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 ...
EventsThe AFP reports from the Global Microcredit Summit in Spain that the vast majority of the world’s poor still have no access to microcredit. (link) PC World reports on the work of Mifos to create affordable software solutions for microfinance institutions. (link) Tim Ferris talks about Matt Flannery, Jessica Jackley, and Muhammad Yunus in “Think ...
News and CommentaryApril 7, 2009 (Social Enterprise) Social entrepreneur superstar Muhammad Yunus is set to transfer his stardom to the silver screen. After months of encouragement Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, has agreed to be the subject of feature length documentary. (full article)
AsidesJoin Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus at the Latin America – Caribbean Regional Microcredit Summit June 8-10, 2009
EventsMuhammad Yunus Featured on CNBC’s Fast Money Catch his interview Monday, January 26th at 5pm or midnight.
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