“Nowadays there is a bewildering variety of types and combinations of clients, delivery systems and institutional structures that shelter uneasily together under the big tent known as microfinance. It may be helpful to characterize the diversity of microfinance practitioners as lying along a continuum from traditional business (a purely financial bottom line) at one end to traditional social service (a purely social bottom line) at the other end. In the middle is the emerging phenomenon of the ‘social enterprise’ which manages to have a double bottom line, seeking to achieve a productive balance between business objectives and social objectives.” (C.Dunford, 2000)