Muhammad Yunus

Women Leaders of the Middle East: Leena Al Olaimy, Helping MENA Find Its Green Side

Rahilla Zafar | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Leena Al Olaimy, Mena, 3BL Associates, Baraka Ventures, Bahrain, Tedx, Muhammad Yunus, Triple Bottom Line, World News

Women like Leena Al Olaimy are helping shape the future of the Middle East. In addition to her consulting work, she plays a key role in working with youth.

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5 College Students Work To Bring Solar Power To 1 Million Homes In Africa

Neil Parmar | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Nyu, Hult Global Case Challenge, Africa, Habitat for Humanity, One Laptop Per Child, Solaraid, Muhammad Yunus, Hult International Business School, New York University Abu Dhabi, Uae, Impact News

"How will you change the world?" That was the question posed at the launch of the third annual Hult Global Case Challenge, which tackles global pover...

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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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The Kairos Society: WaterWalla

Bill_Robinson | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Professor David Bloom, Brown University, Clean Water, The E-Myth: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It, Nobel Peace Prize, Kairos Society, India, Dharavi, Student Entrepreneurship, Mumbai, Muhammad Yunus, Waterwalla, Technology News

Neil Parikh wants to be a doctor who is also solving problems -- big, weighty, global problems.

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Whole Foods Helps Empower Low-Income Entrepreneurs

Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: Whole Foods Market, Grameen America, Microcredit, Video, Stephen Vogel, Whole Planet Foundation, Muhammad Yunus, Nicole Gates, Entrepeneurship, Impact News

To empower entrepreneurs in low-income communities, Whole Foods Market's foundation has partnered with a microfinance organization to help budding bus...

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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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Muslim Suspect In 'South Park' Threat To Plead Guilty

AP | MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: South Park Threat, Younus Abdullah Mohammad, South Park Censorship, Trey Parker, Islam, Video, Matt Stone, South-Park-Matt-Stone-Trey-Parker, Prophet Muhammad, South Park Muhammad, Muhammad Yunus, South Park, Trey Parker Matt Stone, Muslim Threat, Religion News

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Muslim convert from Brooklyn pleaded guilty Thursday to using a website he founded to post online threats against the creato...

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Muhammad Yunus, Wendy Kopp: We Must Put Problem-Solving Above Money-Making In Business

Wendy Kopp | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Davos 2012, Social Entrepreneurship, Muhammad Yunus, Davos, Video, Impact News

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Dispatch From Davos: The Power of Collective Impact

Darell Hammond | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Davos 2012, Social Entrepreneurship, Muhammad Yunus, Economic Crisis, World Economic Forum, Business News

One idea that I am certain is a game changer for all of us is the idea of collective impact. No one business, no one government, no single sector can do it alone. Multiple stakeholders need to have shared values because they truly have shared responsibilities.

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Lessons In Micro-lending At World Vision's Women's Prayer Breakfast

Chelsea-Lyn Rudder | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Grameen Bank Yunus, Micro Credit, World Vision, Zambia, Micro Finance, HIV/AIDS Microfinance, Muhammad Yunus, Bono Micro Lending, World AIDS Day, Impact News

Micro-credit in the hands of women fosters an environment of education and entrepreneurship, which is necessary in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

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The Future Starts With an "F"

Kyra Maya Phillips | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Success, Sir Ken Robinson, Sustainability, Twitter, Failure, Innovation, Dan Ariely, Zipcar, Dr. Brene Brown, Muhammad Yunus, Tim Harford, TED Talks, Culture News

As a society, we have been systematically wired and re-wired to abhor failure. But amongst all of this stigmatisation we have forgotten one fundamental fact: the greatest innovations arise from a process of trial and error.

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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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Great Soul Gandhi: Activist or Entrepreneur

Kavita N. Ramdas | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Victoria-Hale, Women's Rights, Social Justice, Social Entrepreneurship, Mexico, Gandhi, Stanford University, Movement for Peace With Justice and Dignity, Social Activism, Muhammad Yunus, Politics News

While the buzz about social entrepreneurship in philanthropy and development is encouraging, I am puzzled both by its lack of historical analysis and connection to social movements.

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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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'To Catch A Dollar' Documents Success Of Bank For Poor

Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Video, To Catch a Dollar, IFC Center, Bangladesh, Gayle Ferraro, Bank for Poor, Grameen America, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Muhammad Yunus, Impact News

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press NEW YORK — Just before the global financial crisis struck in 2008, Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize laureate...

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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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Celebrating 30 Years Of Social Entrepreneurship

Alison Craiglow Hockenberry | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Social Change, Social Innovation, Bill Drayton, Ashoka, Changemakers, Social Entrepreneurship, Microloans, Microcredit, Microfinance, Microlending, Muhammad Yunus, Impact News

Social entrepreneurship today enjoys the high regard it has long deserved -- fully 30 years after the organization that launched the movement was born.

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Bangladeshi Nobel Laureate Loses Legal Battle To Save Job

AP | By FARID HOSSAIN | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Grameen Bank @Y:World, Nobel, Nobel Peace Prize, Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus, World News

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus lost his final court appeal Tuesday to remain in control of the pioneering microlending bank he fou...

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To Catch a Dollar Reveals Real Life on a Large Scale

Muhammad Yunus | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Microloans, Microcredit, Microfinance, Muhammad Yunus, World News

Throughout the world, there's a reality show playing out in actual communities on a huge scale, a truly authentic show whose message remains consistent, no matter the economic tides.

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'To Catch A Dollar': Poor Women, Small Business And A Chance To Succeed In America

Carly Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: To Catch a Dollar, Grameen America, Microfinance, Poor Women Microfinance, Grameen New York, Microfinance America, Microfinance New York, Yunus America, Muhammad Yunus, Ny Impact, Small Business America, Impact News

Can microfinance, a system that works so well in rural pockets of developing countries, be effectively applied to America's urban centers?

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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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Why Muhammad Yunus and the Women of Grameen Matter

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, Greed, Microcredit, Muhammad Yunus, Loan Sharks, Grameen, Speculation, Grameen Phone, Bangladesh, Banks, Poor, Sustainable, Business News

If we are going to see true evolution and true civil society, we must begin with supporting the most disadvantaged in helping themselves. They know what they need.

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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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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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