Community Development Spotlight: Promotoras Project (0)
7/23/10 •
Through an innovative promotoria (community outreach) initiative, Via International (a partner of the SDMFA) and Los Niños have been able to support the development of promotoras (female outreach [ ... Read more » ...]
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Local Events Geared Towards Small Business Owners (0)
7/20/10 •
SDMFA partner ACCION is holding two events in San Diego that are geared towards small business owners. You can find more information about both events, and other microfinance-related activities by visiting our local events calendar. This Thursday, ACCION is holding a Multicultural Women’s Business Luncheon. The luncheon will feature internationally acclaimed speaker Dee Sanford, who [...]
Microfinance Client Spotlight (0)
7/13/10 •
ACCION Client Spotlight Ludwig Law Firm, A.P.C. Lucy Ludwig works as an attorney out of her 1940′s two-bedroom, ocher-colored stucco house in Normal Heights. Armed with a J.D. from California Western School of Law, a L.L.M. from the University of San Diego, and a bilingual skill-set, she opened the doors of Ludwig Law Firm in [...]
Help Alleviate Poverty Through Microcredit: Event (0)
6/18/10 •
Join us for the “How to Responsibly Invest in Microfinance” speaker event here in San Diego on July 15th. Terry Provance, Executive Director of OikoCredit USA, will give a detailed presentation on how you can begin making financial investments that impact the lives of the working poor around the globe. Mr. Provance presented at this [...]
The History of Microfinance in the U.S. (0)
6/04/10 •
The Opportunity Fund developed a microlending timeline, complete with a one page overview of the history of microfinance in the U.S. for their annual conference. The timeline stretches from 1973, when ShoreBank Corporation began to provide investment capital to business owners who were denied access to credit by larger financial institutions, to 2010 when the first [...]
