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 ORGANIZATIONS ACCION International 120 Beacon Street Somerville, MA 02143 TEL: (617)492-4930 FAX: (617)876-9509 Email:info@accion.org www.accion.org ACCION has loaned over $1 billion to more than one million customers throughout the Americas over the past five years. Some of its member institutions have become self-sustaining, including BancoSol in Bolivia, featured in TO OUR CREDIT. Calmeadow 365 Bay Street Suite 600 Toronto, Ontario M5H 2V1 Canada TEL: (416)362-9670 FAX: (416)362-0769 Email: resource@calmeadow.com www.calmeadow.com Calmeadow is a non-profit organization which is working to develop innovative and efficient models of micro-lending in Canada, and to build sustainable microfinance institutions internationally by providing guidance in management, methodology and strategic planning. The Calvert Social Investment Foundation 4550 Montgomery Ave. Bethesda, MD 208145 TEL: (800)248-0337 (301)951-4832 FAX: (301)654-2960 Email: foundation@calvertgroup.com www.calvertgroup.com/foundation The Calvert Social Investment Foundation offers opportunities for socially responsible investors to invest in a number of microcredit and microenterprise development programs, and other community development organizations. Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) The World Bank 1818 H Street, NW Room Q4021B Washington, D.C. 20433 TEL: (202)473-8105 FAX: (202)522-3742 Email: cproject@worldbank.org www.worldbank.org/html/cgap/cgap.html CGAP's mission is to significantly expand access by the world's poorest people to quality financial services from sustainable or potentially sustainable micro-finance institutions. It supports institutional development and disseminates information about best practices in the field. Grameen Foundation 1709 New York Avenue, NW Suite 101 Washington, D.C. 20006 TEL: (202)628-3560 FAX: (202)628-3880 Email: acounts@grameenfoundation.com www.grameenfoundation.com Grameen Bank in Bangladesh lends more than $25 million each month to more than 2 million borrowers; Grameen Foundation is a non-profit organization which informs and educates Americans about microcredit and the Grameen philosophy. Microcredit Summit 440 First Street, NW Suite 460 Washington, DC 20001 TEL: (202)637-9600 FAX: (202)637-3566 Email: microcredit@igc.apc.org www.microcreditsummit.org The Microcredit Summit is a global campaign working to ensure that 100 million of the world's poorest families, especially women, receive credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by the year 2005. Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) 355 Lexington Avenue Third Floor New York, NY 10017-6603 TEL: (212)973-0325 FAX: (212)973-0335 Email: wedo@igc.org www.wedo.org WEDO is an international advocacy network working to achieve a healthy and peaceful planet, with social, political, economic and environmental justice for all through the empowerment of women. Women's World Banking 8 West 40th Street Tenth Floor New York, NY 10018 TEL: (202)667-8227 FAX: (202)667-8236 Email:narmacost@swwb.org (Website in development) WWB expands low-income women's economic assets, participation and power by opening access to finance, information and markets. Its worldwide network includes 41 affiliates in 34 countries, with over 200,000 active clients. INTERNET SITES In addition to the internet sites for the organizations listed above, here are some "gateways" to hundreds of other sites on the World Wide Web. www.enterweb.org ENTERweb is an annotated meta-index and information clearinghouse on enterprise development, entrepreneurship, business, finance, international trade and the economy. Thorough, well-organized. www.soc.titech.ac.jp/icm/ The Virtual Library on Microcredit. A repository of information on alternative, non-conventional financial systems and informal credit markets. Lots of documents and case studies. www.bus.utexas.edu/~talbotb/microcredit/main.html The University of Texas' "primer" on microcredit and microenterprise resources. Simple, straightforward; a good starting point. www.worldbank.org/html/cgap/cgap.html The World Bank's Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest. This site is part of its effort, in partnership with many other donors, to address poverty through the support and promotion of micro-finance programs. www.mip.org The Microenterprise Innovation Project. An educational initiative of the United States Agency for International Development. www.undp.org.uncdf/pubs/mf/mf-contents.htm Microfinance and Anti-Poverty Strategies; an online book by Jose Garson from the UNCDF (United Nations Capital Development Fund) which looks at the ways microcredit can be used in fighting poverty. PUBLICATIONS Bornstein, David. 1996. The Price of a Dream. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster. 351pp. (The story of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and an in-depth exploration of what makes it tick). Counts, Alex. 1996. Give Us Credit. 1996. New York, NY: Random House. 359 pp. (The story of Muhammad Yunus' groundbreaking microlending strategy in two very different places, Bangladesh and Chicago). Otero, Maria and Rhyne, Elisabeth, ed. 1994. The New World of Microenterprise Finance: Building Healthy Financial Institutions for the Poor. 276pp. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press. (A comprehensive collection of essays on the essential principles and methodologies of microfinance in the developing world). Rose, Kalima. 1992. Where Women Are Leaders: The SEWA Movement in India. 275pp. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zed Books, Ltd. (A lively portrait of the Self-Employed Women's Association in Ahmedabad, India). David Hulme and Paul Mosley. 1996. Finance Against Poverty, vols. 1 & 2. London: Routledge. xx pp. and xx pp. (An examination of seven microfinance programs and the strategy's overall role in economic development). DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES Download the following resources, prepared by the Access to Credit Media Project and its partners: · Outreach Toolkit. A collection of ideas and materials which local organizers can use to promote To Our Credit, microcredit and microenterprise development, or their own organization's work for social change; prepared by the Access to Credit Media Project. Download Adobe Acrobat Version · Community Investment Profiles. An information service of the Calvert Social Investment Foundation. These profiles afford a look into some of the microcredit and microenterprise programs profiled in To Our Credit which are supported by investment programs managed by the foundation. Download Text Version |
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