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  • noun Plural form of microcredit.

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Examples

  • Today, social innovation has evolved to refer to not only innovations that have a social purpose, like microcredits, but also social processes around innovation -- like open source and crowd sourcing methods.

    Shannon Schuyler: We All Must Be Innovators Shannon Schuyler 2011

  • Today, because of that initial donation, we have been able to raise additional funding for the now formidable Salone Microfinance Trust to fund microcredits for over 7,000 Sierra Leonean women and men!

    Tiffany Persons: The Never-ending Story of One Donation Tiffany Persons 2012

  • Today, social innovation has evolved to refer to not only innovations that have a social purpose, like microcredits, but also social processes around innovation -- like open source and crowd sourcing methods.

    Shannon Schuyler: We All Must Be Innovators Shannon Schuyler 2011

  • This investment brought microcredits to an area that previously had none.

    Tiffany Persons: The Never-ending Story of One Donation Tiffany Persons 2012

  • This incredible repayment rate made it viable for us to continue to loan out more microcredits to local women.

    Tiffany Persons: The Never-ending Story of One Donation Tiffany Persons 2012

  • Today, social innovation has evolved to refer to not only innovations that have a social purpose, like microcredits, but also social processes around innovation -- like open source and crowd sourcing methods.

    Shannon Schuyler: We All Must Be Innovators Shannon Schuyler 2011

  • Today, social innovation has evolved to refer to not only innovations that have a social purpose, like microcredits, but also social processes around innovation -- like open source and crowd sourcing methods.

    Shannon Schuyler: We All Must Be Innovators Shannon Schuyler 2011

  • We partnered with Salone Microfinance Trust, a small and solid Sierra Leonean MFI, and invested $50,000 of the donation into microcredits for 125 women who were also the mothers of Shine On Sierra Leone supported students.

    Tiffany Persons: The Never-ending Story of One Donation Tiffany Persons 2012

  • Basically, the Clinton Global Initiative is trying to get corporate donors to provide philanthropic investments, and they are way into microcredits now, it's all probably available on the CGI's website.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads 2010

  • Basically, the Clinton Global Initiative is trying to get corporate donors to provide philanthropic investments, and they are way into microcredits now, it's all probably available on the CGI's website.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads 2010

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