Video: Our investment strategy
Global Partnerships' Social Investment Strategy (45 sec)
To learn more about our strategy and meet three of
our high-impact MFI partners, watch the full version here (4 min).
Our Strategy
Global Partnerships expands opportunity for people living in poverty by investing affordable capital in innovative, mission-driven microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Latin America.
Our approach is unique:
We invest for social and financial returns
Global Partnerships raises affordable capital from socially motivated investors that is loaned to our MFI partners. Our microfinance investment funds are debt funds that leverage philanthropic dollars to raise resources from socially motivated individual and institutional investors. This strategy has helped us reach more people living in poverty while providing social and financial returns for investors.
We focus on impact
In an era when commercial capital tends to flow to the most profitable microfinance institutions (MFIs), rather than those reaching the most vulnerable people with the highest-impact solutions, Global Partnerships provides capital to socially-motivated microfinance partners that achieve exceptional levels of social impact, using a sustainable business model. Social impact means a focus on:
- Inclusion: Reaching underserved markets, such as women and the rural poor
- Innovation: Combining microcredit with other services that help people improve not just their livelihoods, but their lives
- Reinvesting profits in programs to become more inclusive or more innovative
We add value with leadership and innovation
Global Partnerships recognizes that a strategic challenge facing the microfinance industry is the need to develop and expand sustainable solutions—including and beyond microcredit— that address multiple facets of poverty. We are exploring ways to extend the reach of microfinance to provide other services— such as health education, business training, and agricultural assistance— to help people in poverty meet basic needs beyond microfinance. For example, in partnership with health nonprofit PATH and GP microfinance partner Pro Mujer, we are developing a model for expanding access to low-cost health solutions that are financially sustainable over the long term.
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