Katherine Rosenberg is the Director of Education and Evaluation at Grameen America in New York City. Whole Planet Foundation funds microcredit in the communities where Whole Foods Market sources products.

Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and founder of the Grameen Bank, recognized that while New York City was the capital of banking, it also held one of the most significant disparities between rich and poor. In 2008, he opened the doors of Grameen America, a replication of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. Whole Planet Foundation was one of the early supporters of Grameen America’s lending operations in New York City, providing a $150,000 grant over three years to support low-income entrepreneurs in Queens, New York. Read the rest of this entry »