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Published by Drew Meyers on 24 Dec 2008

Hitting the Microfinance Links - December 24th

Published by Drew Meyers on 10 Dec 2008

What Do Kiva Borrowers Think of Barack Obama?

Zach Turner of Kiva found out during a trip to Kenya prior to the election.

[via Kiva Chronicles]

Published by Drew Meyers on 09 Dec 2008

Hitting the Microfinance Links - December 9th

Published by Drew Meyers on 02 Dec 2008

How Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World

Here’s a presentation from Alex Counts, the President of the Grameen Foundation, that I found on MTEF.

Published by Drew Meyers on 16 Nov 2008

Hitting the Microfinance Links - November 16th

Published by Drew Meyers on 02 Nov 2008

MicroPlace Party with a Special Guest

If you are a MicroPlace investor and live in the San Francisco Bay area, you will have the chance to meet Muhammad Yunus at the party MicroPlace is throwing in honor of their 1 year anniversary. The event is on Thursday, November 13th in San Jose, California from 12:30-1:30pm. More details over at the MicroPlace blog.

Published by Drew Meyers on 26 Oct 2008

Hitting the Microfinance Links - October 26th

Published by Drew Meyers on 15 Oct 2008

Blog Action Day

If you read many blogs, you likely already know that today is Blog Action Day — the goal being to help expand the conversation around alleviating poverty. From climate control to microfinance to saving children to inequality, Blog Action Day resulted in a lot of great thought about a variety of important topics. We need to start thinking more about how we can help rid this world of poverty. Putting our heads in the sand and ignoring today’s challenges is not acceptable. Instead, we need to tackle today’s critical issues with the energy of those passionate about the issues at hand. In order to reach the goal of halving the proportion of those living on less than a $1 a day by 2015, we’re all going to have to work together to make it happen and I believe microfinance is a huge piece of the overall puzzle.

I sincerely thank everyone who devotes their time, energy, and passion toward helping to alleviate poverty worldwide. The world is a better place because of you.

Published by Drew Meyers on 06 Oct 2008

“Celebrate, Accelerate”

Though the Millennium Development Goals are fairly broad in scope, I don’t think I’m alone in thinking that microfinance will continue to be a vital tool to eradicating poverty worldwide. There’s a great video put together by ONE.org that I wanted to share that shows some of the progress made toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

[via ONE]

Published by Drew Meyers on 30 Sep 2008

Hitting the Microfinance Links - September 30th

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