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| Alphabetical | By Popularity | | - ACCION International
 - Provides credit and training to microenterprise entrepreneurs in Latin America and the United States. - Adelante Foundation
- Provides short-term small-business loans to the poorest of the poor women along the rural Northern coast of Honduras to support local microenterprise in an effort to help reduce poverty.
- Bangladesh Rural Advance Commission
- Nongovernmental organisation with programmes in microcredit, primary health care, and nonformal primary education for the landless rural poor. Currently engaged in relief operations for flood victims and the landless rural poor.
- Calmeadow
- Charitable organisation dedicated to providing access to credit and other financial services to self-employed people in Canada and the developing world.
- CGAP Microfinance Gateway
- Microfinance information hub.
- Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP)
- Consortium of donor agencies whose mission is to improve the capacity of microfinance institutions to deliver financial services to the very poor on a sustainable basis.
- Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA)
- Implementer of village banking microfinance projects in Latin America, Africa, and the NIS.
- Grameen Bank
- Provides credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh, without any collateral. Site includes statistical updates and microcredit resources. The Grammen Bank and its founder, Professor Muhammad Yunus, were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2006.
- Grameen Foundation USA
- Replicates the Grameen Bank model around the globe by using microfinance and innovative technology to fight global poverty and bring opportunities to the world's poorest people.
- Kiva
- Kiva lets you connect with, and loan money to, unique small businesses in the developing world. By providing a loan, you can sponsor a business and help the world's working poor make great strides towards economic independence.
- Microcredit Summit Campaign
- Launching an effort to reach 100 million of the world's poorest families with credit for self-employment and other financial and business services.
- MicroPlace
- Find and offer microloans to small business owners and entrpreneurs all over the world.
- PlaNet Finance
- International nongovernmental institution that aims to use the potential of the Internet to develop and promote microcredit programmes.
- Small Enterprise Foundation
- Microfinance institition working towards the eradication of poverty, providing credit and savings services to foster sustainable income generation, job creation, and social empowerment in South Africa.
- Village Enterprise Fund
- Helps poor, qualified entrepreneurs launch small, peer-owned businesses in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania by providing seed money, training, and mentoring.
- Virtual Library on Microcredit
![[*]](http://eur.i1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/i/uk/g/rating2.gif) - Repository of information on microcredit, alternative, non-conventional financial systems and the informal credit markets (ICMs). - Women's World Banking
- Organises support to affiliates who offer services to low income women, builds networks of microfinance institutions, and works with policy makers to build financial systems that work for the poor majority.
- Yunus, Muhammad@
- Information on Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi banker and economist, who developed the concept of microcredit. Yunus is also the founder of Grameen Bank. In 2006, Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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