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 institutions. More…

Micronomore: Microfinance and Beyond

Microfinance is not forever. Or at least it should not be. If a micro-entrepreneur remains micro forever, not only would he or she have failed, but the microfinance institution assisting would have failed even on a bigger scale. An MFI should provide a perspective for growth for the micro-entrpreneur. The micro- should grow to become [...]

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. More…

Micro– to Small Success Story

KWENTONG PENOY

Micro– to Small Success Story Tobias SolisEntrepreneur’s Name : Tobias Solis
Location : Santa Maria, Bulacan, Luzon
MFI Membership : United Bocaue Vendors Association Development Coop
Writer : Wilma B. Guinto (wilma@micronomore.com)

Ka Tobias Solis, a native of Trapiche, Oton, Iloilo was only 16 years old when he first set foot in Manila to find his fortune. He was able to work as an extra helper in a poultry farm in Last Pinas, the Crescent Corporation owned by Robert Philips. His earning was a meager Php3.00 a day that he spends for his daily subsistence and at the same time save whatever money left so he can send some for his parents in Iloilo. More…

MicroNoMore Photo Gallery: Meet you again

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

Entrepreneur Success Stories

Entrepreneur Success Stories - RowenaRowena 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 provide Rowena Business Development Services.

She now owns a profitable hardware and electrical supply store, construction materials shop, heavy equipments, and an internet café. Rowena is one of the LMPC clients with loan size of up to P2M (US$44,000). More…

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 [...]

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 More…

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 [...]

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