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This spring, GBF brings you a metrics-inspired edition of our quarterly newsletter. We wanted to share some of our activities that we’ve been implementing in the area of impact measurement.

In this issue, you can read about:

In this edition, we give you an inside view into two of GBF's most recent investees, 1) LabourNet, a social enterprise that sources jobs and offers training and benefits to informal-sector workers in India, and 2) Movirtu, a technology company that works with mobile operators, providing the infrastructure and business models to help service the one billion people who cannot afford handsets.

Washington--September 22, 2008--The Grassroots Business Fund, a former program of the Intenational Finance Corporation (IFC) that has been restructured as a non-profit organization dedicated to helping grassroots enterprises in the developing world maximize their social and economic impact, will officially launch independent operations at a ceremony in Washington.