Puget Sound Business Journal
December 16, 2011: Questions for Bill and Paula Clapp
Bill and Paula Clapp are among Seattle's most distinguished philanthropic couples. In 1994 they founded Global Partnerships, a microloan nonprofit serving parts of Latin America.
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Puget Sound Business Journal
October 12, 2011: Global Partnerships looks beyond loans to education
Global Partnerships, a Seattle-based nonprofit that provides microfinance to the developing world, has shifted its strategy in recent years to expand its focus beyond the traditional microloans that it started with 17 years ago.
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KPLU 88.5 Humanosphere
July 29, 2011: A(nother) guy named Bill creating Seattle's do-gooder community
Some of the most amazing people I know on this beat -- covering Seattle's role in global health and poverty reduction -- are named Bill. There's Bill Gates, of course, his bold and insightful (and often funny) dad Bill Gates Sr., Bill Foege, the local doc who figured out how to beat smallpox, and then there's Bill Clapp.
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Puget Sound Business Journal
June 16, 2011: Social investment list includes Global Partnerships, Elevar
Seattle microfinance investment organizations Global Partnerships and Elevar Equity have been named to a list of 50 leading funds that are achieving strong financial and social returns.
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CNN Headline News: Comcast Newsmakers
May 12, 2011 : Interview for Comcast Newsmakers/CNN
Sabrina Register interviewed Global Partnerships' Elisa Murray for a 4-minute CNN spot about our strategy, an exciting new partnership, and what success looks like.
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MicroCapital.org
April 18, 2011 : Dutch Development Finance Institution FMO Invests $4.4m in Global Partnerships Social Investment Fund 2010
The Netherlands Development Finance Company invested $4.4 million to provide loans to microfinance institutions (MFIs) that provide preventative health care, business education and agricultural training in addition to financial services.
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MicroDINERO
April 17, 2011 : FMO-GP, alianza contra la pobreza
Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO, banco de desarrollo de los Países Bajos) invirtió US$ 4,4 millones en el GP’s Social Investment Fund (SIF 2010) que administra Global Partnerships (GP), una entidad sin fines de lucro que promueve soluciones sustentables a la pobreza.
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Puget Sound Business Journal
April 14, 2011: Dutch bank joins Seattle microloan fund
A Dutch development bank announced Thursday it is investing $4.4 million into the latest microloan fund raised by Seattle-based Global Partnerships.
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MicroCapital.org
April 11, 2011: Global Partnerships (GP) Microfinance Funds Loan $1m to Enlace of El Salvador, Cafe y Desarrollo of Mexico
In El Salvador, Enlace, established in 1998, received a USD 500,000 loan from the Global Partnerships Social Investment Fund (SIF) 2010. Cafe y Desarrollo of Mexico also received a USD 498,000 loan from GP SIF 2010.
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MicroCapital.org
April 7, 2011: Global Partnerships Social Investment Fund (SIF) 2010 Loans $3m to Sartawi, FONDECO of Bolivia and Espoir of Ecuador for Microfinance
The Global Partnerships Social Investment Fund (SIF) 2010 loaned $2 million to two Bolivian microfinance institutions (MFI) and $1 million to an MFI in Ecuador.
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Knowledge Leader: Colliers International Property Magazine
Spring 2011: Investing in Community
Global Partnerships’ Social Investment Fund 2010 provides loan capital to microfinance institutions that serve people living in poverty in Latin America.
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Puget Sound Business Journal
March 11, 2011: Profit or social good? Puget Sound groups in microloan debate
Seattle non-profit Global Partnerships illustrates its view of providing money for small loans to the world's poor.
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Philanthropy News Digest (A service of the Foundation Center)
February 23, 2011: Global Partnerships Announces Investment of $4.5 Million in Latin American MFIs
GP's Social Investment Fund 2010 provides affordable loans to a select portfolio of MFIs that meet both financial and social criteria. The loans range in size and business model, are similar in focus on reaching people in underserved markets and combining loans with "microfinance plus" services such as business education, health services, and agricultural training.
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Portfolio Advisory Board Insights: The Adrian Dominican Sisters newsletter
January 2011: Creating Livelihoods, Changing Lives: Global Partnerships
GP is chosen for the Sisters’ Community Investment Fund that provides investments and loans to community-based enterprises demonstrate social justice through alternative economic endeavors.
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Huffington Post
January 19, 2011: Nobel Peace Winner Slams Poverty Profiteering
Other than touting the Grameen model (as he well should), Yunus neglects to acknowledge the market-for-social-good folks that are successfully harnessing greed to do good. Nonprofit Global Partnerships is a great example.
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NPR's Humanosphere
October 26, 2010: Microfinance backlash: Identity crisis, evolution or greedy mission creep?
Citing GP's Rick Beckett, among others, NPR blogger Tom Paulson examines the current controversies over different types of microfinance.
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New Day NW
October 11, 2010: Seattle Non-Profit Helps Women Succeed in Business, Life
Margaret Larson showcases the work of Global Partnerships and features Edelma Altamirano of Nicaragua, our Eighth Annual Business of Hope special guest speaker.
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NPR's Humanosphere
October 7, 2010: Microfinance: A New Loan on Life
Edelma Altamirano's story is the difference between microfinance that's about money and microfinance that's about people.
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Microfinance Focus
October 7, 2010: IDB lends $5m to Global Partnerships for microfinance investments in Latin America
The Global Partnerships Social Investment Fund 2010 will invest in microfinance institutions that are going beyond providing working capital loans by bundling traditional microfinance lending with the provision of other services.
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The Seattle Times
October 5, 2010: Where lending hands out more than just money
Local investors are finding that returns from a microfinance nonprofit are among the best performing investments in their portfolio. The returns are both financial and social—Global Partnerships' "microfinance plus" approach supports programs that expand beyond microcredit loans to health care and education.
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Puget Sound Business Journal
September 30, 2010: Global Partnerships closes on $20M fund
Global Partnerships closed its fourth investment fund worth $ 20 million, with investors including Seattle University, Inter-American Development Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corp.
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KPLU
September 29, 2010: Success in fundraising: $20-million for microfinance
Global Partnerships has just raised 20-million dollars for its most recent social investment fund and investors are finding the funds more rewarding than ever.
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Puget Sound Business Journal
June 11, 2010: Nonprofits eye private investments as donations dwindle
A desire to align investments with social missions is prompting nonprofit organizations like Global Partnerships to look to a new source of funding — social venture capital.
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KPLU
June 8, 2010: Local Non-Profit Innovating with Micro-lending Investment Funds
Global Partnerships' Social Investment Forum focuses on investment opportunities that generate both social and financial returns.
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Microcapital.org
June 3, 2010: Meet the Boss: Q&A with Rick Beckett
Microcapital interviews GP CEO Rick Beckett about GP's take on microfinance, where the industry is going, the importance of due diligence and much more.
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Puget Sound Business Journal
April 30, 2010: Microfinance nonprofit reaching out to prospective investors
A Seattle-based microfinance institution is further expanding its outreach to socially responsible investors.
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The Oregonian
April 27, 2010: ShoreBank Pacific's president leaves for Seattle nonprofit
Mark Coffee, president of Ilwaco, Wash.-based ShoreBank Pacific, is leaving to become chief investment officer at a Seattle microfinancing firm.
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CNN
March 13, 2010: Microloans Change Lives
Global Partnerships and the Inter-American Development Bank are hoping to change lives in Latin America through microfinance.
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Microfinance Focus
February 15, 2010: Global Partnerships helps expand Microfinance in Mexico
Global Partnerships (GP), a Seattle-based nonprofit that supports microfinance programs and other sustainable poverty solutions in Latin America, has announced that it has expanded its programs to Mexico.
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Microfinance Monitor
February 15, 2010: New MFIs set to rival Compartamos' monopoly in Mexican microfinance
Global Partnerships (GP), a Seattle-based nonprofit that supports microfinance programs in Latin America, has announced that it has expanded its programs to Mexico apparently to provide a level-playing ground for new MFIs.  
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Microfinance Focus
January 16, 2010: Downturn has not reduced investor interest in Latin America
To gauge the current state of the investment climate in Latin America, Microfinance Focus conducted a survey of fund managers. The last survey in the series features Global Partnerships' Chief Development Officer Beth Castleberry.
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