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Innovating The Brick-and-Mortar Injustice Infrastructure

Mills Scofield

This week''s post is by Andy Posner , Co-Founder & Executive Director of Capital Good Fund ( CGF ), a non-profit microfinance organization targeting the root causes of poverty through innovative micro-loans and personal financial coaching. It’s time for us to finally put poverty out of business for good. [1]

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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business Review

So it’s important to recognize that if we expect to expand impact investment based primarily on its profitability, we should expect to get just what we set out to create: a tool that has maximized profit over impact. Lessons from Microfinance. First, does microfinance help people, and if so, how much?

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Making Microfinance More Effective

Harvard Business Review

A major challenge for international development efforts is determining which financial tools provide durable buffers against such setbacks. The Grameen model of microfinance gained a great deal of attention in the international development field after early data showed that it was associated with high repayment and low default.

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Why CEOs have Liberal Arts Degrees

Mills Scofield

These disciplines provide me with a tool kit to navigate any situation I am presented, and in my opinion, make me a better employee. She's spending the summer in Dhaka doing microfinance. The situations I study in history are different, but as seen above, the skills used are the same.

CEO 70
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Why CEOs have Liberal Arts Degrees

Mills Scofield

These disciplines provide me with a tool kit to navigate any situation I am presented, and in my opinion, make me a better employee. She's spending the summer in Dhaka doing microfinance. The situations I study in history are different, but as seen above, the skills used are the same.

CEO 70
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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

Peer-to-Peer Microfinance: A Sustainable Solution to Poverty. To Our Military: Thank You For Your Service. Publishing The New Advanced Degree Model? Servant Leadership Observer – December 2010. Careers for Servant Leaders. The Value of Making Time for Gratitude. Know Your Social Media Hierarchy. Servant Leadership. Social Media.

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Banking on Women and Girls: Key to Global Poverty Alleviation

Harvard Business Review

On this 100th International Women's Day , it is right to reflect on how women have become the heart of the microfinance industry. It is easy to forget that the initial motivation for microfinance roughly 30 years ago was, to a great extent, gender neutral. Microfinance is about much more than extending credit.