Blanca runs El Baraton, a family-owned and operated clothing store in Jackson Heights, New York, where she sells a curated mix of new and secondhand clothing, shoes and accessories.
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Shirley owns Grandma’s Old Fashion Butter Bunches, a local Fresno business that sells over two dozen varieties of gourmet popcorn across the Central Valley.
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Grameen America Branch Manager, Andrea Cabrera, has seen first-hand how powerful small loans are for the women in our program as she supported the MDRC study in Union City.
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Grameen America has reached a historic milestone by distributing $1 billion in microloans to financially underserved women in New York City.
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Grameen America condemns discrimination, racism, and violence in any form. We stand in solidarity with our Asian and Asian American women entrepreneurs, staff, partners, and community members.
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Inspired by the cowboys in Michoacán, Mexico, where she is originally from, Aurora sells cowboy boots, clothing, belts, hats and horse carriages.
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In December 2020, we opened our 23rd branch in Chicago, Illinois, deepening our footprint in the Midwest to support more economically underserved women during this critical period.
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The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth's partnership with Grameen America has helped women-owned small businesses weather the COVID-19 pandemic through more equitable access to capital and digital tools.
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Nonprofit research organization MDRC and Grameen America today released new interim results from MDRC’s evaluation of the Grameen America microfinance model, a program that provides small loans to minority women in poverty seeking to launch or expand small businesses.
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