Sentences with phrase «for microfinance»

She is a member of Women Moving Millions, a 20 - year member of Rotary, having served in several board capacities, and a founding member of the global Rotarian Action Group for Microfinance and Community Development.

This analytical report aims to show how microfinance services may undergo the impacts of climate change, analyze the opportunities available for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and propose concrete actions.

Today, the increasing emphasis on responsible finance has added environmental impact to the factors considered as measures of success for a microfinance institution.

He has worked for microfinance institutes in Peru and Brazil, expanding rural development capacities and conducting social impact analyses on development and governance issues.

That sounds punchy for a microfinance lender that only became a bank three years ago.

Opportunity Fund is the largest nonprofit lender to small businesses in California and a national leader for the microfinance movement.

Not exact matches

Beshara, now the co-founder and CEO of group payments startup Tilt, was six days post-graduation and newly arrived at his not - for - profit microfinance job in Capetown, South Africa, when his boss gave him a new assignment in the surrounding slums.

She first went to work for IBM Corp.'s (NYSE: IBM) global microfinance initiative, where she helped create solutions to enable loans to be made to small businesses in developing countries.

Our interview ranged from the future of microfinance to the one - for - one social enterprise business model popularized by Toms» Blake Mycoskie.

In my six months of being the founder of nonprofit MADE Microfinance, a program focused on providing financial services for people that don't qualify for bank loans, I have begun to realize the true value of a network.

Though ImpactUS doesn't make recommendations, through its new online platform, investors and advisors can connect directly, and invest in Iroquois Valley Farms if they are interested in restorative farmland finance, Shared Interest if they'd like to help entrepreneurs in low - income communities in Africa, Envest Microfinance, for universal access to financial services, or CommonBond Communities, an affordable housing provider in the midwest.

Still, for women in these underserved areas, microfinance is a lifeline.

As a result, in May of 2016, OnDeck helped launch an initiative of the three largest online small business lenders, and a leading national non-profit microfinance trade association (the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO)-RRB-, to produce a disclosure solution that would help standardize a common set of pricing metrics and make it easier for small business borrowers to assess their options.

Advertising the position to BRAC microfinance borrowers and asking borrowers to recommend others for the position.

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For this reason, microfinance is both a tool to alleviate poverty and a lens to witness the inherent value of every human life.

Khaled says he plans to train thousands of activists in the Middle East to promote tolerance and to set up microfinance programs for the poor, the people he says are most susceptible to fundamentalism.

Microfinance is a proven method for helping impoverished communities move toward economic self - sufficiency through the provision of small loans and other financial services.

The sash, along with some fantastic handmade items donated by my friends will be up for auction on Ebay next week, so that together we can «extend our hands to the needy» (vs. 20) to benefit World Vision's microfinance program.

According to the aggrieved victims, it is strange that, the opposition leader and his party mounted pressure on government over DKM Microfinance defrauding customers and called for a refund of deposits to the swindled customers, yet failed to demand same from their MP whose bank has gone bankrupt.

According to the victims, Alexander Gyan, was once a manager for the God Is Love microfinance company that duped thousands of them in one of Ghana's biggest financial scams.

Mr Prah further condemned the president and the First Lady for denying any knowledge about DKM Microfinance, which has been in the news recently for defrauding over 1,000 customers.

The God is Love Fun Club, along with DKM Microfinance, Little Drops Financial Services, Jaster Motors and Investment Limited, and Care for Humanity Fun Club, took deposits from clients with the promise of huge returns, but they ended up not fulfilling their promises.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Brong Ahafo Region, has downplayed concerns by some aggrieved victims of DKM and God Is Love microfinance companies, who want the party to withdraw the nomination of one Alexander Gyan as the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Kintampo South.

A new study from Habitat for Humanity says that housing microfinance can and should become a mainstream offering for financial...

Some amount of 500,000 Ghana cedis which was used for investment with Obaatanpa microfinance is nowhere to be found in any account at MASLOC.

Citi Business News can confirm that the payment process for validated creditors of DKM Microfinance in Bolgatanga in the Upper East region has stalled, following a boycott by aggrieved creditors.

Some customers of DKM Microfinance in the Northern regional capital, Tamale, are seeking to place an interlocutory injunction on the payments of depositor claims scheduled for next week Monday, October 17, 2016.

The Member of Parliament for Asunafo South, who was a Minister for the Brong Ahafo Region under the John Mahama administration, has challenged President Nana Akufo - Addo, to fulfill what he calls a promise made to hundreds of DKM Microfinance customers, whose investments were locked up in what some have described as one of the largest microfinance scams in Microfinance customers, whose investments were locked up in what some have described as one of the largest microfinance scams in microfinance scams in the country.

He said the long - term fund would be provided to microfinance Banks for on - lending to MSMEs, adding that this would enable the sector create jobs and contribute significantly to economic growth.

An Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ustaz Sham - Una Jibril, who is known for his accurate predictions on both local and international issues, has predicted that the Ashanti Region which is known to be the «World Bank» of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will turn into a «Traditional Microfinance» in the 2020 General Elections.

The Bawku Central Member of Parliament, Mahama Ayariga, has sued the Akufo - Addo administration at the Supreme Court over the implementation of some of its key initiatives such as the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP), Free Senior High School, Planting for Food and Jobs as well as the operations of existing agencies like the Microfinance and Small Loans Center (MASLOC)...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Ablekuma Central, Theophilus Tetteh Chaie, is blaming the Governor of Bank of Ghana for the alleged scam perpetrated by DKM Microfinance company and others in some parts of the country.

In response to their request for loans to expand their businesses, President Mahama said he had asked the leadership of the market to submit a list of traders who genuinely needed financial support for onward delivery to the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) for assistance.

The Bawku Central Member of Parliament, Mahama Ayariga, has sued the Akufo - Addo administration at the Supreme Court over the implementation of some of its key initiatives such as the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP), Free Senior High School, Planting for Food and Jobs, the Microfinance and Small Loans Center (MASLOC) and others.

The management of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), has described as insulting the response from the Centre's former CEO to allegations that vehicles meant for the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU), purchased during her tenure, are wasting away because they were overpriced.

The Bawku Central Member of Parliament, Mahama Ayariga, has sued the Akufo - Addo administration at the Supreme Court over the implementation of some of its key initiatives such as the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP), Free Senior High School, Planting for Food and Jobs as well as the operations of existing agencies like the Microfinance and Small Loans Center (MASLOC) and others.

She became the first Ambassador of Hope for FINCA, an international village banking microfinance program providing small loans and savings programs to the world's poorest families so they may create their own jobs, raise household incomes, and improve their standard of living thereby reducing poverty worldwide.

Prior to joining the Broad Residency, Siddhartha built and led the India team for Accion, a global microfinance non-profit.

LendUp cofounder Sasha Orloff says he can teach high - risk borrowers in the U.S. how to be more responsible, and takes his inspiration from Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize winner who pioneered microfinance for impoverished entrepreneurs in Bangladesh.

It outsources its work to great organizations, like Sustainalytics (for ESG analysis), SHARE (for shareholder engagement), and it even invests a small portion of its portfolio in microfinance through MicroVest.

Good Shepherd Microfinance has worked with insurance companies to create affordable and simple insurance policies for cars worth up to $ 5,000.

It's like microfinance for the creative professional!

Or over in south Asia, do you have an innovative solution to the enormous problems facing India's for - profit microfinance industry, which seemed such a great model for getting people out of deep poverty?

Workshop participants pointed to the development of the microfinance sector as an instructive example of what's needed for the distributed clean energy sector.

When I heard him describe his work with the Grameen Bank, pioneering modern microfinance, I was blown away for several reasons.

We recently advised Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) on its launch of the Japan ASEAN Women Empowerment Fund, which was a microfinance fund.

Her comment, The Future of Microfinance in the United States: Regulatory Reforms for Economic Prosperity, was selected for publication in the upcoming issue.

Part of the problem is that Dyme, who is hoping to transition from a legal career to one in economic development, lacks expertise in microfinance, which is an important qualification for many of the positions to which he's applied.