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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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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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How Smartphones Can Safeguard The Future Of Agriculture

Deborah Bassett | Posted 08.26.2011

Read More: Farming, Mobile Tehcnology, Karl Muth, Grameen, London School of Economics, Africa, Smartphones, Sustainable Agriculture, Deborah Bassett, Uganda, Bankers Without Borders, Poverty Alleviation, Impact News

Ugandan farmers can now access important information at their fingertips. Photo: Karl Muth What does mobile phone technology have to do with farmer...

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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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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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Why Muhammad Yunus and the Poor Need Us More Than Ever

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Nobel Peace Prize, Greed, Vigilantevnm, www.vigilante-vnm.com, Vivigive, Microcredit, Muhammad Yunus, Grameen, Gandhi, Business, Integrity, Bottom Billion, Profit, Microfinance, Bangladesh, Vivian Norris, Banks, Business News

Nobel Peace prize winner Yunus has been under attack by not only his leader of government in his native Bangladesh but by those who are upset with what narrows down to Dr. Yunus' stand against corruption and loan sharking.

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Grameen Foundation: Microfinance Helping People in Real Ways

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Microfinance, Grameen Foundation, Grameen, Impact News

The deal with microfinance is that it means loaning the poorest of people - most often women - to fund small businesses. This benefits women like Ts...

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An Increasingly Important Debate: Microfinance as a Non-Profit or Possible IPO?

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yunus, Ipo, Check Cashing, Microfinance, For Profit, Alex Counts, Grameen, Sks, Payday Loans, Vikram Akula, Investors, Business News

Nonprofit Microlending is based on trust. For profit lending is not. This is a huge difference, and it's possible the latter could turn into a repeat of the villager loan shark mode

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Funding the Risk Frontier in Microfinance

Elisabeth Rhyne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bancosol, Grameen, Oxfam, Opportunity International, Microplace, Brac, Accion, Care, Microfinance, Calvert Foundation, Kiva, Social Investing, Equity Bank, Sks, Compartamos, Business News

The recent IPO of SKS Microfinance, India's largest microfinance institution (MFI), was a watershed event whose ripples are affecting the public perception of microfinance.

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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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Microequity: A New Model for Financing Microentrepreneurship

Bhagwan Chowdhry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Microloans, Microinsurance, Microfinance, Grameen, Finca, Islamic Finance, John Hatch, Muhammad Yunus, Microequity, Business News

There are a number of attractive features of microequity over microloans. It is time for academics and practitioners to fine-tune the theory and the practice and explore the promise of microequity.

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Economics of Happiness: Reflections from the 2010 World Economic Forum, Davos

Kari Stoever | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Professor Yunus, Happiness, Grameen, Davos, Martin Luther King, Black History Month, Grameen Creative Labs, The Happy Planet Index, Global Economic Crisis, World Economic Forum, Healthy Living News

Happiness is certainly real. But, unlike a bar of gold, the economics of happiness is not well understood. But it's not that hard.

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Hillary Clinton Understands the Link Between Security and Poverty

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama's Mother, attackEU Security, Nato, Grameen, Muhammad Yunus, Poverty, Ann Dunham, Secreatry of State Hilary Clinton, Documentary, Nuclear, Prof. Gloria Origgi, Ecole Militaire, Irsem, Cnrs, World News

If we spent as much time and money and effort as we put into defense budgets into fighting poverty, a lot of wars would have been stopped before they began.

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Film as a Message to the World: Yunus and Sundance 2010!

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yunus, Microcredit, Brac, Poverty, Grameen America, Vidar Jorgenesen, Queens, Grameen, Bill Megalos, Unbanked, Gayle Ferraro, Shah Newaz, Social Business, Ashoka, Susan Davis, To Catch a Dollar, Jeff Skoll, Poor, Sundance, Entertainment News

I want to congratulate filmmaker, Gayle Ferraro, whom I met when she first began this journey of making To Catch a Dollar, which premiered Saturday night at Sundance with Dr. Muhammad Yunus present.

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To Catch a Dollar & Grameen America Bring Poverty Alternatives to Sundance

Emily Goligoski | Posted 05.25.2011

Finance conversations during the first weekend of the Sundance Film Festival tend to center around distribution deals and the price of heeled boots, so discussions about economic motivators to end domestic poverty are particularly refreshing.

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Changing Lives With Spare Change: My Two Cents on Microfinance

Yeardley Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grameen-Bank, Global Development, Microfinancing for Women, Poverty, Microfinance, Grameen Bank, Grameen, Global-Development, Microfinancing-for-Women, Yeardley Smith, Global Poverty, Haiti Earthquake, Impact News

I love the microfinance approach because instead of being a welfare model, it's a model that puts the recipient at the center of the solution. And in doing so, the victory is a thousand times sweeter.

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Dear President Obama: Channel Your Mother, Immediately!

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Microcredit, Credit, Muhammad Yunus, Grameen America, Grameen, Loans, Ann Soetero, Stanley Ann Dunham, Gayle Ferraro, Obama, Fianncial Crisis, Ann Dunham, Credit Unions, Business News

Please President Obama...don't listen to the banking tennis buddies...channel Stanley Ann, that vibrant spirit watching over you! She is in you and you will do the right thing.

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A Near-Zero-Cost Approach to Do-Gooding: My 375th Kiva Loan

Bob Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Metaphorically, micro lending is not giving someone a fish, and it's not teaching someone to fish; it's helping a fisherman patch a hole in his rowboat so he can get on with life.

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Trust Is the Answer: Yunus and the Future of Everything

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Microloans, Women, Nobel Peace Prize, Yunus Movie Project, Microcredit, Grameen, Yunus, Trust, Yunus Film, Economy, Loans, Banking, Financial Crisis, Subprime, Business News

If you give up on trusting your fellow human beings, then the Bastards win. They make you mistrustful like they are.

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An Expat's Week in America: Health Care, Yunus, Grameen and Broadway

Vivian Norris | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Phyllida Lloyd, Mamma Mia, Grameen, Poverty, Economy, Broadway, Bankers, Grameen America, Doctors, Obama, Media, Health Care, Muhammad Yunus, Healthy Living News

No one can crush the spirit of those who are doing what they love to do, and sharing it with us.

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Entrepreneurship Will Lead Us Out of This Mess: Yunus' World From Micro to Macro

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yunus, Microcredit, Bottom of the Pyramid, Trickle Down, Grameen, Social Entrepreneurship, Financial Crisis, Credit as a Human Right, Entrepreneurship, Native American, Cuba, Grameen-Phone, Economy, Business News

This time, instead of believing in the same old trickle down economics, know that it will be grassroots bottom of the pyramid building up.

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Muhammad Yunus: Social Business, the Financial Crisis and the Little Engine that Could

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yunus, Danone, Microcredit, Poverty, Nobel Peace Prize, Grameen, Bangladesh, Economy, Volkswagon, Financial Crisis, Poor, Social Business, Laser, Capitalism, Cofinoga, Business News

Muhammad Yunus, the poor, and countries which we have always considered "underdeveloped" have a lot to teach us about sustainability!

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Microcredit As Part of the Solution: Yunus Spreads Grameen in the U.S.

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yunus, Poverty, University of North Carolina, Clinton, Nobel Peace Prize, Creative Capitalism, Grameen, Rescue Package, Loans, Obama, Microcredit, Geithner, Business News

The crowds in the U.S. waiting to hear Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, and founder of the Grameen bank for the poor, are growing la...

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Timothy Geithner and his Father's Legacy in Microcredit

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Geithner grew up in Zimbabwe, India and Thailand. It would have been impossible for him to not have seen what true poverty is and how his father was helping to establish part of the solution.

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Don't get crushed at the mall - Create Jobs

Jack Hidary | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toys, Walmart, Small Business, Microcredit, Santa Claus, Grameen, Holiday Gifts, Jobs, Kiva, Holiday, Kiva.org, Accion, Microfinance, Hannukah, Christmas, China Lead, Stampede, Style News

Think your are helping the economy by buying some holiday gifts? Instead of giving more stuff to your relatives and friends that they don't need, d...

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