Category - social investment

Social investors gather to defy the global credit crunch

agency reporter — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:31:26 +0100

Despite the global credit crunch, social entrepreneurs are continuing to invest in hope. Oikocredit – one of the leading financiers of microfinance – has decided to pay a dividend of 2% to its members for the 15th year in a row.

Live simply and invest differently, says new UK partnership

staff writers — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:53:53 +0000

The UK wing of the global social investment initiative Oikocredit has teamed up with the Livesimply campaign to promote a shared vision for social justice. Oikocredit provides vital loans to creative but impoverished communities.

Oikocredit is a real investment in hope

Press Office — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:16:32 +0000

The think-tank Ekklesia, which examines religion in public life and promotes constructive alternatives within the social, political and economic realm, has said that the Oikocredit global social in

UK boost for Oikocredit global social investment initiative

staff writers — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:59:44 +0000

Oikocredit, a global member-based social investment co-operative which makes small loans to hundreds of vital development projects, has expressed hope that it will "really take off" in the UK after receiving its first major contribution.