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Grameen Foundation Insights

The global movement to end poverty and hunger depends on the constant exchange of experience and ideas. That’s why we are eager to share our experiences with people like you.

Our Insights blog shares lessons learned from leaders in the field; examines efforts to bring resources and services to poor communities; and reviews how poverty-focused organizations are using data for greater impact.

Latest Posts

12/07/2015 by Alex Counts


Alex Counts (orange shirt) with Grameen Foundation staff and clients in Uganda in 2012

11/23/2015

This past summer, Qualcomm® Wireless Reach™ and Grameen Foundation India held a forum to explore how mobile phones and 3G technology are helping to promote financial inclusion in India.

11/13/2015 by Alex Counts


Current and former Grameen Foundation staff and board members, as well as friends pay special tribute to Alex Counts

11/12/2015


Female clients of Sonata learn how to repay microloans via mobile phones instead of in person.

By Preeti Anand and Sharada Ramanathan

10/19/2015


Idrissa Kamara receiving the first vaccine in the EBOVAC-Salone trial in Kambia, Sierra Leone (Photo: Alexandra Donaldson, LSHTM)

By Monica Amponsah, Regional Program Manager, EBODAC Project, Grameen Foundation

10/15/2015

By Rachael Axelrod, Development Intern, Grameen Foundation

[If you missed it, watch a recording of Mabel's live chat.]

09/30/2015 by Alex Counts


(L-R): Arcelia Gomez and Alex Counts of Grameen Foundation meet with Fred DeLuca, co-founder and president of Subway Restaurants, at the 2014 Subway Convention

07/30/2015 by Alex Counts

In the mid-1990s, when I was winding up my decade of off-and-on living in Bangladesh, Professor Muhammad Yunus had his second big idea.  I immediately knew it would have a big impact on the Grameen Foundation that I was then preparing to launch back in the United States.

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