Along with several Grameen Foundation staff, the McCall Family - Jordan, Sarah, Ben, and Molly - flew to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to visit one of Grameen Foundation’s local Microfinance Institutions, Esperanza. This is an excerpt from Molly’s journal she wrote for school about her experience in the Dominican Republic.
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11/09/2010
Kimberly Davies is a Program Associate for the Microsavings Initiative, which is part of Grameen Foundation’s Solutions for the Poorest program.
11/08/2010
by Alex Counts, president and CEO, Grameen Foundation
11/02/2010
Stephanie Denzer is Program Associate for Grameen Foundation’s Human Capital Center (HCC). This is her second blog from a recent trip to Peru where she participated in a Human Capital Management Assessment of an MFI in the process of transforming into a regulated institution.
11/01/2010
Steve Wright is the new director of Grameen Foundation’s Social Performance Management Center.
10/28/2010
Alex Counts, president, CEO and founder of Grameen Foundation, recently faced Vikram Akula, chair and founder of SKS, the largest microfinance institution (MFI) in India, in an Oxford-style debate at the Asia Society in New York City.
10/28/2010
Stephanie Denzer is Program Associate for Grameen Foundation’s Human Capital Center (HCC).
10/26/2010
Julius Matovu and Olga Morawczynski work on Grameen Foundation's financial literacy initiative in Uganda.
10/23/2010
This is part two of of a two part blog series. If you haven't yet, we recommend you read Part One of his blog post series.
10/21/2010
Jason Hahn describes his initial impressions of Uganda upon his return to the United States. Jason is the Information and Communication Technology Innovation (ICTI) Development Manager at Grameen Foundation. The ICTI team develops, tests and advances mobile phone products and services in Uganda, Indonesia, and Ghana to improve health care, farming, banking, and more.