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1. Kiva- My Absolute Favorite Charity I discovered Kiva.org almost one year ago through in article in Glamour magazine. I looked it up that day and made my first loan within an hour. Kiva is a revolutionary new website that lets you make loans as little as $25 to people in developing cou...
2. Mohammed Yunus Mohammed Yunus is founder of the Grameen Bank and introduced the world to the concept of micro-credits. As an economist with an enterpreneurial background, he got started during a famine in Bangladesh. He talked to a women that was selling bamboo stoo...
3. The Man Who Created Microfinance I have a tremendous admiration for Professor Yunus, "the banker of the poor". Actually he is on my list of heroes along with Dr.Paul Farmer. Dr. Yunus was born in 1940 in Bangladesh. He came from a large family of 14 children. His parents were well...
4. Grameen Foundation We're a nonprofit organization that uses microfinance and innovative technology to fight global poverty and bring opportunities to the world's poorest people. With tiny loans (around US$100), financial services and technology, we help the poor, mostl...
5. Microfinance - Empowering the world's poorest people Microfinance is often considered one of the most effective, flexible, and sustainable strategies in the fight against global poverty. Microfinance consists of making small loans, usually less than $200, to individuals, usually women, to establish or e...
6. Microloans Could be Your Ticket to Startup Funding Microloans are commonly defined as small business loans to businesses often referred to as micro-enterprises. A "micro enterprise" or "micro business" is a business with fewer than five employees having capital needs of under $35,000.
7. Muhammad Yunus Muhammad Yunus is a banker -and he is a banker with foresight and great social conscience. If you have heared of micro loans and Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, then you know already a little about this great man. Muhammad Yunus has received the 2006 Nob...
8. Grameen Bank of Bangladesh Grameen Bank was started in 1976 by a young economics professor, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, when he discovered that poor women could break through poverty by taking tiny loans to start or expand tiny businesses. He launched his concept, microfinance, with t...
9. Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank win the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Grameen Bank founder and Grameen Foundation board member Muhammad Yunus, and his Grameen Bank, have won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. The staff and board of Grameen Foundation congratulate Professor Yunus and the staff of Grameen Bank on this extraordi...