Untouched by the slump, the microfinance industry continues to provide opportunities to professionals across the spectrum. reports Anindya Banerjee, a 25-year-old MBA from the Institute of Business Management and Research in Calcutta, joined Bandhan, one of the world’s largest microfinance institutes (MFIs), six months ago as a financial analyst.

Qui Diaz is director of strategy at Livingston Communications and specializes in social media for social causes. She proclaims ‘the good’ on her blog, Evange.List . As the economy goes, so goes giving to causes that need donor dollars to keep doors open. While we bemoan sacrifices of luxury goods, our global social sector is faced with shortening the line or thinning the soup – neither ...

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American Red Cross - USA Four years later, the American Red Cross continues to support families affected by the Tsunami WASHINGTON, Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - Four years after the devastating Indian Ocean Tsunami ...

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Build economies but expanded welfare as well, said Dr Schramm, thought leader on social entrepreneurship , during the second day of TiE Entrepreneurial Summit 2008. The second day of the summit focussed on the importance of "Inclusive Entrepreneurship".

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table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7trtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbrdiv style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1/divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/1-0fd=Rurl=http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINBOM19934820081217cid=1281149655ei=RXxJSY25Iaqi9gSimoS1DQusg=AFQjCNFE0NrZgKLtQgOL9-baPEIQqE0s8QState-run banks dominate Indian bmicrofinance/b - cbank/abrfont size=-1font color=#6f6f6fReuters India,nbsp;Indianbsp;-/font nobr10 hours ago/nobr/fontbrfont size=-1MUMBAI, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Indian state-run banks dominate disbursements to the bmicrofinance/b sector while private banks lagged, the central bank said in a b.../b/font/div/font/td/tr/table

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Four New Members and New Chair Will Work in 2009 to Raise Awareness of the Importance of Investing in Women as a Way to Foster Long-Term Economic Development

Each Donation at StopPovertyNow.org Adds Color, Messages and Photos to 10,000 Square Imageimg src="http://feeds.microfinancegateway.org/~r/MicrofinanceGateway/~4/487731354" height="1" width="1"/

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As part of efforts to adequately provide value adding services to its growing stakeholders, while competing favourably for prime positions in its choice business segments and ensuring adequate returns on investment, there are indications that Hazonwao Asset Management Limited plans to access fresh capital from the capital market soon.

Spain extends 6m euros to women microfund in Jordan

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Full Papers or One-Page Summaries Due by December 22, 2008img src="http://feeds.microfinancegateway.org/~r/MicrofinanceGateway/~4/486681852" height="1" width="1"/

Five-year Program to Enable MFIs to Develop and Test Innovative Products for 15-24 Year-Oldsimg src="http://feeds.microfinancegateway.org/~r/MicrofinanceGateway/~4/486718577" height="1" width="1"/

Recent CGAP and USAID Publications Show Effects of Food Crisis on MFIsimg src="http://feeds.microfinancegateway.org/~r/MicrofinanceGateway/~4/486779584" height="1" width="1"/

The sleepy town of Ile Ife had its own jolt on Monday when about 10 armed robbers attacked four banks and a microfinance institution, killing 10 people, and leaving 40 others injured.