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Women as Microfinance Leaders, Not Just Clients

Harvard Business Review

We're a network of microfinance organizations; we exist to share practices and develop the leadership skills required by a sector that has grown up fast. And as you might be aware, microfinance is a phenomenon that, while it did not set out to be "for women," has mainly turned out to be.

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Transforming Rural India Through Agricultural Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Over 1,900 beneficiaries have established micro-enterprises for which microfinance has been facilitated. NAF has also established a Research and Development Center in Chennai housing a comprehensive soil testing laboratory, food safety and standards laboratory and a plant tissue culture lab to provide agriculture support services.

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The Conference That’s Trying to Reinvent How We Network

Harvard Business Review

But there were many others — from the completely unstructured (communal tables for snack and lunch breaks and narrow corridors between presentation areas, which had everyone literally rubbing elbows) to the very structured (labs, masterclasses, workshops). Technology also played a big role. And it worked.