FINCA's Rupert Scofield Profiled in LIFESTYLES Magazine

LIFESTYLES Magazine has published an in-depth and engaging profile of Rupert Scofield entitled "The People's Bank: FINCA's Rupert Scofield is out to prove that small loans can go a long way." The article captures Rupert's "palpable enthusiasm," and provides the reader with a nicely woven tapestry of his personal and professional histories.

"I am very stubborn about working with our "challenge countries" like Haiti and Afghanistan that suffer calamity after calamity, and often spend years in red before even breaking even. We rarely say 'let's cut our losses'" - says Rupert in his interview...

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Voices of hope Campaign Meets Matching Fund Challenge!

Thanks to supporters like you, FINCA met our Voices of Hope matching gift goal for December 2011. With your help and support we raised our online target of $298,000! Every dollar that you and others donated online up to the target amount was matched by generous FINCA board members. This means that, together, we raised $596,000!

Thank you for your continuing support of FINCA’s mission to alleviate poverty one woman, one family and one community at a time!

2011 – A Record-Setting Year for FINCA!

As 2012 begins, we want to share with you the many accomplishments FINCA has achieved over the past 12 months, thanks in great part to the generousity of FINCA supporters. As of December 2011 we’re reaching more than 900,000 women and men worldwide— 100,000 more micro-entrepreneurs than we served a year ago!

Through hundreds of thousands of tiny loans, in 2011 alone, FINCA’s clients are putting half a billion dollars into building livelihoods and local economies in 21 countries on five continents.  And there’s so much more to share.

Please click here to read about the tremendous year we’ve had >>