Association for Self-Financed Communities is creating self-sustaining, immigrant-led financial groups, addressing the basic financial and networking needs of Spain’s immigrant population ensuring their full citizenship and participation in the economy. ACAF has been involved in the expansion of this model in Spain and to Senegal, Portugal, Italy, Holland, Hungary and Belgium. Short description social enterprise ACAF develop a simple methodology…
Treedom – Italy – Global impact
Treedom is an online platform that allows people and companies to plant trees remotely and offset CO2 emissions by directly financing small farmers in economic hardship – operating in 17 countries across the world, mainly in Latin America, Africa and South & Southeast Asia. Short description social enterprise Treedom is an alliance between farmers and supporters willing to make reforestation…
Fundefir – Latin Americas
Foundation for Rural Financing (Fundefir) is a civil nonprofit association aimed at promoting economic and social development of communities and their residents. Fundefir created a financial management model called “Bankomunals” with K, based on the exclusive use of funds from members of community groups as a source of funding. Currently, there are about 150 groups or Bankomunales, in 9 states…