We believe in the power of business to end poverty and the climate crisis.

Yunus Funds grows local social businesses that provide employment, education, healthcare, clean water and clean energy to over 17 million people in East Africa, Latin America & India. We turn donations into investments in social businesses, which we reinvest over and over again, multiplying the impact each time.

Our long-term, patient loans and hands-on growth support are delivered by our teams of local professionals, partnering with social businesses to help them flourish. Our headquarters are in Berlin, Germany.

In 1983, Prof. Muhammad Yunus founded the Grameen Bank, beginning a microfinance revolution which in 2006 earned him one of humanity’s most prestigious awards, the Nobel Peace Prize.

Grameen grew from a microcredit bank into a group of enterprises created with the specific intention of solving human problems. These embodied the firstcases of a new, emerging model: social business.

Yunus Social Business was founded in 2011 to expand on the success of social business from Bangladesh and ignite it around the world.

Over the last ten years, we have funded social businesses that have served over 17 million people with essential goods and services. Our geographical footprint has developed to include Brazil, Colombia, India, Kenya, Uganda and, most recently, Rwanda. We have also previously operated in countries where we no longer work: Haiti, the Balkans and Tunisia.

Yunus Corporate guides multinationals (such as Danone, Veolia, McCain, MAN and Tata) to help them transform their purpose. Harnessing our years of experience with social businesses and corporations, we connect the two. With our method, corporations can apply their core competencies to some of the greatest human challenges.

These activities operate under the for-profit entity Yunus Social Business Gmbh which is set up as a social business, separate from the charitable entity. 100% of the profits are reinvested to continue to generate and scale our social impact.