A Microfinance Cooperative Fighting Poverty with Opportunity

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

For a PDF version of Envest's brochure, click here

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, membership cooperative pioneering new financial models to dramatically increase microcredit availability for entrepreneurs in the developing world

~ An innovative system of partnerships between community members, individual lendors, institutional lenders with grassroots international microfinance institutions

~ A socially and environmentally conscious investment 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

Envest Microfinance Cooperative to host 1st General Community Meeting on Wednesday, April 29th. Click for details.

Envest Attains Cooperative Status

Envest, Inc. has re-incorporated as the Envest Microfinance Cooperative as of April 13, 2009. The change in status was initiatied when it was determined that functioning as a membership cooperative would expand the ways in which the community could become involved and increase the variety of opportunities open to Envest for pursuing financial models more effective at alleviating poverty. This change does not affect current Envest investors.

With Cooperative Status, Envest is now accepting membership applications. Contact Jon Bishop at jonbishop@envestmicrofinance.org or 608-216-9898 to request an application.

Envest Contact Information:

Envest Microfinance Cooperative

222 S. Hamilton Street - Suite 13

Madison, WI 53703 USA

(608) 216-9898

(608) 216-9899 (fax)

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www.envestmicrofinance.org

jonbishop@envestmicrofinance.org