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Microfinance Focus, Nov. 27, 2009: Village Enterprise Fund(VEF), a micro-enterprise organization, has received a two-year, $100,000 grant from the Arcus Foundation, a Kalamazoo, Michigan-based foundation that is the largest global funder of great apes conservation. The grant will be used to fund an innovative, integrated development/conservation program in the communities surrounding Uganda’s Budongo Forest, a key conservation area in East Africa. The Budongo Forest, part of ... Full story