The Ford Foundation is a charitable foundation, based out of New York, USA, created to finance programs that strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty, promote international cooperation and advance human achievement. The name of the project that finances FPVS’ work is called “Development Finance and Economic Security.” The objective is to generate wealth for poor families in Greater Buenos Aires through microcredit opportunities and the formal recognition of land ownership, promoting community participation and the growth of microfinance networks.
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The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) is an independent agency of the United States government that provides grants to nongovernmental and community-based organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean for innovative, sustainable and participatory self-help programs. 
The IAF awarded FPVS with a grant in 2006, with a duration of three years. The objectives are to create and implement a replicable and sustainable community organization model that will provide community members with the tools needed to solve their neighborhood’s problems on their own. 
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FONCAP is a corporation managed by public and private sectors which, acting as a trustee, administers the Fondo de Capital Social (Social Capital Fund) created by the National State, in order to promote inclusive financial services by supporting those institutions which develop micro finance programs (MFIs) targeted at micro companies and small rural producers in the country that can not get a formal financial system. FONCAP was the main financer of the first gas project, Fideicomiso Redes Solidarias, providing FPVS with a loan worth ARG$ 3,000,000 over a period of 5 years.
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Subsecretary of Urban Development and Housing (Federal): This is a governmental project called “Programa Federal de Mejoramiento de Viviendas: Mejor Vivir” (Federal Housing Improvement Project: Live Better) whose mission is to support the completion, expansion and remodeling of housing occupied by families who have started construction on their homes, but due to lack of access to formal credit markets, are unable to finish the projects on their own. 
The mission of FPVS’ project being supported by this entity is stated as: “Through housing and neighborhood improvement, perfect a sustainable, replicable and scalable organizational model between the supply (State/private sector) and the demand (poor neighborhoods), with the end goal of establishing a social instrument that will allow community members to transform their own communities.” 

Banco Supervielle is a regional bank with more than 120 branches in the Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Mendoza, Santa Fe and San Luis provinces. The Loan Committee of Banco Superveille agreed to finance 50% of the Union de Vecinos en Accion Project. This agreement was a condition required for FOMIN (Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank) to provide the other fifty percent of funds needed for the Project. 

Fuerza Solidaria is an initiative of the Goverment of the Province of Buenos Aires, Banco Provincia and the institute Provincial de Lotería y Casinos, whose principal mission is provide technical and financial assistence to a sector of the population that has no access to the formal credit system. Fuerza Solidaria sponsors FPVS’ microcredit program “Solidarios” by providing the foundation with loans that are offered to community members. It also sponsors the Gasification Project, specifically the Fideicomiso Union Por los Vecinos