The NEO Fund

OUR MISSION is to serve the poor through sustainable community development via micro-lending and child-aid programs by working in partnership with established local organizations in some of the most impoverished communities of the developing world. Our primary focus is our unique micro-finance model that features: --A proven, nonprofit micro-finance plan, professionally designed with deep local roots, --The lowest cost loans targeted at poorest of the poor entrepreneurs, --Loans extended in context of relationship, with coaching and training, --A system that highly values our poor borrowers, --An approach that maximizes our borrowers' earnings and success rate, leading to sustainable e... read more OUR MISSION is to serve the poor through sustainable community development via micro-lending and child-aid programs by working in partnership with established local organizations in some of the most impoverished communities of the developing world. Our primary focus is our unique micro-finance model that features: --A proven, nonprofit micro-finance plan, professionally designed with deep local roots, --The lowest cost loans targeted at poorest of the poor entrepreneurs, --Loans extended in context of relationship, with coaching and training, --A system that highly values our poor borrowers, --An approach that maximizes our borrowers' earnings and success rate, leading to sustainable entrepreneurial businesses that create more jobs in poor communities. We recognize that relationships with adults in a poor community often start by providing aid for their at-risk children. Therefore, we work with existing organizations with established histories of doing such work. This includes: --Support for neighborhood child feeding programs, --Medical care, and --Education. These relationships open the doors to introduce our lending officers to prospective adult recipients of our loan program, thereby fulfilling our long-term goal of enabling economically disadvantaged parents care for their own children.