Microfinance Center

MicroPlace microfinance borrowers: Small Change Big Change

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:06:04 +0000

MicroPlace lets Americans invest in microfinance. Your small change can make a big change in someone’s life.

Duration : 0:1:20

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Microfinance Showing New Potential

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:06:13 +0000

Professor Bhagwan Chowdhry describes this growing global phenomenon that is bringing hope to emerging markets.

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Duration : 0:6:37

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Help Unitus Alleviate Poverty With Microfinance This Holiday

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:02:05 +0000

Watch this 90 second video from Unitus’s President and CEO Geoff Davis and Board Chair Mike Murray to learn how your donation or holiday gift in the name of a friend or family member will help alleviate poverty.

Microfinance products such as savings accounts, microcredit loans (usually $50 to $150), and health insurance empower the poor to lift themselves out of poverty. Through microfinance, they can secure better nutrition, education, healthcare and housing for their families. Microfinance has helped millions in developing countries raise their standards of living and protect themselves from economic setbacks.

Unitus is a global microfinance accelerator that acts as a social venture capital investor for the microfinance industry. Unitus identifies the highest-potential microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries and helps accelerate their growth through capital investments and capacity-building consulting, thus empowering them to help exponentially more poor people worldwide. In doing so, Unitus aims to demonstrate that MFIs can be run as profitable, large-scale, poverty-focused businesses with links to local capital markets. As of October 2005, Unitus had seven MFI partners worldwide serving more than 504,000 poor clients.

Duration : 0:1:50

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SKS Microfinance’s Vikram Akula on Mobile Banking

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:46:05 +0000

Vikram Akula, founder and CEO of SKS Microfinance, launched the company in 1998 to offer small loans to very poor borrowers. Some 10 years later, SKS has become India’s fastest growing microfinance institution (MFI), with more than two million borrowers. In the next two years, Akula would like SKS Microfinance, whose backers include venture capitalists such as Sequoia Capital, to grow to eight million borrowers — which would make it the world’s largest microfinance lender, surpassing Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank. In an interview with India Knowledge@Wharton at the recent Wharton India Economic Forum, Akula spoke about emerging trends in microfinance.

Duration : 0:11:32

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The ACCION Network of Microfinance Partners

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:12:06 +0000

ACCION International’s microfinance partners for the long term

Duration : 0:6:16

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Oikocredit en ING Microfinance Support: verhaal van Sundari

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:02:05 +0000

Microfinance is a major instrument for entrepreneurs and individuals to escape poverty. Oikocredit and ING joined their forces in 2004 to best support institutions around the globe with financing and technical assistance. Oikocredit is a socially responsible investment opportunity that is today recognised as on of the world’s largest source of private finance for Microfinance, financing institutions around the globe such as ASA GV. ING is well-known as a company which works with and for entrepreneurs and does its best to meet their individual needs. That is why ING supports microfinance by sharing expertise, increasing awareness and making a direct contribution to microfinance. This is the story of Sundari. More info: www.ingmicrofinance.com www.oikocredit.org www.asadev.com

Duration : 0:2:39

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Main role of ngos to support the microfinance?

admin — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:06:09 +0000

Um, I think you are in the wrong category.

But anyway microfinance is best supported by private investors.

Vivian Glyck & JustLikeMyChild foundation provides microfinance

admin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:20:05 +0000

http://www.JustLikeMyChild.org The Just Like My Child Foundation works to provide healthcare, malaria prevention, education, treatment, HIV/AIDS ARV treatment, education through scholarships to girls

Duration : 0:7:20

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KIVA micro finance

admin — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 04:06:04 +0000

Kiva.org is a non-profit web site revolutionizing the fight against global poverty by enabling socially-conscious internet users to connect with and make personal loans to low-income entrepreneurs in the developing world. As an exceptional social software solution, Kiva acts as the world’s first person-toperson lending marketplace for the poor. Anyone can make a direct loan of as little as $25 to someone in a developing country. This affordable capital helps low income entrepreneurs to start or expand their small businesses, creating a path towards economic self sufficiency. Specifically, Kiva.org has developed also a program that will accelerate the growth of microfinance institutions through the use of accounting software.

Duration : 0:0:54

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Gnel Sophea from Cambodia MicroPlace microfinance borrower

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:06:03 +0000

Meet a MicroPlace microfinance borrower from Cambodia

Duration : 0:1:6

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