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 ...

Toronto, ON, May 14, 2008 - The MasterCard Foundation launched its Scholars Program today by awarding grants totaling $600,000 to six leading microfinance training institutes. The program will fund ...

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 ...

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 baby pig has the power to turn to despair into hope among poor women who have had prolonged exposure to traumatic events in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a study by a researcher at ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOSTON, MA - April 13, 2007 - The Harvard Business School-ACCION Program on Strategic Leadership for Microfinance convenes this week on the HBS campus in Boston for the second consecutive year, ...

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 ...

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 ...