A Microfinance Loan Fund Fighting Poverty with Opportunity

Linking Socially and Environmentally Conscious Lenders with Microfinance Entrepreneurs in the Developing World

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Envest is a non-profit loan fund which manages a unique mix of strategies to alleviate poverty and promote an earth-friendly economy. Driven by both social values and sound business practice, such strategies appeal to both ends of the spectrum—lenders and loan recipients. 

This approach offers socially and environmentally conscious individuals and institutions the opportunity to support microfinance entrepreneurs in developing countries.

In the era of rapid globalization, microfinance works.  Given the chance and the credit, even the poorest of the poor have demonstrated a great ability to build viable enterprises. With adequate business support, they can feed their families and build a better quality of life, even in very challenging conditions.

Your support, whether a donation or a loan, can allow more people to have access to the opportunities for health, education, and food that microfinance makes possible for families worldwide.

What is Envest?

~ A mission-driven, non-profit organization pioneering a new financial model to dramatically increase microcredit availability for entrepreneurs in the developing world

~ An innovative system of partnerships between individual and institutional lenders with grassroots microfinance institutions designed to alleviate poverty by increasing opportunities for microentrepreneus in the developing world

~ A socially and environmentally conscious lending opportunity for individuals and financial institutions seeking a way to reduce poverty and encourage environmental financial sustainability in developing-world economies.

News from the Grassroots

To see Envest's June 2008 Newsletter, click here

October 8th, 2008

ENVEST SIGNS FIFTH TRANSACTION AND REACHES HALF MILLION $ MARK
With the combined dedication of individual social investors and Wisconsin’s Home Savings Bank, Envest has reached the half million mark for its disbursements to international microfinance institutions. As the average loan size in Latin America is about $600, this means that about 830 families have directly benefitted from credit Envest has made available to them.

Envest’s partner for its fifth transaction is PRESTANIC, a Nicaraguan microfinance institution with a long-standing relationship with Envest. While this transaction represents the first official involvement with PRESTANIC, board members of PRESTANIC provided invaluable assistance with the logistics for beginning operations in Nicaragua. In the summer of 2007, Envest founder Jon Bishop, Communications Manager Julia Glad and Country Representative Francis Soza Huete met with PRESTANIC CEO Armando Gutierrez in Managua, (shown below) to discuss transaction details and meet with microfinance entrepreneurs. Envest is pleased to be able to lend to this consistently supportive and socially proactive organization. PRESTANIC also offers a solar panel lending program to bring green energy to rural homes and businesses.

Envest Contact Information:

Envest, Inc.

229 Division St. #2

Madison, WI 53704 USA

(608) 216-9898

(608) 216-9899 (fax)

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www.envestmicrofinance.org

jonbishop@envestmicrofinance.org