Why Vancity did this
Vancity is committed to helping people and communities thrive and prosper, and one of the manifestations of that vision is facing poverty in the communities in which we live and work. We have been delivering microcredit programs since the late 1990s in our service area, and recently have become interested in building a microfinance framework to inform our programs and better support those members who are lifting themselves out of poverty.
We were honoured to attend the 2006 Global Microcredit Summit, and to provide support for an earlier version of this website. Much of the content that previously existed on the earlier version of microfinance.ca has been moved into this new democratic wiki, and we thank all the previous contributors to that site, most significantly, Nandy Heule.
Building on that first version of microfinance.ca, we wanted to do more: we wanted to help practitioners of, and thinkers about, microfinance in Canada to come together in an ongoing conversation about how microfinance can help alleviate poverty in Canada.
To reach the microfinance program at Vancity, email us at microfinance -at- vancity -dot- ca.
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