Harnessing Student Potential In Microfinance

December 2009 Blog Posts (6)

Wishing you & your family a very Happy New Year 2010

Hello Everyone, Wishing you & your family a very Happy New Year 2010. May God bless you & your family with peace, prosperity, happiness and good health.

Added by Abdul Mannan Barbhuiya on December 31, 2009 at 12:20pm — No Comments

Hope Sings to benefit Microfinance!

http://www.hopesings.net/

I invite all to log in, hear the story and buy Beth's first song. Beth Blatt is an amazing composer, singer and person who is passionate about what she does. Beth and I were classmates at Dartmouth many years ago....
Enjoy!

Added by Lizanne Megrue on December 21, 2009 at 12:36pm — No Comments

A Bridge Over Troubled Waters

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New York State of Mind

A new law on the books since last year in New York helps protect subprime mortgage holders from foreclosure. A similar bill protecting prime borrowers recently was passed by the State Legislature. The bill requires lenders to give 90 days' warning and forces lenders into settlement conferences with borrowers before proceeding with foreclosure.

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Love Thy Neighbor

The "City of Brotherly Love" lives… Continue

Added by 3BL Media on December 19, 2009 at 10:36am — No Comments

Vijay Mahajan unveils wish list for Microfinance’s future

Microfinance Focus, Dec. 12, 2009: BASIX founder and Indian microfinance icon Mr Vijay Mahajan sees microfinance sector come out of its traditional role and venture out with many new products and expanding financial services to both women and men.

In a keynote address at the Srijan Microfinance Summit in Mumbai recently, he insisted that by 2012 the financial inclusion should be achieved without giving any excuse. He was confident that the microfinance sector in India will achieve it… Continue

Added by Narendran on December 13, 2009 at 2:58am — No Comments

Nearly 60% of American Pastors have never heard of microfinanace

I was just cleaning out my inbox and came across a newsletter from Hope International. In it they cite the results of a Barna Research Group study that asked pastors about their understanding of Microfinance. It was surprising to me to find out that 58% said that they have never heard of it. I believe that America's pastors would be some of microfinance's strongest advocates and supporters.

Next time you get a chance to talk to your pastor, won't you please tell them about… Continue

Added by Chris Becker on December 12, 2009 at 12:14pm — No Comments

Peacekeeper Cause-Metics Invites Women to Create One Collective, Global Voice to Stop Human Slavery and Poverty in Our Lifetime

What if you knew that every time you were putting on lipstick you were giving a girl a chance? PeaceKeeper Cause-Metics, a cosmetics line that gives donations to women’s health advocacy and urgent human rights issues, is inviting women to join them in taking action to end human trafficking. Can your buying power save a life? Absolutely! Your purchase will have a direct impact on women and children who are suffering extreme poverty, or have been sold into hard labor, or domestic or sexual… Continue

Added by 3BL Media on December 1, 2009 at 9:29pm — No Comments