Microfinance, community capital, crowdfunding.

A friend asked me about this, so here are a few links i shared with him on email!

crowdfunding and microfinancing are starting to be real meaningful both across the global community and local community, where people are unable to access regular finance be that for startups, community projects or for hard to reach development projects in isolated countries.

Take a look at a few modesl from the founder of linkedin (ie Kiva) to the coop to the internet community in general.
Hope these help:

http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/

http://www.seedrs.com/

http://www.lendwithcare.org

http://www.kiva.org

http://www.fundingcircle.com

http://www.coopfinance.coop/invest/community-capital/

just browse google for microfinance, community capital or crowdfunding!