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Sounds like a great model. If I hear or think of anyone, I will let you know.
Under a new and innovative business model, for-profits and non-profits can work together to dramatically increase the capital pool available to nonprofit MFIs. The model is called Good Returns: a business agrees to invest its profits each year for a…
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- What is the name of your company, organization, or school?
- Soap Hope
- What is your job function?
- Founder
- How did you find out about the Microfinance Network?
- From a colleague
- What is your website?
- http://soaphopecom
- Why are you here?
- To meet others who are dedicated to ending poverty. To share my expertise in developing sustainability for nonprofits. To raise awareness of our Good Returns model in which for-profit enterprises leverage their resources to power sustainable nonprofits.
- What are you currently working on?
- My company Soap Hope at soaphope.com invests 100% of its profits into MFIs that provide microloans for women around the world. We call our model Good Returns. I have a personal goal of recruiting 1,000 small- to mid-sized businesses to the Good Returns model in which profits and corporate resources are invested into MFIs, in order to end poverty worldwide.
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Increasing MFI Capital Through Business Partnership - the Good Returns Model
Under a new and innovative business model, for-profits and non-profits can work together to dramatically increase the capital pool available to nonprofit MFIs. The model is called Good Returns: a business agrees to invest its profits each year for a one-year period into MFIs in the form of an interest-free loan. It's a "win-win-win-win" for the business, customers, MFI, and the MFI clients.
I started the first Good Returns model company one year ago, Soap Hope. Soap Hope sel
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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…
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