Blogs  

Kiva Chronicles:  Follow the real-life story of a couple who decided to change the world, one loan at a time.  Matt Flannery keeps you up to date on the latest in what it takes to start and scale their online microfinance venture.

Engage In Uganda:  Seventeen students from Northwestern University are spending the summer in Uganda to implement projects in microfinance and youth leadership. Liz, Nikolai and Ann share their adventures.

Corporate Service Fellows: Madhu Anand left her comfortable job as a Business Operations Manager in Cisco Systems’ California headquarters and began a six-month, full- time corporate service fellowship supporting microfinance in Kyrgyzstan. She tells her story to Jennifer Anastasoff, CEO of BuildingBlocks International.

Discussions

Microfinance UNITUS Case Studies, 2008-02-26

Microfinance Revisited, 2008-02-05 Hosted by Charles "Hipbone"  Cameron

Microfinance: Who Uses It and Why?, 2007-07-06 Hosted by Monique Cohen

Seeing Differently? Donors as Learning Organizations, 2007-07-05 Hosted by Caroline Hartnell…

Case Study: Gumball Capital, 2007-06-05 Hosted by Ilana Seid

Global X Video Interviews

Muhammad Yunus – Grameen Bank, 2008-02-05

Unitus series: CS Ghosh, Bandhan, 2008-02-05, Vincent Perlas - Lifebank, 2008-02-12, Harsha Moily - MokshaYug Access (MYA), 2008-02-19, Dhattatreya Hosagrahar - IIRM, 2008-02-26

Ayeleen Ajanee – Pakistan - Kashf Foundation, 2007-09-11

Matt & Jessica Flannery - Kiva.org, 2007-09-04

David Bornstein - How to Change the World, 2007-08-23

Roshaneh Zafar - The Kashf Foundation, 2007-06-19

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Podcasts

Matthew Kopac – Benin, 2007-12-18 08:50 Matt Kopac, Peace Corps volunteer in Benin (2001-2003), worked with an agricultural credit union to create a microfinance program for women.

Mary Balmaceda – Benin, 2007-12-04 Mary Balmaceda, Peace Corps volunteer in Benin (1996-1998), trained cotton producers to form credit unions. She later joined the Calvert Foundation and is now Marketing Director for Unitus where she tries to reduce global poverty through microfinance.

Luke Filose – Mauritania, 2007-11-27 Luke Filose, Peace Corps volunteer in Mauritania (2004-2005), worked with a micro-finance organization giving loans to women's groups. He later went to Chad to create a supply chain to distribute fuel-efficient cook stoves.

John Hatch - Colombia and Peru, 2007-11-08 John Hatch, Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia (1962-1964), served as an urban community development volunteer and later went to Peru where he managed an agricultural cooperative. In 1984, he founded FINCA, one of the world's leading microcredit institutions based on the village-banking model.

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Jobs

Drishtee, Operations Manager, Noida, India, 2008-08-22

Silicon Valley Microfinance Network (SVMN), Executive Director, 2008-08-11

Unitus, Major Gifts Officer, 2008-08-01

Drishtee, Business Development Manager, US - location is flexible, 2008-07-11 

Katalysis Bootstrap Fund, Executive Director, Stockton, CA, 2008-06-14

Living Goods International Social Franchise, COO / Associate Director, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, 2008-06-03

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Opportunities

2008 Net Impact North America Conference, “The Sustainable Advantage: Creating Social and Environmental Value," Nov. 13-15, 2008

Members Project by American Express, Voting is open for which project gets funding, 2008-08-18

Kiva Fellows Program: First application deadline: August 1, 2008, 2008-07-16

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Wiki Resources & Information

Microcredit

Sustainable Banking

Potential of Microfinance for Tsunami Recovery

Using Microfinance for Disaster Mitigation

Microfinance Centre

Microfinance Information eXchange, Inc

The Year of Microcredit: A Status Report

Calvert Community Investments

Other Blog Mentions:

Blogging the Clinton Global Initiative, 2007-10-01, Clinton Global Citizen Awards

More Microfinance Search Results on Social Edge for:

Microfinance, BRAC, Calvert Foundation, FINCA, Flannery, Grameen, Intellecap, Kashf Foundation, Kiva, UNITUS, Yunus

Microfinance results by region: Asia (India), Africa, Americas, Europe, Middle East