The San Francisco company, the charitable giving arm of Charles Schwab Corp., said in launching its microfinance guarantee program last week that it that lets donors set aside a portion of their ...

In the first year of the Schwab Charitable Microfinance Guarantee Program, donors set aside $10-million from their gift funds to guarantee small loans to poor entrepreneurs in developing countries. As ...

Toronto, ON, May 14, 2008 – The MasterCard Foundation launched its Scholars Program today by awarding grants totaling $600,000 to six leading microfinance training institutes. The program will fund ...

LANCASTER - Habitat for Humanity of Southeast Ohio has announced a program available to Fairfield County, after the organization expanded its service area to the county In a news release, Habitat said ...

Microfinance is a powerful tool that the poor can use to inch their way out of poverty by taking advantage of new opportunities and better managing the sufferings they face. Designed well, ...

Veena Mankar, a banker in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India, looked at the slums in her city and wondered why needy people in urban areas could not benefit from the same access to loans and other ...

BlueOrchard Finance, a Switzerland-based impact investment manager, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have entered a $50 million risk-sharing agreement for microfinance coverage in ADB’s developing ...

FORTY-SEVEN members of The Villagers of San Roque Association in Barangay San Roque, Liloan, Southern Leyte collectively agreed to practice regular savings, which generated more than P180,000 in ...