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The Wall Street Journal
Tight credit markets have slammed small businesses during the recession. That leaves entrepreneurs like Cecilia Aspiazu, who sells clothing and beauty products out of her home ...
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4) Who will my donation benefit?
All donations to Grameen America support entrepreneurs living below the poverty line who do not have access to credit.
5) Is the donation tax deductable?
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Fast Company
Meet the socially conscious enterprises that have been selected to receive capital from the Lilith Impact Fund.
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... York, whose mission is to alleviate poverty through entrepreneurship by offering loans, savings programs, credit establishment, and financial services to low-income families and individuals in the U.S. ...
... high interest rates, making it extremely difficult for entrepreneurs living below the poverty line to turn their ideas into profitable businesses.
Who qualifies for a loan? Our loans are distributed ...
... Professor Yunus is widely regarded as the pioneer of the microcredit industry and continues to challenge conventional thinking, identify new ways to empower unbanked entrepreneurs, and explore new ...
... renowned provider of microcredit to entrepreneurs living below the poverty line, in order to help fund and encourage others to support Grameen’s entry into the Washington, D.C. area.
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Community Building
Integral to the Grameen America model are the notions of Group and Center. The Group is a self-identified unit of five entrepreneurs, each of whom wants a loan to build ...
... “unbanked” individuals access to basic financial services, microfinance decreases their dependency on predatory lenders and empowers them to use entrepreneurship and self-employment to increase their wealth ...
... of small loans to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. In 1973, Professor Yunus founded Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. In 2006, he and Grameen Bank were jointly awarded the Nobel ...
Grameen America provides affordable micro-loans to financially empower low-income entrepreneurs.
Our vision is to help create a world free of poverty. We foresee a market where any individual with ...
Santa Clara, Calif., –– January 6, 2010 — Silicon Valley Bank, the premier lender
to entrepreneurs and one of the top corporate philanthropists in the California Bay Area, committed $1 million in ...
The Charlotte Observer
The N.Y.-based nonprofit bank has won praise and awards for making small loans to poor entrepreneurs.
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Fox Business News
Grameen Bank Founder and Managing Director Professor Muhammad Yunus on lending to millions of entrepreneurs in poor communities around the world.
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June 16, 2009, New York, NY – Grameen America, a microfinance organization based in New York, and Whole Foods Market are teaming up for a 5% Community Giving Day to support low-income entrepreneurs in ...
... income entrepreneurs who want to start or expand their businesses. The company has achieved major success with its initial operations in New York and is now being encouraged to bring its operations to ...
Grameen America (www.grameenamerica.com), a microfinance organization based on the Grameen lending model, announced today that it has successfully disbursed $1 million in micro-loans to 380 low-income ...