Empowering Individuals in the Global Community Through Entrepreneurship
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Whole Planet Foundation partners with Grameen America in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City. Grameen America is a microfinance organization established in 2008 whose mission is to help alleviate poverty through entrepreneurship by providing loans, savings programs, credit establishment, and other services to the working poor, especially women, in the United States. Grameen America is built upon the success of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, founded by Professor Muhammad Yunus, joint winners of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Grameen America provides loans at reasonable rates enabling borrowers to avoid predatory lenders whose extremely high interest rates deny the working poor the full benefits of their labor.
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