The San Francisco company, the charitable giving arm of Charles Schwab Corp., said in launching its microfinance guarantee program last week that it that lets donors set aside a portion of their ...

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 ...

Fearless Fund expands to Ghana with a new microfinance program for women-led businesses. Get details on funding and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The FINANCIAL — The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors has raised the limit of an existing microfinance risk participation and guarantee program by an additional $100 million in ...

This study provides evidence that long-term exposure to a microfinance program is associated with a reduction in certain indicators of HIV risk behavior among Haitian women. Specifically, women with ...