Thank you to everyone who contributed to making #Raise20Run20 such a success! In total, we raised $22,190 from over 100 donors to support pandemic-related relief efforts. … Altogether, the funds raised reached at least 2,296 people with meaningful assistance at a critical time.
Read MoreThere are several ways you can contribute to #raise20run20!
Read MoreOur highest priority for the funds is supporting the ultra poor and partner program participants with emergency relief through small cash transfers.
Read More#raise20run20 captures the spirit of pushing through challenge and building resilience.
Read MoreFor more than 25 years GreenWood has worked with artisans in Honduras, the Peruvian Amazon and now Puerto Rico to produce high-quality wood products from well-managed forests.
Read MoreIn January, I had the opportunity to visit our partner program, SMV Green, in northern India. While there I first met was Ramla, one of SMV Green’s early customers. Several years prior, Ramla earned his living moving a pushcart up and down streets of Varanasi, selling basic items.
Read MoreWhile access to clean water is a challenge across Tanzania, the people living in Arusha face a particularly unique problem. Too much fluoride in water can cause premature aging, bow legs, fragile bones, dental and skeletal fluorosis and other permanent body disfigurements…
Read MoreWhen Rose Achieng and her fellow business owners, Christine and Benta started their small business, they never imagine what it could become. However, over the past year, their first as entrepreneurs, they have learned the value of dreaming big.
Read MoreAbout a year ago Esther Tino started a tailoring business with two of her neighbors. After six months, they had sold almost 50 dresses to their fellow residents of Aduka village in Eastern Uganda. A year later, Esther had saved nearly 100 dollars in her savings group, she’d purchased chickens and goats and a real bed with a brand-new mattress.
Read More"In this blog, we would like to share our experience with debt investments in Vietnam. To make a debt impact investment in Vietnam, there are two major processes: ..."
Read More"Eric Sorensen and Ryan Delaney are building a social enterprise in Haiti called Carbon Roots. It is the kind of company that checks all the boxes we look for at 3rd Creek Foundation. The Carbon Roots business model increases..."
Read MoreThe eight entrepreneurs in in Upaya’s Cohort1 are growing small businesses from India’s informal sector, such as food delivery, jobs placement, shoe cleaning, and waste management. Each business has been successful operating in a local environment, and is preparing to scale across a wider geographic footprint and market size in India. ...
Read MorePracticing gratitude benefits both the individual and the community. Taking time to extend gratitude has a remarkable impact on our emotional well being. In this blog entry, the 3CF board shares one thing each of us is thankful for.
Read MoreIsibella Wangari Gituru has been a clothes designer and seamstress in Nairobi, Kenya for the past 30 years. Within a year of graduating from university...
Read MoreThe Global Social Benefit Institute at Santa Clara University's Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship is significant because it convenes impact oriented entrepreneurs and investors in one room to help entrepreneurs overcome some of these challenges, thereby strengthening both the businesses and their collective impact.
Read More3CF partners with Village Enterprise in the Kitale area of western Kenya to help rural women living below the poverty line start small businesses that graduate them and their households out of extreme poverty. Neighborhood women with similar business interests join into groups of 3 entrepreneurs to establish each new business. ...
Read MoreJohn Locke, one of the enlightenment philosophers, posited in the 17th century that the fruits of an individual’s labor entitled that person to own and accumulate property, a God-given right. A person’s property, broadly interpreted to include everything from the material goods to personal aspirations, ...
Read More"...we refer to economic independence as the ability of an individual to access and mobilize enough economic resources (land, labor, and capital) to meet his or her basic needs and those of his or her dependents. But what we strive for through our mission is to support individuals to access economic mobility."
Read MoreI have been blogging over the past few years about my involvement with our local community to improve our children’s dental health and hygiene. Today I am pleased to share that...
Read MoreI am writing our first blog post at the end of 3 intensive days with the EDGE Just Giving Conference in Berkeley, CA. Some of the key themes which came up repeatedly included: social justice, grassroots, agroecology, human rights, environmental justice, and mission-related investing. One of my favorite references was that of the “revolutionary imagination.”
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