Harnessing Student Potential In Microfinance
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Chris' Awesome and Cool Reading List
Some must reads for someone interested in Microfinance, Social Entrepreneurship, and Development Economics
The website features research and publications, original articles, organization and consultant profiles, and the latest industry announcements, news, events, and job opportunities.
CGAP is an independent policy and research center dedicated to advacning 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.
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.
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.
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 hosts networking events and speakers series and provides a website that serves as an events calendar, jobs board, community forum, and news source.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.
MicroPlace simply connects investors with microfinance institutions looking for funds through a micro-lending website.
Wokai is the innovative lending platform that is bringing microloans to many parts of rural china.
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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Comment by Bishal Bhakta Kasu on November 20, 2010 at 11:55am -
Dear Guillaume,
I can create a link in my blog for your organization. Let me know, if you want.
Thanks,
Bishal Kasu
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Comment by Azhar Nadeem on June 13, 2010 at 9:13am
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Comment by Isha Wedasinghe Miranda on May 8, 2010 at 2:41am -
Vernhill Associates - (Registered Under Social Act in Sri Lanka)
Vern hill Associates is one of the leading organizations conducting grass roots level and macro level NGO, CBO and Government poverty reduction institutions in Micro and Macro level training and capacity building, in post conflict area and Rural and Urban poor cities/villages and towns, existing members, youth (All Genders) and widows and single women.
Our goal is introducing professionalism to their organizations . Most organizations has been collapsing due to lack of knowledge on how to over come administrations, Institutional conflict , further expansion, Group and society management, and Market needs.
We have line of programs and workshop to be conduct in the 2010 -2012. Presently we are looking for funds about 60% of the budget to continue our work.
We also incorporate micro credit lending sector has a first pilot project , in an village of 40 families who are in to Agriculture sector.
for further clarification please contact me vernhill@yahoo.com
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Comment by Isha Wedasinghe Miranda on March 30, 2010 at 1:43am
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Yes I can . Presently we having a www.mftot6.ning.com for All those who are certified trainers and expert channel. but we also heading for new website link with above on specialize on MFI management and Capacity building. I will forward to you soon.
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Comment by Guillaume Desclée de Maredsous on March 3, 2010 at 9:07am -
Hello,
we are launching our microcredit website at the end of the month: http://www.impulso.org.br
Is it possible to add in on your microfinance links?
Cheers,
Guillaume
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