{"id":1885,"date":"2009-07-28T02:11:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T00:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:00:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:00:25","slug":"unitus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1885","title":{"rendered":"UNITUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>inovative solutions for global poverty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unitus, an international nonprofit organization, fights global poverty by accelerating the growth of microfinance\u2014small loans and other financial tools for self-empowerment\u2014where it is needed most. We seek out and partner with young, high-potential microfinance institutions (small banking organizations that serve the poor, often called MFIs), helping them build capacity, attract capital, and unite with our network to achieve rapid, sustainable growth &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitus.com\/news-and-information\/media-center\/mission-and-summary\">Mission 1\/2<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitus.com\/\">Homepage<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitus.com\/news-and-information\/media-center\">Quick facts<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitus.com\/news-and-information\/multimedia\">a video<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitus.com\/news-and-information\/media-center\/faqs\">FAQs<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/mfi.unitus.com\/\">MFI<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitus.com\/about-us\/careers\">Join<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.groundspring.org\/dn\/index.php?aid=21062\">Give<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitus.com\/get-involved\/newsletter-signup\">Newsletter<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitus.com\/news-and-information\/latest-updates\">latest news<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitus.com\/news-and-information\/media-center\">Press<\/a>;<br \/>\nAddresses: Unitus <em>US Headquarter<\/em>, 220 W Mercer Street, Suite W-500, Seattle, WA 98119, USA;<br \/>\nUnitus <em>India Office<\/em>, No. 9\/3, Kaiser-E-Hind, 1st Floor, Richmond Road, Bangalore, 560 025, India;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitus.com\/about-us\/contact\">Contact<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About Unitus, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitus.com\/news-and-information\/media-center\/pdf-download\">download the 9 pdf-pages<\/a>.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitus.com\/news-and-information\/media-center\/mission-and-summary\">Mission 2\/2<\/a>: &#8230; Nearly half the world\u2019s population survives on less than $2 a day. For millions of families in need, microfinance offers the hope for a successful small business and more: increased economic stability, better healthcare and housing, the opportunity for education, and ultimately, the real possibility of self-sufficiency. In just 7 years, we\u2019ve helped our partners serve more than 7 million families throughout India and Southeast Asia, East Africa, Mexico, and South America.<\/p>\n<p>Unitus has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, PBS, and National Public Radio. We received Fast Company\u2019s Social Capitalist award for 2006, 2007, and 2008. Unitus is a 501(c)3 with offices in Seattle, Washington and Bangalore, India. For more information, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitus.com\/\">Unitus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/povertyover.christianaid.org.uk\/\">Christian Aid, Poverty can be eradicated<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>inovative solutions for global poverty Unitus, an international nonprofit organization, fights global poverty by accelerating the growth of microfinance\u2014small loans and other financial tools for self-empowerment\u2014where it is needed most. We seek out and partner with young, high-potential microfinance institutions (small banking organizations that serve the poor, often called MFIs), helping them build capacity, attract &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1885\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;UNITUS&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16078,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/16078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}