Global Financial Crisis – Visualized

The global financial crisis, brewing for a while, really started to show its effects in the middle of 2007 and into 2008. Around the world stock markets have fallen, large financial institutions have collapsed or been bought out, and governments in even the wealthiest nations have had to come up with rescue packages to bail [...]

SMART, Seed Finance partner to launch inter-island mobile money solution

Leading wireless services provider, Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART) has collaborated with SEEDFINANCE Corporation, a provider of wholesale credit to Filipino microfinance institutions and small enterprises, to equip island-based microfinance institutions with mobile-based financial products and technologies that will allow them to send and receive funds using SMART mobile phones.
Dubbed as the Islands Activation Program, the [...]

The 2009 Video-Shoot Contest: MNM Microfinance ‘n Motion

Contest is open to any of the 67 presently active PFIs (partners) of SEEDFINANCE
The subject of the video may either be one of the following:

A micro-entrepreneur client of the PFI in action at her/his enterprise
An SME or graduating-micro client of the PFI in action at her/his enterprise

The contest focuses on the subject. Styled as an [...]

The 2009 SEED FINANCE Stakeholders Conference

“MICRONOMORE, NO BORDERS!”
Mark your calendar on Nov. 26-27, 2009 in Luzon!

Choose from several concurrent workshop sessions and plenary briefings
Have a meeting of minds with partners in the SEEDFINANCE Network and other strategic partners
Network with fellow development workers and providers of support and services
Enter your award-winning video for this year’s video-shoot event
Attend the fellowship night and [...]

MICRO-PLUS as Micronomore

Consistent with the development perspective of bringing micro-entrepreneurs to the next level of economic growth, a new financial product was recently piloted to 3 cooperatives, namely: Lamac Multi-Purpose Cooperative, Metro Ormoc Community Cooperative and Paglaum Multi-Purpose Cooperative.
This SME financing product, named as Micro-Plus, is designed for the partners’ microfinance graduates who have successfully increased their [...]

Renewable Energy: Getting Off the Grid

The perspective of using cleaner, secure and sustainable sources of energy is not just immediately necessary in the face of the ever-rising prices of oil products but is our only way to live as humans and save the earth. Micro-no-more supports the NGOs, the Department of Energy and providers of solar and wind energy [...]

Islands Activation Program

Micro-no-more pooled-in the resources of SEEDFINANCE, SMART Communications and Partner-MFIs in launching the project: ISLANDS ACTIVATION PROGRAM. This program is designed for institutions located in remote areas where there is none if not very limited access to financial services. The solution includes provisioning SMART Money services and mobile-based applications for members of the [...]

Bringing entrepreneurs and their supporters together

It has been a while. The ripples of change have been continually shaping and re-shaping the socio-economic landscape yet our partnership remains stable and mutually rewarding. From the beginnings of our collaboration in CARE, then at SEAD, and now on to SEEDFINANCE, we have seen each other’s growth as we overcame challenges and forded on.
This [...]

MicroNoMore Photo Gallery: Meet you again

Click on a photo and see the miracles of MSME finance unfold

Entrepreneur Success Stories

Rowena has been a member oflamac Multi-Purpose Cooperative (LMPC) since 1996, who started with as a food peddler and later on into a small restaurant owner. She first availed a Php. 5,000.00 loan from LMPC (US$22). Gradually, she increased her loan to expand her food business and to establish new businesses. LMPC was there to [...]

Make it grow: a development perspective

Energizing local economies and empowering local communities.
Microfinance is not the catch-all cure for poverty and economic stagnation. It should have a perspective of the micro- going beyond its boundaries/limitations, growing with the times, adapting to the changes in the macro-economic environment, providing or laying down the groundwork for far-reaching solutions to present economic dire straits. [...]

Make your money count

Make your money count
Your money can be placed in assistance programs for microfinance and small-and-medium-enterprise-finance. SEEDFINANCE and its network of strategic partners enable funds to be coursed through local cooperatives, microfinance-NGOs, and rural banks in the form of wholesale credit lines for micro- and SME-finance.

Beyond Finance

Your money does not stop in micro-credit. It goes to other initiatives that are essential in the furtherance of socio-economic goals. From knowledge sharing, to business development services, to technology-riding MSME-finance expansion, to a whole lot more of micro- and micro-no-more projects.
SF-MED CTR: The SEEDFINANCE Micro-Economic Development Center
The SEEDFINANCE Micro-Economic Development Centres see a stronger [...]

Photo Shoot Contest

A celebration in pixels of the empowering ripples of MSME finance. An Invitation to Creative Empowerment
The 2008 SEEDFINANCE National Stakeholders Conference hallmarks the inception of the Micro No More Movement, an advocacy for local economic development from the ground up. The micro-entrepreneur is envisioned to grow towards small-scale and even medium-scale enterprise levels and become [...]