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Competition entries for Banking on Social Change – Seeking Financial Solutions for All

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Nov 6, 2008Another economy happens thought the solidarity of the community.
Country : Brazil
Organization: Associação Mulheres em Movimento
Year organization founded (yyyy): 2004
Field of work: Banking/Financial Services
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Non-affluent are not valued customers
  • Main insight addressed Prove that social return doesn’t preclude financial gain

Toda Comunidade é ela própria capaz de resolver seus problemas. Doações voluntárias de pessoas físicas são repassadas para empreendimentos da Economia Solidária em forma de finanças solidárias, através de projetos financiados sem juros.

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Associação Mulheres em MovimentoBrazil
2
Nov 6, 2008La Biodiversidad como Una Alternativa para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indios.
Country : Mexico
Organization: Red Indígena de Turismo de México, RITA, A.C.
Year organization founded (yyyy): 2002
Field of work: Other
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Social benefit businesses not deemed investment worthy
  • Main insight addressed Turn hidden value into alternative markets

El uso sustentable de los recursos naturales y culturales existentes en nuestros territorios como una vía para el desarrollo indígena.

 (EN)
Red Indígena de Turismo de México, RITA, A.C.Mexico
1
Oct 16, 2008The Business Basics at the base of the pyramid: Community Driven Service Delivery of Micro-Finance
Country : India
Organization: NEED
Year organization founded (yyyy): 0
Field of work: Banking/Financial Services
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Social benefit businesses not deemed investment worthy
  • Main insight addressed Turn hidden value into alternative markets

Plan to Team up and Team to Plan up towards creating a cadre of Social Entrepreneurs in the areas of financial inclusion with striking balance of livelihoods and micro-enterprises.

NEEDIndia
0
Oct 13, 2008PIG BANK
Country : India
Organization: This field has not been completed
Year organization founded (yyyy): 2000
Field of work: Agriculture
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Social benefit businesses not deemed investment worthy
  • Main insight addressed Leverage the stake individuals have in financial success of the group

Utilizing local available resource as pig feed package to substitute concentrated feed and Popularizing Pig farming as IGA with minimum investment.

This field has not been completedIndia0
Oct 8, 2008Renewal with Renewal
Country : United States
Organization: Renewal
Year organization founded (yyyy): 1994
Field of work: Banking/Financial Services
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Social benefit businesses not deemed investment worthy
  • Main insight addressed Prove that social return doesn’t preclude financial gain

Renewal employs a three pronged strategy of investment, grants and collaboration in support of economic and environmental sustainability and progressive social change in North America.

RenewalUnited States0
Oct 8, 2008Taking Microfinance Further, Faster
Country : India
Organization: This field has not been completed
Year organization founded (yyyy): 2003
Field of work: Banking/Financial Services
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Lack of access to markets or products
  • Main insight addressed Turn hidden value into alternative markets

IntelleCash is an end to end business solutions package for microfinance startups that drastically reduces their gestation period and ensures quick scaling up.

This field has not been completedIndia
0
Oct 8, 2008Strengthening India’s Microfinance Institutions To Enhance Poor Women’s Access to Appropriate Financial Services
Country : India
Organization: FWWB
Year organization founded (yyyy): 1982
Field of work: Agriculture
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Non-affluent are not valued customers
  • Main insight addressed Prove that social return doesn’t preclude financial gain

FWWB is work is focused on nurturing stat up and supporting innovative ideas that ensure sustainable livelihood for economically challenged households.

FWWBIndia0
Oct 7, 2008Grupos solidario en el microcrédito
Country : Argentina
Organization: Fundación León
Year organization founded (yyyy): 2003
Field of work: Banking/Financial Services
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Lack of access to markets or products
  • Main insight addressed Lower the entry threshold

Mediante el otorgamiento de micro-créditos, buscamos promover: dignidad, solidaridad, confianza y fortalecimiento de lazos sociales, a través de conformación de grupos solidarios.

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Fundación León Argentina0
Oct 7, 2008Korku Panchayat in a "Bankers" Role
Country : India
Organization: Korku Panchayat
Year organization founded (yyyy): 0
Field of work: Banking/Financial Services
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Please select one
  • Main insight addressed Please select one

In the absence of any kind of access to either formal or alternative financial institutions, the Panchayat (local governing body) of the Korku tribal community in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, has assumed the role of a financier, extending loans to the needy with an on-schedule recovery rate of 100 per cent.

Korku PanchayatIndia1
Oct 7, 2008Samruddhi
Country : India
Organization: Rinovations
Year organization founded (yyyy): 2007
Field of work: Agriculture
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Please select one
  • Main insight addressed Please select one

Samruddhi, it is a Rural Retail Chain for selling innovative products to rural population for rural development.

RinovationsIndia0
Oct 6, 2008E HUBS AFRICA - Re-ENGINEERING the marketplace mindset
Country : United States
Organization: E-Hubs Africa
Year organization founded (yyyy): 2007
Field of work: Agriculture
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Lack of access to markets or products
  • Main insight addressed Lower the entry threshold

To establish E-Hubs Africa (mixed business industry “malls”) as an enterprise development brand that stands the test of time for Sustainable Transformation in the first economy marketplace driven by the holistic A2B transformation model according to a measuring system, that bridges the gap between the rich and the poor through a horizontal and vertical power-partnership model that co-create through collective energy, resource, ethics & knowledge-based value for entrepreneurs and where banks have confidence by the low shared risk of their investment and high socio-economic reward.

E-Hubs AfricaUnited States0
Oct 6, 2008Aflatoun Child Social and Financial Education Programme
Country : India
Organization: Aflatoun Child Social and Financial Education Programme
Year organization founded (yyyy): 1991
Field of work: Other
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Non-affluent are not valued customers
  • Main insight addressed Shorten timeline on individual “returns”

The Aflatoun Programme brings children into the economic mainstream, teaches them power of savings, instills social awareness, citizenship and entrepreneurial skills.

Aflatoun Child Social and Financial Education Programme India
0
Oct 6, 2008Microcredit to promote autonomy
Country : Brazil
Organization: Banco do Povo – Crédito Solidário
Year organization founded (yyyy): 1998
Field of work: Banking/Financial Services
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Non-affluent are not valued customers
  • Main insight addressed Leverage the stake individuals have in financial success of the group

Oferecer microcrédito com grupos solidários às famílias beneficiárias de programas de distribuição de renda, mas que possuam atividades por conta própria, promovendo a autonomia destas.

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Banco do Povo – Crédito SolidárioBrazil
2
Oct 6, 2008Value Chain Finance for smallholder farmers: pioneer mainstreaming and mainstream pioneering
Country : Netherlands
Organization: Triodos Investment Management
Year organization founded (yyyy): 2008
Field of work: Agriculture
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Social benefit businesses not deemed investment worthy
  • Main insight addressed Prove that social return doesn’t preclude financial gain

Our Project is to give a double boost to the mainstreaming of Value Chain Finance for smallholder farmer cooperatives and rural SMEs: both at the level of Triodos and at the level of the (international) financial community.

Triodos Investment ManagementNetherlands0Finalist
Oct 6, 2008LED lighting: out of the darkness to help families THRIVE
Country : India
Organization: THRIVE
Year organization founded (yyyy): 2001
Field of work: Other
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Lack of access to markets or products
  • Main insight addressed Turn hidden value into alternative markets

THRIVE has designed an innovative, durable, affordable, portable LED-based light requiring low battery power consumption for all household tasks for homes lacking grid electricity access.

THRIVEIndia0
Oct 6, 2008responsAbility - Leading Social Investments
Country : Switzerland
Organization: responsability
Year organization founded (yyyy): 0
Field of work: Banking/Financial Services
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Lack of access to markets or products
  • Main insight addressed Prove that social return doesn’t preclude financial gain

responsAbility is an innovative asset manager that purely focuses on social investment including microfinance.

With its investment products, responsAbility enables people at the base of the global income pyramid to have access to markets, information and other services important for their development. Private and institutional investors can thus contribute to positive social development and at the same time aim for a financial return in a professional manner.

responsabilitySwitzerland0
Oct 6, 2008Bringing health to the community
Country : India
Organization: Nutrition cum Day Care Center
Year organization founded (yyyy): 2002
Field of work: Health
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Social benefit businesses not deemed investment worthy
  • Main insight addressed Prove that social return doesn’t preclude financial gain

Nutrition cum Day Care Center (NDCC) is a sustainable approach combining nutritious diet for pregnant, lactating women and children with health care and nutrition education.

Nutrition cum Day Care CenterIndia0
Oct 6, 2008Crediamigo Comunidade
Country : Brazil
Organization: Banco do Nordeste
Year organization founded (yyyy): 1952
Field of work: Banking/Financial Services
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Non-affluent are not valued customers
  • Main insight addressed Leverage the stake individuals have in financial success of the group

Crédito para atividades informais, com metodologia focada na educação para o crédito, formação da poupança e empoderamento, e garantia baseada no caráter das pessoas.

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Banco do NordesteBrazil2
Oct 6, 2008"A holistic approach to micro-insurance - breaking the cycle of illnesses and debt"
Country : India
Organization: Healing Fields Foundation
Year organization founded (yyyy): 2002
Field of work: Banking/Financial Services
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Non-affluent are not valued customers
  • Main insight addressed Leverage the stake individuals have in financial success of the group

Healing Fields Foundation (“HFF”) has developed a holistic approach to micro health insurance by creating a preventive, financing and caring “ecosystem” for the underprivileged.

Healing Fields FoundationIndia3Finalist
Oct 6, 2008Single stop solution for many problems
Country : India
Organization: SKG Sangha
Year organization founded (yyyy): 1993
Field of work: Agriculture
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Non-affluent are not valued customers
  • Main insight addressed Leverage the stake individuals have in financial success of the group

Integration of sustainable energy and sustainable agriculture for improving the quality of life of rural families and for better climate to the world.

SKG SanghaIndia0