#JoinUs: We're #hiring a Treasury Director to help Grameen America manage its liquidity, raise the debt capital to fund its ambitious 5-year growth plan, and manage lender and investor relationships. This role will be responsible for building out a dedicated treasury function and team with increasingly sophisticated capabilities. The ideal candidate has demonstrated experience in treasury and/or banking roles, managing investments, overseeing liquidity management processes, and arranging bank credit facilities. Learn more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/e6MUrUVU
Grameen America, Inc.
Financial Services
Small loans. Big impact. Investing over $4.1 billion in more than 195,000 low-income women entrepreneurs across the U.S.
About us
Founded by Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus, Grameen America is dedicated to helping low-income women build small businesses to create better lives for their families. We offer access to loan capital, financial education, asset- and credit-building, and peer support to transform communities and advance financial mobility in the United States. Grameen America has invested over $4.1 billion to more than 195,000 women entrepreneurs across 27 cities in the U.S.
- Website
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http://www.grameenamerica.org
External link for Grameen America, Inc.
- Industry
- Financial Services
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- NY
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2008
- Specialties
- microfinance, micro-lending, women's economic empowerment, entrepreneurship, partnerships, and poverty alleviation
Locations
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Primary
New York,
NY, US
Employees at Grameen America, Inc.
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Adriana Torres
Global Executive F100/Technology/Operations/Transformation/Customer Experience/Board Member
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Lucas Ramirez, CFA
CFO at Grameen America | MIT Sloan Fellow
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Jesse McKevitt
Senior Manager of Strategic Initiatives at Grameen America
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Tonya Ward
RE=ELECTED AGAIN TONYA WARD Learning Community Coordinating Council of Douglas & Sarpy Counties D5
Updates
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We are excited to announce the opening of our new branch in Phoenix with catalytic support from the Wells Fargo Foundation. "Our goal was to create transformative change for the Phoenix small business community by expanding Grameen’s reach. Small business owners are essential to creating local jobs and thriving communities. This grant is part of our overall focus on supporting small business growth nationwide and reaching a wide variety of entrepreneurs who need capital to grow, and ultimately, strengthening the small business sector for the long term.” - Darlene Goins, Head of Philanthropy and Community Impact and President, Wells Fargo Foundation Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ejsx3ZCi
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Thrilled to welcome Grameen America, Inc. to Phoenix! With resources such as financial education, peer support, and credit building, they're empowering women entrepreneurs in Phoenix to start their own businesses and helping them thrive! I'm looking forward to their continued success and the fruitful partnerships ahead.
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This #MothersDay, meet Marcia, who was inspired by her daughter’s entrepreneurial spirit to start a full-time business in Atlanta, GA. "When she was five years old, she showed interest in becoming a business entrepreneur. I supported her dreams, and she told me I should teach other children so they can learn about entrepreneurship in the same way as adults. There is a clear need for these services in the community.” Read Marcia's full story:
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#Hiring: We're looking for Technical Lead Senior Manager to join the engineering team which supports the entire organization with digital solutions and tools. This role requires an understanding of modern technologies and methodologies, architectural principles, and all aspects of the software development lifecycle. Learn more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/e6MUrUVU
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#Hiring: We're looking for a Senior Product Manager: Credit Enhancement and Learning Agenda to lead two new strategic initiatives, including: • A member-facing Credit Enhancement offering, with a goal of measurably improving members’ credit scores at the main credit bureaus. A successful candidate will be comfortable navigating a small, cross-functional team towards a Minimum Viable Product in 2025 and using their #productmanagement toolbox to elicit constructive feedback from members, staff, and external industry players, synthesize this quickly into requirements, prioritize the resulting features, and incorporate them into a cyclical process of continuous improvement. • A learning agenda around member outcomes, managing the relationship with a 3rd party research firm. This work, which will follow a Financial Diaries methodology, aims to understand both qualitatively and quantitatively the relationship between business finances, personal finances, material hardship, and several other outstanding questions emerging from a previously conducted Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT). Learn more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/e6MUrUVU
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We're #hiring a Staff Accountant Associate to assist with the #accounting and reconciliation processes in our Shared Services Center, a group within the Controllership department which handles back-office accounting for all our branches. The role will also be involved in various corporate accounting functions within our HQ office. Read the full job description and apply here: https://lnkd.in/e6MUrUVU
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Last week on Morning Joe, Grameen America's President and CEO Andrea Jung joined Mika Brzezinski, Huma Abedin, and Maggie McGrath to launch #WomenAreLimitless, a new campaign to invest $40B in capital to support 750,000 underserved women entrepreneurs over the next ten years. Learn more about the campaign: https://lnkd.in/edrFX_mT
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Grameen America is celebrating 15 years of proven impact, breakout growth, and innovation. Our 2023 Annual Report features a timeline of our history, #WomenAreLimitless campaign, program achievements, member spotlights, and more.
2023 Annual Report
annualreport2023.grameenamerica.org
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Grameen America, Inc. reposted this
Grameen America, Inc. is committed to scaling its impact with its new “Women Are Limitless” initiative to combat economic inequity for underserved women over the next decade. Read more about the $40 billion plan to support 750,000 entrepreneurs, with an $85 million seed investment from Blue Meridian Partners: https://lnkd.in/edrFX_mT