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10/26/12

Bankers without Borders Director, Shannon Maynard, discusses assessing the value of skills-based volunteering on The Case Foundation's Social Citizens Blog

As we near our fourth anniversary, we want to better understand the longer-term impact our skills-based volunteer initiative is having on the organizations that our volunteers serve, the volunteers themselves, and our corporate partners.
06/28/12

The Case Foundation's Social Citizens Blog features Bankers without Borders Director, Shannon Maynard, as Guest Author

A study released last week found what many of us in the nonprofit sector know already: philosophically, we like the idea of engaging pro bono talent to help us achieve our social missions.
04/02/12

Leadership Magazine features Bankers without Borders' partnership with MasterCard Worldwide

Leadership Magazine interviews MasterCard Worldwide President and CEO, Ajay Banga, for The Power of Entrepreneurship; he cites skilled volunteering with Bankers without Borders® as a way for business professionals to engage in the financial inclusion movement.
03/29/12

Bankers without Borders highlighted in Huffington Post

The Huffington Post highlights Bankers without Borders® as a skilled volunteering option for concerned professionals looking to make change in a global context.
02/07/12

Bankers without Borders Guests Blogs for Devex

In this post for international-development portal Devex, Bankers without Borders® discusses some of the ways in which volunteers benefit from donating their time and skills to social enterprises fighting poverty.
01/30/12

Redbook Magazine features Bankers without Borders

Redbook Magazine features Grameen Foundation and Bankers without Borders® volunteer Claudia Brauer, highlighting her virtual volunteer experience as a BwB translator.
06/26/11

Huffington Post features Bankers without Borders volunteers

The Huffington Post features Grameen Foundation and Bankers without Borders® volunteers Karl Muth and Jennifer F. Helgeson, chronicling their experience building mobile phone applications for rural farmers in Uganda.
05/25/11

Stanford Social Innovation Review Features Bankers with Borders

Stanford Social Innovation Review (Summer 2011) discusses Bankers without Borders®, Grameen Foundation's volunteer program. Launched in 2008, it helps microfinance and technology-for-development initiatives better manage their rapid growth and improve their reach, impact and sustainability by using skills-based volunteers around the world.
05/02/11

Grameen Foundation Expands Volunteer Program to U.S. Microenterprise Organizations

Washington, D.C., May 2, 2011 — Grameen Foundation’s Bankers without Borders® initiative and the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO) today announced a new collaboration to support microfinance and microenterprise development organizations in the United States. This alliance will enable more than 400 organizations to benefit from the skills and experience of the more than 6,200 highly-skilled active and retired business professionals in Bankers without Border’s global volunteer reserve corps.
02/04/10

Financial Times Features Grameen Foundation's Bankers without Borders® Initiative

Bankers without Borders®, a nonprofit that recruits finance executives to volunteer their time and expertise at microfinance projects in developing countries, has secured a $3m grant from JPMorgan Chase to expand the programme. Its 3,000 volunteers, who come from companies such as Accenture, Best Buy and JPMorgan, have in turn contributed more than $2.3m in in-kind services in nine countries, including Haiti, India and China.

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04/30/12

AEO and Partners Launch “One in Three” Alliance to Unleash the Job Creation Potential of One Million Microbusinesses in the U.S.

Grameen Foundation’s Bankers without Borders® program provides technical assistance to U.S. microenterprises through an exclusive partnership with AEO.

Washington, D.C., April 30, 2012 - The Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO) announced today that it will launch a national campaign and alliance to bring capital and much-needed business development support services to one million microbusiness owners in the United States.
01/25/12

Grameen Foundation Selects AEMFI to Join Bankers without Borders® Alliance

Skilled Business Volunteers Help Ethiopian Social Enterprises Alleviate Global Poverty
11/30/11

MasterCard Worldwide and Grameen Foundation Collaborate to Alleviate Poverty

Initiative Will Use Mobile Services to Help Colombian Farmers Improve
Productivity and Quality of Life; MasterCard Employees to Volunteer as Part of Broader Global Initiative
11/03/11

Grameen Foundation’s Bankers without Borders® Joins A Billion + Change Campaign to Mobilize Billions in Skills-Based Volunteer Services from Businesses

National campaign calls on companies to strengthen capacity of nonprofits to meet community needs; companies respond with $1 billion in pledges
09/21/11

Grameen Foundation Selects MICRA to Join Bankers without Borders® Alliance

Business Professionals Volunteer to Help Microfinance Institutions Improve Reach and Impact

Washington, D.C., September 21, 2011 - Grameen Foundation’s global volunteer initiative today announced that MICRA Philippines, the Microfinance Innovation Center for Resources and Alternatives (MICRA) Philippines Foundation, Inc., will become the fifth member of the Bankers without Borders® (BwB) Alliance and receive funding and volunteer support to expand their services for the microfinance sector in the Philippines.
05/02/11

Grameen Foundation Expands Volunteer Program to U.S. Microenterprise Organizations

Washington, D.C., May 2, 2011 — Grameen Foundation’s Bankers without Borders® initiative and the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO) today announced a new collaboration to support microfinance and microenterprise development organizations in the United States. This alliance will enable more than 400 organizations to benefit from the skills and experience of the more than 6,200 highly-skilled active and retired business professionals in Bankers without Border’s global volunteer reserve corps.
11/10/10

Grameen Foundation Expands Innovative Skills-Based Volunteer Program to Latin America and Asia

Alliance Program Will Tap Highly-Skilled Professionals to Help Poverty-Focused Organizations Expand their Reach and Impact
08/16/10

BANKERS WITHOUT BORDERS® ANNOUNCES FUNDING AVAILABLE TO EXPAND IN ASIA AND THE AMERICAS

Bankers without Borders®, Grameen Foundation’s initiative to expand volunteerism in the microfinance and technology-for-development sectors, announced today the availability of $150,000 in seed capital to microfinance associations and other pro-poor organizations interested in helping bring Bankers without Borders volunteer services to Asia and the Americas.
08/16/10

BANKERS WITHOUT BORDERS® ANUNCIA QUE TIENE FONDOS DISPONIBLES PARA EL DESARROLLO EN ASIA Y LAS AMÉRICAS

Bankers without Borders®/Banqueros sin Fronteras es la agrupación de la Fundación Grameen que se dedica a desarrollar actividades de voluntariado en los sectores de microfinanzas y tecnología para el desarrollo.
02/04/10

Grameen Foundation Expanding Volunteer Program for Microfinance and Technology Initiatives

J.P. Morgan Supports Bankers without Borders® with a Three-Year, $3 Million Grant

Grameen Foundation today announced it is expanding its Bankers without Borders® (BwB) initiative, which taps senior working professionals for short-term, field-based or remote skills-based projects supporting microfinance institutions (MFIs) and technology-for-development initiatives. The program will be supported by a three-year, $3 million grant from JPMorgan Chase Foundation, an inaugural sponsor of the program in 2008.

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AEO and Partners Launch “One in Three” Alliance to Unleash the Job Creation Potential of One Million Microbusinesses in the U.S.

Grameen Foundation Selects AEMFI to Join Bankers without Borders® Alliance

MasterCard Worldwide and Grameen Foundation Collaborate to Alleviate Poverty

Grameen Foundation’s Bankers without Borders® Joins A Billion + Change Campaign to Mobilize Billions in Skills-Based Volunteer Services from Businesses

Grameen Foundation Selects MICRA to Join Bankers without Borders® Alliance

Grameen Foundation Expands Volunteer Program to U.S. Microenterprise Organizations

Grameen Foundation Expands Innovative Skills-Based Volunteer Program to Latin America and Asia

BANKERS WITHOUT BORDERS® ANNOUNCES FUNDING AVAILABLE TO EXPAND IN ASIA AND THE AMERICAS

BANKERS WITHOUT BORDERS® ANUNCIA QUE TIENE FONDOS DISPONIBLES PARA EL DESARROLLO EN ASIA Y LAS AMÉRICAS

Grameen Foundation Expanding Volunteer Program for Microfinance and Technology Initiatives

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