Another joint venture, comparable to the French company Danone, demonstrates how it is possible for business to be social!
Here is the article in the Daily Stary.
Posted by: Sabine Kurjo McNeill | March 21, 2010
Grameen, Adidas to make low-cost shoes
Posted in Bangladesh, Doing good, Germany | Tags: Adidas, Grameen
Posted by: Sabine Kurjo McNeill | March 20, 2010
MyMicroCredit e.V.
There is a remarkable multi-millionaire who has decided to follow the voice of his heart. He’s selling his homes and aeroplanes and, instead, has created the first microcredit organisation with which Europeans can make microcredits available to South Americans.
Click on this English or this German site.
Posted in Doing good, micro-finance | Tags: microcredit, South America
Posted by: Sabine Kurjo McNeill | March 18, 2010
Yunus calls for standardised interest rates
Posted by: Sabine Kurjo McNeill | March 4, 2010
Grameen America comes to Omaha
Posted by: Sabine Kurjo McNeill | February 9, 2010
Robin Hood Tax as a “micro-tax” on banking
Posted by: Sabine Kurjo McNeill | January 18, 2010
Bahrain opens bank under Grameen model
The Daily Star in Bangladesh once again has good news about Grameen and Dr. Yunus: Family Bank, a microfinance bank licensed by the central bank of Bahrain, opened in Bahrain on Tuesday, said a statement of Yunus Centre.
The full article is here.
Posted in Bahrain, Credit unions, Doing good, Islamic Finance, Microfinance | Tags: Bahrain, Family Bank, Grameen
Posted by: Sabine Kurjo McNeill | January 11, 2010
Cherie Blair discusses health issues with Yunus
Cherie Blair, wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair, called on Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, and discussed healthcare programmes of Grameen Kalyan and Grameen Healthcare Trust yesterday.
During the meeting at the Grameen Headquarters at Mirpur in the city, they also discussed Grameen’s nursing colleges, health management centres, eye care hospitals, thalassemia initiative and overall health issues pertaining to women, says a press release.
Posted in Bangladesh, Healthcare | Tags: Cherie Blair, health
Posted by: Sabine Kurjo McNeill | December 31, 2009
Big idea might be learning to think small
Big idea might be: learning to think small
By Paul Bennett
Published: December 30 2009 22:06 | Last updated: December 30 2009 22:06
I spend my life sitting in boardrooms across from chief executives asking me to help them find that mythical beast, “the big idea”. To them, I say this: “Small is the new big.”
I feel this even more strongly after a recent visit to Bangladesh to meet Muhammad Yunus, recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. I wanted to better understand the Grameen organisation, its microfinancing banking system, and its collaboration with the global French food group, Danone. There, I would see with my own eyes what social enterprise looks and feels like when the rubber hits the road. In recent years, Ideo’s client base has increasingly been about designing not only for financial but also for social impact, and a visceral sense of the opportunities and realities was what I was looking to learn.
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Posted in Grameen, micro-finance | Tags: Financial Times, ft
Posted by: Sabine Kurjo McNeill | December 3, 2009
Small Wonder on BBC Radio 4
Here’s the link to the programme on microloans.
Critics need to be negative, as they can’t be creative, it seems. But in the US, any publicity is good as long as names are spelled correctly…
Posted in Dr. Yunus, Radio | Tags: BBC Radio 4
Posted by: Sabine Kurjo McNeill | November 9, 2009
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