Formation | 1997 | -->
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Type | Non-profit |
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Focus | Microfinance education Health education Poverty measurement[2][3][4] |
Location | |
Area served | Asia, Africa, the Americas, Middle East |
Key people | Larry Reed, Director; co-Founders are Sam Daley-Harris (also former Director), Professor Muhammad Yunus (Grameen Bank), and John Hatch (FINCA) |
Parent organization | RESULTS Educational Fund |
The Microcredit Summit Campaign, an American non-profit organization, started as an effort to bring together microcredit practitioners, advocates, educational institutions, donor agencies, international financial institutions, non-governmental organizations and others involved with microcredit around the goal of alleviating world poverty through microfinance.