chief, Google Insider
I am sitting cross-legged on the floor of Mendoza's modest show-room, a cement shack painted yellow and stacked with blankets and tapestries for sale. About a dozen tourists from around the world sit in clusters around me, watching Mendoza's 80-year-old mother prepare the wool for spinning
IMPACT
Thanksgiving: This Week in Daily Giving
By Ariel Nessel, Contributor
Co Founder of The Pollination Project
From Shari Jones' project to bring vegan nutrition education to South Central LA, to Terrance Ransom's Oakland, CA-based project to help kids heal from grief and loss through video games, this week we are proud to support another crop of seeds of change in our world.
IMPACT
Engines of Change: Thankful for Women Entrepreneurs
By Vicki Escarra, Contributor
Global CEO, Opportunity International
Day in and day out, women entrepreneurs around the world fight to rise against natural disasters, legal oppression and economic downturns. They continue to be the single greatest untapped resource in this world.
GREEN
Why One Mexican Farmer Got Her Whole Town Hooked On Worms
By Carly Schwartz, Contributor
Editor in Chief, Google Insider
Domitila has been fascinated by working with the earth since she was a young girl, growing up in a Mazahua indigenous community nearby. There, she says she spent her childhood learning how to grow her own crops.
IMPACT
Twenty Years of Women's Financial Inclusion
By Gayle Gatchalian, Contributor
Senior Associate, Knowledge and Communications, Women's World ...
The types of financial services that low-income women are able to access have also changed. In 1995, we were still promoting the idea that low-income women entrepreneurs were optimal loan clients. Today, financial institutions are offering savings, microinsurance, digital financial services to rural families, women who work in factories, and women who run larger businesses.
EDUCATION
One Thing You Can Do to Give Back to Teachers
By Craig Newmark, Contributor
Founder, craigslist + Craig Newmark Foundation
After I introduced Stephen Colbert to DonorsChoose, he began to focus on milfams, and I tried a similar effort later, but
IMPACT
How One Couple Baked Their Way Through Tragedy
By Carly Schwartz, Contributor
Editor in Chief, Google Insider
The smell of melting butter and baking dough wafts through the town of Tetela. Two neighborhood boys amble up to Miguel and Irma's front gate, pressing their noses in the spaces between the metal. "Ya tienen pasteles?" one of them shouts excitedly. Are your pastries ready?
IMPACT
Small Loans Mean Big Opportunities for Women in the Philippines
By Maura Hart, Contributor
Knowledge and Communications, Women's World Banking
As small business owners in the Philippines, these women often do not qualify for traditional loans and other commercial banking services. They look to nonprofit financial institutions like Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation (NWTF) for financial services that are specifically designed to help them build their businesses.
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