76% of India's population lives below the poverty line, while $6 billion is spent each year on yoga in the U.S. "With $25 a month, a struggling woman can start her own business, or a child can go to school. For the cost of one yoga class, you can change a life."
Kate Otto | Posted 03.18.2012
As Americans gather on Sunday to honor our mamas, we should also be celebrating "MAMA," a new global health initiative launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
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.
Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011
Here are three ways you can help the poorest people in the world who typically live on less than one dollar a day and are based in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
Posted 05.25.2011
More international aid groups are turning to mobile technology to solve global poverty, the Washington Post reports. "Mobile penetration is at almos...
Fred Graves | Posted 05.25.2011
As an intern for the Grameen Foundation, I was excited at the chance to combine my passions for microfinance and for hip-hop music. The result is the first hip-hop microfinance music video.
Elisabeth Rhyne | Posted 05.25.2011
Moderate results are disappointing if you were expecting microfinance to cure poverty. But they are just what you'd expect if you think microfinance is about bringing financial services to people who never had them before.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Unprecedented Collaboration Assists the Most Vulnerable In the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, January 23, an unprecedented joint NGO-military operation ...
Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011
In the same way that the Blue Helmets maintain peace, we should urgently create Red Helmets at the United Nations scale to organize the humanitarian action.
Leslie Hendry | Posted 10.24.2011