Whole Planet Announces 3 New “High Impact” Projects Funding Food Security, Solar Energy, and Telehealth Initiatives

Stephanie ManciagliUncategorized

Whole Planet Foundation is pleased to announce that 3 new projects, totaling $150,000, have been approved under our 2022 High Impact Fund. Since 2013, Whole Planet has authorized $1.3MM in grant funding through this initiative, which was designed to bring additional value to our partners, with the goal of improving …

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Returning to Travel and The Questions That Come First

Stephanie ManciagliCOVID-19, Field Team Blogs, Travel

While borders have mostly reopened around the world, albeit with travel restrictions and potential quarantines, Whole Planet Foundation has continued to work with our partners virtually while monitoring the global situation, as WPF’s Global Program’s Director outlines in this blog. After 18 months of working virtually, in stark contrast to …

Digging Deep: A Celebration of Asia-Pacific Field Officers in WPF’s Portfolio

Stephanie ManciagliAsia and the Pacific, Field Officer Awards, Microcredit, Microfinance Partners

Photo above pictures a field officer from NWTF, a Whole Planet Foundation microfinance partner, consulting with a NWTF member following Typhoon Yolanda, in Tacloban, Philippines. Repeating daily affirmations, aloud and silently, has been an important practice for me since I was young, when I began to learn how to not …

Nine Outstanding Field Officers Recognized in 2020 Latin American Field Officer Awards

Stephanie ManciagliCOVID-19, Field Officer Awards, Field Team Blogs, Latin America and the Caribbean, Microfinance Partners

Whole Planet Foundation’s annual Field Officer Awards for the Latin American region were distributed in August 2020. This special honor is designed to go to a Field Officer who has gone above and beyond his/her role to provide financial services to low income entrepreneurs . Often, award nominations are submitted …

Webinars Share Best Practices and Innovations Concerning COVID-19 in Latin America

Stephanie ManciagliCOVID-19, Latin America and the Caribbean, Microfinance Partners

Prompted by interest from our network of microfinance partners, WPF organized two webinars to bring together our Latin American and Caribbean network of microfinance partners. The first call, in June 2020, gathered ten microfinance institutions to discuss how each was managing the COVID-19 crisis; if and how they were disbursing …