The Boulder Institute of Microfinance Training

The Boulder Institute of Microfinance Training for Sustainable Development was founded in 2004 to build on the success of 10 years of the Boulder Microfinance Training Program (MFT). BI coordinates the MFT, which seeks to involve practitioners in ‘best practice' training in microfinancing through the annual MFT training program.

The Microenterprise and Development Institute New Hampshire

The Microenterprise and Development Institute New Hampshire (MDI-NH) was founded in 1999 to focus on practitioner skill building in both financial systems and business development services more recently known as Pro-Poor Market Development. Emphasis is placed on the "double bottom line." They offer approaches to address the financial needs of poor families and their communities as well as building effective financial institutions that assure broad-based and long-term social and economic participation in the benefits that these institutions provide.

The Coady Institute

The Coady Institute has a long tradition of working in microfinance, dating back to the Antigonish Movement's support of credit unions early in the 1930s. Our work in microfinance continues to this day, and 2006 will be a busy year for the Institute's community-based microfinance team.

The Community-Based Microfinance Certificate (Distance Learning) aims to strengthen community-based and member-based initiatives in microfinance through local leadership development. The course is designed for middle and senior microfinance practitioners with at least three years experience in microfinance. A few spaces are reserved for regulators, policy makers and donors. We encourage "up and coming" leaders within organizations that have good facility with computers and web-surfing. We also seek gender balance in all of our educational programs.

To read another Global Envision article about educational opportunities in microfinancing, see Student Union and Global Nomad: Student Opportunities.

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