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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Schwab Charitable, one of the country’s largest and fastest growing nonprofits and facilitators of charitable giving with over $2 billion in assets and $350MM in annual ...

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 ...

A decade ago, Unitus set out to accelerate the commercial investment in microfinance—to prove that banks and other investors could earn a return on their loans while helping impoverished people move ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fearless Fund expands to Ghana with a new microfinance program for women-led businesses. Get details on funding and ...

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, ...