New York, NY (PRWEB) January 26, 2009 — After more than five years of joint work providing U.S. entrepreneurs with small business loans, microfinance organizations ACCION USA and ACCION New York have announced that they have combined operations. Through combined technology, back-office functions, and fundraising efforts, the unified organization will be able to provide microloans ...
AsidesMuhammad Yunus Featured on CNBC’s Fast Money Catch his interview Monday, January 26th at 5pm or midnight.
AsidesThe State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report 2009 was launched on January 26, 2009 in New York City. The report carried the exciting news that more than 106 million of the world’s poorest families received a microloan in 2007, surpassing a goal set by the Campaign ten years earlier. Here is what Nobel Peace ...
AsidesJoin Water First International for their 4th Annual Water 1st–Beer 2nd Fundraiser at Seattle’s Lake Union Park, Naval Reserve Building (“The Armory”), on Friday, February 27, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. Serving water 1st, and beer (or root beer) 2nd! Food, beverages, live music, dancing, silent auction, and a short Water 1st film and presentation, plus a Hawaii Vacation raffle. Tickets: $30/person
EventsThe International Fund for Agricultural Development released a paper called, “Assessing and Managing Social Performance in Microfinance.” To date, it is the best paper I have read on the importance of a success metric for microfinance institutions other than the traditional bottom line. To provide a little context for the paper, let me describe why ...
News and CommentaryNBC Nightly News will feature ProMujer at the very end of its broadcast tonight. Catch it if you can!
News and CommentaryBen Bernanke spoke about the development and future of microfinance in a speech to the ACCION Texas Summit on Microfinance in November of 2007: “Although the United States came relatively late to the microfinance movement, experimentation in the 1980s and 1990s laid the groundwork for the lively network of programs we see today. Acción has ...
AsidesNew research from Jonathan Morduch of the Financial Access Initiative and Robert Cull and Asli Demirgüç-Kunt of the World Bank (forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Perspectives in February 2009) clarifies what’s at stake when the worlds of non-profit microfinance and commercial banking intersect. Using a data set that includes 346 of the world’s leading ...
AsidesOn February 27th from 6:30 to 10pm, the UW Foster School of Business will host the Global Social Entrepreneurship Awards Banquet. Teams from around the world compete to find innovative solutions to poverty.
EventsOpportunityfund.org, a community development bank in the Bay Area, is sponsoring a conference on the campus of Stanford University to kickstart microfinance programs in California. Although registration has not yet opened, you can sign up to receive email announcements. Kiva.org is among the sponsors, and this conference may be a tie in to the recent ...
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