MicroDreams.org :: Growing MicroBusiness. Empowering Dreams

"Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Give a woman microcredit, she, her husband, her children and her extended family will eat for a lifetime."

Bono, musician and philanthropist

Microdreams is a non-governmental, non-profit organization and a registered charitable organization in the United States and New Zealand.

MicroDreams Impact Model

The MicroDreams Impact Model is how MicroDreams builds financially sustainable, replicable, and scalable micro-enterprise development organizations (MEDOs) that directly empower poor families to lift themselves permanently out of poverty. And we do it where no one else does.

MicroDreams targets

New MEDOs in the Pacific to launch, or
High-quality partner MEDOs throughout the world through a due diligence and selection process

MicroDreams grows these MEDOs through:

Direct loans
Loan guarantees
Human resource development
Training and best practices
Ongoing strategic guidance

MicroDreams Impact Model

MicroDreams empowers its MEDO partners to achieve permanence through:

Improved operational efficiency
Improved product design and social impact
Commercial financing partnerships

MicroDreams repeats the cycle as:

MEDOs repay MicroDreams financing
MicroDreams measures impact
MicroDreams targets new MEDOs to launch or grow