For microfinance institutions (MFIs) with social missions, understanding changes in client well-being has become more important as MFIs are held to task to demonstrate both outreach to the poor and improvements in their lives.
Shawn Covell, vice president for Government Affairs at Qualcomm, discusses the company's work with Grameen Foundation to promote mobile microfranchising and the development of Ruma, an Indonesian technology start-up.
We were pleased to have a phenomenal group of participants at the Designing for Adoption & Scale Workshop in Mumbai, India. Here are the highlights from our discussions about creating the right tools and services for clients.
Washington, D.C., June 4, 2014 - Grameen Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of a new certification program for organizations and businesses that serve or work with poor communities.
March 24, 2014
You know mobile money for the unbanked is getting hot when there’s a standing-room-only crowd at the Mobile World Congress.
December 23, 2013
At Grameen Foundation, we’re committed to sharing our experiences and insights with others. Only together can we leverage the resources and know-how to connect the world’s poor to their potential. In this spirit, we offer up four lessons learned or affirmed through our work, along with relevant resources we or others have published over the course of 2013.
December 18, 2013
By Kimberly Davies. Originally posted at NextBillion.net.
December 16, 2013
Earlier this year, Grameen Foundation president Alex Counts invited several social enterprise professionals to participate in a wide-ranging discussion on career opportunities in the sector. We hope this conversation will provide instructive insights and advice for new college graduates and those who would like to make mid-career shifts. The staff at Grameen Foundation who worked on this would like to recognize the exceptional efforts of summer intern John Weiller in turning this idea into a reality that will benefit many idealistic job-seekers in the years to come.
Three New Members Also Elected to Board
Grameen Foundation today announced that it has received a grant from The Moody’s Foundation to enable poverty data to be used more effectively by social sector organizations to measure, track and report on their clients’ poverty levels using the Progress out of Poverty Index® (PPI®).