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 worldwide – has decided to pay a dividend of 2% to its members for the 15th year in a row. The decision came at the...

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. Launched in November 2006, Livesimply...

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. The Society of the...