Mills Scofield
JUNE 16, 2013
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. Grant funding, to be sure, is an option, but an unreliable one at that.
Mills Scofield
AUGUST 27, 2012
Among this group has been a founder of a wildlife foundation, a married Wall Street duo, a management consultant, his digital artist wife, and an urban planner. That $1000 may never have been donated if the allure of coming to Zanzibar for a marathon was not present, even if it cost the donor $2500 of his own money. How do we do it?
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 5, 2016
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. First, they may reduce financial institutions’ costs. Our findings are captured in a working paper which we summarize below.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 22, 2011
The microfinance industry has in just a few years gone from making headlines for the Nobel Peace Prize to stories about limited impact, allegedly abusive tactics, client suicides, government crackdowns, major lenders struggling with insolvency and the forcible removal of Mohammed Yunus as Managing Director of Grameen Bank.
Modern Servant Leader
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
Why Technology Managers Make Great Leaders. How to Handle a Seagull Manager. Do You Have a “Seagull Manager”? Why Meetings Suck (Costs) & How to Reveal It. Peer-to-Peer Microfinance: A Sustainable Solution to Poverty. Task Prioritization and Time Management – John Maxwell Style.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 8, 2011
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.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 22, 2013
We're more likely to scale up birthing kits that cost less than 50 cents apiece than mobile apps that might diagnose disease; more likely to open one-room schools in rented spaces or even boats , where children sit on the floor and learn to think creatively, than insist that every pupil have Internet access.
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