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Attend the Private Screening and Fundraiser for ‘To Catch a Dollar’

By Melisa ⋅ July 13, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

Muhammad Yunus to Speak at Town Hall on May 23 about his New Book, Business with a Conscience

By Melisa ⋅ May 17, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Microcredit 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 [...]

Microfinance Roundup May 21, 2009

By Ryan Calkins ⋅ May 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The 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 Big, Start [...]

Sundance to Feature Yunus in Documentary

By seamo ⋅ April 7, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

April 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)

Regional Microcredit Summit

By Ryan Calkins ⋅ February 18, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Join Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus at the Latin America – Caribbean Regional Microcredit Summit June 8-10, 2009

Muhammad Yunus Featured on CNBC’s Fast Money

By Ryan Calkins ⋅ January 26, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Muhammad Yunus Featured on CNBC’s Fast Money
Catch his interview Monday, January 26th at 5pm or midnight.

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