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Posted on September 1, 2010
Global Partnerships Closes $20 Million Fund Aimed At “Microfinance Plus”
Social Investment Fund 2010 will provide capital to 20 MFIs across Latin America
Seattle, Wash., – Global Partnerships (GP), a 16-year-old nonprofit that supports microfinance and other sustainable solutions to poverty, announced today that it closed its fourth social investment fund at $20 million. Over the next five years, Social Investment Fund 2010 (SIF 2010) will provide much-needed loan capital to up to 20 select microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Latin America.
“By investing in MFIs that are having exceptional impact, this fund will help hundreds of thousands of people living Read More “Global Partnerships Closes $20 Million Fund Aimed At “Microfinance Plus””
Posted on July 27, 2010
Village Reach
Announces
National
Expansion
Of
Last
Mile
Health
Program
In
Mozambique
New
funding
appeal
targets
$4
million
to
support
six year
program
Charity
evaluator
Give Well
continues
to
rate
Village Reach
its
#1
charity
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, July 27, 2010 VillageReach, the Seattle‐based social enterprise that increases access to healthcare for remote, last mile communities in low‐income countries,
today announced a $5.6 million program to strengthen the national health system in
Mozambique. Contributions for the six‐year program total $1.2 million to date. The new
program is supported by the Mozambique Ministry of Health ‐ MISAU – and follows a successful Read More “Village Reach
Announces
National
Expansion
Of
Last
Mile
Health
Program In
Mozambique”
Posted on July 26, 2010
“FOR most Seattle residents, global hunger seems like an impossible problem to solve. Reports of famine in Niger or the thousands at risk for starvation and malnutrition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, seem not only far away but impossible to change. A local organization, however, begs to differ.”
Local Organizations Weigh In On Global Summit Failures
The Seattle Times | Danielle Nierenberg and Molly Theobald | July 26, 2010 Read More “Local Organizations Weigh In On Global Summit Failures”