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Microfinance innovations have gone through their ups and downs when it comes to scandal, popularity and importance, but there is no mistaking the influence that microfinance has had on both the international development field as well as the emerging scenes of social business, social enterprise and impact investing.

This Social Business top list of microfinance innovations covers anything and everything from youth-oriented finances like the ever-creative MyBnk and equally creative ventures like Simpa Networks, which offers “pay as you go” energy to underserved markets in India. What is so crucial about microfinance is the range of fields that it influences from charity and the eco industry to, well, even fashion. The latest of microfinance innovations that SocialBusiness.org covered was a fashion brand called the Naked Hippie that redirects profits to funding microloans for small-scale entrepreneurs in the Majority World.

Pay-as-You-Go Energy
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Accessible Bamboo Bicycles
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Microfinance Investing
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Social Entrepreneurs
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Conscious Capitalism
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Microloan-Giving Tees
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One Euro Sneakers
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Ebay Ventures Into Microfinance
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Flourishing In Crisis
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Microlending Credit Cards
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Giving 2.0
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Fair Trade Cocoa
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Activist Apparel + Accessories
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Youth-Oriented Finances
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Urban Slum Sanitation
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Social Entrepreneur Associations
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Social Enterprise Magazines
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Eco-Certified Athletic Balls
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Alternative Loan Products
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Green Power Microlending
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Global Microfinance Networks
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Collateral-Free Microcredit
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Disruptive Entrepreneur Incubators
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Social Advisory Firms
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Microloans for Homelessness?
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Entreprenurial Philanthropy
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Comprehensive Vision Care Access
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American-Based Microlending
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Poverty Partnership Imaginings
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Conscious Food Collaborations
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