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World Bank - Sierra Leone

The World Bank is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. It is a development Bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty. The Bank promotes growth to create jobs and to...

EnterpriseWorks/VITA (EWV)

EnterpriseWorks/VITA (EWV) fights poverty in the developing world through business development programs that allow small agricultural producers and other entrepreneurs to increase their productivity and incomes, pursue sustainable business opportunities, and create jobs that benefit the families,...

Citizens' Network for Foreign Affairs (CNFA)

Citizens' Network for Foreign Affairs (CNFA) is dedicated toward stimulating economic growth by nurturing entrepreneurship, private enterprise, and market linkage. CNFA specialises in engaging private companies of all sizes in partnerships to expand economic activity and increase incomes. CNFA...

International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty (ILEAP)

ILEAP’s launch was motivated by the realisation that developing countries needed to be able to better influence the terms on which they were engaging and integrating with the global economy. This view was quickly augmented with the further understanding that by better reflecting their interests in...

World Bank - Zambia

The World Bank Group's mission is to fight poverty and improve the living standards of people in the developing world. It is a development Bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty. The Bank...

World Bank- Gambia

The World Bank is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. It is a development Bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty. The Bank promotes growth to create jobs and to...

OptINnow

At OptINnow, supporters can look through client profiles and select an entrepreneur they wish to fund. The loans goes directly to the impoverished individuals these supporters designate, helping them to build retail, manufacturing, farming, or other businesses that support their families. When...

KHULA Enterprise Finance Limited

Khula Enterprise Finance Limited is an agency of South Africa's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). It was established to facilitate access to finance for small and medium size business. Khula provides assistance through various delivery channels including commercial banks, retail financial...

M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF)

M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) is as a non-profit Trust. The main goal of MSSRF is to impart a pro-nature, pro-poor and pro-women orientation to a job-led economic growth strategy in rural areas through harnessing science and technology for environmentally sustainable and socially...

Small & Medium Enterprise Developers (SMED)

Small&Medium Enterprise Developers (SMED) is committed to the development of Small&Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Sri Lanka. SMEs can obtain the latest global information on business, finance, competition or on any other economic indicator through the SMED website. The site aims to be a...

Arche noVa - Initative for people in need

arche noVa - initiative for people in need is a non-profit NGO working primarily in the fields of humanitarian aid, development cooperation and education. Regardless of the victims' ethnicity and ideology Arche noVa supports all those who suffer as a result of war, suppression and natural...

Terror Victims Association

Terror Victims Association is the grass-roots movement spearheading the campaign against terrorism in Israel. The Terror Victims Association was founded in 1986 in response to the release of a thousand terrorists by the Israeli government of the time. Terror Victims Association became a support...

International Labour Organization (ILO) Office for China and Mongolia (ILO - Beijing)

International Labour Organization (ILO) Office for China and Mongolia (ILO - Beijing) works in close collaboration with the government, the workers' and employers' organizations to promote decent work for all. ILO - Beijing assists the Chinese government with labour market policies, social security...

ACCION

ACCION International is a non-profit that fights poverty through micro lending. It provides microcredit and training to micro enterprise entrepreneurs. ACCION also offers an internship programme that provides an opportunity to learn about microenterprise development.

Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF)

Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF), an international fund company, aims to encourage entrepreneurs in emerging markets and help sustain the new economy. SEAF invests in small and medium size businesses that are unable to obtain long-term equity due to their size or location and provide...

Five Talents International

Five Talents International is committed to combating poverty in the developing world by equipping the poor with small business training and microfinance programmes. The majority of businesses are in food production and sales, street vendors, brick manufacturing, shoe making, carpentry, auto repair,...

Oikocredit International

Oikocredit International, one of the largest financiers of the microfinance sector worldwide, promotes global justice by challenging people, churches and others to share their resources through socially responsible investments and by empowering disadvantaged people with credit. Oikocredit finances...

Trickle Up Program

Based in New York City, the Trickle Up Program helps the poorest of the poor (with special focus on women, youth and other disadvantaged groups) take their first step up out of poverty through microfinance. Trickle Up helps them start their own businesses by providing capital and teaching them...

Banking With The Poor Network

The Banking With The Poor Network (BWTP) is a network of some 20 national policy institutions, commercial banks and NGOs involved in microfinance and microcredit from eight countries in Asia - namely Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Its...

TechnoServe

TechnoServe helps entrepreneurial men and women in the developing world capitalize on business opportunities that create jobs and income for poor people. Our advisors impart critical skills and knowledge that promote a thriving private sector. The resulting economic growth helps people improve...