One loan can change a person's life.
Click on the video to see how. See how $700 transformed Dorothy's life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XGRFYnrPqag
Monday, May 13, 2013
Sunday, May 12, 2013
The Water Project
Around the world, nearly a billion people have limited access to clean water. In order to get to a water source, some need to walk 3 miles to collect clean water.
From St. John's Queen Campus to Hillside Av that is equal to 3 miles. From St. John's Manhattan Campus to W 34 Street that is equal to 3 miles.
Can you imagine walking 3 miles to get water?
Take a look at thewaterproject.org to learn more.
http://thewaterproject.org/?gclid=CNCI6vzaubYCFQRnOgodgxcAEw
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Ashoka
Click to learn about Ashoka.
Ashoka is leading transformation in society. In the past three decades, the global citizen sector, led by social entrepreneurs, has grown. Just as the business sector experienced a tremendous spurt in productivity over the last century, the citizen sector is experiencing a similar revolution. The number and sophistication of citizen organizations increasing dramatically.
Learn why this can be a great company to work for.
https://www.ashoka.org/video/4787
Ashoka is leading transformation in society. In the past three decades, the global citizen sector, led by social entrepreneurs, has grown. Just as the business sector experienced a tremendous spurt in productivity over the last century, the citizen sector is experiencing a similar revolution. The number and sophistication of citizen organizations increasing dramatically.
Learn why this can be a great company to work for.
https://www.ashoka.org/video/4787
Friday, May 10, 2013
Marketing and Fundraising Team: Log # 3 by Michael Morettoni
Our bake sale was a smashing success! We raised just over $300 by selling baked goodies donated by the GLOBE managers. In my last post I recognized how important, and sometimes difficult, communication among the different teams can be. Even though it was trying at times to reach the other team members, in the end, we all came together beautifully; I really was most pleased with the collaborative teamwork. Our table was overflowing with the donated baked goods and was always staffed with managers eager to spread GLOBE’s message. We even had managers hand-delivering the GLOBE message and baked goods throughout campus. I was impressed and reassured of the commitment that we all took together when we joined the class.
The Marketing Team has also begun serious research for our term paper, investigating the possible mission drift within the Microfinance industry due to the introduction of ‘for-profit’ MFIs. Our research is preliminary, but our findings so far are disturbing. Our mission in GLOBE is to alleviate poverty through the financial empowerment of entrepreneurs in the developing world. Introducing profit margins and stakeholders can certainly disrupt the social mission that many MFI’s, including GLOBE, hold dear.
This week we read a chapter of Muhammad Yunus’ book, “Banker to the Poor”, which detailed the efforts to bring microfinance outside of Bangladesh and into developed nations. Our time in class so far has been devoted to learning the concepts of microfinance and their applications in the countries that GLOBE has actual borrowers (Vietnam, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, etc.). So I was surprised to learn that the principles and methods of the Grameen bank could be so easily applied to the poverty stricken areas of the United States. Yunus visited with notable politicians and community leaders, like Bill Clinton, in Arkansas, Chicago, Harlem, and many other centers of poverty. While reluctant initially, the methods and ideology of the Grameen bank were adopted and eventually succeeded.
The most important lesson from this chapter was that poor do not deserve to be stereotyped or defined by their poorness, even though they may feel that way themselves. In every rural town and urban center Yunus visited he was met by creative, hardworking, and eager people who only needed opportunity to help better themselves. Negative characterizations about American individualism or American reliance on welfare are dangerous and shallow because, as Yunus and his associates proved over and over again, the poor are just as resourceful and have just as much humanity as anyone else with a degree or a full wallet in their pocket.
The Marketing Team has also begun serious research for our term paper, investigating the possible mission drift within the Microfinance industry due to the introduction of ‘for-profit’ MFIs. Our research is preliminary, but our findings so far are disturbing. Our mission in GLOBE is to alleviate poverty through the financial empowerment of entrepreneurs in the developing world. Introducing profit margins and stakeholders can certainly disrupt the social mission that many MFI’s, including GLOBE, hold dear.
This week we read a chapter of Muhammad Yunus’ book, “Banker to the Poor”, which detailed the efforts to bring microfinance outside of Bangladesh and into developed nations. Our time in class so far has been devoted to learning the concepts of microfinance and their applications in the countries that GLOBE has actual borrowers (Vietnam, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, etc.). So I was surprised to learn that the principles and methods of the Grameen bank could be so easily applied to the poverty stricken areas of the United States. Yunus visited with notable politicians and community leaders, like Bill Clinton, in Arkansas, Chicago, Harlem, and many other centers of poverty. While reluctant initially, the methods and ideology of the Grameen bank were adopted and eventually succeeded.
The most important lesson from this chapter was that poor do not deserve to be stereotyped or defined by their poorness, even though they may feel that way themselves. In every rural town and urban center Yunus visited he was met by creative, hardworking, and eager people who only needed opportunity to help better themselves. Negative characterizations about American individualism or American reliance on welfare are dangerous and shallow because, as Yunus and his associates proved over and over again, the poor are just as resourceful and have just as much humanity as anyone else with a degree or a full wallet in their pocket.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Tactics of Hope
Check out this video of the Tactics of Hope with examples of social entrepreneurs' power to create positive change in the world. The organization wants to support and inspire individuals to move from concern to action around the issues of poverty, human rights, social justice, and the environment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MokRURNnSC0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MokRURNnSC0
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Skoll Foundation
Click to learn about Skoll Foundation.
Skoll was created in 1999 by Jeff Skoll. Their mission is to drive large scale change by investing, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs. They are now one of the leading foundations in the field of social entrepreneurship and have awarded more than $358 million.
http://www.skollfoundation.org/
Skoll was created in 1999 by Jeff Skoll. Their mission is to drive large scale change by investing, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs. They are now one of the leading foundations in the field of social entrepreneurship and have awarded more than $358 million.
http://www.skollfoundation.org/
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Microfinance has been touted as an essential means of emerging from poverty
For about fifteen years, microfinance has been touted as an essential means of emerging from poverty by international institutions like the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). According to Muhammad Yunus, the pioneer of microcredit, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, microcredit should relegate poverty to history.
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