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• Expanding Loan Options in Rwanda

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 636
  By David AbrahamBlue Financial, a South African microfinance institution, just launched its Cashxpress product in Rwanda.  The service is intended to help employed, yet low income individuals borrow money in emergency situations.  According to the Blue Financial website, Cashexpress is unique since it will ...
  1 day ago

• Social Fund Raising

  
  Open The Dialogue — Authority: 113
  The topic of fund raising came up in a meeting yesterday, and when I got home and was trolling through my Google reader, I came across   KickStarter , a Brooklyn based site that allows users to pitch in to fund creative projects – artwork, design, animation, music, and more.  Donors receive updates throughout the ...
  6 days ago

• A.P. Giannini and the Bank of America (Oklahoma Western Biographies): Gerald D. Nash

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 135
  Editorial Reviews From Library Journal Giannini, the son of Italian immigrants, started a small bank in California in 1904 that would one day grow into the Bank of America. Called “A.P.” by both friend and foe, Giannini was a feisty, hardworking entrepreneur who came to banking after a [...]
  2 weeks ago

• The Other Problem Facing Women in Afghanistan [Global Womens Issues]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 819
  Women business owners in Afghanistan are facing a growing threat. Criminal gangs, attracted by the growing wealth of savvy entrepreneurs, are targeting women with businesses for extortion and undermining the countrys best chance at economic growth. A new article in the Daily Beast highlights the stories of two ...
  2 weeks ago

• Overheard on AIM

  
  queer and loathing — Authority: 114
  Clearly, as this excerpt from a conversation with my friend James shows, I have not assimilated well into our nation’s capital: myriadian: My current areas of interest are transportation policies, new urbanism, micro-lending, african aid, futurism, and of course I’m educated in biology, math, physics ...
  3 weeks ago

• Microlending: Panacea or Patchwork?

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 636
  Microlending has been hailed as the panacea of poverty.  They theory is simple:  lend the poor a small amount of money so they can start/grow their business, charge tiny interest rates (microcredit), then once business starts booming, the borrowers can easily pay the loan.  Woosh! Just like that, poverty ...
  3 weeks ago

• this is not aisle 3

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 434
  By Shereef Zaki, KF9, Perú One of my first posts was titled ‘recession proof’’ in which I described the resilience of micro-businesses and the integrity of micro-lending. This time around, I want to detail a theme I had only painted with large brushstrokes. Although EDPYME Alternativa’s borrowers are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Caring across the curriculum

  
  David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts — Authority: 98
  Caring across the curriculum Sometimes I get tired of seeing the school day broken into subject-matter based courses. We don’t teach subjects we teach students, and students of all ages engage in a real life that matters across individual fields of study. Watch the video Miniature Earth : How many different ...
  4 weeks ago

• Big Returns Come in Micro-sized Packages

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  Twitter, the social media micro-blogging service, just received $100 million in new funding from T. Rowe Price and New York’s Insight Venture Partners, according to recent reports. It’s a staggering amount when you think of Twitter’s modest beginning as a simple sketch on a legal pad. It is, however, the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Billions of dollars and a Nobel Prize later, it looks like microlending doesnt actually do much to fight poverty

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 141
  In the world of international aid, microcredit is a rock star. The practice of giving very poor people very small loans to start very small businesses has been hailed as one of the very few unambiguous success stories in the long, frustrating fight against Third World poverty.
  4 weeks ago

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