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Economic Development Ministries / General CBF / Justice and Peacemaking Ministries / Poverty & Transformation Ministries

Questions about Microcredit

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Microcredit providers currently make available an estimated $50+ Billion dollars to entrepreneurial borrowers around the world.  That’s twice as much money at work in microfinance as in 2006, when CBF Foundation first considered making microfinance investments available to endowment investment clients.  As the dollar volume in microcredit increases so do the questions and concerns about … Continue reading →

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The Poor Will Be Glad — and so will you

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There’s a revolution brewing; a revolution against poverty. Beginning with a powerful comparison of his own daughter’s life situation to that of Malika, a dear girl he met in an orphanage in Mumbai, Phil Smith has written a rallying cry, and a training manual, for joining the revolution. Continue reading →

General CBF

Reflections from Appalachia, Part 2

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The following is a ministry reflection from Paula Settle, one of CBF’s field personnel in eastern Kentucky. The women in Nada, Kentucky, are making earrings as a part of the Open Hand Enterprises economic development plan of Together for Hope. The ladies call themselves GORGEous Gals because we are one mile from the Red River … Continue reading →