How your Donation to SPBD Helps
Donations of all sizes to SPBD help. Specifically:- $100 - finances the education of 4 children for a year.
- $200 - finances one micro-entreprise business. Changes the life of one family.
- $500 - pays the monthly salary for an SPBD manager handling over 300 clients.
- $1,000 - finances 5 micro-business. Begin to make a village wide impact.
- $2,000 - finances all of the above and then some...
Donations to SPBD
SPBD is a registered charitable foundation in the US and Samoa. Overseas donations may be made to SPBD by sending a cheque in any major currency to:South Pacific Business Development
PO Box 1614
Apia, SAMOA
US Taxpayers should make their tax-deductible contribution to The MicroDreams Foundation and mail them to:
The MicroDreams Foundation
60 Park Place, Suite 2100
Newark, NJ 07102
In New Zealand, donors can send their checks to:
South Pacific Business Development
6 Buchanan St
Devonport, Auckland
New Zealand
Make a credit card donation to SPBD right now!
You can make a credit card donation right now via our on-line partners "Just Give."Your donation will help sustainably eradicate hard-core poverty:
Low Cost Loans to SPBD
SPBD also welcomes low cost loans. Loans can be made to to SPBD denominated in major international currencies. SPBD is
willing to take on loans with interest rates ranging up to 4% and with durations of at least one year.
For further information on how you can provide a low cost loan to SPBD, email us at gregcas@ihug.co.nz or write to SPBD at the above New Zealand address.
Our Donors
Click on the "Our Donors" tab on the tool bar to the left to see the
list of SPBD's generous institutional and individual donors.Why Support SPBD?
There are many excellent reasons to support SPBD.1) SPBD is one of the most cost effective organizations anywhere in the world at eliminating poverty. SPBD has remarkably low costs and is well managed. I have personally hired and trained a terrific and committed staff of Samoans. They are enormously effective, yet they are equally cost efficient. I am a full-time unpaid volunteer. I am confident that none of the major development organizations has a cost structure close to ours.
2) The nature of our product, the entrepreneurial micro-loan, is incredibly productive and effective. SPBD provides the poor with opportunity and instills them with dignity and self-confidence. We provide the poor with "a hand-up, not a hand-out" and that separates us from most development organizations. It also gives our members the proper incentive they need in order to stay out of poverty, on their own.
We empower the poor to take charge of their lives. Our loans are used to propel families forward and out of poverty. Our members realize that SPBD presents them with unprecedented opportunity. We provide the opportunity, and they work their tails off and make their dreams a reality.
3) A really great aspect of microfinance is that when a loan is paid off, it is recycled back into the portfolio and a new loan is issued to another needy aspiring micro-entrepreneur. Thus a gift to SPBD is truly the gift that never stops giving.
4) SPBD's long-term goal is to create a bank permanently dedicated to providing the poor with the financial services they need to make their dreams a reality. Within three years, SPBD will be financially self-reliant and thus a charitable investment now in SPBD is truly an investment in providing perpetual opportunity to the poor.
