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Zach Ingrasci
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Zach Ingrasci's Discussions
MFI Connect Kenya Scholarship
Started Feb 3
Obama's Mother and Microfinance: The administration's development plans
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Taylor MacKay Feb 8.
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I teach a graduate course in microfinance and am a strong believer in continuous, self-education. One member of this site asked if I could put together a tutorial. I thought I'd invite others who wish to follow the same path and learn together.
I couldn't find a ton of information on this, but these two links are worth looking into.
http://www.seattlemicrofinance.org/obama-announces-microfinance-growth-fund/2009/04/19
http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/MicrofinanceforObama
I agree with…
One of the most exciting aspects of the Summit are the optional field visits to leading microfinance institutions in Kenya on the day before (April 6), the fourth day (April 10) and the day after (April 11) the Summit. we can visit Jamii Bora, Equit…
The MFI Connect team has been raising money to provide full andpartial scholarships to students. The applications are due February21, 2010. Scholarship winners will be announced by March 1,2012.Requirements for Applicants• Only current students, und…
check out this awesome video posted by Chris Macrae on a discussion on Jamii Bora who will be an important MFI at the conference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9epVKVvBxe0&feature=player_embedded#
According to Time magazine's article http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1729524-7,00.html Barack Obama's mother was very involved in the microfinance world. She worked with the Bank Rakyat Indonesia in the late 1980's. With a mom like th…
Wow the April 19th and 20th conference sounds really interesting! What technology are you using in order to broadcast the conference? We recently had a live conference put on by mobilize.org playing on our site. We embedded their web based player in…
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- What is the name of your company, organization, or school?
- MFI Connect - The Microfinance Forum
- How did you find out about the Microfinance Network?
- Helped to create it
- Why are you here?
- In order to make the Microfinance forum a comprehensive and informative site that encourages a unique interaction between individuals and the Microfinance community.
Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 6:16pm on July 24, 2009,
chris macrae said… - hi do you have any bookmarks to jb's business school - I believe 3 realttively minor us universities were contributing to it when ingrid was speaking in ny in january but I havent tracked down much -one does wonder which big uni will be smart enough to sponsor jb?
- At 8:02pm on August 23, 2009,
Thaís Leão Marques said… - Hi, Zach!
Can you tell me more about what are you doing in your Microfinance Forum?
See you!
- At 6:29pm on August 28, 2009,
Elsie Love said…
- zach! this is quite the website here... still kinda figuring it out. hope you're all settled back in at claremont! i'm gonna call ya sometime next week when things get a bit less hectic! (that is, if i can hang onto my phone til then... already lost it twice so far hahaha)
- At 10:26am on February 16, 2010,
Cassie McGurk said… - Hi Zach,
We are students from Wellesley and Wharton. With the support of:
• Prominent microfinance clubs (MFCs) such as UPenn MFC, Columbia University, Cornell University...
• Known partner MFIs: Grameen America, PlaNet Finance, Green Microfinance, and LendforPeace
• Youth social entrepreneurship sponsor: Ashoka Youth Venture is sponsoring the campaign
• Top tech team: Oracle is assisting us on the website/technology side
We are launching PoverUP!
PoverUP is a not-for-profit microfinance organization created by students for students to help alleviate poverty by providing loans to microfinance institutions (MFIs), MFI projects, and micro-entrepreneurs on our action platform.
Our mission is to educate students about global poverty and microfinance and ignite a student grassroots movement with PoverUP Your World – the First Global Student Microfinance Day - to fight poverty worldwide through microfinance.
We are planning the PoverUP Your World Campaign Premiere at select Universities November 17th 2010 before opening up the event to the broader student community April 13th 2011.
We are looking for students who are interested in joining our team or students who are involved in their school's Microfinance Club and would like to partner with us.
Please let me know if you and/or your school's MFC are interested. We look forward to discussing PoverUp with you and the members of your school's MFC.
Please let me know a couple dates and times when we can speak.
Best,
Cassie
cmcgurk@poverup.org
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Hi Lisa,
Thanks for joining the conversation and making such great comments. Yunus and many volunteers worked incredibly hard to change cultural/gendered identities that oppressed women in Bangledesh, and cultural change is not always bad, though di…
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I teach a graduate course in microfinance and am a strong believer in continuous, self-education. One member of this site asked if I could put together a tutorial. I thought I'd invite others who wish to follow the same path and learn together.
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