Invitation - Webinar on Self-Funded Communities Wed March 7 11 AM - 12 PM EST

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SMDP Webinar Series


Self-Financed Communities: Exploring Innovative Models for
Building Assets and Social Capital

Wednesday March 7, 11 AM - 12 PM (GMT - 5)

Facilitator: Dr. Jean Claude Rodríguez-Ferrera, Association for Self-Financed Communities (ACAF)


Association for Self-Financed Communities (ACAF) is a Spanish organisation which has launched the Self-Funded Communities Model in Spain, Portugal, Hungary, and the Netherlands. Self-Funded Communities are composed of ten to thirty low-income people who buy shares to create a credit fund from which they can borrow. There is no external money and only members can invest in the group. As owners of the fund, they decide the credit conditions - interest rate, terms, collateral - and they receive all the benefits of the credit activity including a share of the interest earned on loans made by the group. It is completely self-managed and self-funded and many of the participants in ACAF are immigrants or disabled people. http://comunidadescaf.wordpress.com/

View this short video about ACAF (Spanish with English subtitles).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugi4r...XcFsekBn07-nuT


Webinar Presenter Bio:
Dr. Jean Claude Rodríguez-Ferrera the founder and director of ACAF was the first Spanish Ashoka Fellow in 2006. In 2007 he was awarded the World's Creative Young Entrepreneur Award, and in 2009 ACAF was selected as the Best Microfinance Practice in Europe. Jean Claude studied World Economy and has a PhD in Microfinance. He teaches MBA courses at University Ramon Llull in Barcelona and is the author of "World Economy and Development" (1997) and co-author of "La Otra Microfinanza" (2011).Self-Financed Communities: Exploring Innovative Models for Building Assets and Social Capital.

Webinar Registration

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