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Current Projects<\/h2>\nCurrent Projects<\/h2>\nWe recently launched the Unitus Seed Fund<\/a> with the goal of\u00a0increasing innovation through startup social enterprises benefiting very low income populations.<\/p>\n In June 2011, we launched a new project for\u00a0Creating Livelihood Opportunities<\/a> for millions of people battling poverty in developing markets through a strategic partnership with\u00a0Unitus Impact<\/a>.<\/p>\n Unitus Labs has recently published case studies documenting our learnings from our\u00a0Ultra-Poor Initiative<\/a> project.<\/p>\n We have also recently published “open source” results from our four India Microfinance Innovations<\/a> projects.<\/p>\n Unitus Labs’ mission is accomplished by taking on high-risk economic self-empowerment projects that have the potential for significant and sustained impact on reducing global poverty.\u00a0We attempt to demonstrate powerful results and have a demonstration effect in underserved markets to attract financial capital and other support\u00a0from lower-risk-tolerant philanthropists, investors, companies, governments and other ecosystem players who have the large amounts of resources and influence needed to scale and spread market-based solutions to global poverty.<\/p>\n To date, Unitus Labs is best known for its successful\u00a0Microfinance Acceleration<\/a> project\u00a0that began in 2001 and started to wind-down in 2010. Microfinance Acceleration helped bring economic opportunities to the families of more than 12 million microfinance borrowers throughout the world.<\/p>\n Unitus Labs implements its mission through partnerships with high-quality, on-the-ground management teams, financial professionals and innovative entrepreneurs.\u00a0Unitus Labs provides and arranges critical financial capital, helps attract and secure assistance from professionals and organizations with expertise requested by our partners, and ensures that quality governance and incentives are in place. During the entire partnership, we empower our partners with the tools, freedom and flexibility to validate and scale their models in the manner that only a dedicated entrepreneur can.<\/p>\n Save<\/span>Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Current Projects We recently launched the Unitus Seed Fund with the goal of\u00a0increasing innovation through startup social enterprises benefiting very low income populations. In June 2011, we launched a new project for\u00a0Creating Livelihood Opportunities for millions of people battling poverty in developing markets through a strategic partnership with\u00a0Unitus Impact. Unitus Labs has recently published case… Read more ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_aioseop_title":"","_aioseop_description":"Projects funded by Unitus Labs to reduce global poverty through economic self-empowerment","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Overview<\/h2>\n
Implementation<\/h2>\n