Washington CASH & Express Credit Union cordially invite you to a Private Screening and Fundraiser for the documentary “To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America .’ Will Muhammad Yunus’s Nobel winning Grameen model succeed in the financial capital of the world? Thirty years ago a young economist in Bangladesh loaned a total of ...
EventsMicrocredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize (along with the Grameen Bank, which he founded) has developed a new approach to capitalism: social business. Yunus, author of Building Social Business, says social business will create self-supporting enterprises that generate economic growth even as they produce goods and services that make the ...
EventsCome meet Jolkona, a local non-profit that allows you to donate to projects around the world and get feedback from the field on the impact of your specific donation, during a happy hour on May 20th at 6pm at SAMTaste. They have projects that span Microfinance, Empowerment, Education, Public Health, Cultural Identity and Environment. Jolkona’s ...
EventsGrameen Foundation, Unitus, Vittana, Global Partnerships, and Washington CASH will share their insights on how they entered the field of microfinance, challenges they encountered, successes they’ve enjoyed, and recommendations that they have for those interested in the field.
Events, FeaturedOn May 25th and 26th, 2010, you can join 800 experts from the sectors of social business, finance, civil society and new technologies in Paris for Convergence 2015, a discussion forum aimed at bringing about new convergences between the private and public sectors and social business. The conference’s objective is to contribute to setting up ...
EventsThis year’s Chicago Microfinance Conference, an annual event hosted by the Booth and Kellogg Schools of Business, includes speakers from Kiva, Grameen, Oikocredit, ShoreBank, Citigroup, and the IFC. Tickets sell out, so please register early if you plan to attend.
EventsMifos, http://www.mifos.org/, Grameen Foundation’s open source software platform that gives MFIs a cost-effective, flexible management information system (MIS) is seeking an Account Executive in Seattle.
Job PostingsMay 9, 2009 — Congratulations to Peter Bladin, the Founding Director of Grameen Technology Center, for his promotion to Executive Vice President for Programs and Regions of the Grameen Foundation. (link)
AsidesApril 23, 2009 (Reuters) – Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, known as the “banker to the poor” for making small loans in impoverished countries, is now doing business in the center of capitalism — New York City. (full article)
AsidesApril 19, 2009 (China Daily) After teaming up with Grameen Group in March 2006 for a social business enterprise joint venture in Bangladesh, French food behemoth Groupe Danone has again joined hands with the Bangladesh-based group. But this time, it’s about non-profit microfinance to the poor in China. (full article)
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