Business Benefactors

MicroCredit Enterprises is grateful for the active support of numerous businesses, professional firms, organizations and benefactors who devote services, expertise and wisdom on a pro bono basis. This donated assistance is the essential component which underwrites MicroCredit Enterprises' low administrative overhead. See Business Benefactors for a listing of supporting companies.

MicroCredit Enterprises' robust commitment to performance-based metrics and measurable business deliverables form the basis for a strong partnership with corporate partners and professional service firms. The MicroCredit Enterprises entrepreneurial, private sector approach is a natural nexus for companies interested in cost-effective philanthropy branding and corporate social responsibility fulfillment.

Corporate Social Responsibility Co-Branding Opportunity

MicroCredit Enterprises is seeking a multinational corporate partner positioned in the marketplace to benefit from a strategic alliance which aligns its corporate brand with a global social issue. Notably, MicroCredit Enterprises is not requesting a corporate donation, grant or contract. The MicroCredit Enterprises social entrepreneurial model depends primarily upon philanthropic loan guarantees, as explained elsewhere in this website.

The principal rationale for a co-branding alliance with MicroCredit Enterprises is alleviation of extreme poverty. In addition, MicroCredit Enterprises offers a unique value proposition for an imaginative multinational corporate partner:

• Sustainable implementation of corporate social responsibility mandate without corporate budgetary expenditure and without continuous funding.
  
• Low-overhead and accountable "turn-key" business model paired with public interest philanthropic goals.
  
• Appeal across the ideological spectrum, to wit, helping elevate the economic standing of the poorest of the poor by using private sector financial tools.
  
• Apolitical, non-faith-based private sector program operated by business-friendly management.
  
• Significant social accomplishments tied to specific business deliverables.
  
• Initial pilot project with scalable opportunity to create hundreds of thousands of women-owned small businesses.
  
• Potential for exclusive, multi-year deal structure.

The preferred prerequisites for a corporate partner include two main elements: First, authentic values-led company embodying these core convictions: combating global poverty; women's empowerment; feeding children; free enterprise or self-help poverty alleviation; family strengthening. Second, senior management involvement with commitment to (a) a long-term, multi-year campaign and (b) articulated, measurable business objectives.

Permanent Fund to Alleviate Extreme Poverty

The Permanent Fund to Alleviate Extreme Poverty gives companies and corporations an opportunity to support MicroCredit Enterprises' microloan programs with a direct grant or tax-deductible contribution. One hundred per cent (100%) of every gift directly funds microloans for deeply impoverished entrepreneurs, nearly all of them women with children. No overhead, no administrative fees, no fundraising costs are paid for with grants to the Fund.

Every gift to the Permanent Fund provides perpetual benefits. As loans are repaid, the money is loaned out again to other worthy borrowers. Since the typical loan term is four to six months, every donation or grant will be loaned out (on average) at least twice a year, every year, in perpetuity.

A $1,000 gift will help approximately 25 extremely poor women and children escape poverty and advance toward self-sufficiency in the first year. In every subsequent year, the same $1,000 will help another 25 of the world’s poorest people escape extreme poverty and hunger and become self-sustaining.

To learn more about the Fund or to discuss branding and naming rights, contact Jonathan C. Lewis, Chief Executive Officer, MicroCredit Enterprises.