Category - social investment

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23 Jun 2008

Social investors gather to defy the global credit crunch

Despite the global credit crunch, social entrepreneurs are continuing to invest in hope. Oikocredit – one of the leading financiers of microfinance – has decided to pay a dividend of 2% to its members for the 15th year in a row.
22 Jan 2008

Live simply and invest differently, says new UK partnership

The UK wing of the global social investment initiative Oikocredit has teamed up with the Livesimply campaign to promote a shared vision for social justice. Oikocredit provides vital loans to creative but impoverished communities.
15 Jan 2008

Oikocredit is a real investment in hope
15 Jan 2008

UK boost for Oikocredit global social investment initiative

Oikocredit, a global member-based social investment co-operative which makes small loans to hundreds of vital development projects, has expressed hope that it will "really take off" in the UK after receiving its first major contribution.