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 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 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 website features research and publications, original articles,
organization and consultant profiles, and the latest industry
announcements, news, events, and job opportunities.
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 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.
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 (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.
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.
Hi Lisa,
Thanks for joining the conversation and making such great comments. Yunus and many volunteers worked incredibly hard to change cultural/gendered identities that oppressed women in Bangledesh, and cultural change is not always bad, though di…
I teach a graduate course in microfinance and am a strong believer in continuous, self-education. One member of this site asked if I could put together a tutorial. I thought I'd invite others who wish to follow the same path and learn together.