Global Partnerships

Since 1994, Global Partnerships has been working in Latin America to help people help themselves through microfinance. Learn more

News & Events

	Business of Hope Luncheon - October 12, 2010 Registration is open for our eighth annual Business of Hope Luncheon, featuring Patty Stonesifer, former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as keynote speaker. Learn more > Sign up to be a Table Captain > Register now >

	Travel with us to Nicaragua in November Join us on our upcoming PartnerTrip to Nicaragua, November 14-21 and experience firsthand how microfinance helps hardworking people living in poverty create opportunity for themselves and future generations. Learn more and dowload an application >

	Video: Lucia Tarqui's piggy bank During a recent PartnerTrip to Bolivia, Lucia Tarqui demonstrates how she makes plaster piggy banks—captured in this 90-second iPhone video by GP supporter Patty Lummis. Watch the video >

	Global Partnerships repays first fund investors We just wrapped up our first $2 million microfinance investment fund, which provided five years of social and financial returns for investors and paved the way for a dramatic increase in our impact. Read the news release > Learn about our investment funds >

	Global Perspectives: Summer 2010 In this issue: An unsung hero of microfinance, GP partners to improve health, and a Q&A on our investment strategy. Check out the newsletter >

Meet Paulina Quispe Quispe

Paulina Quispe Quispe

For 15 years as a village bank member, Paulina Quispe Quispe has gradually built her family's businesses through microcredit loans (75 secs)