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1 October 2011
MICROCREDIT & BEYOND
The Emerging Wave of Social Business &
Social Entrepreneurship
Cost: $90.00
Includes: Registration, Lunch & Refreshments
Location: Danish Canadian Club
727 11 Ave SW, Calgary
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Mike French Introduction and Welcome Speech
Good morning and welcome.
It is my pleasure today to bring greetings from Rotary International on behalf of RI President Kalyan Banerjee, and from myself as Governor of District 5360. I am also very pleased that Past Rotary International President Wilf Wilkinson is with us here today. Wilf. Wilf has been a great supporter of the micro-credit initiative as it has evolved in Rotary. Support of Micro-credit, in...
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Beyond Microcredit - What's Next?
I had the privilege of helping to open the Calgary Microcredit Conference this past weekend on a panel with Mark Durieux, University of Calgary, and Rupert Scofield, FINCA where we provided our thoughts to answer the day's question and conference theme: Microcredit and Beyond - The Emerging Wave of Social Business & Social Entrepreneurship. On a Saturday morning, two hundred Calgarians turned out to think through...
208 days ago by CMC-2011, Category: Microcredit
Growing Pains: Ethics, Regulation & Moving Forward
By Bree Gardner
The debate over microfinance is as old as the idea itself. Once praised as the golden solution to poverty, it now faces the criticisms and condemnation that often follows success and misuse. Alex Counts, CEO and President of Grameen Foundation, has found that in regulation and ethics comes success. "Microfinance can go wrong if people pursue it with the wrong objectives and try to extract...
220 days ago by CMC-2011, Category: Microcredit
Paths of Change
By Bree Gardner Calling it a 'classic example of a social business,' CEO of FINCA International Rupert Scofield said microcredit began as market failure where the poor could not access banking, to a creative use of the banking sector that allows an escape from poverty. His book, The Social Entrepreneur's Handbook is a guide to the world both around and outside that of microfinance. "Social business is an...
220 days ago by CMC-2011, Category: Microcredit
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As we prepare to kick off the Rotary International Convention in Bangkok, Thailand today, we wanted to celebrate the fact that tomorrow RAGM and Rotary International are welcoming Professor Muhammad Yunus to speak at both the Plenary Session and the RAGM Breakout Session "Peace and Prosperity through Microcredit" (Monday, May...
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Introduction to Self Sustainability & the Challenges Faced by Non-Profits
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"Preventing Maternal & Infant Mortalities"- What Rotarians Can Do
presented by Dolapo Lufadeju and Robert Zinser Monday- May 7,...
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Good morning and welcome. It is my pleasure today to bring greetings from Rotary International on behalf of RI President Kalyan Banerjee, and from myself as Governor of District 5360. I am also very pleased that Past Rotary International President Wilf Wilkinson is with us here today. Wilf. Wilf has been a great supporter of the micro-credit initiative as it has evolved in Rotary. Support of Micro-credit, in...
I had the privilege of helping to open the Calgary Microcredit Conference this past weekend on a panel with Mark Durieux, University of Calgary, and Rupert Scofield, FINCA where we provided our thoughts to answer the day's question and conference theme: Microcredit and Beyond - The Emerging Wave of Social Business & Social Entrepreneurship. On a Saturday morning, two hundred Calgarians turned out to think through...
By Bree Gardner The debate over microfinance is as old as the idea itself. Once praised as the golden solution to poverty, it now faces the criticisms and condemnation that often follows success and misuse. Alex Counts, CEO and President of Grameen Foundation, has found that in regulation and ethics comes success. "Microfinance can go wrong if people pursue it with the wrong objectives and try to extract...
By Bree Gardner Calling it a 'classic example of a social business,' CEO of FINCA International Rupert Scofield said microcredit began as market failure where the poor could not access banking, to a creative use of the banking sector that allows an escape from poverty. His book, The Social Entrepreneur's Handbook is a guide to the world both around and outside that of microfinance. "Social business is an...
As we prepare to kick off the Rotary International Convention in Bangkok, Thailand today, we wanted to celebrate the fact that tomorrow RAGM and Rotary International are welcoming Professor Muhammad Yunus to speak at both the Plenary Session and the RAGM Breakout Session "Peace and Prosperity through Microcredit" (Monday, May...
The Second Lady of Liberia, Madam Kartumu Boakai, was the keynote speaker and VIP guest on April 25, 2012, at the celebration of the 15th year of the Foundation for Women held in La Jolla, California, USA. Madam Boakai spoke of her work with the Group of 77, an organization dedicated to the support of the disabled...
While many can easily agree that it is important for non-profit MFIs to become self-sustaining, it is not yet easily agreed how to achieve this sustainability. In conversations with microcredit practitioners there seems to be a delicate balance between three key objectives: 1) Securing program funding to create a loan...
RFPD Booth # 302 Maternal & Child Health Booth #203 Saturday May 5-Wednesday May 9, House of Friendship IMPACT Exhibition & Convention Center RFPD Breakout Session "Preventing Maternal & Infant Mortalities"- What Rotarians Can Do presented by Dolapo Lufadeju and Robert Zinser Monday- May 7,...
