Microfinance Links

Resources

ACCION International

ACCION partners with 32 microfinance organizations throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa, and serves U.S. microentrepreneurs through the U.S. ACCION Network. In 2008, ACCION and its partners served over 3.7 million active borrowers, and since 1998 has loaned $23.4 billion to more than 7.7 million people.

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.

The Chalmers Center

The Chalmers Center offers training for churches to minister to poor communities in the Majority World — Africa, Asia, and Latin America — as well as the US/Canadian context. This training is available through web-deployed distance learning courses, self-study courses, and week-long training institutes held throughout the world in partnership with churches and ministries.

SeaMo: Seattle 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.

Microfinance Gateway

The website features research and publications, original articles, organization and consultant profiles, and the latest industry announcements, news, events, and job opportunities.

Microcredit Summit

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.

VSL Associates

VSL Associates Ltd was founded specifically to promote the adoption of a particular approach to community-managed microfinance, known as the Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) model.

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.

MyKro.org

MyKro's purpose is through an online community, encourage information flow that promotes increased awareness and knowledge of microfinance as a poverty-fighting tool.

Leading Group on Innovative Finance for Development

The Leading Group, or the Leading Group on Solidarity Levies to Fund Development, is a body that brings together 55 countries, various international organisationd and non-governmental organisations. It is aimed at moving forward discussions about setting up innovative development financing mechanisms

Innovations for Poverty Action

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) aims to fill two voids that currently exist in development work: insufficient evaluation of what works -- and why -- in poverty reduction, and insufficient use of research results to develop and scale effective interventions. Using research results to identify effective interventions, we disseminate the lessons to policymakers, practitioners, investors and donors around the world.

Green Microfinance

GreenMicrofinance (GMf), a pioneer in merging the environmental and microfinance sectors, has been working to bring clean, affordable, renewable, locally-generated energy to the poor. GMf‘s objective is to provide educational, technical, and financial services to assist the global poor's transition to a sustainable, affordable, and healthy energy future.


Lending Platforms (P2P)

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

MicroPlace simply connects investors with microfinance institutions looking for funds through a micro-lending website.

Wokai

Wokai is the innovative lending platform that is bringing microloans to many parts of rural china.

Oikocredit

Oikocredit is one of the world’s largest sources of private funding to the microfinance sector. We also provide credit to trade cooperatives, fair trade organizations and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) in the developing world.

Other Microfinance Networks
The SPM Network
MicroCapital Society

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