NEW YORK CITY, NY - October 4, 2007 - On October 12, Grameen Foundation will celebrate two organizations and an individual who have empowered people to lift themselves from poverty through ...

Washington, D.C.--Grameen Foundation, a leading global microfinance organization, today announced it has received a $1.5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support its work ...

Software developed by the Grameen Foundation, an anti-poverty group, is helping other charities and humanitarian organizations harness health and other data to improve the way they deliver aid, The ...

IBM and Grameen Foundation today announced a collaborative project to help microfinance institutions (MFIs) better serve poor communities around the world by expanding Mifos, Grameen Foundation's open ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., and SEATTLE, Wash. — Dec. 2, 2009 — Grameen Foundation and Microsoft Corp. today announced a joint initiative to help accelerate microfinance’s impact on poverty alleviation through ...

Grameen Foundation, an independent US-based organisation, has strongly protested an Associated Press article, which the non-profit claimed “insinuates that Grameen Foundation received USAID money ...

The nonprofit community development financial institution will use the cash to strengthen its current program model to empower what it calls the nation’s fastest-growing demographic of entrepreneurs.

Zubaida Bai will be the next president and CEO of the Grameen Foundation. She is the first woman and the first Indian American to lead the microfinance organization. Also, the Chicago Community Trust ...

Microcredit is a great idea with a problem: the bank that made it famous. Grameen Bank, launched in Bangladesh in 1976 by an economics professor named Muhammad Yunus, popularized the idea of giving ...

What do you do? [At Grameen Foundation in Seattle], I connect amazing donors to poor women and families around the world by sharing inspiring stories and photos. For example, Eunice in Ghana (the ...

On February 28, 2025, Ghana commemorated the 77th anniversary of the 1948 Christiansborg Crossroad shooting, honoring three ex-servicemen who were killed while petitioning the colonial governor. As ...