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Grameen Foundation, founded as Grameen Foundation USA, is a global 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Washington DC that works to replicate the Grameen Bank microfinance model around the world through a global network of partner microfinance institutions. Its CEO is Alex Counts. Grameen Foundation's mission is, "To enable the poor, especially the poorest, to create a world without poverty."
It is separate from organizations called "Grameen Foundation" in different countries, such as Grameen Foundation Australia.
The Foundation was founded in 1997 to facilitate the expansion of banks modeled after the Grameen Bank beyond the borders of Bangladesh and increase the access of poor people to microfinance by millions worldwide. Muhammad Yunus, the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, sat on the Board of Directors for 12 years and is now a director emeritus. Immediate past chair of the board is Paul Maritz, formerly CEO of VMWare and formerly a senior executive at Microsoft. The current chair is Robert Eichfeld, a retired executive at Citibank.
The Grameen Bank (Bengali: গ্রামীণ বাংক) is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning microfinance organization and community development bank founded in Bangladesh. It makes small loans (known as microcredit or "grameencredit") to the impoverished without requiring collateral. The name Grameen is derived from the word gram which means "rural" or "village" in the Sanskrit language.
Grameen Bank originated in 1976, in the work of Professor Muhammad Yunus at University of Chittagong, who launched a research project to study how to design a credit delivery system to provide banking services to the rural poor. Based on his results, in October 1983 the Grameen Bank was authorized by national legislation as an independent bank. In 2006, the bank and its founder, Muhammad Yunus, were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1998 the Bank's "Low-cost Housing Program" won a World Habitat Award. In 2011, the Bangladesh Government forced Yunus to resign from Grameen Bank, saying that at age 72, he was years beyond the legal limit for the position.
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This five-minute overview of Grameen Foundation talks about our innovative work helping the poor -- we strengthen the worldwide microfinance sector and create mobile phone-based solutions that provide the poor with vital information and income-generating opportunities.
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Microfinance pioneer and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Muhammad Yunus talks about the beginnings of Grameen Foundation, and the value of the work we do today strengthening the microfinance sector and providing mobile phone-based solutions to the world's poorest. Here is the transcript of the video: Let me say a few words about Grameen Foundation. It started in a very humble way, way back -- 14 years back -- with a very small amount of money. [Grameen Foundation President and CEO] Alex Counts was in Bangladesh. He wanted to study Grameen Bank, and he spent a lot of time in Bangladesh to do that. He had observed all of the ideas and philosophy of Grameen Bank, and methodology of Grameen Bank, and came back to USA and then took the responsibility of becoming the president of...
The Grameen Foundation Fellowship offers unique 12-month placements to talented business and technology professionals interested in gaining substantial, hands-on field experience while supporting Grameen Foundation's work around the world. All fellows receive monthly stipends, group orientation, and ongoing professional development training. Find out the keys to creating a competitive Fellowship Application and get answers to your questions about the application process during this live Q&A; with Program Officer, Samantha Haviser. To learn more about the program and apply, go to: http://bankerswithoutborders.com/content/grameen-foundation-fellowships Application deadline for Grameen Foundation Fellowships has been extended to March 31, 2014.
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Learn how the Grameen Foundation is connecting the world's poor to their potential by automating their anti-poverty programs with assistance from the Salesforce Foundation.
Fewer than 200 Grameen Foundation staff are working in close partnership with thousands of volunteers and donors around the globe to empower the world's poorest -- especially women -- with access to small loans and other financial services, life-saving information and unique business opportunities. In this video, a few of the people on "Team Grameen" talk about how their lives have been changed, and how you can help.
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This five-minute overview of Grameen Foundation talks about our innovative work helping the poor -- we strengthen the worldwide microfinance sector and create mobile phone-based solutions that provide the poor with vital information and income-generating opportunities.
In 2015, Grameen Foundation and Propellerfish set out to design an electronic transaction platform for people in rural villages of the Philippines. Along the way, we discovered a much bigger opportunity. This is the story of our work together and the start of a bigger journey together. The project is funded by J.P. Morgan.
Microfinance pioneer and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Muhammad Yunus talks about the beginnings of Grameen Foundation, and the value of the work we do today strengthening the microfinance sector and providing mobile phone-based solutions to the world's poorest. Here is the transcript of the video: Let me say a few words about Grameen Foundation. It started in a very humble way, way back -- 14 years back -- with a very small amount of money. [Grameen Foundation President and CEO] Alex Counts was in Bangladesh. He wanted to study Grameen Bank, and he spent a lot of time in Bangladesh to do that. He had observed all of the ideas and philosophy of Grameen Bank, and methodology of Grameen Bank, and came back to USA and then took the responsibility of becoming the president of...
The Grameen Foundation Fellowship offers unique 12-month placements to talented business and technology professionals interested in gaining substantial, hands-on field experience while supporting Grameen Foundation's work around the world. All fellows receive monthly stipends, group orientation, and ongoing professional development training. Find out the keys to creating a competitive Fellowship Application and get answers to your questions about the application process during this live Q&A; with Program Officer, Samantha Haviser. To learn more about the program and apply, go to: http://bankerswithoutborders.com/content/grameen-foundation-fellowships Application deadline for Grameen Foundation Fellowships has been extended to March 31, 2014.
Grameen Foundation is helping Margdarshak, a microfinance institution in Allahabad, India, increase the financial services available to its clients by the end of 2016. As a first step we worked with a research team from Propellerfish to understand the clients' needs.
Learn how the Grameen Foundation is connecting the world's poor to their potential by automating their anti-poverty programs with assistance from the Salesforce Foundation.
Fewer than 200 Grameen Foundation staff are working in close partnership with thousands of volunteers and donors around the globe to empower the world's poorest -- especially women -- with access to small loans and other financial services, life-saving information and unique business opportunities. In this video, a few of the people on "Team Grameen" talk about how their lives have been changed, and how you can help.
At Grameen Foundation we follow a process for identifying and scaling solutions to problems faced by poor people -- the Solutions Innovation Process -- that incorporates human-centered design and scalable business practices.
A singing group in Vunania performs songs they prepared for the MoTeCH project in Ghana about ANC, exclusive breastfeeding and importance of male involvement, in both Kassim and Nankam (main local languages). They put these together in just a day and it sounded great!
Can Lean IT help a NGO make a better job? Grameen Foundation's objective is to give opportunities to the poor so they can break the cycle of poverty. The NGO started by giving access to micro finance and then saw opportunity in mobile technology. And this is where Lean IT helped. Discover how in Dr Odeh's presentation: her IT challenges, her first steps with Lean and the power of Gemba in a village in Uganda. More about Lean in IT through expert talks and case studies on www.lean-it-summit.com
A live Q&A; with Grameen Foundation CEO Alex Counts, moderated by Grameen Foundation donor Jamie Prins.
Speeches from the celebration of Alex Counts founding and stewardship of the Grameen Foundation
This Wednesday, Feb 26 at 9am (EST) Meet our current Grameen Foundation Fellows. Jason Loughnane and Hailey Hu. Jason is our Capital Markets Financial Analyst for Africa Impact Investing Fellow based in Kenya. Hailey is our Mobile for Development Strategy Fellow based in Uganda. To learn more about the program and apply, go to: http://bankerswithoutborders.com/content/grameen-foundation-fellowships Application deadline for Grameen Foundation Fellowships has been extended to March 31, 2014.
Alex Counts, founder of the Grameen Foundation, gives a keynote speech at the 2016 Social Enterprise Symposium. The symposium is hosted by the Center for Social Value Creation at the Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Meet GF Fellows Laura Burns and Howard Sherman. Laura is our Marketing and Outreach Fellow for the Community Knowledge Worker program, and is based in Colombia. Howard is our Business Development Fellow supporting the TaroWorks team, based in Kenya. To learn more about the program and apply, go to: http://bankerswithoutborders.com/content/grameen-foundation-fellowships Application deadline for Grameen Foundation Fellowships has been extended to March 31, 2014.
The Grameen Foundation Fellowship offers unique 12-month placements to talented business and technology professionals interested in gaining substantial, hands-on field experience while supporting Grameen Foundation's work around the world. All fellows receive monthly stipends, group orientation, and ongoing professional development training. Find out the keys to creating a competitive Fellowship Application and get answers to your questions about the application process during this live Q&A; with Program Officer, Samantha Haviser. To learn more about the program and apply, go to: http://bankerswithoutborders.com/content/grameen-foundation-fellowships Application deadline for Grameen Foundation Fellowships has been extended to March 31, 2014.
Steve Wright, Vice President of Poverty Insights at the Grameen Foundation talks about how, via Salesforce, they are using mobile technologies to advance the fight against poverty. Learn more about Salesforce for Human Services at http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/humanservices
We can understand the true impact of the small loans administered by the Grameen Foundation as we follow ΓÇ£borrowersΓÇ¥ in Bangladesh and Chicago, providing a powerful glimpse into the real face of poverty. The success of the Grameen foundation is more than having an innovative business model; it is a business model built on giving hope where none exists. In fact, the foundation is about transformations, not just transactions, and the success of microlending has opened a world of opportunity for entrepreneurs and economies everywhere.