The fact is, the world's poor need more than a handout to break free of poverty. They need a hand up, a strategic investment in their lives that will bear fruit for years to come. That's the mission of IAS America - a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering the world's powerless through micro-business development.

Our vision is to see individuals, families and entire communities transformed through micro-investments from people like you. By connecting families and business professionals in the west to entrepreneurs in developing areas of the world, we intend to help these entrepreneurs to not only feed their own families for a lifetime, but also contribute to the welfare of their own communities.

Give a Gift of Empowerment... This Christmas

With every $150 gift to help start a small business in Africa, you will receive this beautiful, sixty page, photographic essay capturing the heart of opportunity.  For a hard-working developing world entrepreneur and his family, your gift provides a pathway out of an endless cycle of extreme poverty.  In addition, your gift allows an entrepreneur the chance to provide health care and education for his family.  And finally, each time your gift of a loan to someone is repaid, those funds are lent out once again, providing additional hope, and transforming yet another life.

Year 2011

10.02.11 New Beginnings
10.01.11 New year

Year 2010

12.07.10 Endings and New Beginnings
11.02.10 A Season to be Thankful
09.28.10 Micro-Finance at Work in Sudan
08.01.10 IAS — A Closer Look
07.27.10 Despair Turns to Hope for Southern Sudan
06.29.10 Merger Announced!
06.02.10 The Challenge of Meeting Demand with Supply
05.04.10 Empowerment Beyond Micro-Finance
04.01.10 When Poverty and Empowerment Collide
03.02.10 Micro-Finance Underway in Bahr El Ghazal
02.02.10 New Year's Resolutions
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Douglas Mann douglas.mannias-intl.org	President
Stephen Kaufman stephen.kaufmanias-intl.org	Vice President
Steven Boyles steven.boylesias-intl.org	Secretary/Treasurer
Scott Burpee scott.burpeeias-intl.org	Member
Leif Zetterlund leif.zetterlundias-intl.org	Member

Douglas Mann Country Director

Stephen Kaufman

Steven Boyles

Michelle Mann