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International nonprofit organization
Accion
Company type
Nonprofit Organization
Founded
1961
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Key people
Diana Taylor, Chair, Board of Directors
Michael Schlein, President and CEO
Michael Chu, President Emeritus
Revenue
40,829,047 United States dollar (2016)
Number of employees
150-200 (November 2017)
Website
http://www.accion.org/
Accion is an international nonprofit.[1] Founded as a community development initiative serving the poor in Venezuela, it works with local partners in different countries to develop and scale digital financial solutions for underserved people globally.[2]
To date, it has more than 235 financial service providers operating across 75 countries.[3]
Accion is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also has offices in Washington, D.C.; Bogota, Colombia; Mumbai, India; and Beijing, China. Accion works across Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. In the U.S., Accion operates a nationwide nonprofit lending network.[3]
Accion is an international nonprofit. Founded as a community development initiative serving the poor in Venezuela, it works with local partners in different...
efforts; charities such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, AccionInternational, the Acumen Fund (now Acumen) and the Echoing Green have combined...
in backing microloan programs. The Accion U.S. Network, the US subsidiary of the better-known AccionInternational, has provided over $450 million in...
investments in sub-Saharan Africa is Lauren Cochran. Impact investing ACCIONInternational Omidyar Network LeapFrog Investments "funds used for impact". Retrieved...
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became a unit of the Center for Financial Inclusion, a thinktank housed at Accion. MIX collects, validates and publishes financial, operational and social...
Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA). She joined ACCIONInternational in 1986 and was appointed president and CEO in 2000 replacing Michael...
Nationalist Democratic Action (Spanish: Acción Democrática Nacionalista) is a right-wing political party in Bolivia led by Óscar Daza Márquez. ADN was...
started AccionInternational, six months before Sargent Shriver started the Peace Corps. The New York Times reported on March 26, 1961, that Accion was sending...
telephone company CANTV (2001–2007), of microfinance institution ACCIONInternational (2009–2011), and of the advisory board of Abengoa, a renewable energy...
British museum director Joseph Blatchford (born 1934), founder of AccionInternational and third director of the United States Peace Corps (1969–1971) Kenny...
audio-visual approach to teaching foreign languages. She also worked with AccionInternational and was a founding contributor of AVEPANE (Asociación Venezolana...
Spring Harbor Laboratory and is a member of the board of directors of AccionInternational, a global nonprofit that supports microfinance initiatives and financial...
returns for private investors as well as philanthropic backers such as ACCIONInternational and the World Bank without raising any additional capital. In 2011...
Grameen Bank, major practitioners include SEWA, Bank Rakyat Indonesia, AccionInternational, FINCA, BRAC and SANASA. The Calmeadow Foundation was another important...
the cost in some countries. The Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCIONInternational began hosting FAB in September 2010. They have engaged many experts...
From 1986 to 2001, Houghton served on the Board of Directors of AccionInternational. Houghton serves as a director of Vancity Community Investment Bank...
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