YCAB Foundation (1999) is the founding and flagship organization in the YCAB Social Enterprise Group, which bases its operations on a mutually reinforcing and financially sustainable social change model. Since its founding, YCAB has evolved from a non-profit foundation focused on sustainable youth development to include for-profit entities that offer products and services to millions of emerging consumers, including microloans to low-income women entrepreneurs conditional upon child enrolment in school. These mission-driven microfinance activities began in 2010 and to date have disbursed over 300,000 loans, which are valued at more than $50 million.
