Our Mission
Transforming lives through economic empowerment.
Our Vision
Five Talents’ vision is to eradicate extreme poverty by restoring human dignity and creating strong, sustainable communities.
Our Inspiration
Five Talents is inspired by the biblical Parable of the Talents and the call of Jesus to minister good news to the poor.
Our Approach
Five Talents is a micro-enterprise development organization that helps the world’s most vulnerable families escape poverty. Partnering with local churches around the world, we train men and women, mostly women living in extreme poverty, to form savings groups, take out loans, and build their own businesses.
It may seem surprising, but even those living in extreme poverty can save a little each week, start a tiny business, and fulfill their God-given potential. Because most of the participants use their earnings for their children, the result is healthier families, strong and sustainable communities, and vibrant and growing churches.
As a Five Talents entrepreneur grows her business, she increases her children’s access to healthier protein-rich meals, clean water, education, healthcare, and, ultimately, a sustainable community in which to grow up. But that’s not all. Five Talents offers its entrepreneurs the consistent spiritual support necessary for transformed lives. Each entrepreneur learns about God’s love, intention, and desire to transform her and her community. Discover what it means to partner with Five Talents and walk alongside those living in extreme poverty:
Guiding Principles
Based on the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25: 14-30), Five Talents works to improve the socioeconomic status of those living in extreme poverty through personal responsibility, faithful stewardship, service to community, and respect for the dignity of all human beings.
CHRISTIAN
We are a micro-enterprise development organization, motivated by God’s love to enable transformational development that empowers the enterprising poor to liberate their families from poverty. Our services include capacity development services, training, and funding for program infrastructure for group-based savings and entrepreneurship programs.
SERVICE
We are committed to serving the poorest and most marginalized communities, otherwise underserved by the commercial microfinance industry, to achieve real and lasting holistic, social impact in the lives our clients and their families.
PARTNERS
We work through collaborative relationships with other development partners who share the same Christian motivations and foundation, and who are recommended to us by and/or are in partnership with an Anglican Province or Diocese in the areas where we work.
EXCELLENT
We are committed to excellence in our work and relationships with our partners, to honesty and transparency, sound stewardship, client protection and social responsibility.
INCLUSIVE
We, provide financial services to the poor regardless of ethnicity, political affiliation or religion.
MULTIPLY
We focus on opportunities to establish replicable programs that can become self-sustaining and achieve meaningful scale (i.e. potential for serving a minimum of 5,000 program participants).