Corporate Partners
Partners
American Express is supporting Grameen America’s continued expansion of our Credit Building Initiative to help low-income women entrepreneurs build a financial identity and grow their small businesses.
Focused on social entrepreneurship, Apax Foundation supports Grameen America’s microloan program across the United States to empower low-income women entrepreneurs to provide better lives for themselves and their families.
Apple is a Lifting America Funder generously supporting Grameen America’s continued national expansion of its microloan program providing small loans to low-income women entrepreneurs. Together we are proud to help empower women to build business and improve the lives of their families and communities in the Bay Area and across the U.S.
Committed to advancing economic mobility and building thriving communities, Bank of America Charitable Foundation supports Grameen America’s core microloan, credit- and asset-building programs nationally.
Bank of the West and BNP Paribas are taking action to support activities that help protect the planet, improve people’s lives, and strengthen communities. In alignment with their vision, Bank of the West helped Grameen America open a new branch in Fresno, CA, to support low-income women entrepreneurs in order to create better lives for themselves and their families. In addition to their continued support in California, Bank of the West was the Presenting Sponsor for Grameen America’s Raising Latina Voices event with Jennifer Lopez in Los Angeles in September 2022.
BCG provides invaluable strategic support to assist Grameen America, helping us reach our bold goals to scale our program, enhance our member services, and maximize our impact.
Betty Buzz was founded by Blake Lively, who is inspired to support women with limited access to resources and help them to achieve their entrepreneurial dreams. Since 2022, Betty Buzz has supported Grameen America’s women entrepreneurs across the United States.
Investing in communities to strengthen and prepare them for robust economic futures, Capital One and the Capital One Foundation support Grameen America's microloan portfolio growth, financial education, and national growth initiatives to help scale and empower more low-income women entrepreneurs.
Citi is a long-time partner of Grameen America, providing support for technology, our core microloan, asset- and credit-building programs. In December 2020, Grameen America’s Chicago branch opened through completely virtual operations with lead support from Citi.
East West Bank, with its legacy of helping underserved communities, is generously helping us to open and operate the third Grameen America branch in Los Angeles, serving the Long Beach community. We are working with East West Bank to provide microloans in cities where both our organizations operate, including Los Angeles, New York, Boston and Houston.
With a mission supporting entrepreneurship as an important fulfilling pathway to economic independence, Etsy is generously supporting Grameen America’s financial and small business education program, available to over 80,000 women nationwide.
Fondation CHANEL works to improve the economic and social conditions of women and adolescent girls around the world. Support from Fondation CHANEL is enabling Grameen America to extend its reach to provide more support for low-income women entrepreneurs across the United States through accessible financial and health services.
Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women
Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women and Grameen America have announced a partnership to advance financial access and inclusion for low-income Black women entrepreneurs.
Grameen America is a proud recipient of the OFN CDFI Technology grant, supported by Google.org, which is funding the development of our member mobile app. Grameen America also received a grant from Google.org to address the economic fallout caused by Covid-19 and empower minority, low-income women entrepreneurs to rebuild their communities.
With a mission to support financial capability, small business development, and community development, JPMorgan committed lead funding to support Grameen America’s efforts to expand to Miami.
Kekst CNC provides pivotal strategic communications support to Grameen America, generating understanding and recognition for us as an effective advocate for low-income, women-owned small businesses in the United States. Kekst CNC has helped our organization refine our message and build key relationships to scale our positioning as a leader in the financial inclusion space.
Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth is a steadfast partner of Grameen America, helping us introduce financial technology solutions to enhance our ability to promote digital financial access and inclusion for low-income minority women entrepreneurs across the United States.
The Medtronic Foundation is a key supporter of the Grameen Promotoras: Community Health Workers program. The program aims to improve health outcomes for our members through free health education, health system navigation and chronic disease management.
The MUFG investment in our program supports economically underserved communities in New York, Los Angeles and Fresno, helping them survive the current economic downturn.
PayPal’s investment in our microfinance program will sustain and empower the Black women entrepreneurs we serve through our Harlem branch, helping ensure a just and inclusive economic recovery.
Grameen America is proud to partner with The Prudential Foundation, which is deeply committed to supporting financial security and economic equality. The Prudential Foundation is an anchor funder of Grameen America’s Newark, NJ program.
Philanthropic funding from Regions Bank is supporting the expansion of our microloan program to Atlanta, providing affordable microloans, training and peer support to low-income women entrepreneurs in Atlanta.
Synchrony provides funding to support Grameen America’s core microloan, asset- and credit-building programs to empower low-income women entrepreneurs to provide a better life for themselves and their families.
TD Charitable Foundation, the giving arm of TD Bank, partners with Grameen America to support women-owned small businesses in Boston, Charlotte, Harlem, Miami, Newark, Trenton and Camden. TD Bank volunteer experts are also partnering with Grameen America to deliver financial literacy and small business education to members across the country.
Grameen America is deeply grateful for a $1.5 million grant from Truist Foundation to empower Black women entrepreneurs. The dedicated program will offer loan capital, financial training, and asset and credit building tools to Black women small business owners. Additionally, the funding will help Grameen America lean-test a variety of new programmatic enhancements and community partnerships in select cities, with the goal to scale learnings nationally.
U.S. Bank Foundation’s $1M philanthropic gift will support the economic recovery of communities hardest hit by the pandemic by helping Grameen America increase access to capital and expand wraparound services to low-income, minority women entrepreneurs in Chicago, Fresno, Los Angeles, Omaha and the Bay Area through our innovative social capital model.
Grameen America is a proud recipient of funding from the Wells Fargo Works for Small Business: Diverse Community Capital program. Support has been used to deliver affordable financial products to Grameen America’s diverse small business owners who do not typically have access to conventional financing and help us to activate our plan for deeper expansion into Texas and California.
Whole Planet Foundation invested in Grameen America’s first branch in Jackson Heights, Queens, NY. A strong supporter in alleviating poverty worldwide through entrepreneurship, Whole Planet Foundation has funded microloans in new Grameen America branches, supporting our expansion across the United States.
Supporters
Ameriprise Financial
BBVA Foundation
Centerview Partners
City National Bank
DoorDash
HSBC
Mia Becar
Mizuho Americas
Morgan Stanley
PNC Foundation
Santander Bank
Subaru of America Foundation, Inc.
Tableau Foundation
Zumba Fitness, LLC