Donate to the Permanent Fund to Alleviate Extreme Poverty

Permanent Fund to Alleviate Extreme Poverty Put your donation directly into the hands of poor women and children.  Every penny donated to the Permanent Fund to Alleviate Extreme Poverty (Permanent Fund) supports microloans for women.  

Thanks to a special commitment by Microcredit Enterprises, one hundred per cent (100%) of your gift directly finances self-help microloans for desperately impoverished entrepreneurs, nearly all of them women with children.  None of your contribution pays for our organizational overhead, administration, employee salaries or other operational expenses.  Not one dime of your donation pays for fundraising costs.

The Permanent Fund works with strong local, nonprofit partners in each country to ensure your money is well-managed.  As women repay their loans, the Permanent Fund recycles the money into new loans, and larger loans, empowering more and more women to become entrepreneurs.  Your donation is loaned out (on average) twice a year, every year, for decades into the future.

Your Choice, Your Commitment
Contributors to the Permanent Fund to Alleviate Extreme Poverty use several easy choices to support microloans.  Many microloans are as little as $25 so your gift alone could be responsible for putting an extremely poor and hungry family on the road to self-sufficiency. 

As loans are repaid (typically in 4 to 6 months) your donation will be recycled at least twice a year.  In addition, your donation is loaned to hard-working micro entrepreneurs again and again for decades to come.  That’s why it is called the Permanent Fund —your money continues working permanently.  And, at the level of poverty at which MicroCredit Enterprises works, your donation funds microloans that typically feed 5 people (2 adults, 3 children).

That is the power of microfinance and the Permanent Fund to Alleviate Extreme Poverty.

Choose a contribution level that best suits your resources and your wishes.  Whatever you do, it counts. 
  • For as little as $25 your contribution can finance one basic starter microloan. 
  • Your $100 contribution will finance 4 $50 microloans in the first year.
  • Your $500 contribution will finance 200 $50 microloans by the end of 10 years. 
  • Your $1000 contribution can finance as many as 40 microloans in the first year and 400 microloans over 10 years
  • Your $5000 contribution becomes 4000 microloans over 10 years. 
  • Your $25,000 contribution in 10 years will provide 50,000 people with new lives of hope because of your single generous act.

Easy Giving to End Hard LivesDonate online with our secure, safe and fast Permanent Fund Donation Form.  

Donate directly with your personal or company check, which should be made out to MicroCredit Enterprises Permanent Fund and sent to:

          MicroCredit Enterprises, Inc.
          Attention: Permanent Fund
          5758 Geary Blvd., #214
          San Francisco, CA 94121 USA


Other Ways to Make a Difference You may want to donate assets or incorporate your gift into your estate planning.  With the Permanent Fund, you know your wealth will be wisely and powerfully employed to fight poverty.  Please contact John Hershberger, Director, Permanent Fund Development, to discuss the best option for you. 

All contributions to the Permanent Fund to Alleviate Extreme Poverty are 100% tax deductible in accordance with IRS regulations governing 501(c)(3) non-profit, public benefit corporations.

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Important Disclaimer:
Information provided on our website is not intended to be tax or legal advice. Please consult a qualified tax or legal advisor. It is also important to understand MicroCredit Enterprises is not a socially responsible investment fund or an investment of any kind. MicroCredit Enterprises is not operated as a profit-seeking venture for the benefit of any individual or institution.


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