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Blog Entries by Jonathan Lewis from 04/2011

Empowering Women With Microfinance: From Oxford, England to Lima, Peru

| Posted 04.14.2011 | Impact
Read More: Skoll World Forum, Peru, MicroCredit Enterprises, Microfinance, Social Entrepreneurship, Women's Empowerment, Impact News

The Skoll World Forum is the preeminent global gathering of social entrepreneurs. Over 1,000 of the smartest, most dedicated change agents in the world attend.

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Truth Teller or Bank Teller? Which Are You?

| Posted 04.19.2011 | Impact
Read More: Microcredit, MicroCredit Enterprises, Accion, Microfinance, Economic Development, Banks, Kiva, Impact News

I wanted to tell my disgruntled microfinance detractor that in a world plagued with 3 billion poor people, there are no easy answers.

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To Brutalize Or Not To Brutalize -- That Is The Question.

| Posted 04.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Lauren Powel Jobs, Global Philanthropy Forum, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ben Affleck, Eci, Impact News

Ben Affleck is working to repair the ripped lives of the Congolese people. He reminds his audience with one word that brutalization, injustice and suffering on a continent far away matters.

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