Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

The Salvation Army’s Pathway of Hope adopted a case-management approach, proven effective in social work, to help families identify barriers to escaping poverty, whether inadequate housing, unemployment, or lack of education. By February 2016, more than three-quarters of the Central Territory Corps were trained in the new model.

Microfinance 9

Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

At Opportunity International , where the focus is on providing loans, savings, insurance, and related training to clients in the world's poorest communities, our major donors like to see the work up close. We know that microfinance alone will not break the poverty cycle.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

She imagined a future when her family would be out of poverty AND her kids would start their adult life educated. Sasikala, a Block Development Officer (BDO), talked to the Kodapattinam villagers about microfinance , only Shantha, of all the villagers, saw the opportunity and took action. She went door to door, pleading and pitching.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Innovation Committee Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Its aim is to target an important segment of the labor force, young people who have not received adequate education and training due to various external and internal factors. This challenge is not easy because we are not discussing high school or college graduates, but youth that may not have received any formal education.

Microfinance 13

Microfinance Seminar How To Education 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

We equipped a dozen chaiwalas with HomeStoves, trained them to use the stove, printed BioLite banners to hang on their stands, and set them up with cords, so customers could charge their phones off our stove. Each Burner undergoes a five-day intensive training and receives their own HomeStove Delivery Box.

Marketing 8

Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Huge companies like IBM have created programs to train and transition retirees into social sector roles. is Year Up , an organization that mentors and trains disconnected youth into living-wage jobs. Since then, TFA has become one of the largest employers of Ivy League graduates. Take the issue of youth unemployment.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Microfinance NGO Mission Statement 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Following Abed's twist on Schumacher — "small may be beautiful, but big is necessary" — it now touches the lives of an estimated 126 million people with healthcare, education, enterprise development, microfinance and a slew of other programs. Today it runs a sprawl of surplus-generating businesses across diverse sectors.

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Microfinance Follow-up Bureaucracy Self-aware 8