Community Development Banking List
04-29-2008, 04:23 PM
Original message from: jwn9@cornell.edu
FYI
When: Friday, April 18, 2008 1:00 PM-2:30 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US &
Canada).
Where: 141 Sage Hall
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Very prestigious speaker for the Johnson School. Mr Counts is a Cornell Alum
and has worked closely with Mr. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate.
The Cornell Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise &
the Social Enterprise & Microfinance Club present....
Friday, April 18, 2008
"Microfinance: a Platform for Social Change"
Alex Counts
President & CEO,
Grameen Foundation, USA
1:00am - 2:30pm, 141 Sage Hall
Alex Counts is President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, a dynamic nonprofit,
Washington D.C.-based organization that has grown to a global network of 46
microfinance partners in 25 countries. Counts became Grameen Foundation's
first Executive Director in 1997, after ten years of working in microfinance
and poverty reduction, primarily in Bangladesh. A 1988 Cornell University
graduate, with a degree in economics, Counts' commitment to poverty
eradication deepened as a 1988-9 Fulbright scholar in Bangladesh, where he
witnessed dire poverty as well as the innovative solutions that had been
developed and applied on a wide scale by the Grameen Bank and other members
of the Grameen family of companies. He trained under and worked closely with
Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank,
and the 2006 Nobel Laureate.
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Funded by GPA and the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise and is open to
the graduate community and the Cornell community at large
Jean Njiru
MPS IARD Graduate Student
International Programs
Cornell University
31 Warren Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
607 262 0219 Cel
jwn9@cornell.edu
FYI
When: Friday, April 18, 2008 1:00 PM-2:30 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US &
Canada).
Where: 141 Sage Hall
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Very prestigious speaker for the Johnson School. Mr Counts is a Cornell Alum
and has worked closely with Mr. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate.
The Cornell Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise &
the Social Enterprise & Microfinance Club present....
Friday, April 18, 2008
"Microfinance: a Platform for Social Change"
Alex Counts
President & CEO,
Grameen Foundation, USA
1:00am - 2:30pm, 141 Sage Hall
Alex Counts is President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, a dynamic nonprofit,
Washington D.C.-based organization that has grown to a global network of 46
microfinance partners in 25 countries. Counts became Grameen Foundation's
first Executive Director in 1997, after ten years of working in microfinance
and poverty reduction, primarily in Bangladesh. A 1988 Cornell University
graduate, with a degree in economics, Counts' commitment to poverty
eradication deepened as a 1988-9 Fulbright scholar in Bangladesh, where he
witnessed dire poverty as well as the innovative solutions that had been
developed and applied on a wide scale by the Grameen Bank and other members
of the Grameen family of companies. He trained under and worked closely with
Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank,
and the 2006 Nobel Laureate.
<<ole0.bmp>>
Funded by GPA and the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise and is open to
the graduate community and the Cornell community at large
Jean Njiru
MPS IARD Graduate Student
International Programs
Cornell University
31 Warren Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
607 262 0219 Cel
jwn9@cornell.edu