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Heroic vs. Homegrown Entrepreneurs?

Tanyella Evans | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Social Enterprise, Organic Farming, Grameen Bank, Grameen, Echoing Green, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneur, Teach for America, Organic, Small Business News

We have become intoxicated with "heroic entrepreneurs" that have set a course to the moon, but I believe that groups focused at the community level are just as deserving of our attention.

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Muhammad Yunus One Of '12 Greatest Entrepreneurs of Our Time'

Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Whole Foods, Microfinance, Social Entrepreneurship, Grameen Bank, Fortunate Magazine, Starbucks, Mark Zuckerberg, Nobel Peace Prize, Entrepreneurship, Facebook, Whole Planet Foundation, Muhammad Yunus, Video, Impact News

Professor Muhammad Yunus is no stranger to special honors -- having won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to alleviate global poverty through microlo...

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Review: Bonsai People: Celebrating the Work of Muhammad Yunus

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Loan, Grameen, Yunus, Documentary Film, Grameen Bank, Nobel Peace Prize, Bangladesh, Poverty, Muhammad Yunus, Bonsai, Bonsai People, Bonsai People Documentary, Bonsai People: Celebrating the Work of Muhammad Yunus, Entertainment News

In a destitute country facing famine, natural disasters, and a beleaguered government, Muhammad Yunus saw an opportunity to help people one by one, and built an organization of others helping poor people help themselves

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Microfinance in Bangladesh: It's Not What You Thought

Elisabeth Rhyne | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Brac, Microcredit, Microfinance, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh, World News

One of the interesting things about microfinance in Bangladesh is that its intense market saturation has not resulted in a crisis of over-indebtedness or unmanageable default. "Overlapping" is common -- that is, clients taking loans from several MFIs at the same time.

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Socially-Conscious Banking: End to Foreclosures & Occupy Your Home

Mitchell J. Rabin | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Socially Responsible Investments, Foreclosures, Foreclosure Crisis, Children, Robo-Signing, Mortgage Crisis, Real Estate, Foreclosure Fraud, Muhammad Yunus, Barack Obama, Home Foreclosures, Child Abuse, Subprime Mortgages, Grameen Bank, Values, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Occupy Wall Street, Banking Crisis, Foreclosure Moratorium, Foreclosure, Jimmy Stewart, Mr. Potter, Corporate Greed, Children's Health, Healthcare, Family, Business News

Remove foreclosure as an outcome of non-payment and an entirely fresh vision of borrower-lender relationship is put in place, now as cooperating partners, as in a business deal, because that's really what it is.

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Helping Women Help Themselves Around the World With Micro-Credit: Grameen Bank in Action

Mitchell J. Rabin | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank, Microloans, Microcredit, Micro-Credit, Bonsai People, Business News

I had the unique opportunity to meet Dr. Muhammad Yunus last week in NYC after the screening of a film called Bonsai People directed by Holly Mosher.

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With Bonsai People, a Closer Look at the Work of Muhammad Yunus

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Yunus, Grameen Bank, United Nations, Nobel Peace Prize, United States, Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus, New York, Grameen Bank Documentary, Bonsai People, Bonsai People Documentary, World News

Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Grameen Bank, which started out by offering small loans to Bangladesh's poor women to help encourage self-enterprise and foster community development.

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Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus Wants To Put 'Social' In 'Business' To Help Poor

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Philanthropy, Foreign Aid, Mohammad Yunus, Microcredit, Danone, Microfinance, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh, Haiti, Hillary Clinton, Dannon Yogurt, Nobel Peace Prize, Social Business, Good News, Humanitarian Aid, Intel, Impact News

WASHINGTON -- The Nobel Peace Prize winner who invented microcredit presented his latest idea for combating poverty, "social business," to the State D...

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Back to Bangladesh -- Day 5

Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Acid Violence, Microfinancing for Women, Grameen Bank, Microlending, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Acid Attacks, Mohamed Yunnus, International Planned Parenthood Foundation, Impact News

Acid violence is a form of vengeance for other types of social conflicts like disputes over land. In most cases the women, young and adolescent girls and girl children are the victims.

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Eco-Friendly Microfinance: It's Time To Clean Up The Bandwagon

DeSmogBlog | Joanna Zelman | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Microloans, Green Microcredit, Small Business, Grameen Bank, Environmental Economics, Microlending, Microfinance Green, Nobel Peace Prize, Green Energy, Green Microfinance, Green News

Microfinance is intended to help the poor. The poor are often the most affected by climate change. Yet, some microfinance programs actually further co...

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Banking on the Poor

Scott Baker | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Microloans, Yunus, Microcredit, Credit, Grameen, Loans, Bank, Poor, Grameen Bank, Cafrs, Impact News

Would banking on the poor be any more risky than banking on the money-leveraging banks that have already failed and had to be bailed out -- for trillions?

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An Update on the Muhammad Yunus Situation

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Supporters of microfinance around the world stand in support of Dr. Yunus and are doing their best to help resolve this situation.

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The Sad, Strange Sacking of Muhammad Yunus

Jake Whitney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Poverty, Microfinance, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, Africa, Nobel Prize, Muhammad Yunus, World News

On March 2, Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, was abruptly forced from his position as managing director of Grameen Bank, the Bangladesh-based financial institution he founded thirty years ago.

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Nobel Laureate Fights To Keep Job At His Microfinance Bank

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nobel Laureate, Nobel Peace Prize, Bangaladesh, Microfinance, Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, Business News

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus filed an appeal Wednesday with Bangladesh's highest court in a final attempt to keep his job at th...

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Microfinance Leaders Strive to Walk the Walk

Elisabeth Rhyne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Smart Campaign, Client Protection, Microcredit, Microfinance Transparency, Microfinance, Grameen Bank, Basix, World News

Vijay Mahajan, founder of the microfinance institution BASIX, and widely regarded as the dean of Indian microfinance, is walking the hot and dusty roads of rural India in his kurta pajama and sandals.

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Bangladesh Trying To Fire Nobel Laureate From Microlender

AP | FARID HOSSAIN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Microlender, Nobel Prize, Microfinance, Nobel Laurate, Grameen Bank, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Microlending, Bangaldesh, Asia, Muhammad Yunus, World News

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh's government ordered Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus from his post as head of his microfinance bank Wednesday &ndas...

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Values at Davos

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economy, Moral Leadership, Mohammed Yunus, Economic Crisis, Religious Leaders, Interfaith Cooperation, World Economic Forum, Grameen Bank, Faith Community, Davos 2011, Economic and Moral Recovery, Young Global Leaders, Values and the Market, Religion News

That Davos would turn to faith community leaders for help is good news to me, but the headline in yesterday's International Herald Tribune indicated we still have a long way to go.

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Meet Joe Selvaggio, Founder of MicroGrants

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greatest Person of the Day, Poverty, Microfinance, Grameen Bank, Low-Income, Minneapolis, The New Carnegies, Impact News

Sometimes all it takes is a little bit of faith for a struggling individual to finally find success. With MicroGrants, Joe Selvaggio is helping t...

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Getting People Comfortable With Starting a Business

Francine Hardaway | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Entrepreneurship, Grameen Bank, Third World America, Mohammed Yusuf, Impact News

Once in a while, there will be a breakout idea in the group, but I don't care. It doesn't take a breakout idea to build a successful business; it takes a person with passion and a connection to customers.

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Microfinance, the Grameen Bank, and Lisa Simpson

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Simpsons, Microfinance, Grameen Bank, Impact News

Okay, normally I work with Kiva, focusing on the West Bank with CHF International, but that's no big deal compared to The Simpsons. (Mr Simpson's one...

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Restoring Trust Is the First Step Forward to Heal from the Financial Crisis

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Microcredit, Credit, Trust, Grameen Bank, Elizabeth Warren, Ceos, Banks, Financial Crisis, Obama, Wall Street, Muhammad Yunus, Vigilante-Vnm, Business News

The poorest of the poor in the microfinance world pay back at rates as high as 99%. Wall Street banks not only did not pay back, they took from us and paid themselves bonuses. Guess they aren't very good bankers are they?

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Microfinance: Keeping the Mission When Non-Profits Become For-Profits

Elisabeth Rhyne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Microloans, Bancosol, Ipo, Microfinance, Grameen Bank, Unitus, Ngos, Non-Profits, Financial Inclusion, Sks, Business News

Many people committed to social justice have a built-in assumption that nonprofits are inherently more virtuous than for-profit companies. However, for-profit businesses have been the primary engines of wealth creation in the modern world.

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Microlending In America: Can This Third World Success Come Overseas?

Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kiva.org, Grameen America, Grameen, Grameen Bank, Kiva, Muhammad Yunus, Microlending, Video, Impact News

With the advent of sites like Kiva, the popularity of microlending is spreading, and may soon rival nonprofit donations as the prominent method of sup...

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Gates Foundation's Ignacio Mas On eFinance in the Developing World

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pakistan, Cgap, Thought Leaders, Global Citizens, Harvard, CharityHelp International, Madrid, Jim Luce, Financial Services, Grameen Bank, Technology, Rob Conway, Intel Capital, Barcelona, TAGS: Banking, money.com, Uganda, M.I.T., Developing World, GSM Alliance Congress, Vodafone Group, University of Chicago, Brooke Partridge, Bill & Melinda Gates, Paul Stevers, Microcredit, Ignacio Mas, Muhammad Yunus, Cell Phone Technology, Nobel Prize, Mobile Money for the Unbanked Program, Unbanked, Ryan Ouellette, Financial Services for the Poor Program, Mobile Technology, India, Gates Foundation, Efinance, Impact News

Ignacio Mas, Deputy Director of the Financial Services for the Poor Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, took time off from his hectic schedule at the recent GSM Alliance Congress in Madrid to speak to me over coffee.

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Macro Problems, Micro Distractions? Grameen America expands to D.C., Bay Area

Eric Holt Gimenez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Microcredit, Poverty, Microfinance, US Poverty, Grameen Bank, Home News

With Jennifer Kampe This year, Silicon Valley Bank, an investment bank whose clientele includes high-tech startups, life-science corporations, and pr...

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