Related Organizations: Micro-Enterprise & IDAs
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Association for Enterprise Opportunity
Locate a micro-enterprise program near you with this directory.
Association of Asian Confederation of Credit Unions (ACCU)
This is the homepage of the confederation that unites the savings and credit co-operatives (credit unions) of all Asia.
Corporation for Enterprise Development
Provides a range of services including policy design, analysis, advocacy, demonstration and project management, consulting, technical assistance, training, research, information, and publication services.
Echoing Green
Echoing Green is a foundation based in New York that applies a venture capital approach to philanthropy. Through the Echoing Green fellowship, they provide seed money and technical support to social entrepreneurs who want to start new public service ventures.
EnterWeb, the Enterprise Development Website
Has a microfinance website that includes descriptions and links to 49 sites related to microfinance, each individually reviewed and rated.
Equal Exchange
Equal Exchange is the fair-trade coffee company that buys from farmer cooperatives and markets internationally.
FAO Rural Finance Homepage
The Food and Agriculture Organization, part of the UN family, has its own page dedicated to rural finance with a good list of research studies that can be directly downloaded.
Micro-Credit Summit Homepage
This homepage covers the high-profile work of the Micro-Credit Summit, which has successfully placed micro-credit activities on the international agenda. Although criticized by some for embracing the Grameen Bank model with almost religious fervor, the Summit plays a useful networking and lobbying role.
MYRADA: NGO Under-taking Micro-Credit Initiatives in South India
The homepage of one of the more successful NGOs active in the microfinance sector in this region. The page explains how Myrada operates and provides profiles and case studies.
PlaNet Finance
PlaNet Finance seeks to solve poverty through the creation of microenterprises, in the context of liberty and dignity with the aim of fair and sustainable development.
The Centre for Micro-Finance
Nepal’s own homepage on micro-finance, with information mainly drawn from the work of CECI. Back copies of Common Interest are also available here.
The Consultative Group on the Alleviation of Poverty CGAP
The Consultative Group on the Alleviation of Poverty CGAP is a program of the World Bank that has funded a number of cutting edge research studies in the MF sector. Some of these studies are directly available here: others are summarised in the useful CGAP newsletter “Focus”, which can also be down loaded.
The Grameen Bank
The official homepage of the Grameen Bank, with information on the original “bank for the poor” in Bangladesh and its various replicators around the world.
The Greenstar Foundation
Greenstar makes a solar-powered system that delivers electricity, ecommerce, pure water, education and basic health care to villages in developing countries. Through an ecommerce website, Greenstar helps the villagers to create a new source of income and employment by investing in digital culture products, including traditional music, artwork, photography and storytelling.
The Virtual Library on Micro Credit
This page is maintained by an Indian graduate student at a Japanese university. The site is updated on a regular basis and has lots of excellent resources and links to other sites.
Trickle Up Program
An international nonprofit organization based in New York City that helps low-income people start small businesses to help themselves out of poverty.
Women’s Business Center Online
The US Small Business Administration’s site to help women start or expand their business.
