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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 [...]

Join us for the second webinar in B Lab’s Measure What Matters mini-series to discuss “How to Make an Improvement Plan.”  Anna Kanze from Grassroots Capital Management will lead [...]

Grassroots has completed an assessment of an innovative fund targeting smallholder producers of non-traditional crops with working capital and investment financing. The world’s 450 million [...]

Will microfinance respond and adapt to the evolving financial inclusion landscape, or is it yesterday’s solution, to be supplanted by more cutting edge, “impactful” initiatives? These are the [...]

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 [...]

“The Case for Social Investment in Microcredit,” Tim Ogden’s new publication from the Financial Access Initiative (FAI), is the most important piece on microfinance and impact investing [...]

by Paul DiLeo In the long-running discussions about social impact, there are prominent and respected investors and managers who continue to argue that good intentions, perhaps captured in a [...]

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 [...]

Building on their previous collaboration in launching and managing the Antares Fund, Omtrix and Grassroots are surveying the current state of the secondary market in microfinance and related [...]