Dear PeterB and Collaboration Cafe team NY, London and 10000dvd and MicroUp
0.0 It looks as if I need to come up on sunday jan 25 with the known yunus meetings on jan 26 11.00 (special
announcement on micro best news of decade) and 27th NYU Stern future capitalism booktalk ending at 9.00pm
1.0
peterB in particular: Will you be going down on the china town bus to dc in time for the world bank meeting with
Kenya's Jamii Bora on jan 28 at 9.00 am - if so can I join you and how does one book it
2.0 peterB or anyone:
Are there any events on sunday jan 25 already worth attending; are there any collaboration cafe NY events we should be trying
to host while folk may be in town.
2.1 For example I dont know if Kevin would like to give us an hour to
guide us round his african goals with www.reachthechildren.org some time on monday j26 or tuesday - it is high time the free market of sustainaniloity investment in childrens africa
had a microup brand to give unicef some competition http://malaria2015.com ;
2.2 there are rumors that the french-hollywood yunus film people may be in town and I dont know if that includes
the superstar Huff-post blogger vivian -the world's best news in blogging I have ever seen
2.3 I could wish that eg Bill Sharon to front
a wall street risk collaboration cafe meeting - this was cued by a 9 year old back among 1000 New Yorkers in jan08
(video 2 of yunus 10000 - also at http://www.erworld.tv/id75.html
Sept08
that would give us an excuse to see if anyone from demos wants
to turn up as well as debate whether I need to stay away or try to cultivate Ralph Neder as local DC mover and shaker. I know
his worldwide reputation on consumerism where on balance i want far more fussy consumers instead of ones image-led by the
dismal us mass media. But I keep on hearing that some people feel he has lost respect in some minority movements. The difficulty
is that micro people do need to be ahead of the curve on risk info -in fact it may well be that if we dont protect obama from
all the pessimism debates that risk is going to intentionaally driwn him in that yes we can optimism movements will never
get superempowerment leadership they deserve
Good
news Decade Jamii Bora at changeworld.net
| *yunus10000 video 23 solar energy youth responses
| *24 responsibility corporate responses
| *25
free
unis yes we can |
3.0 If nobody else wants to lead it I may as well semd out an invitation to anyone
collaboration cafe has linked over te last 18 months to discuss the 10000 dvd and see who else might wanmt to host the dvd
parties. I think this will be just a one hour strabucks cafe somewhere. Perhaps 17.30 on Tiuesday in NYU region makes
sense
4.0 while in new york I finally aim to convert my wish to visit the Grameen-queens bank and the
grameen america downtown head office - if only to ask whether they can hand out dvds - if I can find a better excuse
-eg suppose one gave a GWU and NYU $1000 to activate microloans and the responsibility to see if they could hand on more than
$1000 to class 10/11 would Grameen America bank give behind the scene guidance on that - alex at GWU has already run a bank
at his high school if I understand correctly- NYU and GWU need to be places where studnets can fundraise yes we can as well
as micro-up if my maps of how NY and DC determine what chnage fiture capitals and banking for the people will compound
are correct
5.0 we need regional help in editing best news yuns dialiogues of decade at http://futurecapitalism.ning.com/events/event/listByType?type=YunusDecade
5.1 if anyone wants to take responsibility for a parallel stream that represents the deep 10 microcredits news
of the decade please tell us what name you want to give it so we can set it up region by region
chris macrae 301
881 1655 DC bureau worldcitizen.tv
ps jerry congratulations on becoming US managing editor of Microfinace Focus
Magazine
you might want to use your new found press freedoms to join this press only dhaka-nairobi-new york confrence
call at 10.00pm east time jan 26; alan how about you joining in from london
http://www.results.org/website/article.asp?id=3794
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus and Kenya's Ingrid Munro Unite Major Announcements about Microcredit
Summit Goals www and african
Word doc format
What: | In 1997, the Microcredit Summit Campaign
was launched with a commitment to dramatically expand the reach of microloans to the very poor around the world. Microcredit
is the provision of small loans to desperately poor people to help pull themselves out of poverty. At the time of the Summit,
fewer than 8 million people worldwide had benefited from a microloan. On January 26, 2009, the Campaign will release the State
of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report 2009, with a major announcement. |
Who: | Muhammad Yunus
— Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh Ingrid Munro
— founder of Jamii Bora in Kenya Sam Daley-Harris — Director, Microcredit
Summit Campaign (moderator) |
When: | Monday, January 26, 2009 10:00 am ET/15:00 GMT by teleconference. |
How: | This call is for journalists
only, who can call in from any phone. RSVP by contacting Robyn Shepherd at rshepherd@results.org or at the numbers listed above. To participate in the call, dial (877) 795-3647 or +1 719-325-4825 from outside the
U.S. Ask for the “Microcredit Summit Report Launch Call.” A recording and a transcript will also be available. |
Why: | The incredible success of microcredit over the past decade stands in stark contrast to the financial turmoil
facing the rest of the world. From the early days of the movement, when Muhammad Yunus founded Grameen Bank with 42 borrowers,
microcredit has been challenged by critics who said that is was foolhardy to loan to the world’s poorest people. The
progress documented by the State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report not only proves that the world’s poorest
can be safe loan candidates, but that often, microfinance institutions have repayment rates that traditional financial institutions
would envy. One loan at a time, microcredit is helping the world’s poorest people pull themselves out of poverty with
dignity. |
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The Microcredit Summit Campaign is a project of RESULTS Educational Fund, working to ensure that 175 million
of the world’s poorest families, especially the women of those families, are receiving credit for self-employment and
other financial and business services by the end of 2015 and that 100 million families rise above the US$1 a day threshold
between 1990 and 2015.
