Finance

Making capital available to communities, enterprises, and individuals that allows them to flourish while simultaneously creating wider positive social and environmental outcomes.

SUBTHEMES:
• Local stock exchange
• Micro-finance
• Local banks
• Ethical investment
• Credit Unions
• Community Finance

Irish Land Cooperatives

Irish Land Co-operative's objective is to help individuals and groups to find and purchase land in Ireland, and to farm/garden on this land
Wicklow, Ireland

Biorights Program

Conserving wetlands through microfinance programs
East Kolkata, India

Biorights Program

Conserving wetlands through microfinance programs
East Kolkata, India

PADME

The Women's World Banking project of PADME is focused on ensuring women have access to microloans.
Cotonou, Benin

Caisse Coopérative d'Epargne et de Crédit Mutuel (CECM)

Credit products for businesses and consumption, loans for agricultural production, and savings and demand deposit.
Bujumbura, Burundi

Poverty Eradication & Community Empowerment (PEACE)

PEACE offers both loan and savings products. Its operations span 3 regional states of Ethiopia and operates 14 branches mainly in the rural
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Women's World Banking Ghana

A variety of savings and loan products including individual, group, salary and trade finance loans, fixed deposits, current, savings account
Tema, Ghana

Equity Bank Limited

Founded in 1984 as a building society with the purpose of pooling resources of members for onward provision of mortgage facilities. Mobilize
Nairobi, Kenya

Kenya Women Finance Trust (KWFT)

Group loans and individual loans. Women are required to save as a requirement for accessing credit. Loans are disbursed to individual member
Nairobi, Kenya

Gambia Women's Finance Association (GAWFA)

Individual, solidarity and large group loans. Voluntary savings program. GAWFA uses savings for investment and for on-lending.
Banjul, Gambia

Uganda Finance Trust (UFT)

A variety of savings and loan solutions including business loans, salary loans, school fees loans, savings accounts, fixed deposits and a mo
Kampala, Uganda

Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc.

Affordable housing development, lending, research, advocacy throughout metro-Atlanta.
Atlanta, United States

Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc.

Affordable housing development, lending, research, advocacy throughout metro-Atlanta.
Atlanta, United States

Shakti Foundation for Disadvantaged Women

Types of loans: general; business; small enterprise development; seasonal; consumption; disaster; and health. Types of savings: personal; bu
Dhaka, Bangladesh

ASA

Group-based individual lending to groups of 20-25 women (initial loan amounts range from Tk.4,000 to Tk.6,000 (US$80 to US$120). Weekly savi
Dhaka, Bangladesh

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