Project Enterprise is a microfinance nonprofit organization in New York City, that assists entrepreneurs, it operates on which Bangladesh founded model of microlending?
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Project Enterprise Project Enterprise is a microfinance nonprofit organization in New York City providing entrepreneurs from underserved areas with loans, business training and networking opportunities. Operating on the Grameen Bank model of microlending, Project Enterprise (PE) has served more than 2,500 entrepreneurs in New York City, and provides microloans from $1,500 to $12,000.
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Grameen Bank The Grameen Bank (Bengali: গ্রামীণ বাংক ) is a microfinance organisation and community development bank founded in Bangladesh. It makes small loans (known as microcredit or "grameencredit") to the impoverished without requiring collateral.
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Houssam Nasrawin Nasrawin launched ABL in 2011. The main purpose of the organization is to encourage business and entrepreneurship initiatives in the Middle-East. ABL supports entrepreneurs in the MENA region through a mentorship program and an investment platform that connects entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. It is today active in 37 countries.
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Ashoka (non-profit organization) Ashoka (branded Ashoka: Innovators of the Public) is an international organization that promotes social entrepreneurship by affiliating individual social entrepreneurs into the Ashoka organization. Their stated mission is "to shape a global, entrepreneurial, competitive citizen sector: one that allows social entrepreneurs to thrive and enables the world's citizens to think and act as changemakers".
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Ekal Vidyalaya The Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation (literally "Foundation of Solo Schools") is a non-profit organization involved in education and village development in rural areas and tribal villages of India. It is the largest grassroots, non-government education initiative in India with presence in 51,717 villages providing free education to more than one million children. The foundation's model of operation is single-teacher schools, with the premise of "Ek Shikshak, Ek Vidyalaya" meaning "one teacher for every school." The individual schools, known as Ekal Vidyalayas, have local teachers who teach in the regional language using various modes like story-telling, folk dramas, and folk songs. The schools also impart moral education, health care education and organic farming techniques.
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Deshpande Foundation Deshpande Foundation is a non-governmental organization founded in 1996 in the USA by Dr. Gururaj (Desh) and Jaishree Deshpande to accelerate the creation of sustainable and scalable enterprises that have significant social and economic impact. Foundation has embarked on large scale projects in the United States and India such as :
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Global Entrepreneurship Program The Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) is a new U.S. Government program focused on supporting and empowering entrepreneurs in Muslim communities around the world – and beyond. It will do this by marshalling partners, both U.S. and in-country, as well as multiple U.S. government programs around the six areas considered to be essential to creating a successful ecosystem for entrepreneurs.
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Entrepreneur First Entrepreneur First is a London-based startup accelerator which assists promising UK and Central European tech graduates and those already working in technology firms to design and run their own startups. Founded in 2011 by Matthew Clifford and Alice Bentinck, the program helped establish 75 startups valued at $450 million in its first four years. Entrepreneur First differs from other accelerators such as Y Combinator and Wayra in that it seeks out individuals with concepts rather than existing companies.
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Microfinance in Tanzania Microfinance in Tanzania began with NGOs and SACCOs (Savings and Credit Cooperative Organizations) in 1995 and has continued to grow with the increased success of microfinance internationally.
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Korvi Rakshand Korvi Rakshand (born August 19, 1985) is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur. He is the founder of JAAGO Foundation, a non profit organization established in April 2007. Rakshand was ranked 5th in list of top 10 Inspirational Bangladeshis around the world published by British Bangladeshi Power & Inspiration 100 at the British Parliament Commonwealth Room.
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Micro-MBA The Micro-MBA is a learner-driven, outcomes-based entrepreneurial course based on classroom session followed by pro-active mentoring meetings. The programme aims to teach entrepreneurs, mostly in developing countries, fundamental business skills thus they can operate their businesses successfully. The term "Micro-MBA" refers to the traditional Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme. There is no official definition for the term Micro-MBA. The course programme focuses on teaching theory about subjects as money management, stock control, customer handling, and marketing that can be applied in the daily business activities of the business owners.
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Accion U.S. Network The Accion U.S. Network is an American nonprofit microfinance organization headquartered in New York, NY. It is the largest and only nationwide nonprofit microfinance network in the U.S.
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Silver upholders Silver Upholders Limited is a fast-growing microfinance organization based in Kampala, Uganda. It offers small loans to underserved women entrepreneurs who use the money to invest in the future of their businesses and their families.
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Brandaid The Brandaid Project is a non-profit global venture that aims to use micromarketing to help solve the problems of uneven global income distribution. It attempts to do this by supporting and promoting the work of artisans in the developing world in the following way: The Brandaid Foundation, an arm of the Brandaid project, funds the training of artisans and funds the establishment of better living and working conditions for artisan communities. Brandaid Collections, the other arm of the Brandaid project, helps sell the crafted objects these artisans make. The profits from sales are shared between the artisans, the Brandaid foundation and investors.
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Seedco Seedco, the Structured Employment Economic Development Corporation, is a national, nonprofit, community development organization that works with local organizations in low-income communities to promote economic advancement and help people move out of poverty. Seedco partners with local community-based organizations (CBOs) to provide assistance to job seekers, workers, and small business owners in disadvantaged communities. Seedco's headquarters are located in New York City and the organization does work in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington, D.C. Seedco also invests in low-income communities in many areas of the country through its subsidiary, Seedco Financial, to create jobs and support small business owners.
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Bharat Financial Inclusion Bharat Financial Inclusion Limited (formerly known as SKS Microfinance Limited) BFIL is a non-banking finance company (NBFC), licensed by the Reserve Bank of India. It was founded in 1997 by Vikram Akula, who served as its executive chair until November 2011. The company's mission is to provide financial services to the poor under the premise that providing financial services to poor borrowers helps to alleviate poverty. In 2013, the company operated across 17 Indian states.
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Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (Originally National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship), also referred to as NFTE (pronounced Nifty), is an international non-profit organization providing entrepreneurship training and education programs to young people from low-income urban communities.
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ESAF Microfinance Evangelical Social Action Forum, better known as ESAF Microfinance, is a non-banking finance company and microfinance institution (NBFC-MFI), licensed by the Reserve Bank of India and headquartered in Thrissur City of Kerala. ESAF Small Finance Bank is the first bank to be given a banking license in Kerala since independence. ESAF Microfinance is the first microfinance institution in Kerala and started its micro-credit lending in 1995.
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Buddhist Global Relief Buddhist Global Relief is an organization of socially engaged Buddhists with a mission to "combat chronic hunger and malnutrition" founded by Bhikkhu Bodhi.
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Aloysius Prakash Fernandez Aloysius Prakash Fernandez is an Indian economist, social worker and the Chairman of the "NABARD Financial Services Limited" (NABFINS), a National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) subsidiary, formed with the participation of several banks in India. Considered by many as a pioneer of microfinance and Self Help Group concept in India, he was the executive director and is the member secretary of Myrada, a non governmental organization working for the eradication of poverty, gender equality and social development.
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Abraham George Dr. Abraham M. George is an Indian-American businessman, academic, and philanthropist. He is the founder of The George Foundation (TGF), a non-profit organization based in Bangalore, India dedicated to the welfare and empowerment of economically and socially disadvantaged populations in India. His foundation has initiated numerous projects in poverty alleviation, education, healthcare, lead poisoning prevention, women's empowerment, and press freedom.
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Youth Entrepreneurs Kansas Youth Entrepreneurs Kansas (YEK), also known simply as Youth Entrepreneurs (YE) after expanding to Missouri, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable educational organization based in Wichita, Kansas. The organization states that they aim to educate high school-aged students and program alumni to provide them "with business and entrepreneurial education and experiences to help them prosper and become contributing members of society."