Suggested Links
A Billion Bootstraps
The website for the book by the same name. It includes useful resources on poverty and microcredit.
The website for the book by the same name. It includes useful resources on poverty and microcredit.
AlertNet
Reuters news alerting humanitarians to emergencies.
Reuters news alerting humanitarians to emergencies.
Chalmers Group
The Chalmers Center for Economic and Community Development at Covenant College trains in methodologies that permit local groups to run microsavings and microlending programs with little or no assistance from large international groups.
The Chalmers Center for Economic and Community Development at Covenant College trains in methodologies that permit local groups to run microsavings and microlending programs with little or no assistance from large international groups.
Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest
Consortium of bilateral and multilateral donor agencies that support microfinance.
Consortium of bilateral and multilateral donor agencies that support microfinance.
Council for Microfinance Equity Funds
Brings together the leading private entities that make equity investments in microfinance institutions in the developing world.
Brings together the leading private entities that make equity investments in microfinance institutions in the developing world.
Earth Trends Poverty Resource
Provides poverty profiles and poverty maps for most regions and countries.
Provides poverty profiles and poverty maps for most regions and countries.
Garmeen Bank
The modern founder of providing credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh without any collateral.
The modern founder of providing credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh without any collateral.
Global Development Research Center
Virtual Library on microcredit.
Virtual Library on microcredit.
Global Issues
Includes links, commentary, and statistics on poverty, globalization, and sustainable development.
Includes links, commentary, and statistics on poverty, globalization, and sustainable development.
Grameen Foundation USA
Global nonprofit organization that combines microfinance, new technologies, and innovation to empower the world's poorest people to escape poverty.
Global nonprofit organization that combines microfinance, new technologies, and innovation to empower the world's poorest people to escape poverty.
Journal of Microfinance
A forum for the sharing of ideas and information pertaining to the practice of microfinance and microenterprise development.
A forum for the sharing of ideas and information pertaining to the practice of microfinance and microenterprise development.
Kiva
Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can "sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make great strides towards economic independence.
Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can "sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make great strides towards economic independence.
Microcredit Summit Campaign
Working to ensure that 100 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, are receiving credit for self-employment and other financial and business services.
Working to ensure that 100 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, are receiving credit for self-employment and other financial and business services.
Microfinance Gateway
A comprehensive online resource for the microfinance industry. It includes research and publications, specialized resource centers, organization and consultant profiles, and the latest news, events, and job opportunities in microfinance.
A comprehensive online resource for the microfinance industry. It includes research and publications, specialized resource centers, organization and consultant profiles, and the latest news, events, and job opportunities in microfinance.
Microfinance on the Development Gateway
Online community of more than 6,000 microfinance professionals from 150 countries. They seek to provide microfinance institutions with a platform to access and share practical information with a goal to improve the effectiveness and sustainability of microfinance institutions around the world.
Online community of more than 6,000 microfinance professionals from 150 countries. They seek to provide microfinance institutions with a platform to access and share practical information with a goal to improve the effectiveness and sustainability of microfinance institutions around the world.
Microfinance site
A compellation of reports, academic papers, and a listing of organizations involved in the microfinance industry.
A compellation of reports, academic papers, and a listing of organizations involved in the microfinance industry.
MIX Market
Facilitate exchanges and investment flows, promote transparency, and improve reporting standards in the microfinance industry.
Facilitate exchanges and investment flows, promote transparency, and improve reporting standards in the microfinance industry.
Relief Web
Information for the Humanitarian Relief Communities.
Information for the Humanitarian Relief Communities.
Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network
An association of North American organizations that support small enterprise programs in the developing world.
An association of North American organizations that support small enterprise programs in the developing world.
Transformational Business Network
TBN is a network of business people and corporate organisations that uses an enterprise approach to tackle global poverty. TBN supports commercially sustainable small-medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries that create jobs, empower the poor and transform communities.
TBN is a network of business people and corporate organisations that uses an enterprise approach to tackle global poverty. TBN supports commercially sustainable small-medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries that create jobs, empower the poor and transform communities.
United Nations Development Progamme
The UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.
The UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.
United Nations Global Compact
The UN's initiative to bring companies together with UN agencies, labor and civil society to support universal environmental and social principles.
The UN's initiative to bring companies together with UN agencies, labor and civil society to support universal environmental and social principles.
Unitus
A global microfinance accelerator organization that we highly recommend.
A global microfinance accelerator organization that we highly recommend.
