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10
Nov
2009
Kiva: Flannery Promises More Transperancy

4 hours ago by Gerrit Eicker

Flannery, Kiva, outlines transparency issue, admits bad education, promises stronger feedback loop; http://j.mp/oW92z

Wir sprechen Online. - wir-sprechen-online.com · Rank: 34,395 · 27 references

Micro-props #3

9 hours ago by grameendc

“Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge. And while the lack of financial services is a sign of poverty, today it is also understood as an untapped opportunity to create markets, bring people in from the margins and give them the tools with which to ...

Grameen America DC - grameendc.wordpress.com

09
Nov
2009
Another Wall to Fall

19 hours ago by grameenfoundation

Alex Counts is President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, and the author of “Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World” (John Wiley & Sons, 2008). Below, he recounts his visits to assess the state of microfinance with Grameen Foundation part ...

Creating a World Without ... - grameenfoundation.wordpress.com · Rank: 82,830 · 11 references

First stop for our young FTT reporters: Kathmandu

20 hours ago by Johan Benichou, Finance Tout Terrain association

In Kathmandu, Nepal, we were able to meet several micro-entrepreneurs. They told us their stories and recounted their experiences. We met Sarita Tuladhar in the Swoniga Design workshop of her business, which specialises in producing clothing made from Pashmina. With the help of the SMElink programme ...

BNP Paribas - Pour un ... - forachangingworld.com · Rank: 167,884 · 2 references

News Briefing: Confusion on Where Money Lent via Kiva Goes

20 hours ago by Kate Golden

Kiva overhauls its explanation of how it works after a blog post questions its claims of direct loans. [ New York Times] The Wall Street Journal offers a special Philanthropy report. Venture Philanthropy Partners announces a $4.5 million grant to Year Up. [ Washington Post] One Laptop Per Child, one ...

Buzz! - flip.onphilanthropy.com/news_onphilanthropy · 18 references

Five new investments in Tanzania and Kenya

20 hours ago by Valerie Ponell

This month we have made several microfinance bids in Africa, which we would like to keep you updated on – and as usual hope that this will inspire you to follow suit. We supported three projects in Kenya: Businesswoman Odilla founded h...

zanox Blog Portal - blog.zanox.com/de/zanox · Rank: 163,292 · 1 reference

Book Review: Creating a World Without Poverty

1 day ago by MJ Ray

I was referred to Creating a World Without Poverty during a discussion on advogato some months ago, but it took rather a long time to obtain the book for various reasons and then I forgot about this review until a recent discussion on new Cooperatives-UK Chief Ed Mayo’s site. Better late than never, ...

Software Cooperative News - news.software.coop · Rank: 159,148 · 13 references

(New) Kiva Cycle

1 day ago by Gerrit Eicker

Kiva changed the cycle of loan disbursals: they can happen up to 30 days before a request is uploaded; http://j.mp/a5kC4

Wir sprechen Online. - wir-sprechen-online.com · Rank: 34,395 · 27 references

Global Financial Crisis – Visualized

1 day ago by mnm

The global financial crisis, brewing for a while, really started to show its effects in the middle of 2007 and into 2008. Around the world stock markets have fallen, large financial institutions have collapsed or been bought out, and governments in even the wealthiest nations have had to come up wit ...

Micronomore - micronomore.com/home

08
Nov
2009
Weekend Link Roundup (November 7 - 8, 2009)

1 day ago by Regina Mahone

Our weekly roundup of new and noteworthy posts from and about the nonprofit sector.... Corporate Philanthropy On the Reimagining CSR blog, Jessica Stannard-Friel shares examples of "companies identifying CSR activities that are relatively cheap for them to carry out, but relatively high value for th ...

PhilanTopic - pndblog.typepad.com/pndblog · Rank: 101,187 · 70 references

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