MicroCredit Enterprises

About
MicroCredit Enterprises is committed to reducing poverty by mobilizing private investment capital to finance micro-businesses of poor families throughout the developing world. Established in 2005, MicroCredit Enterprises gears its entrepreneurial results to produce jobs, sustain micro-businesses and improve human lives. With an innovative guarantor-based funding strategy, MicroCredit Enterprises provides debt capital to microfinance institutions that are financially sustainable and that maintain a strong focus on their social mission. MicroCredit Enterprises gives priority to microfinance institutions that serve a high percentage of deeply impoverished individuals and families, serve a high percentage of women, extend operations to rural communities and operate or provide linkages to comprehensive social services.
For more information see MicroCredit Enterprises website: www.mcenterprises.org
In the News
MicroPlace Launches First Microfinance Investment Yielding 5 Percent for Everyday Investors (pdf attached, can also be found at http://www.mcenterprises.org/userimages/media/MCE_release_2.10.09.pdf)
MicroCredit Enterprises Features on CBS News (please link this to http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/17/scitech/pcanswer/main4808591.shtml)
Recent Publications and Research



