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Everett Herald
July 20, 2010: Philanthropy gets creative
Global Partnerships has successfully melded philanthropy and investment returns to create life-changing opportunities.
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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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The Seattle Times
October 21, 2009: The loan may be micro but the impact isn't
"Seattle Sketcher" Gabriel Companario caught up with Global Partnerships' Business of Hope Luncheon special guest speaker, Maritza Jiménez, during her visit to Seattle.
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The Seattle Times
October 10, 2009: Two groups put health, banking together
Global Partnerships and the global-health experts at PATH are working with Pro Mujer, a development and microfinance organization that focuses on poor women in Latin America.
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Puget Sound Business Journal
October 2, 2009: Two NW microfinance groups expand their horizons
Despite reports of oversaturation of microfinance institutions in central India, in the places where Global Partnerships is focused there is still a great demand for loans and other services that nonprofit microlending organizations provide.
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The Seattle Times
July 7, 2009: Global Partnerships invests in new currency hedge firm
"Soon there may be a new solution to the risk of currency fluctuations in the microfinance industry. Global Partnerships is helping to back a new company called MFX Solutions. Its debut today is the result of a three-year effort involving more than 30 microfinance organizations from around the world, led by Global Partnerships, Calmeadow Foundation, ACCION International, Calvert Foundation and MicroRate."
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Puget Sound Business Journal
July 3, 2009: Who's Hiring:
Some nonprofits are bucking the trend
Global Partnerships is featured as an example of nonprofit hiring during the economic downturn.
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Puget Sound Business Journal
June 25, 2009:
Global Partnerships gets microfinance grant
Global Partnerships has received an $180,000 grant to help
manage and expand its microfinance investment funds.
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Microcredit Summit Campaign
March 26, 2009: Sam Daley-Harris' Remarks on Bringing Microfinance Innovations to Latin America
Sam Daley-Harris mentions GP's role in key microfinance innovations before an audience of 12 former Latin American presidents.
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The Seattle Times - Business of Giving blog
March 5, 2009: Friendship Paves a Way Towards Helping the Poor
Kristi Heim talks to Global Partnerships' supporter Ryan Calkins about his interest in supporting the burgeoning microfinance industry in Seattle.
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Philanthropy News Digest
November 19, 2008:
Global Partnerships Launches $20 Million Microfinance Fund
Philanthropy News Digest highlights Global Partnerships' Microfinance Fund 2008
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The Seattle Times
November 18, 2008:
Global Partnerships closes $20 million fund aimed at microcredit in Latin America
In the midst of a shrinking supply of global capital, Global Partnerships closed a $20 million investment fund designed to expand access to microcredit for poor people in Latin America
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Puget Sound Business Journal
November 17, 2008: Global Partnerships raises new $20M microloan fund
Through Microfinance Fund 2008 (MFF 2008), Global Partnerships’ work will expand from six countries to eight, adding Mexico and Ecuador
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The Seattle Times
November 10, 2008: As donations drop, nonprofits forced to get creative
Global Partnerships' CEO and President Rick Beckett discusses the impact of the economic downturn on global and local nonprofit organizations
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Puget Sound Business Journal
October 31, 2008: Global Partnerships to lend in local currency
Global Partnerships
will start making loans in local currency instead of
dollars
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The Seattle Times
October 30, 2008:
Microfinance: Global Partnerships' splendid torch
Editorial columnist Lance Dickie provides a firsthand report on the Business of Hope Luncheon and the power of microfinance
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