In recent months, the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation has continued to expand its portfolio with new investments in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It has granted a new loan to the microfinance institution Monte Credit in Montenegro, for an amount of €1 million over a period of […]
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation has signed a new financing agreement with Sénégalaise des Filières Alimentaires (SFA), a partner of the Foundation since 2013, in the form of an equity investment. With this new equity investment of €137,000, the Foundation is strengthening its support for SFA, a social enterprise that […]
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation continues to expand its activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the signing of a new partnership with the microfinance institution Partner Microcredit Organization (Partner), to which it has granted an initial loan of €2 million over a period of three years. Partner is a multi-ethnic organization founded by Mercy Corps […]
In France, nearly half (47%) of corporate foundations were created between 2000 and 2009, according to the latest National Survey on Funds and Foundations published by the Philanthropy Observatory of the Fondation de France. 43% of corporate foundations were created over the past 10 years, including 18 TP3T […]
19 tons of plastic enter the ocean every minute. Yet this waste can be an invaluable resource! Making recycling this waste a profitable and job-generating activity: that's the challenge facing the Plastic Odyssey team. Merchant Navy officers, a sales manager, and an engineer, these young entrepreneurs decided to build […]
In October, the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation made its first investment in South Africa, with the Phakamani Foundation. The institution provides financial products and services to poor women microentrepreneurs, enabling them to succeed in the microenterprise sector. Phakamani's microentrepreneurship program is inspired by Grameen Bank. […]
To strengthen its efforts and commitments to the energy transition, Crédit Agricole has adopted a Group climate strategy, aligned with the Paris Agreement, which will be implemented across all its entities. Through this strategy, the Group aims to make green finance one of its key levers […]
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation Friends Circle is a space open exclusively to Crédit Agricole Group employees interested in the Foundation's activities and mission. It is a circle for sharing information and holding discussions throughout the year with the Foundation's partners. To mark the […]
From October 20 to 25, the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation brought together in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) 22 African microfinance institutions (MFIs), partners supported within the framework of the African Facility, a mechanism set up in 2013 by the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation and the AFD to support a greater number of rural MFIs, in […]
Launched by the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation, Crédit Agricole SA, and CA Centre-est, Centimes solidaires aims to finance entrepreneurship projects by mobilizing employees. On November 4, Rania, an entrepreneur and Syrian refugee supported through the initiative, shared her experience at a launch event on the Montrouge Campus. An exceptional encounter The Foundation […]
