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1to4 Foundation GiftVest

Switzerland

GiftVest Club is a unique approach which turns donations into seed capital for base of pyramid social businesses whilst introducing GiftVest Club members to the exciting world of impact investing. The initial investment is then recovered and re used to fund new exciting projects across dozens of developing countries.

Type: Foundation

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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ACCION Texas

United States

ACCION Texas are a multi state nonprofit microfinance company and small business lender that helps new and existing entrepreneurs successfully grow their businesses. ACCION Texas lend in Alabama Arkansas Louisiana Kentucky Missouri Mississippi Tennessee and Texas.

Type: Corporate

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Arman Financial

India

ARMAN FINANCIAL SERVICES LIMITED was originally incorporated on 26th November 1992 as an earstwhile Arman Lease & Finance Ltd. The company is a public limited listed company. It issued 2800000 Equity shares of Rs. 10 each on 21st August 1995 aggregating to Rs 280 lacs after receiving an overwhelming response from the public for its public issue which was oversubscribed by 7 times in the category of small investor and more than 22 times in case of applicants with application of more than 1000 shares.The main objects of the company consist of providing a wide spectrum of financial services both Fund based and Non Fund Based activities which includes term loans collateral free credit other forms of credits thrift and savings and insurance. Arman also plans to render financial services to people by acting as intermediary for banks and financial institutions in the cities towns villages of India.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: India

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Azure Partners

Azure Partners is a Swiss based investment advisor specialized in microfinance. With a unique team combining microfinance mainstream finance and emerging markets experience we are advising several investment funds and institutional investors on their microfinance investment strategy.

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Banco D-MIRO

Ecuador

D MIRO began in 1997 when Mission Alliance concerned about the overall development of the most vulnerable they considered having a financial arm and decided to create the Microfinance Program D MIRO and end of year 2006 the Foundation for Microenterprise Development D MIRO Ecuador Mission Alliance. Displaying the positive results achieved in the quality of life of the families that supported D MIRO decides to transform into a bank and began operations on July 18 2011 opening the doors to the public in fourteen offices located in nine coastal cities and five provinces of Ecuador.Mission Alliance majority shareholder creates AS Microfinance Alliance (AMAS) a Norwegian company specializing in the management of microfinance institutions which manages Banco D MIRO SA. They are present in the most excluded and geographic areas with the greatest needs. They include a special emphasis on population groups that are not traditionally target market of traditional banks. They are an institution with a social vision. The Banco D MIRO is served by highly qualified staff.

Type: Bank

Geography: Ecuador

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Bank of America Capital Access Funds Management

United States of America

BAML Capital Access Funds is an experienced market-based, returns-driven private equity fund of funds manager and advisor focused on meeting the targeted mandates of large public pension funds, endowments and other institutional investors. BAML Capital Access Funds has managed and advised on over $1.5* billion of capital for institutional investors across multiple, customized mandates since 2002.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Europe

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countrie

Belgium

BIO invests directly in private sector projects and as such makes a structural contribution to the socio economic growth of those host countries. Its mandate requires strict criteria in terms of geographical targets financing tools and above all impact on development.

Type: Investor Network

Geography: Belgium

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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BlueOrchard

Switzerland

BlueOrchard empowers the poor worldwide and improves their quality of life by enabling them to participate in income generating activities. BlueOrchard achieves this by developing and managing innovative and attractive financial products and services that invest in microfinance institutions who support millions of promising small enterprises in low income regions worldwide.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Europe

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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BNP Paribas

France

BNP Paribas is a French bank and financial services company with headquarters in Paris and a second global headquarters in London. It was formed through the merger of Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and Paribas in 2000 and is one of the largest banks in the world. Based on 2012 information BNP Paribas was ranked as the fourth largest bank in the world as measured by total assets by Bloomberg and Forbes.

Type: Bank

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Business Partners Limited

South Africa

Business Partners Limited is a specialist risk finance company for formal small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa and selected African countries. The company structures unique individualised financing solutions. A range of financing models have been developed to offer entrepreneurs maximum flexibility to suit their needs.

Type: Corporate

Geography: South Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Calvert Foundation

United States of America

Calvert Foundation harnesses the power of investing to connect cultivate and inspire those who want to shape the world for good.Our work is focused on connecting investors to organizations that strengthen communities and sustain our planet. Through our flagship product the Community Investment Note we offer investors the opportunity to invest with us. Since 1995 more than 18000 investors have invested over $1.5 billion through the Note. Today the Note is available to to both accredited and non accredited investors through our website and hundreds of brokerage firms in the U.S.

Type: Other Capital Channels & Intermediaries

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Clean Water and Sanitation

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Catalyst Microfinance Investors

Netherlands

Catalyst Microfinance Investment Company (CMIC) is a fund manager based in Mauritius and supported by ASA and Sequoia.ASA is one of the world's leading microfinance institutions (MFIs). It currently serves over 6000000 clients in Bangladesh in an extraordinarily efficient manner. ASA has provided technical support to numerous MFIs worldwide in designing and implementing sound and proven credit methodologies and building efficient and well managed organizations.Sequoia is an independent international corporate finance advisory and private equity firm specializing in strategic M&A capital markets advisory services and private equity investments with a focus on the Benelux. Sequoia has advised on numerous strategic assignments with a combined transaction value in excess of U.S.$ 20.0 billion.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Bangladesh

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Centenary Rural Development Bank Ltd.

Uganda

Centenary Rural Development Bank Ltd started as an initiative of the Uganda National Lay Apostolate in 1983 as a credit Trust and it begun operations in 1985 with the main objective of serving the rural poor and contributing to the overall economic development of the country. In 1993 Centenary Rural Development Bank Ltd was registered as a full service commercial Bank. Today they are a leading Micro finance Commercial Bank in Uganda serving over 1300000 customers. Their services can be accessed across our 62 full service branches and 146 ATMs networked countrywide.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Uganda

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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CFI at Accion

United States of America

The Center connects the microfinance community with the major drivers of the global economy and harnesses their capabilities to address the financial needs of poor people.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

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Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)

CGAP develops innovative solutions for financial inclusion through practical research and active engagement with financial service providers, policy makers, and funders. Established in 1995 and housed at the World Bank, CGAP combines a pragmatic approach to market development with an evidence-based advocacy platform to advance poor people’s access to finance.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Cooperative Fund of New England

CFNE advances community based, cooperative and democratically owned or managed enterprises with preference to those that serve low income communities through: · provision of prompt financial assistance at reasonable rates · provision of an investment opportunity that promotes socially conscious enterprise; and · development of a regional reservoir of business skills with which to assist these groups.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Northern America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Core Innovation Capital

United States of America

Core Innovation Capital invests in the most innovative companies serving underbanked consumers in America. They are passionate about financial services that meaningfully improve the lives of underserved people. They focus on early growth stage for profit companies whose management shares their vision that scalable technology driven solutions focused on delivering the highest value to underbanked people can create great businesses and strengthen the American middle class.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Craft3

United States

Craft3 is a certified nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) established in 1994 to support economic ecological and family resilience in Pacific Northwest communities. Craft3 lends capital and provides expertise to people who do not normally have access to financing. It is a regional institution that supports long term place based strategies that link rural and urban communities in the region. Craft3 manages over $166 million in total assets available for investing in high impact initiatives. Craft3 is governed by a 13 member Board of Directors representing the communities and people it serves and 49 staff members deliver expert services from offices in Astoria Portland OR and Ilwaco Port Angeles/Port Townsend and Seattle WA. Over the next 5 years it will expand to another 3 5 offices throughout Oregon and Washington.

Type: CDFI

Geography: Northern America

Impact: Access to Clean Water and Sanitation

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Developing World Markets

United States of America

DWM primarily invests in inclusive financial institutions (IFINs) including microfinance institutions (MFIs) small and medium enterprise (SME) lenders affordable housing and education lenders and mobile banking service providers. In many developing countries around the world poor and low income people frequently lack financial products and services such as credit insurance and pensions that could provide security predictability and economic growth for their households. IFINs aim to address these social needs helping people escape poverty while contributing to economic development.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Emprender

Bolivia (Plurinational State o

EMPRENDER began operations on February 15th, 1999 with a pilot agency in Chasquipampa area located 35 km. the city center of La Paz, in order to develop a coherent operational strategy, suitable for microentrepreneurs, with customer focus approach in remote areas, considering the physical presence of their clients with a suitable model for care agencies in suburban and rural areas. Since 2000, this experience is replicated in the cities of El Alto, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba. They currently operate in a network of fifteen agencies, five in La Paz city, three in El Alto, four agencies in Santa Cruz and three agencies in the department of Cochabamba. On September 22th, 2009, the Supervisory Authority of the Financial System (ASFI), as part of the process of adaptation, grants to EMPRENDER the certificate of suitability as a Development Financial Institution.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Enclude

United States of America

We believe in the transformative power of entrepreneurship and inclusive finance to build stronger local economies. We help clients overcome barriers to growth with the access to capital technologies and expertise that accelerates profitability and sustainable development and enables our partners to create more opportunities for everyone to participate in and benefit from the promise of prosperity.Enclude is an advisory firm dedicated to building more sustainable businesses and institutions by offering the integrated capacity and capital solutions that power economic growth enterprise profitability and social transformation. By synergistically linking these two offerings we create greater value for our clients and deliver better outcomes.

Type: Other Capital Channels & Intermediaries

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Etimos Foundation

Italy

Etimos Onlus Foundation is a foundation of participation. It deals with finance and social economy in Italy and abroad a commitment that translates into a wide ranging discussion on the mechanisms that generate wealth and poverty the economy and recognizing to finance a decisive role in determining social redemption quality of life and happiness for the people and their communities.

Type: Foundation

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP)

Luxembourg

The European Microfinance Platform [e-MFP] was founded formally in 2006. They are a growing network of over 120 organisations and individuals active in the area of microfinance. Their principal objective is to promote co-operation amongst European microfinance bodies working in developing countries, by facilitating communication and the exchange of information. We are a multi-stakeholder organisation representative of the European microfinance community. e-MFP members include banks, financial institutions, government agencies, NGOs, consultancy firms, researchers and universities.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Finsol

Brazil

The Finsol is a Microfinance Institution (MFI) that operates with the Productive Microcredit. Its goal is to promote the economic development of small entrepreneurs offering financial products in a fast and without bureaucracy. In Brazil it is present in more than four hundred cities in five northeastern statesPernambuco Ceara Alagoas Piaui and Maranhao with its own branches andknowledgeable staff to provide personalized service and qualified clients.

Type: Bank

Geography: Brazil

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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FONDESURCO

Peru

For over 20 years Fondesurco has been working hand in hand with the neediest of the rural sector in the south giving them the opportunity to grow through access to financial services that allow them to improve their quality of life. FONDESURCO is the leading NGO in rural credit for developing the sector. Today they announce that FONDESURCO is renewed and takes a step forward renewing its commitment to continue reaching out to people of fewer economic resources and maintaining leadership in the implementation of financial inclusion throughout the south as it did since its inception in 1994 leading microcredit to those areas where previously no one dared to attend. This transformation is taken with great responsibility for each of the partners FONDESURCO since they know that from this moment they can serve more customers from a wider range of financial services that enable them to progress. Thus today as Cooperative FONDESURCO reaffirm their commitment to continue growing together with their customers.

Type: Other Capital Providers

Geography: Peru

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Fundación Alternativa

Fundación Alternativa is a small, but growing microfinance institution (MFI) in Ecuador that offers working capital loans and education in order to improve incomes and quality of life for their clients. The organization works in urban, semi-urban and rural areas offering mainly individual loans to micro and small entrepreneurs. The organization is also committed to reaching even more marginalized groups through their solidarity group lending products that target women and their “Hope” credit product that serves families living with disabilities. In addition to providing access to financial services, Fundación Alternativa is committed to finding education solutions that address their clients’ economic needs. In turn the organization has invested in client feedback studies and specialized personnel to help develop and implement a revised education strategy.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Ecuador

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Fundación Faces

United States of America

Founded in 2003 by Dr. Romesh Wadhwani the Foundation s primary mission is economic acceleration of emerging economies. The Foundation embarked upon its mission in India first and subsequently the Foundation has expanded into the U.S and other countries. In India with an expected growth of 250 300 million people joining the workforce by 2022 large scale job creation has became the primary imperative for the country. Also as India s population grows young most advanced nations of the world are growing old offering India an opportunity to become the global talent supplier. Catalyzing job creation and skill development become the two primary target areas of focus for the Foundation. During the last decade Wadhwani Foundation has launched five niche high impact Initiatives in India. These include promoting entrepreneurial and employment skills tapping the educated disabled encouraging innovation and driving policy changes to jump start economic opportunities. To address persistently high youth and displaced worker unemployment in the U.S Wadhwani Foundation launched the Race to a Job initiative in 2012.

Type: Foundation

Geography: Americas

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Grameen Bank

United States of America

Grameen Foundation is a global nonprofit organization that brings innovative and sustainable solutions to the fight against poverty and hunger. Together with local partners we equip families women and smallholder farmers with resources and services that expand financial inclusion strengthen resilience enhance health and improve livelihoods.

Type: Foundation

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Grameen Foundation USA

United States of America

Grameen Foundation helps the world's poorest especially women improve their lives and escape poverty by providing them with access to small loans essential information and viable business opportunities. Through two of the most effective tools known small loans and the mobile phone they work to make a real difference in the lives of those who have been left behind. They create economic opportunities for the world s poorest build large scale easy to replicate solutions to end the cycle of poverty in developing countries around the world and lead the industry in measuring impact and delivering results.

Type: Foundation

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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IDEPRO

Bolivia (Plurinational State o

IDEPRO is a Bolivian microfinance institution (MFI) whose mission is to improve the productivity and competitiveness of small farmers and micro small and medium enterprises through the provision of specialized and integrated services. Founded in 1991 the organization has pioneered an innovative value chain approach that provides underserved producers with the tools and resources needed to lift themselves out of poverty.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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IDH Microfinanciera

Honduras

The Human Development Institute (IDH) is a Honduran microfinance institution that provides working capital loans to predominantly rural borrowers using a group lending methodology. The organization was founded in 1979 by a Christian group looking to provide business training opportunities for microentrepreneurs in some of the poorest regions of the country.

Type: Foundation

Geography: Americas

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Ignia Fund

Mexico

IGNIA is an impact investing venture capital firm based in Monterrey, Mexico that supports the founding and expansion of high growth social enterprises that serve the base of the socio-economic pyramid in Mexico.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Latin America and the Caribbean

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Incofin

Belgium

Incofin Investment Management (Incofin IM) manages funds that invest in microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries. MFIs provide financial services, such as credits, savings and insurances, to people who cannot have recourse to regular banks. As a specialist in rural microfinancing, Incofin IM’s main goal is to reach out to people who live in more secluded rural areas and/or who are active in the agricultural sector.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Initiative Development Ghana

Ghana

Initiative Development Ghana (ID Ghana) FNGO provides social and microfinance/financial inclusion services to the poorest families across Greater Accra. ID-Ghana provides individual loans, business training,1 and subsidized health insurance.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Information

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International Climate Finance Accelerator (ICFA) Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Energy

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Kiva

United States of America

Kiva has developed the world's first ever online peer to peer microfinance lending platform for connecting lenders with small to medium enterprises in developing countries. Lenders all over the world can loan to micro businesses in developing countries with 'deal flows' developed through local partner organizations in micro finance.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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MiCredito

Nicaragua

MiCrédito, is a Nicaraguan microfinance institution (MFI) providing working capital loans to micro-entrepreneurs, many of whom live in hard to reach, rural communities. Witnessing first-hand the challenges of living without electricity, MiCrédito is committed to using the microfinance channel to unlock access to green technologies.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Americas

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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MicroCred

France

MicroCred has built and developed a group of financial institutions in emerging markets with products and services tailored to entrepreneurs excluded from the traditional financial sector. All MicroCred institutions develop products focusing primarily on micro-enterprises and SMEs.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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MicroCredit Enterprises

US

MicroCredit Enterprises helps thousands of the most impoverished rural poor in developing countries to build cottage businessesand ultimately provide food security for millions. The unique Guarantor model of MicroCredit Enterprises utilizes the financial capital and good credit of high net worth individuals and institutions to guarantee micro loans that lead to sustainable communities and social good. MicroCredit Enterprises gears its entrepreneurial results to produce jobs sustain micro businesses and improve human lives.

Type: Other Capital Channels & Intermediaries

Geography: Asia

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Norandino

Peru

NORANDINO is a rural savings and credit cooperative that was established in 2005 to meet the financing needs of its member producers. While the majority of NORANDINO s portfolio is concentrated in coffee the cooperative is also active in sugar cane cacao bananas and mangos.

Type: Other Capital Providers

Geography: Peru

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Opportunity Fund

United States of America

Opportunity Fund is a not-for-profit social enterprise helping thousands of California families build financial stability. Opportunity Fund strategy combines microloans for small businesses, microsavings accounts, and community real estate financing. Now California's leading microfinance provider, Opportunity Fund began based on the idea that small amounts of money and financial advice could help people make permanent and lasting change to improve their own lives. Since making their first loan in 1995, their team has deployed over $235 million into their communities.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Americas

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Overseas Private Investment Corporation

United States of America

OPIC is the U.S. Government s development finance institution. It mobilizes private capital to help solve critical development challenges and in doing so advances U.S. foreign policy. Because OPIC works with the U.S. private sector it helps U.S. businesses gain footholds in emerging markets catalyzing revenues jobs and growth opportunities both at home and abroad. OPIC achieves its mission by providing investors with financing guarantees political risk insurance and support for private equity investment funds.

Type: Government

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Pro Mujer Mexico

United States

Pro Mujer is a development and microfinance institution (MFI) that is dedicated to providing Latin America s low income women with the means to build their own livelihoods through the provision of microfinance business training and health services. Pro Mujer has several branches throughout the region Global Partnerships is currently partners with Pro Mujer branches in Bolivia Mexico Nicaragua and Peru.

Type: Foundation

Geography: Americas

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Pro-Rural

Bolivia (Plurinational State o

Pro-Rural is a Bolivian non-governmental organization that works to improve the socio-economic position of small-holder farmers by strengthening the enterprises that serve them. They do so by providing credit and technical assistance to small, institutional borrowers, including cooperatives, social enterprises and producer associations.

Type: Foundation

Geography: Americas

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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responsAbility Social Investments AG

CH

responsAbility use investments to empower people at the base of the global income pyramid. They help them realize their economic potential by giving them access to markets information and other services important for their development from which they were previously excluded. responsAbility offers financing to businesses and initiatives in developing countries and emerging markets adapted to their needs and circumstances.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Asia

Impact: Access to Clean Water and Sanitation

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Sembrar Sartawi

Bolivia (Plurinational State o

Sembrar Sartawi is a Bolivian microfinance institution (MFI) that serves mostly small agricultural producers in rural areas. The organization has developed a framework that addresses the risks associated with agricultural lending and mitigates those risks by providing non-financial services that help producers increase and/or stabilize their income. These services include tailored credit, technical assistance and access to markets.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Americas

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Sen Finances

Senegal

The Sen'Finances Foundation is the only structure of the APEX one specialized in offering financial services to local decentralized financial systems (SFD) 2 Senegal. Its mission is to contribute to improving the living conditions of marginalized and disadvantaged populations of Senegal while ensuring its viability and sustainability. Its intervention policy is developed taking into account the scope defined by the Letter of Sector Policy also positioned as a partner to the institutional development of the SFD through a network of strategic partners and / or operational. Sen'Finances aspires to be a platform for exchange tips and research on microfinance

Type: Foundation

Geography: Senegal

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Uberis Capital

United Kingdom of Great Britai

UBERIS Capital is an impact investing venture capital firm with offices currently in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and London, United Kingdom. It supports the founding and expansion of high growth social enterprises that serve the base of the socio-economic pyramid.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United Kingdom of Great Britain and

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Unitus Equity Fund

India

UEF focuses on investing in early stage high potential microfinance companies with the goal of significantly expanding access to quality microfinance products for microentrepreneurs in underserved markets. It was setup in 2006 and was the first privately funded early stage venture equity fund focused on microfinance. Unitus conceived and launched UEF to demonstrate that the microfinance industry was a viable opportunity for investors looking for strong financial returns and large scale impact. UEF helped catalyze the market for microfinance investing particularly in India. As a result there are now more than a dozen equity funds and more than many hundred million dollars in private equity investment in the Indian microfinance sector. In 2009 Elevar Equity took over management of UEF.

Type: Fund

Geography: India

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Unitus Labs

India

Unitus Labs is a USA 501(c)(3) non profit focused on reducing global poverty through economic self empowerment. Unitus Labs unique focus is harnessing market forces to drive substantial increase in economic opportunity for those at the base of the economic pyramid ( BoP ) in developing markets. Unitus Labs attempts to leverage its influence by not just demonstrating the commercial viability of BoP strategies but by drawing other players into the space in a way that dramatically accelerates the scaling of proven ideas. Unitus Labs current focus is to create improved income generating livelihood opportunities for millions battling global poverty. Unitus Labs was founded in 2001 and is based in Seattle and Bangalore.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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VisionFund

United Kingdom of Great Britai

VisionFund is the microfinance subsidiary of World Vision, a Christian relief and development organization. VisionFund provides financial services to empower the enterprising poor to liberate their families from poverty.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Working Capital for Community Needs

United States of America

Founded in 1984, Working Capital for Community Needs (WCCN) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit impact investing fund whose mission is to create opportunities for access to microfinance, services and markets to improve the lives and communities of the working poor in Latin America. WCCN empowers low-income Latin American entrepreneurs by sustaining partnerships with microfinance organizations and farming cooperatives in Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Peru. We serve 30,000 people every year and have invested $110 million in Latin America since 1991.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Americas

Impact: Access to Financial Services