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Eduarda Rodriguez watched helplessly as her livelihood went up in an ominoustower of flames. She had been slowlybuilding up her market stall business inthis back corner of the Mercado Huembesin Managua, Nicaragua for over a decade.
The vegetable stall, though humble, was the lifeline that supported Eduardaand her nine children. And, just like that,the fire reduced it to a bed of smolder-ing embers.
As we witnessed in Haiti this year, calamityoften lurks just around the corner for the 2.7 billion people worldwide livingon less than $2 a day. Whether victims
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ventures
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
� Scaling Up 3
� From the Field: Alexandra Shaw 4
� Spotlight on Our Supporters: Judy Saryan 5
� In the Streets and Markets 6–7
� Thanks to Our Friends 8–11
NEWSLETTER OF ACCION INTERNATIONAL SPRING/SUMMER 2010
Rising from the WreckageHow Microfinance Helps in Times of Trouble
of an earthquake in Haiti, a market fire inNicaragua, a famine in Sub-Saharan Africaor a tsunami in South Asia, those whohave the least usually stand to lose themost. In a matter of minutes, homes areswept away, businesses are reduced to
rubble and dreams of a better life go upin smoke.
Microfinance is not emergency aid. How-ever, it is well-positioned to be a sourceof support and stability to people wholive in poverty after they endure a disaster.ACCION’s 23 partner microfinance insti-tutions are firmly established in some
While nothing can eliminate the pain and loss
following such calamities, microfinance has emerged
as one resource that can soften the impact and help
people to start the rebuilding process.
Germania Tocagón Peña andher husband, Ventura, plant,harvest and sell 135,000 straw-berry plants on rented landoverlooking the San Pablo Lake near Otavalo, Ecuador.Though hail storms occasion-ally threaten their carefullytended crops, Germania andVentura feel secure because of the relationship they havecultivated with ACCION part-ner microfinance institutionCREDIFE.
www.accion.org
Eduarda Rodriquez of Managua, Nicaragua shows off her wares of corn, rice and beans.She lost her first market stand to a fire several years ago. With the help of ACCION partnerFinanciera FAMA, Eduarda has restored her business and now earns more than before.
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of the world’s poorest communities andcan quickly mobilize assistance to theircombined 3.3 million clients when disas-ter strikes. And microfinance isn’t goingaway—sustainable by design, it providesa permanent stream of responsible financial tools.
Diversifying Services to Meet aVariety of Needs
Increasingly, the microfinance institu-tions ACCION builds and supports canoffer clients financial safety nets to helpthem deal with disasters in a diversity ofways—including with grants, microcredit,interest-earning savings accounts, insur-ance policies and remittances services.
Following the January earthquake in Haiti,ACCION’s longtime partner microfinanceorganization, SOGESOL, quickly mobilizedits staff to search for clients in affectedareas. Walking the devastated streets ofPort-au-Prince, Leogane, Petit-Goave and Jacmel, SOGESOL staff located eachsurviving client and helped them assessthe damage to their home and business.Leveraging relationships with interna-tional partners like ACCION, SOGESOLwas then able to issue grants to clients tofacilitate the rebuilding process.
Microfinance has a role to play in help-ing people deal with calamity in other,subtler, ways as well. ACCION and othermicrofinance providers are pioneeringthe delivery of savings accounts to
people who have never before had access to a safe, secure place to storetheir earnings.
To help bring savings accounts to millionsmore people, ACCION has initiated asweeping new program, supported by a$5 million grant from the Bill and MelindaGates Foundation, that will extend sav-ings accounts to more than one millionpeople in Latin America within the nextfive years.
We have also invested heavily in theemerging area of “micro”insurance. Offer-ing health, life, crop and a variety of othertypes of insurance policies that start aslow as $1 per month, microinsuranceproviders are proving that the poor areworth insuring, that they are capableclients and that the demand is there.
For our part, ACCION has invested mil-lions in ParaLife, a microinsurance holdingcompany that specializes in providing insurance policies to low-income and disabled people, and LeapFrog Invest-ments, the world’s first microinsurancefund for companies that insure peopleliving with HIV in Africa.
Over the last six years, ACCION has alsostudied the impact that remittances, ormoney transfer services, can have amongthe world's poor in times of need. Remit-tances represent a significant amount of resources in poorer countries: In 2006immigrants in the United States sent morethan $300 billion to family members in Central and South America. Sendingmoney via a microfinance institution allows recipients to leverage funds and
Rising from the Wreckage
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Moving people’s life
savings out of their homes
into insured microfinance
institutions means those
funds are certain to be
there in times of need.
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SCALING UP
Mumbai’s Sukumar Pal Works on Bulking Up His Enterprise
There are entrepreneurs, and then there are, well, entrepre-
neurs. Sukumar Pal, Mumbai fishmonger, falls squarely into
the second category.
One could easily miss Pal altogether. He reaches maybe 5’4”
in his bare feet, which glisten with the silvery, coin-sized
fish scales lying scattered across his workspace. That space
is a plastic-tarp-covered, open-air stall on a crowded market
street that reverberates with the whines and beeps of motor-
bikes and ‘auto-ricks’. If the noise doesn’t distract, the 95
degree heat will, or the malodorous smells, or the mud
underfoot. And to miss Pal would be a shame, because he
stands as an exemplar of self-improvement.
Every morning at 4:00 a.m., Pal makes a 25-minute trip by
taxi or auto-rick to the city’s central fish market, where he
purchases more than 400 lbs of fish, in as many as 10 to 12
varieties. Then he returns here to sell it—not in one, but in
no less than three, separate stalls. He employs six men to
help him. And he has done this every day, seven days a
week, for the last 18 years.
Not long ago, the fish seller heard about small loans offered
by ACCION partner Swadhaar FinServe in India. And for the
first time in his life, he borrowed some working capital—
13,000 rupees, or about $285. He wanted it for what he calls
‘rolling the inventory’—buying in bulk.
A handful of studies have recently emerged that question
the ability of microfinance to solve the problem of poverty.
But as ACCION’s own Elisabeth Rhyne has said, microfinance
does not claim to singularly cure the world’s poverty ail-
ments; the objective, rather, is to include otherwise ignored
people in the financial sector of their country, allowing
society to take advantage of what society has to offer.
Sukumar Pal would no doubt agree. Access to finance not
only allows him to expand beyond the six men he currently
employs, but it also helps him pay the 25,000 rupees (approx.
$540) per month in school fees required to send his three
children to an English-speaking school. And that, as every-
one in modern India knows, is a key to many doors.
To meet more microentrepreneurs, visit www.accion.org
take advantage of other financial prod-ucts—such as savings accounts, homeimprovement loans, and microinsurance—that can serve as safety nets for the poor.
Out of the Ashes, a Better Business Grows
When particularly hard times hit, theworld’s poor need all the assistance the
local and global communities can raise. Weat ACCION recognize the unique role thatmicrofinance has to play and are commit-ted to making sure people have a place toturn for responsible and reliable financialservices when they need them most.
Thankfully, Eduarda’s story did not endwith her and her family living in destitu-tion. Financiera FAMA, ACCION’s partner
microfinance institution in Nicaragua,was quick to step in after the market firethat destroyed her stand. They offered heran emergency microloan that she applied,along with her tenacity and ingenuity, torestore her business to profitability andmove forward toward a better future.
For more information about ACCION's workaround the globe, visit www.accion.org.
“The objective, rather, is to include otherwise
ignored people in the financial sector of their
country, allowing society to take advantage of
what society has to offer.”
streets of Tanzania—nothing quite compares to thepoverty in India. Millions of Indians live hand to mouth,barely making ends meet in the lowest of circumstances.But access to basic financial services that most of us take for granted, such as loans, insurance and savingsaccounts, is empowering India's marginalized people to work their way out of extreme poverty and face their futures with pride.
A week after meeting Sushma, I interviewed Abdul HamidMohamadsharif, a client of YES SAMPANN. ACCION staffhad met Abdul two years ago when he was first startinghis tailoring business. Since then, he told me, he hasdoubled his business and expanded from tailoring wed-ding garments to making women's undergarments, enabling him to better invest in his family’s well-being.
Back in Sushma Devi’s neighborhood, the streets havewoken up and are erupting in a kaleidoscope of colorand a cacophony of sound: Women in brightly coloredsarees swish past us, while a cow squats in the road, unperturbed by the buzzing stream of auto-ricks. Micro-finance is buzzing here, too, in India, and ACCION’swork is helping spur it on. In the land of Buddha’s enlightenment, I feel humbled, gratified, inspired.
Alexandra Shaw, Communications Manager for ACCION, talks withclients of Saija Finance in Patna's wholesale fish market, in February.
It’s 6:00 a.m. on February 3rd, and I’ve just arrived in a slum of Patna in Bihar—famous for being one ofIndia’s poorest states, but also the place of Buddha’s enlightenment. Photographer John Rae and I reach thedoor of local entrepreneur Sushma Devi, who opens itand welcomes us warmly into her house. As she ushersus into the bedroom that sleeps all five members of her family, her three cows moo at us, bristling in the tinyhouse. Once settled, Sushma proudly explains how aloan of 5,000 rupees ($114) from ACCION partner SaijaFinance has enabled her to expand her business—to buy a buffalo and increase her milk sales and income.
Over the course of the next two weeks, I interviewed 17 other microentrepreneurs like Sushma—clients of ACCION partners Saija Finance, in Patna, and YESSAMPANN and Swadhaar FinServe, in Mumbai. Theyranged from women fish sellers who started work at 4:00 a.m. to men who pedaled wagons loaded with luggage 30 kms a day. All worked hard, determined toimprove their lives and create a brighter future for their children. And each was succeeding with a littlehelp from microfinance.
While India is making tremendous economic progress,millions of people in this country of over one billion arestill stifled by a lack of opportunity. While I have seenpoverty elsewhere—in my previous travels for ACCIONto the slums of Brazil, the markets of Nigeria and the
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Alexandra Shaw Is Reminded of Just How Much Microfinance Matterson a Recent Trip to India
VOICES FROM THE FIELD
Judy Saryan and other Eaton Vance MicroBike participants present a check for $31,000 to ACCION at a ceremony in November.
www.accion.org 5 �
Judy Saryan used to suffer from backpain—pain so gripping that it kept heroff her bicycle for years. Then, she heardabout ACCION’s MicroBike 2009 event.Motivated to saddle up once more, theEaton Vance investment fund managerset out with a team of her co-workers onebeautiful Sunday in October to “pedalagainst poverty” through Boston’s historicEmerald Necklace.
Earlier last year, Judy and a few of hercolleagues at Eaton Vance formed the“Making a Difference” team. Their goal was to promote volunteerism andphilanthropy among the company’s employees. “It’s a hallmark of EatonVance that we want to be involved in our communities,” she explains.
Shortly thereafter, Judy learned about theACCION MicroBike program. She recallsthinking, “It was a natural fit. One of the things that excited me most aboutACCION was, here you are right in Boston,a leader in microfinance, and here also is Eaton Vance, a leader in finance.”
Following the participant-directedMicroBike model, Judy organized a dozenteams of riders comprised of Eaton Vance
Spotlight on Our Supporters
staff, their friends and their family mem-bers. While some of the teams chose morechallenging bike routes, others designedroutes that were fun and leisurely. Therewere also opportunities for people whocouldn’t ride to get in on the action by
fundraising, organizing events and cheer-ing on the riders. “One of the greatestthings about MicroBike,” she says, “isthat people can choose how they wantto participate.”
In the end, Judy and her co-workers raiseda total of $31,000 to support ACCION’swork around the globe. Now Eaton Vanceis carrying the momentum of MicroBikeforward—Judy is already gearing up toorganize another cadre of riders for thisyear’s event. And, notes Judy, the Micro-Bikers carry the spirit of teamwork andaccomplishment through their work atEaton Vance: “It was a wonderful oppor-tunity to relate to people in a differentway. When I see my co-workers who par-ticipated, I now have a special connectionwith them.”
To learn how you can get involved in MicroBike2010, visit www.microbike.org.
Eaton Vance Employee Leads the Pack in ACCION’sMicroBike Event
Judy Saryan, pictured here with an Eaton Vancecolleague during their “microride” throughBoston's Emerald Necklace last October.
“It was a wonderful opportunity to relate to people in
a different way. When I see my co-workers who partic-
ipated, I now have a special connection with them.”
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IN THE STREETS AND MARKETS
HaitiFollowing the devastating earthquake in Haiti
in January, ACCION mobilized its base of
supporters to raise funds to help Haitian micro-
finance partner, SOGESOL. ACCION made an
initial gift of $50,000 to SOGESOL in February
and has since enacted a comprehensive plan to
support the MFI over the long-term. SOGESOL,
a leading commercial microfinance institution
in the country, is using the funds to extend
grants to its low-income clients so that they
can begin restoring their businesses, homes
and lives. Thank you to all of you who con-
tributed to the fund and extended your hearts
to the microentrepreneurs of Haiti.
WorldwideEarlier this year, ACCION’s Center for Financial
Inclusion, along with its microfinance industry
partners, launched The Smart Campaign, a
global effort to unite microfinance leaders
around a common goal: to institute client pro-
tection in all that they do in order to better
serve clients and to strengthen the microfinance
industry. The Smart Campaign promotes the
premise that protecting clients is not only the
right thing to do, it’s the smart thing to do. You
can endorse the campaign and show your com-
mitment to keeping clients at the forefront of
microfinance at www.smartcampaign.org.
BrazilACCION announced in February that Brazilian
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has approved
its application to establish ACCION Microfi-
nanças, a new microfinance organization in the
state of Amazonas in Brazil’s remote northern
region. ACCION Microfinanças will begin oper-
ations in Manaus, the largest city in Amazonas,
with plans to extend services to cities through-
out Brazil’s northern region. The northern
region, comprised of seven states with a total
population of about 14.7 million, is home to
an estimated 1.9 million microentrepreneurs,
only 8 to 10 percent of whom have received
any kind of loan from a bank or microfinance
organization. It was in Recife, Brazil that
ACCION first pioneered the concept of micro-
lending, in 1973.
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IndiaLate last year, ACCION invested big in small
loans for some of the poorest people on the
planet. ACCION’s newest Indian microfinance
partner, Saija Finance, is based in Bihar in
northeastern India. Bihar is one of the poorest
states in India and has traditionally been
deemed too risky for microfinance. ACCION
thinks differently: Since the partnership began
in November, Saija’s numbers have been
mounting rapidly, and the institution currently
serves over 7,000 clients with a near-perfect
repayment rate. Over the next four years, Saija
plans to expand from group lending to individ-
ual lending and offer all clients microinsurance,
remittances and financial literacy training.
China In February, ACCION proudly inaugurated
ACCION Microfinance China (AMC), the first
foreign-funded microcredit company in Inner
Mongolia and only the second in China. Though
China has emerged as an economic power-
house, income disparity in the country remains
striking and 40 percent of China’s population
lives below the poverty line. AMC, ACCION’s
first majority-owned enterprise, will provide an
important avenue of support for small entre-
preneurs in Inner Mongolia. Over the next five
years, we expect to provide working-capital
and fixed-asset loans starting at $150 to thou-
sands of small and medium-sized enterprises
in both urban and rural communities.
GhanaACCION’s Africa Hub and Training Center,
opened in Accra, Ghana in late 2008, has been
busy hosting training programs for microfinance
staff over the past year. As one of ACCION’s
Global Training Centers, the program delivers
training in lending methodologies, manage-
ment, governance and best microfinance
practices. The multi-level training programs are
designed for ACCION staff, the staff of micro-
finance institutions, as well as individuals with
influence in the sector, such as regulators and
industry association officials. Last year, the
Ghana-based Global Training Center prepared
dozens of men and women to head out into
the streets and markets and expand the reach
of microfinance throughout the region.
For more information about ACCION's workaround the globe, visit www.accion.org.
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Thomas ToayJohn and Barbara WoodsPamela G. WrigleyLisa L. YaleMaxwell Young
Sustainer’s SocietyAnonymous (25)Miriam AdlumJames and Randi AguiarRobert R. AmmermanJordan J. ArbitDarrell and Laurel BatsonAnne BaumJanet M. BendannAlberto BernhardtVincent J. BertinoPeter BevanAdam J. BoltzJane BonwellDaniel F. BostwickJean-Christian BourcartDawn S. BowenMary BowerH. Leon BradlowErin Branagan and
Sergio KakehashiDevin BranstetterRobert BrownDeborah D. BufftonCarole L. BurgerJacqueline BurnettPatty A. CabotKimiye CabreraTraci and Dan CalabreseJane F. CampbellBetsy S. CardJonathan CheethamPaul Civili and Mary HartEdward H. CoburnRichard ConnKatherine M. ConoverBetty DearbornWalter DenleySandra DetwilerRichard H. DiamondLeah and Kenneth DickEileen DicksStephen D. DictorMary DoerrJeane J. DoncasterAlice DopplerNellie DornDon and Jan DowningSandra J. DownsFrancois DuboucheronMargaret Eberbach
William ElseyJason EricksonWes G. ErnsbergerJill EvensizerKeitha FarneyKathryn FeigMark FernquestMaribel FinleyJudith FlynnStephanie FoizenWilliam ForbesTim FoulkesDennis and Carol FriedmanWilliam FrohnMaxine and D. A. FullerJohn FultonWilliam R. GarnerIlse GayDaniel GilgoffMary L. Glatt-BanksLief GodlinAruna GoelGerard J. GoodmanCatherine GrantGlen Grayman and
Karla Rodine-GraymanVickie and Gary GreavesCami GroverMichael and
Barbara GruberIra P. GunnJulio GutierrezKenneth and
Carolyn HafnerBarbara Hale-SeubertSeymour HananEllen HanleyJudith HarrisNathan HatchRyan and Danelle HeatwoleThomas F. HeckRuth and Carol HeimerRobert HeinzJonathan HeraNancy HoukMary HudginsJacques F. JacobsonAndres JatomblianskyEllen JohnsonDiana KeeganJonathan KimmelJanet and Alvin KingWayne and M. Lynn KinneyRobert and Jean KlineEric KlootwykElisabeth and
Kenneth KraftYves and Carol KrausKendra and Phillip KrolikFrederick and
Emily KunreutherPeter LaneDavid Langford
Christopher LeeEdward Lesen and
Clarice PollockDaniel LewEileen D. LoganGreg and Marlene LooneyRobert LoucksJudith LuckowJane W. LuskGeorge and
Beatrice LuthringerSusan MartinBetty A. MazzoniDiane L. McAvoyMargaret J. McComasAlisa and Josh MeggittLuis MendozaJohn MessengerBill MesserschmidtJesper J. MichaelsenSteven P. MillardSteven and Rhonda MillerRoger MillerMeg MilliganMary D. MoonAriel MorgensternAlisha MosebyTerrence MuchaJeffrey and Trisha MurawskiRobert and Jana NortonEllen OpplerSarah OrtizAngeline PappasA. G. ParksAndrew A. PatricioWilliam and Mary Jo PetersGeorge PetersonMary M. PrintzenhoffKarla ReedWilliam ReichertBillie Jo RichardsMichael RinaldiCharles RobinsonFran and Maura RobyHeather A. RodinDavid RoscoeCassidy RowlandNancy RudolphGlenn and Sharon RuppelJ. RusciolelliMichel SanterreCalvin L. SatterfieldLinda SchreiberMartha K. SchuhJoAnn SchwartzConnie SegalGregory and
Josephine ShayaEvelyn H. SheltrownR.L. ShoemakerJohanna T. SizickSandi Skeckowski
Darrell SmithEmil SmithDavid R. SouthernRobert SpandeMatthew J. SpenceNaomi L. SternKevin M. StonerBeverly J. SuttonKathleen A. SweetLoyola SylvanPaul TiceNancy T. TrimbleAltagracia TrinidadMario ValladaresJordan VanderLaanPaige VarneyBenjamin ViemeisterPauline VuLelon and Jean WeaverDonn WeaverMargaret WelinCoralie WellsBarbara Wendt and
Larry LomaxJames WhiteLeslie WilburTonia WillekesJo Ann WilliamsEnery WilliamsonMurray B. WilsonCatherine YoungenT. G. Zimmerman
Recife SocietyAnonymous (2)Andres Acedo and
Belinda BarringtonRonald and
Patricia AndersonJames Bellevue and
Elena LipkowskiAlbert BildnerMark and
Margaret BurgessporterLynn CaporaleCarol CavanaughRoger and Shirley ConantRussell and Carol FaucettJames and Ruth FrankEmily GarlinGilbert W. GlassRobert and Ellen GordmanJune E. HeilmanRoy Jacobowitz and
Roberta MossKeith and
Adine KretschmerWendy and
Stanley Marsh 3Caroline Ramsay MerriamRichard and Linda MillerThomas Nagle and
Leslie Haller
Mila Reyes-MesiaAbigail RomeNorman RoseRobert and Sibylle ScarlettJosie SentnerGeorge and
Barbara Lou SmythIrene G. SteinerNancy S. TruittGary A. Winter
Institutions$100,000 and aboveCiti FoundationCredit Suisse GroupBill & Melinda Gates
FoundationInter-American
Development BankMasterCard FoundationNetherlands Development
Finance Company (FMO)Visa International
Institutions$250 - $99,999Anonymous (5)Academy for Educational
DevelopmentACCION Investments in
Microfinance, SPCJ.C. & S. Adams Fund of
the Community Founda-tion of Jackson Hole
The Barrington Foundation Inc.
Bridgemill FoundationCascade FoundationChrist United Methodist
ChurchCumming FoundationThe Dawe Family
FoundationDeutsche Bank Americas
FoundationThe Doehring FoundationDuff & Phelps, LLCEaton Vance ManagementECLOF InternationalFaucett Family FoundationDavid and Hilda Fins
Family FoundationJohn and Mary Franklin
Foundation, Inc.Frenzel FoundationRollin M. Gerstacker
FoundationThe Glickenhaus
FoundationGreen Cay Asset
ManagementHoneybee FoundationThe Immaculata Parish
Thanks to Our Friends (cont.)
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SECURING BRIGHTER FUTURES. PASS IT ON.Help Hardworking Families Overcome Poverty Well into the Future
You can easily make a long-term commitment to helping
people work their way out of poverty by naming ACCION
in your will or trust and becoming a member of our
Recife Society.
Besides giving hardworking people and their families a
hand up out of poverty, supporting ACCION through a
planned gift offers you great tax benefits too.
We invite you to learn more about how to join this inner
circle of dedicated ACCION supporters by contacting Heidi
Eagles, ACCION’s Planned Giving Officer, at (617) 616-1577
Regardless of the size or manner of your planned gift to
ACCION, you can make a difference in the lives of millions,
well into the future.
Electronic Arts Inc.Ernst & Young FoundationExxonMobil FoundationFidelity Charitable Gift FundFiduciary Trust CompanyThe Foundation for
Enhancing CommunitiesGE FoundationGlobal ImpactGoldman SachsHewlett-PackardHuron Consulting GroupI Do FoundationING FoundationInternational Business
MachinesJewish Communal FundJewish Community
Endowment FundJPMorgan Chase & Co.JustGive.orgKing County Employee
Giving ProgramKPMG The Liberty Mutual
FoundationLutheran Community
FoundationMasterCard International The Merck Company
FoundationMicrosoft CorporationMidland NationalMorgan Stanley
Network For GoodOracle Corporation The Pew Charitable TrustsThe Pfizer Foundation, Inc.The Regence Employee
Giving CampaignThe Grace Jones
Richardson TrustSacramento Region
Community FoundationThe Schwab Fund for
Charitable GivingThe Standard Employee
Community CampaignState Employees’
Community CampaignThe T. Rowe Price Program
for Charitable GivingThe Tides FoundationTyco Electronics United Jewish Federation
of Greater PittsburghFoundation
United Way California Capital Region
United Way of New York City
United Way of Rhode Island
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
World Bank CommunityConnections Fund
Xcel Energy
Donor Advised Funds,Matching Gift Organi-zations & WorkplaceGiving ProgramsAmerican Endowment
FoundationAmerican International
Group Inc.America’s CharitiesThe Amgen FoundationAustin Community
Foundation for the Capital Area
Ayco Charitable Foundation
Bank of America Becton, Dickinson and
CompanyBergen County United WayThe Boeing CompanyThe Boston Foundation, Inc.Catholic Community
FoundationThe Community Founda-
tion of Jackson HoleCommunity Foundation
of New JerseyThe Community
Foundation, NationalCapital Region
Dell Direct Giving ProgramEaton Vance ManagementEdison International
“For me, that ‘future
generations’ part is really
important, because mil-
lions of children are born
into poverty today. I want
to leave a meaningful legacy ensuring that
ACCION will be there to help those children
and their children after I’m gone.”
Nancy Truitt, ACCION Recife Society Member.
International Finance Corporation
Jambo International CenterThe Irving & Alwyn Johnson
Family FoundationLautman, Maska,
Neill & CompanyThe Lifshutz FoundationThe David and
Katherine Moore FamilyFoundation
The Vincent Mulford Foundation
The Hilda Mullen Foundation
The Nararo FoundationThe Nordemann
FoundationNorth Community ChurchPalmer Walker FoundationL.Q. Pang FoundationThe Carol Pfleiderer FundRobert and Helen Reedy
Family FundThe Rumsfeld FoundationSarita Kenedy East
Foundation, Inc.Seedtime Fund, Inc.Albert & Lillian Small
Foundation
Charles Spear CharitableTrust
Sprayregen Family Foundation, Inc.
The Spurlino FoundationSt. Brendan the Navigator
Episcopal ChurchRoger and Susan Stone
Family FoundationThe Stone Soup FundStuart Family FoundationSundance Pay It Forward
FoundationSupport Programme for
Enterprise Empowermentand Development(SPEED)
SymbioticsThe Thanksgiving FundThe Tides FoundationTrull FoundationUnitusWalter and Alice Abrams
Family FundWallace Global FundWeiss Fagen FundDavid F. and
Sara K. Weston FundYusko Family Foundation
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Page 2: Rohanna Mertens for ACCION International
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