Empowering Individuals in the Global Community Through Entrepreneurship
Implementing Partners are usually Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) that receive grants from Whole Planet Foundation to establish and run microlending programs. In some cases Whole Planet Foundation funds the loan pool of an existing MFI.
Grameen Trust (GT), a sister organization to Grameen Bank, is a registered non-profit, NGO in Bangladesh, established in 1989 by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and father of microcredit, Professor Muhammad Yunus. GT was designed to promote the Grameen principles of extending collateral free microcredit to the poor to alleviate poverty. GT provides technical assistance, training, funding and other support to 138 partners in 37 countries, including directly implemented BOT projects in seven countries. Whole Planet Foundation is partnering with Grameen Trust in Costa Rica, Guatemala and India.
Fundación Adelante's mission is to improve the standard of living of extremely poor women living in Honduras. Since 1999, Adelante has provided small loans so these women can start and grow their own small business. Over time, the women use their profits to buy better food for their families, improve their homes, buy medicine when necessary, send their children to school, and to plan and save for the future. Whole Planet Foundation partners with Fundación Adelante in the departments of Choluteca, Colon and Atlántida in Honduras.
Pro Mujer was founded in 1996. Pro Mujer Nicaragua is the second organization developed by Pro Mujer, a microfinance network dedicated to empowering Latin American women to lift themselves out of poverty through access to microfinance and health services. With operations in Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru, the network serves an estimated 150,000 women, and approximately 700,000 children and extended family members. In Nicaragua alone, Pro Mujer currently serves more than 16,000 clients. Whole Planet Foundation currently partners with Pro Mujer in the Esteli-Condega region of Nicaragua.
