Grameen Foundation
grameenfoundation.org Direct + LP
Grameen Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded in 1997 to advance microfinance and poverty reduction, now focused on women's economic resilience. Through its impact investing operations it invests in companies, funds and joint ventures, and its Indian arm Grameen Impact makes loans to social enterprises.
Grameen Foundation is an investor headquartered in Washington, DC, United States, founded in 1997. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, in financial services, affordable healthcare, affordable education and renewable energy.
“We invest in companies, funds and joint ventures to create capital for social enterprises whose products and services benefit the poor.”
— Grameen Foundation, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Other
- Stage
- Not stated
- Headquarters
- Washington, DC, United States
- Invests in
- India
- Sectors
- financial services, affordable healthcare, affordable education, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture
- Founded
- 1997
Team, as Grameen Foundation publishes it
- Suresh Krishna Co-Founder and CEO of YSB, Global CEO of the GFUSA and YSB Alliance
- Sabrina Quaraishi President and CEO, Grameen Foundation USA
- Bharati Joshi CEO, Grameen Foundation India and CEO, Grameen Foundation for Social Impact
- Dana Rendall Director of Finance
- Amelia Kuklewicz Executive Vice President, Programs
- Kate Bartholomeusz Vice President, Development and Communications
- Cesar Duron Vice President, Human Resources
- Bobbi Gray Associate Vice President, Programs
- Lakshmi Iyer Sr. Director, Agriculture and Climate Action
- Elisabeth Rhyne Board Chair, Independent Consultant specializing in financial inclusion
- Muhammad Yunus Inspiration for Grameen Foundation and Founding Member of the Board of Trustees
- Alex Counts Founder of Grameen Foundation
Names and roles exactly as listed on grameenfoundation.org. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
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- https://grameenfoundation.org/name, hq_country, hq_city, description, founded, status
- https://grameenfoundation.org/about-us/the-grameen-familyis_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote
- https://grameenfoundation.org/about-us/leadershippeople
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