Articles Tagged With 'microfinance'
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| Summer 2003 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship |
Credit to the Poor
Muhammad Yunus was getting nowhere in Bangladesh – so he opened his own bank. |
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| Summer 2005 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Poverty | Block by Block [Free!] How one of the world’s largest companies builds loyalty among Mexico’s poor. | |
| Fall 2005 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Global Issues • Poverty | Review: Bootstrap Dreams The emergence of microenterprise development programs, internationally and in the United States. | |
| Fall 2005 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Government • Social Policy • Business • Social Enterprises | Small Is Beautiful Banks in Mexico say that microloans are helping the poor while boosting their profits. | |
| Fall 2006 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Global Issues • Poverty |
Review: The White Man’s Burden
Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good |
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| Summer 2007 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Business • Socially Responsible Business | From the Bottom Line of Our Hearts Why businesspeople don't mention values when they discuss social responsibility. | |
| Summer 2007 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Socially Responsible Investing • Government • Social Policy • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Poverty | Microfinance Misses Its Mark [Free!] Despite the hoopla over microfinance, it doesn't cure poverty. But stable jobs do. If societies are serious about helping the poorest of the poor, they should stop investing in microfinance and start supporting large, labor-intensive industries. | |
| Fall 2007 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Philanthropy • Foundations • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Health | Micro-franchise Against Malaria [Free!] How for-profit clinics are healing and enriching the rural poor in Kenya. | |
| Winter 2008 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Socially Responsible Investing • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Poverty | In Microfinance, Clients Must Come First [Free!] Few microfinance institutions articulate what, exactly, their ultimate goals are and how to achieve them. If the goal of microfinance is to alleviate poverty, the authors say, then MFIs should focus on helping their clients build successful enterprises, rather than on making more and bigger loans. | |
| Summer 2008 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Social Return on Investment • Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Poverty | Reimagining Microfinance [Free!] Critics of microfinance institutions (MFIs) ask them to choose between helping the poor or making money for investors, but this is a false choice. MFIs can have their impact and profit, too, says the author, the CEO of the Grameen Foundation. He sketches a new vision of microfinance as a platform, not a product; one that relies on high volumes, not high margins, and that uses limits on private benefit, holistic performance standards, and third-party certification to help MFIs meet both their bottom lines. | |
| Summer 2008 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Socially Responsible Investing • Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Poverty | Microloan Sharks Commercial microfinance institutions (MFIs) must calculate two bottom lines: alleviating poverty for clients and also generating profits for investors. To achieve the latter goal, some MFIs charge their impoverished clients exorbitant interest rates. The recent Banco Compartamos IPO in Mexico raises a red flag, demonstrating how easily well-intentioned MFIs and their investors can shift from microlending to microloan-sharking. | |
| Fall 2008 | Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship | Inspiring Innovation THE SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE by Tracy Kidder | |
| Winter 2009 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Socially Responsible Investing • Global Issues • Poverty | What’s Next: Beyond Microfinance Two new players in the world's social investing scene seek financial returns along with social impact. | |
| Winter 2009 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Philanthropy • Online Giving • Global Issues • Poverty | What’s Next: Let’s Play Microloan Kids win beads and help give loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries. | |
| Spring 2009 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Global Issues • Poverty | Research: No Profit for Her Research shows that men may be more effective than woman at utilizing microfinance investments. | |
| Spring 2009 | Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Leadership • Nonprofit Organizations • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Poverty | Root Solutions Nonprofit lender Root Capital connects rural farmers and artisans with the corporations that crave their products. | |
| Summer 2009 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Philanthropy • Online Giving • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Organizations • Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Poverty • Global Issues • Economic Development • Philanthropy • Online Giving • Case Study | The Profit in Nonprofit [Free!] Why Kiva chose to be a 501(c)(3), what this tax status buys the organization, and how being a nonprofit poses challenges. | |
| Fall 2009 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Global Issues • Poverty • Human Rights • Civil Society | Microfinance for the Most Marginalized Small loans are tipping the social scales for Roma people. | |
| Summer 2011 | Social Innovations • Microfinance • Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Global Issues • Poverty • Civil Society • Global Issues • Economic Development • First Person | The Miracle of Financial Inclusion The founder of the Kashf Foundation argues that microfinance can improve the lives of Pakistan’s next generation. |