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Grameen Foundation Australia is also the Trustee of the Grameen Foundation Overseas Aid Fund, which is an ancillary charitable fund endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient (Australian Taxation Office, 4 May 2005 onwards) under item 2, in which the governing Deed emphasises “supporting indigenous institutions in developing countries working to eradicate poverty”.
The Grameen Foundation USA was founded in 1997 as a vehicle to replicate the model of Grameen Bank beyond the borders of Bangladesh and increase the access of poor people to microfinance by millions worldwide.
Grameen Bank (GB) reversed conventional banking practice and created a system based on mutual trust, accountability, participation and creativity. They provide credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh, without any collateral. As of September 2010, Grameen Bank had 8.3 million members, 97 percent of whom are women. With 2,564 branches, Grameen Bank services 81,372 villages, covering nearly 100 percent of the total villages in Bangladesh.
Under its Grameen Bank Replication Program, Grameen Trust supports and promotes poverty- focused microcredit programs worldwide. It organizes Dialogue Programs for potential replicators and provides training and technical assistance to replication projects. To date, it has supported 141 replication partners in 38 countries.
Grameen America is a microfinance company whose mission is to help alleviate poverty through entrepreneurship. It provides financial services, such as loans, savings programs and a pathway to establish credit to the working poor, especially women, in the United States.

The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation offers a combination of financial support and technical assistance to microfinance institutions and "social business" enterprises and projects. It mobilizes human and financial resources to defend the poorest people.
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Grameen Kalyan provides affordable health care services to the rural poor in Bangladesh. They currently operate 30 health clinics in different parts of rural Bangladesh.
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Grameen Shakti promotes, develops and popularizes renewable energy technologies in rural areas of Bangladesh. Having served more than 2 million people since inception, Grameen Shakti is one of the largest and fastest growing renewable energy technology programs in the world.
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Grameen Shikkha was founded in 1997 to promote access to education, especially for the rural poor and women through training, scholarships and new technologies. As of October 2009, Grameen Shikkha has provided financial support to approximately 2,100 poor students.
Other members of the Grameen Family of Companies



