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Oikocredit International

Oikocredit International, one of the largest financiers of the microfinance sector worldwide, promotes global justice by challenging people, churches and others to share their resources through socially responsible investments and by empowering disadvantaged people with credit. Oikocredit finances...

Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA)

Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA) provides microfinance services - microcredit and savings products - to the world's poorest families through a global network of locally managed, self-supporting institutions.

Trickle Up Program

Based in New York City, the Trickle Up Program helps the poorest of the poor (with special focus on women, youth and other disadvantaged groups) take their first step up out of poverty through microfinance. Trickle Up helps them start their own businesses by providing capital and teaching them...

Uplift India Association

Uplift India Association is a network of organisations working at grass root level in the urban slums of Pune and Mumbai in the area of microfinance. There are currently 100,000 members and each organisation is facilitated by a strong technical support scheme. The Uplift model allows communites to...

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) - Vietnam

Catholic Relief Services - Vietnam supports projects initiated by local partners in the areas of education, including special programmes for disabled children, agriculture/rural enterprise development, microfinance, and emergency mitigation and relief.

DevJobs

A website for jobseekers interested in development work. It provides international job announcements on various development fields, including microfinance, poverty alleviation, and community development.

Rural Action Alliance Programme (RAAP)

The Rural Action Alliance Programme (RAAP) is an NGO that aims to tackle poverty in Ghana. RAAP works in the Upper West, Northern, and Brong Ahafo Regions of Ghana with its headquarters based at Hain in the Jirapa District of the Upper West Region. RAAP’s mandate is to combat poverty in...

OptINnow

OptINnow is an NGO, part of Opportunity International, a large Christian microfinance organisation that has been providing loans, business training and other financial services to entrepreneurs in the devloping world since 1971. OptINnow raises money from donors to fund loans which will...

Social Development International (SODEIT) Verified non-profit organisation

Social Development International (SODEIT) is an NGO in Cameroon that works for poor and underprivileged communities. Target groups include children, adolescents and caregivers. The organisation aims to promote education and reduce illiteracy; build the capacity of the underprivileged to fight the...

Wokai

Wokai is an online platform that utilises the principle of microfinance to connect people who would like to make loans which will have a direct impact on the lives of people living in rural China, their families, and their communities. Borrowers are people who want to start small businesses, but...

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Silicon Valley Community Foundation is a NGO that serves San Mateo and Santa Clara counties in California. The Foundation is focused on solving the most challenging problems, improving the quality of life and inspiring greater civic participation throughout the region. In September 2008, the...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...