BRAC USA Competitors

We are NYC’s largest local poverty-fighting philanthropy, and since 1988, we have invested nearly $3 billion to elevate and fuel New Yorkers’ permanent escapes from poverty. Other than years when we've championed relief efforts, 2025 was the largest grantmaking year in our history, distributing more than $140 million to 295 community partners. We create pathways out of poverty through our strategic partnerships on child care, child poverty, jobs, living wages, and more. We are scaling impact at a population level for the 2 million New Yorkers living in poverty. At Robin Hood, we believe your starting point in life should not define where you end up.

Grameen Foundation’s (GFUSA) mission is to enable the poor, especially women, to create a world without poverty and hunger. Vision A world without poverty. History Founded in 1997, Grameen Foundation was created to extend and adapt the pioneering microfinance model of Professor Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank beyond Bangladesh, in response to growing global demand for inclusive financial solutions. Approach GFUSA partners with local organizations to deliver women-centered programs that expand access to safe digital financial services, strengthen smallholder farmer resilience, and support entrepreneurship. Goals To increase income, resilience, and agency among women. Reach Since its inception, GFUSA has positively impacted over 29 million individuals across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Strategic Alliance In 2025, Grameen Foundation formed a strategic alliance with Yunus Social Business (YSB) to expedite locally led initiatives aimed at alleviating poverty and hunger by merging their complementary strengths in nonprofit programming and impact investing. Rooted in the shared legacy of Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, this Alliance combines Grameen's extensive field presence, digital innovation, and capacity-building expertise with YSB's ability to mobilize capital and scale social enterprises. Together, this partnership broadens access to finance, enhances livelihoods—especially for women—and offers sustainable, market-based solutions across Africa, Asia, and beyond. The Alliance embodies a more integrated and scalable approach to combatting global poverty.

Pro Mujer is a social enterprise with more than 30 years of experience, driven by the mission of advancing towards gender equality in Latin America. Through a holistic and comprehensive model that provides services and tools for financial and digital inclusion, health and training to women in the region, it seeks to improve their quality of life, and transform them into agents of change in their realities, reaching their maximum potential. Pro Mujer is a pioneer in promoting and raising awareness about Investing with a Gender Focus as an effective mechanism to combat the inequality that affects women and boost the productivity of companies in Latin America. Pro Mujer's work is closely aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and offers tangible results in eight SDGs: 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11 and 16. More information at www.promujer.org ........................................................................................................................................................ Pro Mujer es una empresa social (sin fines de lucro) con más de 30 años de trayectoria, impulsada por la misión de avanzar hacia la igualdad de género en América Latina. A través de un modelo holístico e integral que brinda servicios y herramientas de inclusión financiera y digital, salud y capacitación a las mujeres de la región, busca mejorar su calidad de vida, y transformarlas en agentes de cambio de sus realidades alcanzando su máximo potencial. Pro Mujer es pionera en fomentar y concientizar acerca de la Inversión con Enfoque de Género como un mecanismo efectivo para combatir la desigualdad que afecta a las mujeres e impulsar la productividad de las compañías en América Latina. El trabajo de Pro Mujer está estrechamente alineado con los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) de la ONU y ofrece resultados tangibles en ocho ODS: 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11 y 16. Más información enwww.promujer.org