Abigal Heymann,
"Growing up Female"
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PROGRAM RELATED INVESTMENTS

Three Guineas Fund is pursuing a strategy of leveraging the foundation’s assets in ways that align with its mission. The foundation uses a mix of financial instruments to invest for social impact.


MicroCredit Enterprises
3GF is a $1 Million Guarantor with Micro Credit Enterprises, www.mcenterprises.org MCE makes loans to Microfinance organizations (MFIs) worldwide.  MCE uses guarantees to borrow funds from financial institutions for loans to MFIs.

PolicyLink
From 2006- 2009 Three Guineas Fund has guaranteed a $1.35 line of credit for PolicyLink, www.policylink.org , a research and advocacy organization for equitable development. .

BRAC Africa Loan Fund
Three Guineas Fund is investing US $1 Million in the BRAC Africa Loan Fund to scale BRAC’s economic development operations in Tanzania, Uganda and Southern Sudan. Shorebank International managed the first close with commitments of US $ 62 Million from an international investor group. Initial investors also include Norfund, Triodus Fair Share Fund, Triple Jump, Calvert, Monarch Community Fund, CARE, Packard Foundation, Ford Foundation OPIC and Stromme Microfinance East Africa.
BRAC Africa Loan Fund

Drishtee Ltd
The foundation is co-investing with Acumen Fund in a $ US 2.4 Million loan to provide franchise financing capital for Drishtee, an Information Communications Technology (ICT) network in rural India. Three Guineas Fund $ 1 Million investment targets Drishtee women kiosk entrepreneurs. Acumen Fund/Drishtee

Operating Projects

Three Guineas collaborates with partners to test unique solutions to social problems impacting women and girls.  The Fund has created and managed operating projects.

ASTIA (formerly Women's Technology Cluster)
A model for helping women access capital through incubation and mentoring of early-stage technology businesses in which women have principal ownership stake. (launched in 1999)

Social Fusion (formerly Social Entrepreneurship Incubator)
A cross-sector incubator and community for early-stage non-profit organizations aligned with the Fund's mission. (launched in 2002)

Young Women's Technology Cluster
A model for increasing the number of girls pursuing technology careers, providing high school girls with work experience in technology companies. (launched in 2001)

Brave Little Girls
A community collaboration revolving around a traveling exhibition of original illustrations from children's books portraying girls of courage. (launched in 1997)

Grants

Three Guineas Fund does not accept unsolicited inquiries for grant support. Past grants approved by the Three Guineas Fund Board of Directors are listed below.

GirlSource
General Operating Support, Multi-Year
Support during a critical expansion phase of a unique girls' program that produces exceptionally high rates of high school graduation and college enrollment.

Lower Eastside Girls' Club
Sweet Things Company
Support to launch the Sweet Things Bake Shop and the Sweet Things Café, two social ventures of New York's only girls' club.

National Women's Law Center
Gender Equity in Education, Multi-Year
Ongoing support for critical policy work, advocacy, and litigation to fulfill Title IX's promise:  gender equity in all aspects of education.

Count Me In
General Operating Support, Multi-Year
An on-line credit scoring system and micro-lender addressing banks' and other financial institutions' discrimination against women's access to credit.

Gender Action
General Operating Support, Multi-Year
Seed funding for a new non-profit working towards mandated gender policy at the World Bank.

IDEX
Girl Child Network, Multi-Year
Support for a new national girls' movement in Zimbabwe that is transforming gender roles and creating economic opportunity, via an innovative model for engaged international philanthropy.

Past Grants