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Many people including women leaders and social workers are excited about women empowerment in development and under developed country. It is true that in those countries, there have been created many opportunities to empowered women and now women especially poor women of those countries are empowered themselves than…

[Summary of this blog: We know education and knowledge always act as an asset for everyone’s life. Library can do a big roll for learning. However, our farmers, garment workers and another poor service holders, labors have no opportunity, necessary education and time to access in library. For that reason, now most of them are out of modern knowledge, advantage of…

At present, production and selling of drug (e.g. YABA, PETHIDINE, HEROIN, GANJA (Hemp), PHENSEDYL etc) is a very profitable business in this world. Many people in all over the world involve with this business by investing money as a producer, manufacturer and seller of those harmful drugs. By this illegal business, any investor can take his/her investment with in few months. Everyone knows that, every illegal business can provide much…

Making Cents International invites you to submit a proposal to lead a workshop-style technical session at the 2012 Global Youth Economic Opportunities Conference. The conference will take place September 11-13, 2012 at the Inter-American Development Bank’s Conference Center in Washington, DC. Submit a proposal to share your lessons learned, promising practices, and innovative ideas in one or more of the following learning tracks: workforce development; adolescent girls & young…

Money matters! Join our two Santa Fe, NM events on Thursday March 15th, sponsored by Santa Fe Community Foundation:

• Morning Workshop for NPO & Small Biz Owners: Learn to Get the Most from Banks & New Opportunities for Money http://t.co/pDLXjxdh

• Evening Roundtable on Ethical Investing: Do your values match your investment world? http://t.co/LETJPLyK

Non-profit organizations in general and social enterprises in particular seek new methods to reach scale.  To do so, they need to leverage networks, secure financing and access new markets. The U.S. consulting firm, Social Enterprises Associates, offers its new publication, Tip Sheet # 9, Resources for Scaling Social Enterprises with triple bottom line resources for social entrepreneurs and their organizations to grow.

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The Summit is organized by the International Telecommunication Union in partnership with the League of Arab States (LAS),…

FINANCIAL LITERACY FOR ALL

Larry Reed, director of the Microcredit Summit Campaign, published an editorial in the January Newsletter for ACP/EU Microfinance likening the steady growth in the microfinance sector since 1997 to a mighty river.  http://mcs2015.org/Jan_editorial 

The Microcredit Summit Campaign seeks four (4) interns for the Winter/Spring semester:

1. One (1) intern to support the “Seal of Excellence for Poverty Outreach and Transformation in Microfinance”, a global initiative led by the Campaign, as well as to assist with administrative tasks, communications, and basic research. See internship description and…

Social Enterprise Associates (www.socialenterprise.net) is a consulting firm (registered B Corp) providing business oriented ‘triple bottom line’ results – generating financial, social, and environmental returns. We are seeking interns to help social enterprises (non-profit & for-profit) increase their sustainability, scale-up and advance towards success. Click …

Happy holidays! Check out Social Enterprise Associates' December newsletter to see what social entrepreneurs and communities have leveraged the power of the marketplace for betterment this fall. Get inspired & get to work!

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micro finance becomes easy way to reach at the poor's doorstep, but with time of passage it has been observed that that fund granted to these poor families has not been properly utilised. in number of cases due to lack of proper management & post evaluation of distributed fund, money given to to poor end up in non productive or non generationg income  sectors by them.. has there need some rule or guidlines to be followed for future those non productive grpups/people....

 According to Conservation International it states, "... Developing countries are now entering their own " golden era" of investment and construction. While infrastructure for agriculture, cities, energy generation and navigation are expanding rapidly, these countries are largely using planning and design methods that will result in ineffective and ecologically destructive projects due to the emerging and unpredictable climate conditions."



It is  predicted that poor investment and…

Social Enterprise Associates (www.socialenterprise.net) has papers pending for publication, for which we are looking for interested interns who would like to share a publication credit.  Graduate students who are familiar with white papers in technology, the triple bottom line, microfinance and/or accounting are best qualified given the topics below.  These are different papers which could be done by the same person or different…

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New Imp-Act website puts a “human face” on the social performance management (SPM) movement in microfinance

At the front and…

Microfinance Works - For the Rich 

By Raquel Martinez…