Prosperity Rings was founded in 2000 by Nancy Pasternak, a mental health trauma and domestic violence specialist, after witnessing the poverty and victimization of women in India. Prosperity Rings is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) charitable foundation formed to grant funds to be used as loans so that severely poor and vulnerable women can establish sustainable small enterprises. They can thus feed and educate their families and attain financial independence. We connect donors from relatively prosperous countries with a pool of the "poorest of the poor." Through accredited on-site micro-lending partner organizations in India--ANISHA, SHWET and SRIA, that we screened and selected--we enable donors to give loans to specific groups of women borrowers to facilitate measurement of personal and community progress