CSR Wire

Grameen Foundation Announces a $1 Million Landmark Financing for Nigerian MFI LAPO

WASHINGTON, D.C. / LAGOS, NIGERIA - May 7, 2007- Grameen Foundation has announced its first Growth Guarantee transaction in Sub-Saharan Africa: US$1 million for Lift Above Poverty Organization (LAPO), ...
Government Technology

Grameen Foundation to Expand Open Source Microfinance Banking Platform

IBM and Grameen Foundation today announced a collaborative project to help microfinance institutions (MFIs) better serve poor communities around the world by expanding Mifos, Grameen Foundation's open ...
The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Grameen Foundation Shares Software With Health Aid Groups

Software developed by the Grameen Foundation, an anti-poverty group, is helping other charities and humanitarian organizations harness health and other data to improve the way they deliver aid, The ...
CSR Wire

Grameen Foundation Guarantee Engineers $1.5 Million in Financing For ProMujer Bolivia

Washington, D.C.–Grameen Foundation, a leading global microfinance organization, today announced two loan guarantees that secure US$1.5 million in funding for Pro Mujer Bolivia (Pro Mujer), a Grameen ...
it.tmcnet

Grameen Foundation to Expand its Banker Without Borders Initiative

Grameen Foundation has announced that it is expanding its Bankers without Borders initiative, which offers a skills-based volunteer engagement framework. The company said that the program will be ...
Wall Street Journal

Grameen Bank, Which Pioneered Loans For the Poor, Has Hit a Repayment Snag

Microcredit is a great idea with a problem: the bank that made it famous. Grameen Bank, launched in Bangladesh in 1976 by an economics professor named Muhammad Yunus, popularized the idea of giving ...
The Chronicle of Philanthropy

New Leaders at the Grameen and the Novak Djokovic Foundations

Steven Hollingworth will take over as chief executive of the antipoverty Grameen Foundation in February. He succeeds Alex Counts, who founded the international organization and served as its chief ...
Thomson Reuters Foundation

FAO and Grameen Foundation to improve small-holder farmer access to technologies

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. 17 September 2013, Rome - Grameen Foundation and FAO will work closely to enhance small-holder ...
Seattle Times

Darwin Cruz’s cool job at Grameen Foundation

What do you do? [At Grameen Foundation in Seattle], I connect amazing donors to poor women and families around the world by sharing inspiring stories and photos. For example, Eunice in Ghana (the ...
Business Wire

Accenture Labs and Grameen Foundation India Use Emerging Technologies to Help Increase Adoption of Financial Services Among Low-Income Women | Business Wire

New applications leverage the power of artificial intelligence and augmented reality to improve financial capacity and decision-making for and by the poor NEW DELHI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Accenture (NYSE: ...
American Enterprise Institute

Micro Man

Something about the Grameen Bank story didn’t seem quite right, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Muhammad Yunus is the apostle of microcredit who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year. The Grameen ...