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The MicroDreams Foundation
The MicroDreams Foundation is a U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Gregory Casagrande in 2002 as a microfinance accelerator that helps small, growing micro-enterprise development organizations reach financial self-sufficiency. Over the past nine years, MicroDreams has provided substantial support to the SPBD microfinance network in all four of its branches in (Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands)〔()〕 and has helped to scale up other young emerging partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Bolivia,〔http://www.emprender.org.bo/en/our_numbers/our_funders〕 Ecuador, and Peru. MicroDreams uses loans, loan guarantees, and technical assistance to help provide meaningful economic opportunity to the poorest members of society.〔()〕
MicroDreams’ primary goal is to provide the global poor, in particular women, with economic opportunity to empower them to work their way out of poverty. The non-profit provides financing to start-up and Tier 3 microfinance institutions that otherwise would not be able to receive funding. The majority of large microfinance investment vehicles and asset management firms avoid providing funding to these types of microfinance institutions because they are considered too small and too risky to be a safe investment.
==History==
The MicroDreams Foundation, originally branded South Pacific Business Development-USA, was founded in 2002 by Gregory F. Casagrande as a U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit organization to help fund the growth of South Pacific Business Development Foundation (Samoa), a Grameen-style microfinance institution tweaked to fit local needs that, as a start-up, found external investment hard to come by.〔http://www.mulagofoundation.org/portfolio/microdreams〕 SPBD (Samoa) gradually became financially sustainable with the help of several commercial entities to pay back start-up funding, and today is the largest microfinance provider in the country. MicroDreams has since expanded its horizons and continues to serve as a microfinance accelerator for start-up microfinance institutions including the three additional branches of SPBD in other South Pacific countries.
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