Greg Casagrande
Founder SPBD Microfinance and MicroDreams
About
MicroDreams provides a suite of micro-enterprise development services, making the jump from simple microfinance to successful micro-enterprise creation at scale. MicroDreams is the brainchild of Greg Casagrande, who brought a Grameen-style model to Samoa and tweaked it to fit the local needs. His South Pacific Business Development Foundation (SPBD) embodied an “entrepreneur-as-customer” approach driven by the needs of those trying to create first-time small businesses. Today SPBD in Samoa is a financially self-sufficient organization that has worked successfully with over 10,000 of Samoa’s 30,000 families. Now Greg has formed MicroDreams to replicate the Samoa model in Tonga and help micro-enterprise organizations in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru to achieve high impact and financial self-sufficiency. Using start-up donor funding, MicroDreams can drive financially self-sufficient organizations that leverage traditional microfinance
and multiply the incomes of millions.
For more information see SPBD Microfinance and MicroDreams websites: www.spbd.ws,www.microdreams.org
In the News
SPBD Microfinance
- SPBD 10 Year Anniversary and Woman of the Year 2010 Award
- SPBD Celebrates $30 million milestone - Samoa Observer
- SPBD on NBC Nightly News
- SPBD Spreads to Tonga - Pacific Business Online
MicroDreams
- Samoa’s Deputy Prime Minister Nominates Greg Casagrande as CNN Hero - Samoa Observer
- MicroDreams Supports Samoan Tsunami Relief
- News from MicroDreams’ blog
Recent Publications and Research
SPBD Microfinance
MicroDreams
- MicroDreams Foundation Newsletter - May 2010
- MicroDreams Profile 2009
- MicroDreams Samoan Tsunami Relief Summary 2009
- Links to MicroDreams:



