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VicSuper joins Financial Inclusion Action Plan program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... Microfinance to develop the FIAP program, and Good Shepherd Microfinance has partnered with EY and the Centre for Social Impact to design and implement the program. The FIAP Partnership Group estimates that reducing financial exclusion amongst Australians ...

Trailblazers, Good Shepherd Microfinance launch Financial Inclusion Action Plans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... Microfinance to develop the FIAP program, and Good Shepherd Microfinance has partnered with EY and the Centre for Social Impact to design and implement the program. The FIAP Partnership Group estimates that reducing financial exclusion amongst Australians ...

Financial Impact Action Plan program to target exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
A coalition of organisations including Good Shepherd Microfinance, EY, Centre for Social Impact (CSI), and the Australian government has launched the Financial Inclusion Action Plan (FIAP) program. FIAPs are intended to commit organisations to coordinated ...

Learning from Europe's example in social investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... who is based in London, was in Australia this week and spoke at a seminar in Melbourne hosted by the Centre for Social Impact and NAB. Addarii spoke of innovations in Europe in the growth of the impact investment market, as well as the challenges and ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance receives more state funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... the annual Measuring Financial Exclusion in Australia report, commissioned by NAB and conducted by the Centre for Social Impact NAB research found that 3.038 million Australian adults - 16.9% - face financial exclusion. Of that figure 179,790 or 1.1% ...

NAB, GS Microfinance: more needed on financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... The annual Measuring Financial Exclusion in Australia report, commissioned by NAB and conducted by the Centre for Social Impact, has been released. Financial exclusion is defined as not having access to a moderate amount of credit, a basic transaction ...

StepUP loans provide social, economic return on investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Good Shepherd Microfinance is equal to $2.68 for every dollar invested, according to a report by the Centre for Social Impact (CSI). Good Shepherd Microfinance CEO Adam Mooney Of the 500 StepUP loan recipients that were surveyed by CSI, 73.6% of respondents ...

Net Balance launches research and development institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... institutions in Australia and internationally. Hems comes to Tomorrow's Agenda Research Institute from the Centre for Social Impact (CSI), where he was director of research. He has spent the past 20 years "undertaking a range of major initiatives that ...

Banks' plans address Indigenous hiring, financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... common to reconciliation plans - increasing financial inclusion. Last year, research conducted by the Centre for Social Impact for NAB concluding that 2.6m adult Australians - one in seven adults - are "severely or completely" financially excluded. Indigenous ...

NAB partners to launch Victorian microfinance retail hubs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... expanded dramatically and has very diversified clients." Mooney cited recent research conducted by the Centre for Social Impact for NAB concluding that 2.6m adult Australians - one in seven adults - are "severely or completely" financially excluded. ...