Business Brigades @
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
CHAPTER STATS
$16,425
FUNDRAISED
5
BRIGADES
22
VOLUNTEERS
RESOURCES
SPONSORS
University of Pennsylvania is a chapter of Global Business Brigades, an international movement of university students and professionals building economic opportunities in the developing world. We work alongside promising entrepreneurs and experienced year-round staff to create financial opportunities in remote, rural, and under resourced areas of Honduras and Ghana. We work with communities to build community-owned banks to provide access to loans, savings accounts and financial literacy for community members. Volunteers assist in consulting micro-enterprises, assessing loan capacity payments and providing financial literacy workshops to families. nnIn conjunction with our Business Program, Global Brigades also supports communities with healthcare, sanitation and clean water projects, and uniquely implements these programs in a holistic model to meet a community’s health and economic goals. Our model systematically builds community ownership and collaboratively executes programs with the end goal of sustainably evolving to a relationship of impact monitoring. To learn more, please visit www.globalbrigades.org.
RECENT OR UPCOMING BRIGADES
COVID-19 Program Continuation Fund
May 05, 2020 - Dec 31, 2021
Donate funds toward sustaining programs during COVID-19. Your donations can still make the same impact as a brigade and more.
Chapter Contribution for 2019 Brigades
Jan 01, 2018 - Dec 31, 2018
Donate on behalf of this Global Business Brigades chapter to meet their minimum $1,500 USD annual chapter contribution goal, so they can mobilize Business Brigade volunteers for the Sep 2018- Oct 2019 Brigade Season.
Chapter Contribution for 2018 Brigades
Jan 01, 2017 - Dec 31, 2017
Donate on behalf of this Global Business Brigades chapter to meet their minimum $1,500 USD annual chapter contribution goal, so they can mobilize Business Brigade volunteers for the Sep 2017- Oct 2018 Brigade Season.
Chapter Contribution for 2017 Brigades
Jan 01, 2016 - Dec 31, 2016
Donate on behalf of this Global Business Brigades chapter to meet their minimum $1,500 USD annual chapter contribution goal, so they can mobilize Business Brigade volunteers for the Sep 2016- Oct 2017 Brigade Season.
May 2012 U Penn Microfinance Brigade - Ghana
May 09, 2012 - May 18, 2012
Fundraise with your Global Business Brigades chapter on campus to meet the minimum $1,500 USD annual chapter contribution. The annual chapter contribution directly supports the Community Investment Fund, which enables year-round economic development in partner communities carried out by our local teams. The Community Investment Fund is a critical component to GB’s Sustainable Transition Plan. Once a partner community has met specific health and economic development goals and brigades are no longer necessary, GB transitions projects fully to the community and offers follow-up with our local staff. The more you fundraise, the more impact we make together! BUSINESS Suggested donation amount: $25 On average, $25 provides a micro-loan to increase one family’s income potential.
U Penn Microfinance Brigades 2012
Jan 02, 2012 - Jan 09, 2012
Fundraise with your Global Business Brigades chapter on campus to meet the minimum $1,500 USD annual chapter contribution. The annual chapter contribution directly supports the Community Investment Fund, which enables year-round economic development in partner communities carried out by our local teams. The Community Investment Fund is a critical component to GB’s Sustainable Transition Plan. Once a partner community has met specific health and economic development goals and brigades are no longer necessary, GB transitions projects fully to the community and offers follow-up with our local staff. The more you fundraise, the more impact we make together! BUSINESS Suggested donation amount: $25 On average, $25 provides a micro-loan to increase one family’s income potential.
Honduras Trip
May 13, 2011 - Feb 14, 2011
The aim of the University of Pennsylvania’s Global Microfinance Brigade is to provide education and financial resources to a community in Honduras, enabling them to sustainably support their own economy. This will be accomplished by providing the citizens’ with the support and the tools necessary to bring their own ideas and business ventures to fruition. This work will be accomplished over a week long trip to Honduras. We will leave for Honduras on May 12th and return on the 19th. Cost information will be updated soon.
U Penn Microfinance May Brigade 2011
May 12, 2011 - May 18, 2011
Fundraise with your Global Business Brigades chapter on campus to meet the minimum $1,500 USD annual chapter contribution. The annual chapter contribution directly supports the Community Investment Fund, which enables year-round economic development in partner communities carried out by our local teams. The Community Investment Fund is a critical component to GB’s Sustainable Transition Plan. Once a partner community has met specific health and economic development goals and brigades are no longer necessary, GB transitions projects fully to the community and offers follow-up with our local staff. The more you fundraise, the more impact we make together! BUSINESS Suggested donation amount: $25 On average, $25 provides a micro-loan to increase one family’s income potential.
May 2011 UPENN Business Brigade
May 12, 2011 - May 19, 2011
Business Brigade volunteers provide business consulting and investment support to under resourced micro-enterprises in Panama. The brigade volunteers conduct assessments, leverage consulting methodologies to address problems of the business, and teach workshops to the business owners. The brigade also collectively determines how to invest their “capital investment fund,” which is a monetary donation made to the business to improve its fiscal sustainability.
January 2012 Brigade
Jan 01, 1970 - Dec 31, 2011
Support to help fund our January 2012 Brigade to Panama.
