Articles P6770

Beyond Microfinance

By Jennifer Roberts

Two new players in the world's social investing scene seek financial returns along with social impact.

Let’s Play Microloan

By Jennifer Roberts

Kids win beads and help give loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.

GreenNote Friends

By Jennifer Roberts

GreenNote helps students with no credit history obtain college loans.

Jolly Old Eco-land

By Jennifer Roberts

Britain tries building carbon-neutral housing to address its housing shortage.

William Brindley - Collaborating to Wire NGOs

Aid organizations around the world are learning that they can solve their technology and infrastructure problems faster and cheaper together than on their own. Enabling that collaboration is NetHope, a nonprofit information technology consortium helping NGOs establish the technology "ecosystems" they need to serve constituencies in more than 150 countries. Eric Nee interviews Bill Brindley, CEO of NetHope, on how the consortium got started, how it works, and how it is expanding its mission.