24 posts tagged Grameen Bank

Grameen Bank, the micro-credit financier initially set up to help the poorest in Bangladesh, has opened its first branch in the United States. The Bangladesh-based outfit known as the poor people’s bank plans to hand out loans to the less well-off in one of the most ethnically-diverse neighbourhoods

Today I decided to write about Kiva, I received an email telling me the loan I had made to Teodora Marcela last October had been repaid. Teodora Marcela had requested a loan to buy supplies for the General Store in Tarma, Peru I will share my joy at discovering Kiva last year.

More than 5,000 trees will be planted with Eco-Libris to balance out the Swedish edition of the latest book from the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, 'Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism', which is now being published in Swedish by BookHouse Publishing.

Sorry for the delayed proposal. I’ve been beyond swamped and can barely find time to blog drivel lately. Let alone something substantial that requires some thought and imagination. For those of you aren’t familiar with what I mean when I say scale-free networks . . .

Sorry it’s taken so long. I’m busy as usual. So I guess a background story first . . . The guy to the left of the really cool soldier guy is Amit. We were joined in this picture by his good friend Vashal while visiting the Pakistan and India border.

I’ve been thinking more and more about scale-free networks and the possibility of leveraging social groups for bigger things. If you’ve been around Facebook for a while, you’ve probably seen the CAUSES application which is great but often times is void of the relational aspect that you would think would be apparent.

Last night, I had the privilege to sit down at a dinner with the leaders of Danone Water. Rarely have I met business people with such a passion for their work. The reason is very simple. As Danone employees, they are not just in the business of selling yogurt or mineral water.

Wheat-straw paths surround my garden beds and I have been replenishing the straw several times a year for six years now. And so it shouldn't have come as a suprise to me, yet it did, that when I accidentally scratched on a patch of ground beneath the straw between two of my beds, the once-hard and red clay underneath was soft and black and gorgeous.

Filed under: Housing Given that subprime lenders are getting a mostly deserved bad rap of late, I've been on the lookout for articles about people who are doing subprime right. Yesterday I wrote about Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus's crusade to provide credit to low-income entrepreneurs.

CJSR FM88 www.cjsr.com 6 PM Mountain Time The global economic imbalance of wealth is based on taking the resources away from the many—at the business end of weapons, when necessary—to be given to the very few. Some of those weapons were pointed 500 years ago; others are being pointed today.