List of Alternative Investment Opportunities on the Web
This list has been compiled from information provided at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility's Alternative Investment Brokering Session in February, 1998.
SRIC does not consider this list to be a recommendation of the the organizations and their products. Feel free to use this list as a resource.
Accion International: Offers fair rate loans and basic business training to microentreprenuers in Latin America and the United States.
Ecumenical Development Co-operative Society (E-mail only): Loans awarded to grassroots organizations in over 60 countries that serve low-income people.
Elkhorn Bank & Trust Co.: A community development bank in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, for the benefit of low and moderate income people.
Fonkoze: Haiti's alternative bank for the organized poor, providing financial and technical services to its member peasant organizations, women's collectives, cooperatives, credit unions and others.
Leviticus 25:23 Alternative Fund: Provides lending to not-for-profit organizations that benefit the poor and powerless or which sponsor projects that seek to meet the basic needs of the poor and powerless. Email address: info@leviticusfund.org.
Louisville Community Development Bank: Their mission is to "To stimulate economic growth within the West End, and Smoketown, Shelby Park and Phoenix Hill neighborhoods of Louisville, Kentucky, by providing an array of financial and development resources."Local Enterprise Assistance Fund (E-mail only): Low cost financing to worker-owned and community owned businesses that foster democratic workplaces and viable jobs.
McAuley Institute: Provides loans and training to non-profit housing and community development organizations.
National Religious Investors Initiative (E-mail only): A national financial intermediary representing 43 member community development loan funds that provide capital for community based development in urban and rural communities throughout the United States.
New Hampshire Community Loan Fund: Gives access to capital for decent and affordable housing and jobs for low and moderate income people by loaning to non-profit organizations and housing cooperatives.
Nitlapan (E-mail only): Affordable capital and economic development possibilities to the rural population of Nicaragua.
Pelham Fund (E-mail only): Revolving loan fund to low income communities for economic development initiatives.
Pro Mujer Programs for Women (E-mail only): Provides training and small loans to to women in Latin America for initiating or improving small business.
Self Help Credit Union: North Carolina community development financial organization that specializes in lending to underserved people and markets.
Shared Interest (E-mail only): Loan fund benefitting low income working South Africans.
Smith Whiley & Company: Their "Vision Fund, L.P." invests in selected small, private companies.
