News And Publications

Featured Book

Small Loans, Big Dreams

How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are changing the World. Read More >

Featured Video

AppLab Uganda Launch

2 min. 28 sec. Grameen Foundation launches a suite of mobile phone applications developed with Google and MTN Uganda (MTN) that deliver services and information that were previously unavailable to Uganda's poor and disadvantaged communities. Watch the Video >

In the News

11/06/2009

Grameen Foundation Featured in The Daily Tell

The Daily Tell, a newspaper dedicated to showcasing "the better side of human nature", discusses actress Yeardley Smith's gift to Grameen Foundation and Haitian microfinance institution Fonkoze.

10/15/2009

GF's Community Knowledge Worker Initiative Featured in Seattle Times

Grameen Foundation's Community Knowledge Worker initiative is among nine grants totalling $120 million that have been awarded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support agriculture in developing countries. This Seattle Times article profiles the Gates Foundation's efforts to boost agriculture and support poor farmers.

Press Releases

Actress Yeardley Smith Donates $1.14 Million to Support Microfinance

11/02/2009

Actress Yeardley Smith Donates $1.14 Million to Support Microfinance

Yeardley Smith, the voice of Lisa Simpson on the award-winning animated television series, The Simpsons, has joined the ranks of microfinance’s most generous and visionary...