SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Schwab Charitable, one of the country’s largest and fastest growing nonprofits and facilitators of charitable giving with over $2 billion in assets and $350MM in annual ...

A major argument in favor of microfinance is that the poor who live in areas without banking services will gain higher returns on investments and increase their assets when provided with credit. But a ...

A new microfinance loan program from Schwab Charitable allows investors to double-dip their charitable giving assets. The San Francisco company, the charitable giving arm of Charles Schwab Corp., said ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Citi Foundation today announced a three-year US$11.2 million international grant program, in partnership with the SEEP Network to advance the integration of microfinance ...

Small-time entrepreneurs in the country’s five poorest regions can now expect a healthier business environment with the approval of the Rural Microenterprise Promotion Program (RuMEPP) by the ...

MUMBAI, India, May 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Microfinance Industry Network (MFIN) today launched "ASCEND – The Education and Advancement program in microfinance" Programme, an online initiative to build ...

MANILA, Philippines - The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will soon allow all banks to provide microfinancing to the agriculture sector as part of efforts to spur lending in the countryside, BSP ...

Women and families in rural areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been beaten down physically and mentally by years of war, poverty, and violence, but researchers suggest that a baby ...

Catching the last plane from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, just hours before a massive earthquake struck in 2010, left Gergens Polynice with a mixture of gratitude and helplessness. Fortunately, his family ...

As the microfinance industry virtually crumbles in India–one of the world’s largest microfinance centers–the Asian Development Bank has just announced a regional $250 million risk participation ...

Business schools once prepared students for corporate boardrooms. Now they’re trying to give students a taste of the world. Through Harvard Business School’s Global Impact Experience program, Daniel ...