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Grameen Foundation Australia
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{{Infobox organization
| name              = Grameen Foundation Australia
| image             = 
| type              = non-profit organization
| ceo               = Shan Ali
| location          = Sydney
| origins           = Grameen Bank
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| area_served       = 
| product           = 
| mission           = To create a world without poverty
| focus             = 
| method            = microfinance  
| homepage          = [http://www.grameen.org.au website] 
}}
'''Grameen Foundation Australia''' (GFA) is a [[501(c)(3)]] [[non-profit organization]] based in [[Sydney, Australia]]. It was created to support the work of the [[Grameen Bank]], Grameen Trust, and other organisations that are connected to the Grameen Bank. These organizations provide [[microfinance]] to very poor people. They do this to try to help poor people get out of [[poverty]]. [[Muhammad Yunus]], who started the Grameen Bank, has said that "The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world … all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them."⏎
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==History==
Inspiration is provided by the work of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, lead to the founding of Grameen Foundation Australia (GFA) in 1998. GFA works to accelerate the impact of<ref>Yunus, Muhammad. "Metropolitan Economic Strategy: Eliminating Poverty Through Market-Based Social Entrepreneurship." ''Global Urban Development Magazine''. May 2005. Web. 30 June 2013.</ref>

==History==
Grameen Foundation Australia (GFA) was started in 1998. The people who started it were inspired by Grameen Bank in [[Bangladesh]]. GFA works to provide Microfinance and Social Business ton the world’s poorest people, especially women.

Based in Sydney, GFA is an independent AusAID endorsed charitable organisation t. That is able to offer tax deductibility to Australian donors.

The Grameen brand, now internationally recognised for its ‘best practice’ quality and sense of urgency providing tools to help the poorest lift themselves out of poverty, originated in Bangladesh in 1976 when Professor Muhammad Yunus loaned a mere $27 to a very poor woman.  Grameen Bank now serves more than 7 million poor families with loans, savings, insurance and other services. In 2006, Professor Yunus and Grameen Bank jointlymeans people who make donations to it can received the Nobel Peace Prizeax deductions.

GFA, as part of the Grameen family, is able to access to the vasthe expertise and experiences of the broaderwhole Grameen group as a means of further enhancing the effectiveness of. They do this to make their projects it developswork better.

Because GFA believes that people everywhere have an inherent desire to improvwant to make their lives better, the organisation harnesuses the strength and ingenuity of the poor by providing them with access to the tools they need to break the cycle of poverty – actionable information, appropriate financial services and unique business opportunities.

The experienced GFA team is constantly working to identify opportunities and create sector-wide solutions that can transform the way the Development and Aid sector works, accelerating the impact of our efforts – impact that, collectively, will one day eliminate abject poverty.

GFA focuses on Asia and has particular experience in developing microfinance and social business activities in theinformation they can use, financial services, and business opportunities. These things will help them get out of poverty. The GFA wants to eliminate all poverty.

GFA focuses on Asia and has experience in developing microfinance and social business activities in that region.

==Mission==

The mission of GFA is to see poor people, especially the poorest and those living in harder to reach areas, to extract themselves from poverty through micro finance, to enable them to lead lives of respect, dignity and opportunity for the long-term. GFA works for empowerment of targeted populations, not dependence (non-paternalist organization).

==Projects==

(contracted; show full)'''Board''' 
*[http://www.greenhillcaliburn.com/directorDetails.asp?ModuleID=2&PageFlag=1&RowId=5 Peter Hunt, AM (Chairman)]
*[http://www.globalcoaching.com.au/pmurnane.html Paul Murnane]
*[http://www.allardpartners.com/wayne-peters Wayne Peters]
*[http://www.aseanfocus.com/staff/team_profile.php?userid=4 Lindley Edwards]
*[http://www.grameen.org.au/the-board/ Nigel Ampherlaw]


==References==
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==Further reading==
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1586481983/flatwave-20 Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus]<br />
[http://www.amazon.com/Creating-World-Without-Poverty-Capitalism/dp/1586486675/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus]<br />
[http://www.amazon.com/Building-Social-Business-Capitalism-Humanitys/dp/1586488244/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_c Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs by Muhammad Yunus]

==Other websites==

[http://grameen.org.au/ Official website]

[[Category:Non-profit organizations]]