EBD Projects
The Economic and Business Development Program (EBD) supports a wide range of organizations throughout the world. Listed below is a sampling of those organizations, categorized by the EBD's three focus areas and individual sub-focus areas within them.
Business Development and Entrepreneurship
Social Investments
Grameen Communications (Bangladesh): http ://grameen-info.org/gc/
Helpargentina (Argentina): http://www.HelpArgentina.org
NGO Loan Fund, NGO Resource Center (Bulgaria): http://www.ngorc.net/
NGO Loan Program Business Basic Foundation (Hungary): http://www.bbf.hu
Project Ideas http:// www.projectideas.org
Scojo Foundation (India): http://www.scojo.com/jsp/scojo.jsp?s=about&c=village
Business Developments and Services
Business Basics Foundation (BBF) (Hungary): http://www.bbf.hu
Business Incubator (Croatia): http://bios.osijek.hr
Center for Entrepreneurship (Croatia): http://www.poduzetnistvo.org
Kazakhstan's Association of Business Incubator Series (Kazakhstan): http://www.kabic.kz/
Regional Economic and Development Services (Bulgaria): http://www.redc.sliven.net/
Roma Business Incubator (Bulgaria): http://www.redc.sliven.net/
Ukraine Business Incubators (Ukraine): http://ubica.kiev.au/en/index
SME Policy
CEPOR (Croatia): http://www.cepor.hr
Donor Committee on Business Development: http:// www.ilo.or g
Legal Navigator (Uzbekistan): http://www.uzlaw.org/
Entrepreneurship
Enterprise Europe (United Kingdom): http://www.enterpriseeurope.demon.co.uk/
Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship (Croatia): http://poduzetnicki.efos.hr/
Junior Achievement: http://www.jaintl.org
Wave 2 (United Kingdom): http:// www.wave2forum.org
Microfinance
Investments
Agroindbank (Moldova): http://www.maib.md/en/
Association for Cooperation with Micro Enterprise (ACME) (Haiti): http://www.mixmarket.org/en/demand/demand.show.profile.asp?token=&ett=866
Association of Lithuanian Credit Unions (AKLU) (Lithuania): http:// www.lku.lt
Autonomia Development KHT, in Cooperation with the Autonomia Foundation (Hungary): http://www.bbf.hu
Besa Foundation (Albania): http:// www.besa.org.al
Budapest Bank (Hungary): http://www.ge.com/hu/businesses/bb_en.shtml
Center for Economic Development (CDE) (Romania): http://www.cde.ro/
Euromarket Banka (Montenegro): http://www.euromarketbank.com/kurs/klista.htm
Export Credit (IK Banka) (Macedonia): http://www.ikbanka.com.mk
International Guaranty Fund (IGF) (Switzerland): http://www.fig-igf.org
Kazakhstan Community Loan Fund: http://www.kclf.kz
KMB (Russia): http://www.kmb.ru/english/index.html
Microenterprise Development Fund Kamurj (Armenia): http://www.mixmarket.org/en/demand/
demand.show.profile.asp?ett=205&showinfo=general
Mibanco (Panama): http://www.mibancopanama.com/MIBANCO.htm
Moldova Microfinance Alliance (MMA): http://www.soros.md/programs/agro/enterprise_development/en.html http://www.soros.md/organizations/spin_off/en.html#7
NOA Bank (Croatia): http://www.noa.hr
Raiffeeisen Bank [Marketbanka] (Bosnia and Herzegovina): http://www.raiffeisenbank.ba/english/index.htm
Raiffeeisen Bank (Bulgaria): http://www.raiffeisen.bg/
Rural Investment Fund in Cooperation with the Soros Fund Guatemala (Guatemala): http://www.banrural.com/
World Vision (Georgia): http://georgia.worldvision.org
XAC Bank (Mongolia): http://www.xacbank.org/
Education and Training
Microfinance Center (MFC) (Uzbekistan): http:// www.mftc.uz
Microfinance Management Institute (MMI) (USA): www.themfmi.org
Microfinance Training (MFT) (USA): http://www.naropa.edu/microfinance/coursedescription04.html
Policy and Regulation
Policy Capacity Building: http://www.mfc.org.pl/index.php?section=NET&page=Other
Policy Forum: http://www.mfc.org.pl/index.php?section=NET&page=MFC%20Newsletter
Policy Monitor: http://www.mfc.org.pl/index.php?section=NET&page=Policy%20Monitor
Microfinance Industry Development
Consultative Group To Assist The Poor (CGAP) (USA): http://www.cgap.org
Credit Union League (RCUL) (Russia): http://www.civilsoc.org/nisorgs/russwest/moscow/credit.htm
Foundation For The Support of Mutual Financial Organization (Russia): http://www.orema.ru
Grameen Foundation (USA): http://www.gfusa.org/
Microfinance Information Exchange (USA): http://www.themix.org
Microcredit Summit (USA): http://www.microcreditsummit.org/
Mikrofond (Bulgaria): http://www.micro.ngorc.net/en/
Social and Economic Inclusion
Military Retraining
Foundation of Social Adaptation "Partner" (Russia): http:// www.exmilitary.ru
International Foundation for Social Adaptation (IFSA) (Ukraine): http:// www.ifsa.kiev.ua
Resource Center Foundation (Bulgaria): http://www.ng o rc.net/en/programs/sap/
Re-entry of Ex-offenders
Employment Re-Entry Initiatives: http://www.eri-sdp.org
Economic Opportunities for Roma
Autonomia Development KHT (Hungary): http://www.bbf.hu (with support from www.autonomia.hu)
Regional Economic Development Center (REDC) (Bulgaria): http://www.redc.sliven.net