The San Francisco company, the charitable giving arm of Charles Schwab Corp., said in launching its microfinance guarantee program last week that it that lets donors set aside a portion of their ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Schwab Charitable, one of the country’s largest and fastest growing nonprofits and facilitators of charitable giving with over $2 billion in assets and $350MM in annual ...

In Tijuana’s red-light district, thousands of women rely on sex work to survive. A study led by researchers at San Diego State University finds a program that combines economic support and education ...

Because many of you are looking for a job — or, if you’re already working, likely keeping your eyes open for a better job — we occasionally feature what we like to call Sweet Jobs, or gigs that rock ...

Within the scope of the annual free microfinance, Salaam Somali Bank has put a smile on the faces of small business owners in the Afgoye district of the southern agriculture-rich Lower Shabelle ...

In May, Dell, through a program-related investment (investments in ventures with a charitable purpose, usually at below- market rates of return), and Unitus, through its own private-equity fund, ...

Microfinance has been touted as a miracle cure for poverty in the global south. The reality has been a lot messier. Illustration by Adrià Fruitós. Yabom was lucky. She heard a flat tone, then an ...

Jerry lives unhoused in Santa Clara County. Not long ago, he had managed to build a microbusiness as a powerwasher—a real one, with local clients. Despite public misconceptions, many unhoused people ...

Toronto, ON, May 14, 2008 - The MasterCard Foundation launched its Scholars Program today by awarding grants totaling $600,000 to six leading microfinance training institutes. The program will fund ...

Within the scope of the annual free microfinance, Salaam Somali Bank has put a smile on the faces of small business owners in the Afgoye district of the southern agriculture-rich Lower Shabelle ...