by sjs | Jun 2, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
Microplace, an online brokerage service that enables people to make investments that earn a return while empowering the poor to work their way out of poverty, has launched its “Small Change. Big Change” campaign, designed to turn spare nickels and quarters...
by sjs | Apr 24, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
MicroPlace, a microfinance investment vehicle about which we’ve posted before, has added investment opportunities in 9 more countries. “To date, investments made through MicroPlace have generated 20,000 loans to the world’s working poor.” Read...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 15, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
“Our generation is replacing signs and protests with individual actions,’’ says Kyle Taylor, 23, an advocate for the social-entrepreneur movement who started his own mentoring organization. ‘‘This is our civil rights movement and what will define our...
by sjs | Mar 9, 2008 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The New York Times Magazine focuses its attention this week on giving. The features include a piece on the faces of social entrepreneurship as well as David Leonhardt’s analysis of why people give. Read the articles and see a slide show.
by sjs | Feb 24, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail hightlights the efforts of International Development Enterprises to address poverty by developing low-cost tools that help subsistence farmers become small-scale commercial farmers and assisting...
