Image via Wikipedia I founded Grameen Bank to provide small loans that people, especially poor women, could use to bring themselves out of poverty Dhaka, Bangladesh IN the 1970s, when I bega... Read more
Image by Acumen Fund via Flickr An old friend of mine here fights terrorists, but not the way you’re thinking. She could barely defeat a truculent child in hand-to-hand combat, and if she ev... Read more
Image via CrunchBase Kiva.org, one of the pioneers in micro-lending to entrepreneurs, is entering the educational space today, launching the pilot program of student microloans on the platfo... Read more
Image via CrunchBase The idea is to bring student loans to the developing world through the power of person-to-person microlending The microfinance model has proved to be a valuable way to r... Read more