SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Schwab Charitable, one of the country’s largest and fastest growing nonprofits and facilitators of charitable giving with over $2 billion in assets and $350MM in annual ...

For thousands at the edge of poverty in Santa Clara County, the gap between being housed and unhoused is as little as $350. A ...

Toronto, ON, May 14, 2008 – The MasterCard Foundation launched its Scholars Program today by awarding grants totaling $600,000 to six leading microfinance training institutes. The program will fund ...

NEW YORK — TIAA-CREF, the leading provider of retirement savings products and services in the academic, medical and cultural fields, today announced the creation of a $100 million Global Microfinance ...

The San Francisco company, the charitable giving arm of Charles Schwab Corp., said in launching its microfinance guarantee program last week that it that lets donors set aside a portion of their ...

In Tijuana’s red-light district, thousands of women rely on sex work to survive. A study led by researchers at San Diego State University finds a program that combines economic support and education ...

This study provides evidence that long-term exposure to a microfinance program is associated with a reduction in certain indicators of HIV risk behavior among Haitian women. Specifically, women with ...

Women and families in rural areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been beaten down physically and mentally by years of war, poverty, and violence, but researchers suggest that a baby ...