We believe in the power of business to end poverty and the climate crisis.
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Yunus Social Business today
Yunus Funds grows local social businesses that provide employment, education, healthcare, clean water and clean energy to over 13 million people in East Africa, Latin America & India. We turn donations into investments in social businesses, which we reinvest over and over again, multiplying the impact each time.
Our long-term, patient loans and hands-on growth support are delivered by our teams of local professionals, partnering with social businesses to help them flourish. Yunus Social Business has offices in Sao Paulo, Bogata, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kampala, Nairobi and Berlin.
Our roots in a new kind of business
In 1983, Prof. Muhammad Yunus founded theGrameen Bank, beginning a microfinance revolutionwhich in 2006 earned him one of humanity’s mostprestigious awards, theNobel Peace Prize.
Grameen grew from a microcredit bank into a groupof enterprises created with the specific intention ofsolving human problems. These embodied the firstcases of a new, emerging model: social business.
Our history
Yunus Social Business was founded in 2011 by Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, Saskia Bruysten, and Sophie Eisenmann to expand the success of the social business from Bangladesh around the world.
Yunus Social Business began operating in Uganda in 2013 and in Kenya, in 2018. By financing and supporting businesses that solve human problems, Yunus Social Business has funded social businesses in East Africa that have impacted the lives of 1 million people.
Our roots in a new kind of business
In 1983, Prof. Muhammad Yunus founded theGrameen Bank, beginning a microfinance revolutionwhich in 2006 earned him one of humanity’s mostprestigious awards, theNobel Peace Prize.
Grameen grew from a microcredit bank into a groupof enterprises created with the specific intention ofsolving human problems. These embodied the firstcases of a new, emerging model: social business.
