With Squeeze on Credit, Microlending Blossoms

New York Times   Amanda Keppert is convinced that she would have lost Mandy’s Korner, her hot dog stand in San Jose, Calif., if she had not received a type of loan that is more common in the third ...

Microlending, From Bangladesh to the Boroughs

The New York Times A photo essay on Grameen America's borrowers   Read

Whole Foods Market to support Grameen America microlending with a 5% Community Giving Day on June 24th, 2009

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 ...

Microlending is no small deal

PUBLIC RADIO At a time when many banks are reeling from the hit they took on subprime mortgages, one New York institution has no problem collecting on its loans. Joel Rose reports on tiny bank loans ...

Microlending in Queens

CBC Radio  It might surprise some people that a bank from the developing world would open a branch in New York City. But it's the mission of the Grameen Bank to find people who can't get traditional ...

Will Bangladeshi-Style Microlending Work in Queens

New York Times - City Room  Wall Street may well be a global center of finance, with billions of dollars in capital flowing back and forth each day   Read