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On May 23 Paul DiLeo will participate in the lunch panel “Lessons Learned from the Field” at a conference on “Legal Issues in Impact Investing” at the Grunin Center of the NYU Law [...]

The final CFI post, “FinTech in Microfinance: In Search of the High Tech – High Touch Unicorn”, has been added to the four-part blog series examining the role of microfinance in creating social [...]

We are pleased to announce Prospero‘s third annual updated GIIRS rating! All Prospero’s portfolio companies achieved an average Overall B Score of 138 (Outstanding), up almost 10% from the [...]

Grassroots helped organize a gathering of 32 microfinance and impact investing industry leaders from around the world March 30 –April 1 hosted by the Martindale Center at Lehigh University and [...]

Initial public offerings (IPOs) have played an important role in both scaling the financial inclusion industry as well as catalyzing discussions that led to necessary improvements in the [...]

We are excited to announce that two of our partner funds – Prospero Microfinanzas and the India Financial Inclusion Fund (IFIF) – were named in the first annual Best for the World [...]

Fernando Prado, Fund Manager of the Latin American equity fund Prospero Microfinanzas, was interviewed recently about the significance of the GIIRS rating for the fund and its portfolio [...]

by Alana, Amit, Anna, Cynthia and Paul As we begin the holiday season in the U.S. this year, we at Grassroots would like to step back and reflect on why we do what we do, and how we foresee [...]

Grassroots has been participating in the Africa Board Fellowship Program (ABF) since 2015.  The four-year program is designed to build governance capacity and practice among directors and senior [...]

Anna Kanze and Paul DiLeo will attend FOROMIC 2016, the annual summit of the Latin American financial inclusion industry, from October 24 – 26 in Jamaica.  Grassroots and its partners BIM will [...]