The Microfinance Forum
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In the meantime, enjoy these resources. Resources
MicroFinance Gateway
The website features research and publications, original articles, organization and consultant profiles, and the latest industry announcements, news, events, and job opportunities.
CGAP
CGAP is an independent policy and research center dedicated to advancing financial access for the world's poor. Housed at the World Bank, CGAP provides market intelligence, promotes standards, develops innovative solutions and offers advisory services to governments, microfinance providers, donors, and investors.
Year Of Microcredit
Year of Microcredit is dedicated to the 2005 UN celebration of microfinance. Although their activities are in the past, the resources and photos they list are valuable.
SeaMo: Seatle Microfinance
SeaMo hosts networking events and speakers series and provides a website that serves as an events calendar, jobs board, community forum, and news source.
MiFi Report
The MiFi Report was founded by James Beshara and Nick Soper out of Cape Town, South Africa as the first microfinance information site directed toward both the casual reader and the MFI experts alike.
Microfinance Insights
Microfinance Insights offers in-depth analyses and commentary on the microfinance sector, updates on the latest trends, and profiles of global sector players in a full-color, print magazine.
Microcredit Summit Campaign
The Campaign brings together the microfinance world to promote best practices in the field, to stimulate the interchanging of knowledge, and to work towards reaching our goals. The Microcredit Summit Campaign is a project of the RESULTS Educational Fund, a U.S.-based grassroots advocacy organization committed to ending hunger and poverty.
Turn Phones Into Loans
Phones for Loans' program uses the profit from recycled cell phone parts to fund the Chiapas Project and other microfinance efforts.
Peer to Peer (P2P) Lending Websites
Babyloan
Kiva.org
Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.
MicroPlace
In the meantime, enjoy these resources. Resources
MicroFinance Gateway
The website features research and publications, original articles, organization and consultant profiles, and the latest industry announcements, news, events, and job opportunities.
CGAP
CGAP is an independent policy and research center dedicated to advancing financial access for the world's poor. Housed at the World Bank, CGAP provides market intelligence, promotes standards, develops innovative solutions and offers advisory services to governments, microfinance providers, donors, and investors.
Year Of Microcredit
Year of Microcredit is dedicated to the 2005 UN celebration of microfinance. Although their activities are in the past, the resources and photos they list are valuable.
SeaMo: Seatle Microfinance
SeaMo hosts networking events and speakers series and provides a website that serves as an events calendar, jobs board, community forum, and news source.
MiFi Report
The MiFi Report was founded by James Beshara and Nick Soper out of Cape Town, South Africa as the first microfinance information site directed toward both the casual reader and the MFI experts alike.
Microfinance Insights
Microfinance Insights offers in-depth analyses and commentary on the microfinance sector, updates on the latest trends, and profiles of global sector players in a full-color, print magazine.
Microcredit Summit Campaign
The Campaign brings together the microfinance world to promote best practices in the field, to stimulate the interchanging of knowledge, and to work towards reaching our goals. The Microcredit Summit Campaign is a project of the RESULTS Educational Fund, a U.S.-based grassroots advocacy organization committed to ending hunger and poverty.
Turn Phones Into Loans
Phones for Loans' program uses the profit from recycled cell phone parts to fund the Chiapas Project and other microfinance efforts.
Peer to Peer (P2P) Lending Websites
Babyloan
Kiva.org
Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.
MicroPlace
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