Microcredits

This investment brought microcredits to an area that previously had none. ❋ Tiffany Persons (2012)

Today, social innovation has evolved to refer to not only innovations that have a social purpose, like microcredits, but also social processes around innovation -- like open source and crowd sourcing methods. ❋ Shannon Schuyler (2011)

This incredible repayment rate made it viable for us to continue to loan out more microcredits to local women. ❋ Tiffany Persons (2012)

Today, because of that initial donation, we have been able to raise additional funding for the now formidable Salone Microfinance Trust to fund microcredits for over 7,000 Sierra Leonean women and men! ❋ Tiffany Persons (2012)

We partnered with Salone Microfinance Trust, a small and solid Sierra Leonean MFI, and invested $50,000 of the donation into microcredits for 125 women who were also the mothers of Shine On Sierra Leone supported students. ❋ Tiffany Persons (2012)

Basically, the Clinton Global Initiative is trying to get corporate donors to provide philanthropic investments, and they are way into microcredits now, it's all probably available on the CGI's website. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It'd be also nice if he invested like 5 billion dollars in fair-trade stuff, eco-products, microcredits for the poor, and so on. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This year, Mexico will distribute a further 65 million dollars worth of microcredits. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The Grameen Bank, which gives microcredits loans under $100 to the rural poor in developing countries, understands this principle too. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As one U.N. spokesperson puts it, "making microcredits available is not charity, it is good business". ❋ Unknown (2006)

Increasing the availability of microcredits has been used as a successful development strategy in numerous countries, ranging from Spain to Bangladesh. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And, Healy reported, she often advocated "the expanded use of microcredits, tiny loans to help individuals in poor countries start small businesses." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Since 2000, the Mexican government has provided 1.3 million microcredits. ❋ Unknown (2006)