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BancoSol

BancoSol is a Bolivian microfinance bank that provides financial services to micro-entrepreneurs. After over eighteen years in business, BancoSol has disbursed more than USD 2 billion for more than 1.5 million micro enterprise projects. Currently, the Bank has more than 130,000 clients who...

Social Enterprise Associates

Social Enterprise Associates is an American consulting firm based in Washington D.C.. The company offers business acumen, managerial experience, financing opportunities, and practical research to business and community efforts seeking social good. Social Enterprise Associates fosters 'triple bottom...

TBL Capital

TBL Capital is a capital venture fund focused on the needs of the entrepreneur with a balanced emphasis on people, planet and profits. The firm invests in entrepreneurs who are committed to building companies with strong triple bottom line returns. TBL provides growth capital to help...

SJF Ventures

SJF Ventures is a venture capital partnership with offices in Durham, NC, New York and San Francisco. Through its investment funds, the firm provides equity financings from $1MM to $10MM, solo or in syndicates, to companies seeking expansion capital. As a venture fund, SJF Ventures focuses on...

Social Investment Forum (SIF)

The Social Investment Forum (SIF) is the US membership association for professionals, firms, institutions and organisations engaged in socially responsible and sustainable investing. SIF and its members advance investment practices that consider environmental, social and corporate governance...

Good Capital

Good Capital is an investment firm based in San Francisco that aims to increase the flow of capital to innovative ventures creating market-based solutions to inequality and poverty.

Investors Circle

Investors' Circle is a network of investors, professional venture capitalists, and foundations devoted to funding social enterprises. The group has helped direct more than $130 million in investments to 200 companies since 1992. Investors' Circle also aims to widen the network of patient capital...

Community Development Venture Capital Alliance (CDVA)

The Community Development Venture Capital Alliance (CDVCA) is a not for profit network for community development venture capital (CDVC) investing. CDVC funds provide equity capital to businesses in underinvested markets, seeking market-rate financial returns, as well as the creation of good jobs,...

Commons Capital

Commons Capital is a venture capital firm founded to realize competitive rates of return by investing in promising young companies whose products, services and corporate cultures promote a sustainable economy and deliver market solutions to major social and environmental problems. The company...

Acumen Fund

Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. The organisations seeks to prove that small amounts of philanthropic capital, combined with business acumen, can build thriving enterprises that serve large numbers of the...

Unitus

Unitus is an international nonprofit organization established in the USA. The organisation aims to fight global poverty by accelerating the growth of microfinance — small loans and other financial tools for self-empowerment — where it is needed most.

SKS Microfinance

SKS Microfinance is an Indian NGO that distributes small loans that begin at Rs. 2,000 to Rs. 12,000 (about $44-$260) to poor women so to enable them to start and expand simple businesses and increase their incomes. The micro-enterprises range from raising cows and goats in order to sell the milk,...

The Microcredit Summit Campaign

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.

Freedom from Hunger

Freedom from Hunger is an international development organization working in seventeen countries across the globe. Established as an NGO in the United States in 1946, Freedom from Hunger aims to bring innovative and sustainable self-help solutions to the fight against chronic hunger and poverty.

CGAP Advancing Financial Access for the World's Poor

CGAP is an independent policy and research center dedicated to advancing financial access for the world's poor. It is supported by over 30 development agencies and private foundations who share a common mission to alleviate poverty. Housed at the World Bank, CGAP provides market intelligence,...

BASIX

BASIX is a livelihood promotion institution established in 1996, working with over a million and a half customers, over 90% of whom live in poor rural households and 10% in urban slums. BASIX works in 16 states - Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Tamilnadu,...

ACCESS

ACCESS is a not-for-profit company that offers specialised technical assistance in two areas, microfinance and livelihoods.

MicroEnergy Credits Corporation

The MicroEnergy Credits Corporation (MEC)is a social enterprise which links microfinance institutions to the carbon markets when they lend for clean energy. MEC sells the carbon credits earned by replacing dirty fuels like kerosene, wood, coal and dung on the voluntary carbon markets and passes...

Make Poverty Business: Increase Profits and Reduce Risks by Engaging with the Poor

Make Poverty Business: Increase Profits and Reduce Risks by Engaging with the Poor (2006) is a book by Craig Wilson and Peter Wilson that sets out to provide a blueprint for on-the-ground managers of multinational corporations to create sustainable profits and reduce country risk by helping...

Ruma

Ruma is a social enterprise that aims to empower the poor in Indonesia by providing pre-packaged business opportunities complete with an equipment package, a strong brand, marketing materials, initial training, ongoing mentoring and access to a supply chain. Its flagship microfranchise business,...