Major Philanthropic Supporters
The 80|20 Foundation invests in San Antonio’s future by issuing grants to public charities that Attract, Grow, and Retain San Antonio’s future workforce and job-creating entrepreneurs.
Apple is supporting Grameen America’s continued national expansion of its microloan program providing small loans to low-income women entrepreneurs. Together we are proud to help empower women to build business and improve the lives of their families and communities in the Bay Area and across the U.S.
Betty Buzz was founded by Blake Lively, who is inspired to support women with limited access to resources and help them to achieve their entrepreneurial dreams. Since 2022, Betty Buzz has supported Grameen America’s women entrepreneurs across the United States.
Blue Meridian Partners has made a catalytic $85 million investment to seed our Women Are Limitless campaign— a $600 million campaign to address economic inequity over the next decade. This substantial commitment comprises a $50 million grant alongside $35 million in a non-interest bearing loan.
With a focus on collaboration, learning, and innovation, BMO works with our community partners to achieve sustainable solutions and shape the future together.
California Community Foundation
Since 2012, the California Community Foundation has provided anchor support for two Los Angeles locations. Ongoing support from the Foundation has been instrumental in bringing microfinance to women entrepreneurs in the region, and in helping to provide thousands of women with access to affordable capital.
Investing in communities to strengthen and prepare them for robust economic futures, Capital One and the Capital One Foundation support Grameen America's microloan portfolio growth, financial education, and national growth initiatives to help scale and empower more low-income women entrepreneurs.
Grameen America partners with the U.S. Department of the Treasury's CDFI Fund to further expand our microloan program. This collaboration enables sizeable impact, generating economic growth and opportunity across the nation’s most vulnerable communities.
As a founding supporter, The Dalio Foundation first enabled Grameen America’s launch in 2008 and has since provided ongoing support to help us reach tens of thousands of women entrepreneurs nationwide and expand our footprint.
East West Bank, with its legacy of helping underserved communities, is generously helping us to open and operate the third Grameen America branch in Los Angeles, serving the Long Beach community. We are working with East West Bank to provide microloans in cities where both our organizations operate, including Los Angeles, New York, Boston and Houston.
Empire State Development Corporation
For over a decade, the Empire State Development Corporation has provided Grameen America with support for its microloan program at multiple branches across New York City.
With a mission supporting entrepreneurship as an important fulfilling pathway to economic independence, Etsy is generously supporting Grameen America’s financial and small business education program, available to over 80,000 women nationwide.
Fondation CHANEL works to improve the economic and social conditions of women and adolescent girls around the world. Support from Fondation CHANEL is enabling Grameen America to extend its reach to provide more support for low-income women entrepreneurs across the United States through accessible financial and health services.
Gerald L Lennard Foundation Inc
Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women
Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women and Grameen America have announced a partnership to advance financial access and inclusion for low-income Black women entrepreneurs.
Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth is a steadfast partner of Grameen America, helping us introduce financial technology solutions to enhance our ability to promote digital financial access and inclusion for low-income minority women entrepreneurs across the United States.
Philanthropic funding from Regions Bank is supporting the expansion of our microloan program to Atlanta, providing affordable microloans, training and peer support to low-income women entrepreneurs in Atlanta.
As a champion for Black-owned businesses and expanding economic opportunity, Robert Smith is a trusted voice and mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs. The Southern Communities Initiative (SCI) partnered with Grameen America to provide resources to Black women entrepreneurs. SCI is led by Vista Equity Partners, Boston Consulting Group, PayPal and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Seabreeze Foundation
Since 2012, the Seabreeze Foundation has supported Grameen America's microloan, credit- and asset-building and financial education programs across the U.S.
Grameen America values its continued partnership with the Seedlings Foundation, which has provided generous national support to its microloan program as well as key support to Grameen Promotoras in New York City.
The Halperin
Foundation
The mission of the Sobrato Family Foundation is to support low-income residents in Silicon Valley who seek stability and opportunities for upward mobility. Since 2018, the Sobrato Family Foundation has supported Grameen America's program in San Jose, California.
Synchrony provides funding to support Grameen America’s core microloan, asset- and credit-building programs to empower low-income women entrepreneurs to provide a better life for themselves and their families.
With a belief that the key to unlocking human potential is through opportunity creation, the Tarsadia Foundation partners with Grameen America to provide small loans to low-income women entrepreneurs in Harlem, Houston, Chicago and Los Angeles. The Foundation also provided generous support towards the Economic Relief and Recovery Package in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Together we are proud to help empower women to build business and improve the lives of their families and communities across the U.S.
The Halperin Foundation
The Jorge M. Perez Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation
The foundation addresses challenges to residents’ quality of life, especially those with limited access to opportunities; identifies nonprofits solving the issues at the individual, neighborhood and system/policy level; and prioritizes efforts that are striving to scale up by expansion or replication by others.
The Tepper Foundation
Grameen America is deeply grateful for a $1.5 million grant from Truist Foundation to empower Black women entrepreneurs. The dedicated program will offer loan capital, financial training, and asset and credit building tools to Black women small business owners. Additionally, the funding will help Grameen America lean-test a variety of new programmatic enhancements and community partnerships in select cities, with the goal to scale learnings nationally.
U.S. Bank Foundation’s $1M philanthropic gift will support the economic recovery of communities hardest hit by the pandemic by helping Grameen America increase access to capital and expand wraparound services to low-income, minority women entrepreneurs in Chicago, Fresno, Los Angeles, Omaha and the Bay Area through our innovative social capital model.
Grameen America is a proud recipient of funding from the Wells Fargo Works for Small Business: Diverse Community Capital program. Support has been used to deliver affordable financial products to Grameen America’s diverse small business owners who do not typically have access to conventional financing and help us to activate our plan for deeper expansion into Texas and California.
Philanthropic Supporters*
California Community Foundation
Celebrity Family Feud on behalf of Team Marcus Lemonis
EWB Foundation
Fairfield County’s Community Foundation
Gerald L. Lennard Foundation
Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women
Limitless Labs
John F. Megrue, Seabreeze Foundation
Michael and Irene Ross Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles
The Halperin Foundation
The Hyde and Watson Foundation
The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation
U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund)
To learn more about partnership opportunities, please contact Jill Monum at jmonum@grameenamerica.org.
*Includes all contributions or the provision of services in excess of $10K between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2023