The website for the book by the same name. It includes useful resources on poverty and microcredit.

Reuters news alerting humanitarians to emergencies.

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.

Consortium of bilateral and multilateral donor agencies that support microfinance.

Brings together the leading private entities that make equity investments in microfinance institutions in the developing 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.

Provides poverty profiles and poverty maps for most regions and countries.

The modern founder of providing credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh without any collateral.

Virtual Library on microcredit.

Global nonprofit organization that combines microfinance, new technologies, and innovation to empower the world's poorest people to escape poverty.

Includes links, commentary, and statistics on poverty, globalization, and sustainable development.

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. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates from the business you've sponsored. As loans are repaid, you get your loan money back.

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.

Facilitate exchanges and investment flows, promote transparency, and improve reporting standards in the microfinance industry.

A forum for the sharing of ideas and information pertaining to the practice of microfinance and microenterprise development.

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.

A compellation of reports, academic papers, and a listing of organizations involved in the microfinance industry.

Information for the Humanitarian Relief Communities.

An association of North American organizations that support small enterprise programs in the developing world.

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.

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 initiative to bring companies together with UN agencies, labor and civil society to support universal environmental and social principles.

A global microfinance accelerator organization that we highly recommend.