The Share Trust

We are a trans-disciplinary collective at work on research, development and outreach to amplify and unite Self Help Groups (SHGs) and connected organizations around the world. SHGs are voluntary groups, typically comprised of 15-20 people who meet every week to save, start small business activities, and create change both for themselves and their communities. SHGs are created with the underlying assumption that when individuals join together to take action toward overcoming obstacles and attaining social change, the result can be individual and/or collective empowerment. We support this network by (1) building the evidence base around the pathways to impact, the enabling environment that supports high-quality SHGs, and the characteristics of these groups that make them most effective; (2) facilitating connections between women, grassroots organizations, governments, philanthropists, and likeminded organizations to share learnings, develop partnerships, and build the capacity of SHG leaders, and (3) by working to build the best philanthropic practices to directly support groups and networks around the world.