Company Profile
IDEAS=Instituto de Desarrollo, Eval., Asesoria y Soluciones
Company Overview
IDEAS is a Georgia non-profit organization. We are sponsoring the formation of the Georgia Family Development Center to meet the needs of Latinos for financial education. It has a web site at www.georgiafamilydevelopmentcenter.org.
Also, IDEAS is sponsoring the efforts to develop the Georgia Family Credit Union. We have been working on this since 2005, when we did the first feasiblity studies that detected tremendous needs.
We work in Latin America, Africa and Asia. For more information, see our website of www.ideasnet.org.
Company History
IDEAS began as a community development organization in 1975. In 1977, Carter Garber launched our U.S. periodical, “Southern Communities,” and served as its editor for a decade. For 25 years, the publication provided information services to those involved in grassroots development. In 1982, Carter and other leaders incorporated the efforts as a U.S. tax-exempt non-profit, called Southern Neighborhoods Network, Inc.
We expanded our outreach to Latin America in 1986 by bringing similar services to countries throughout the region. Since then our global reach has continued to expand to Africa and Asia. Now conducting business under the name of IDEAS, we continue to focus on the same purpose and services for which we were founded: providing training, technical assistance services, periodicals, and information to community economic development efforts in developing communities. Please see Services on our website of www.ideasnet.org for more information.
In 2005 we began to research the situation of Latinos in Georgia and their need for financial services. We decided to meet some of the financial education needs through the newly formed Georgia Family Development Center. We will meet some of the financial needs via the proposed Georgia Family Credit Union.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Since 2005, has been working to develop a credit union for Latinos in Georgia. Does financial education through the GA Family Dev. Center.
Also has an office in Nicaragua through which it provides services throughout Latin America, where IDEAS has worked for 2 decades. It provides services to institutions doing microfinance and microenterprise development. The services include impact evaluation and monitoring; institutional evaluations; stragegic planning; social performance management; poverty-level assessment; market research to refine products or for new product development; client satisfaction surveys; quantitative surveys and qualitative analysis; participatory rapid appraisal; capacity builing; training courses; and developing training institutes; etc.