Links
San Diego Area
- MicroPlace
Social group focused on smart investing to end poverty worldwide
- ACCION San Diego
Local San Diego Institution that focuses on women, minority, and underprivileged prospective business owners
- CDC Small Business Finance
CDC is a company that specializes in small business loans for those who may not otherwise qualify
- Foundation for Women
Foundation for Women is a non-profit company that targets women for business and social help
- IRC- International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee is committed to increasing the standards of living worldwide
- Opportunity International
Opportunity International is an organization whose strategy is to create jobs, stimulate small businesses, and strengthen communities among the poor
- Point Loma Nazarene University Armenian Center
The International Center for Economic Development at PLNU is continually driven to find new ways to alleviate poverty as well as educate college and adult students about the need of microfinance
- School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UCSD
the IR/PS school at University of California San Diego is committed to designing new ways to help increase the standard of living worldwide
- Ahlers Center for International Business at the University of San Diego
The Ahlers Centers for International Business at the University of San Diego continually searches for new and innovative ways to teach their students the concepts of international business
- Women's Empowerment Organization
Organization that empowers women who wish to open small businesses or grow their existing one
- Microfinance Networks
A networking group that exists to provide mf leaders a channel to communicate with other professionals and leaders in the field
- FIELD US
FIELD, a program of the Aspen Institute, is a research and development fund dedicated to the expansion and sustainability of microenterprise development efforts, particularly those aimed at poor Americans
- Micro Capital
A news and vocal group, whose self given slogan is “The Candid Voice of Microfinance”
- Prosper
Largest peer-to-peer lending marketplace. Based out of the U.S.
- Microcredit Summit Campaign
One of the microfinance industries leading resources to stimulate the interexchange of knowledge and best practices
International Area
- The Mix
An information exchange between microfinance organizations for the purpose of furthering microfinance
- Microfinance India
One of the leading microfinance organizations in India
- Global Partnerships
Engages the business community and others in advancing sustainable solutions to poverty in Latin America
- Next Billion
This will unleash a wave of entrepreneurship, collaboration and wealth creation, turning the newly connected into a powerful force in the world economy
- Acumen Fund
A non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty
- Basix India
A leading Microfinance and livelihood institution in India
- Microsave
Their market-led approach focuses on putting the clients at the centre of the business is revolutionary
- MicroPlace
Social group focused on smart investing to end poverty worldwide
- Kiva
Microfinance Lender that caters to small donors and has many outreach programs to college campuses and businesses
- Foundation for Women
Foundation for Women is a non-profit company that targets women for business and social help
- Grameen Foundation
Grameen Foundation is a foundation that targets the worlds poor and innovates thier lives through microfinance and modern technology
- IRC- International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee is committed to increasing the standards of living worldwide
- Opportunity International
Opportunity International is an organization whose strategy is to create jobs, stimulate small businesses, and strengthen communities among the poor
- Project Concern International
Project Concern is focused on providing the poor in the third world countries the tools they need to provide for their families
- Women's Empowerment Organization
Organization that empowers women who wish to open small businesses or grow their existing one
- Five Talents Organization
A Christian organization dedicated to microbusiness and microcredit lending
- Banking With The Poor
Group especially devoted to lending to underpriviliged or non-qualifiable clients
- Opportunity Finance
Opportunity Finance Network is the leading network of private financial intermediaries identifying and investing in opportunities to benefit low-income and low-wealth people in the U.S.
- Oiko Credit
Created in 1975, Oikocredit is structured as a financial intermediary through which churches and those interested in alternative investment can channel a portion of their investment resources to development purposes
- Seep Network
SEEP is an association of more than 40 North American private and voluntary organizations that support micro and small enterprise programs in the developing world
- Unitus Capital
Unitus is a global microfinance accelerator that acts as a social venture capital investor for the microfinance industry
- Zopa
A marketplace for social lending, a smarter, fairer and more human way of doing money
- Microfinance Insights
A commentary and analysis of the microfinance industry
- Global Partnerships
Global Partnerships (GP) expands opportunity for people living in poverty by supporting microfinance and other sustainable solutions in Latin America.
- Hope International
HOPE International is a Christian, faith-based non-profit organization focused on alleviating physical and spiritual poverty through microenterprise development.
Domestic Area
- The Mix
An information exchange between microfinance organizations for the purpose of furthering microfinance
- Next Billion
This will unleash a wave of entrepreneurship, collaboration and wealth creation, turning the newly connected into a powerful force in the world economy
- Microsave
Their market-led approach focuses on putting the clients at the centre of the business is revolutionary
- MicroPlace
Social group focused on smart investing to end poverty worldwide
- Kiva
Microfinance Lender that caters to small donors and has many outreach programs to college campuses and businesses
- CDC Small Business Finance
CDC is a company that specializes in small business loans for those who may not otherwise qualify
- Opportunity International
Opportunity International is an organization whose strategy is to create jobs, stimulate small businesses, and strengthen communities among the poor
- Five Talents Organization
A Christian organization dedicated to microbusiness and microcredit lending
- Seattle Microfinance (SeaMo)
Seattle based microfinance organization that helps other microfinance organizations develop and grow in the Pacific Northwest
- Jonathan Morduch- Leader in Microfinance Research
Jonathan Morduch is a leader in reasearch in the microfinance fields as well as its effects on the development of third world economies and peoples
- Banking With The Poor
Group especially devoted to lending to underpriviliged or non-qualifiable clients
- CGAP
CGAP is continually striving to deliver credit lines to those who would otherwise never be in a position to be offered them
- Microfinance Networks
A networking group that exists to provide mf leaders a channel to communicate with other professionals and leaders in the field
- Seep Network
SEEP is an association of more than 40 North American private and voluntary organizations that support micro and small enterprise programs in the developing world
- FIELD US
FIELD, a program of the Aspen Institute, is a research and development fund dedicated to the expansion and sustainability of microenterprise development efforts, particularly those aimed at poor Americans
- Micro Capital
A news and vocal group, whose self given slogan is “The Candid Voice of Microfinance”
- Prosper
Largest peer-to-peer lending marketplace. Based out of the U.S.
- Association For Enterprise Opportunity
A national leadership organization and the voice of microenterprise in the United States
