The Grameen Caledonian Nursing College, the very first Grameen Nurse Institute, was launched in the Mirpur area of Dhaka on March 1, 2010. The 40 students are currently going through orientation and will begin classes on March 7. The College is a new organization follow...
On February 28, seven members of the Yunus Centre team, headed by the Centre's Executive Director, Lamiya Morshed, helped launched the very first Social Business Plan Competition at North South University. The event was organized by North South University's Young Entrep...
Yunus Centre is organizing the second Yunus Centre Forum on March 16th, 2010 between 2:00 pm till 6:00 pm. The YCF will include an information session and short discussion on social business, followed by interactive sessions with both the Yunus Centre ...
Written by Pacific Coast Business Times
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus launched the California Institute for Social Business at California State University, Channel Islands, on Feb. 26. The first of its kind, the endeavor will “make it clear to people ...
DANIEL FLITTON February 23, 2010
Professor Muhammad Yunus.
HAVING received the 2006 Nobel peace prize for doling out millions of dollars in tiny loans to the poor, Muhammad Yunus is promoting another big idea - and again, strangely for a banker, the word ''profit...
GCU Yunus Chair and Fellows Yunus Chair in Social Business and Health Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health First holder of the new Yunus Chair in Social Business and Health was announced in early 2010: Professor Cam Donaldson, one of the world's foremost health ...
“When I met Yunus, the pioneer of microcredit and founder of Grameen Bank in Amman many years ago, we were part of a group of officials and journalists visiting some small businesses run by Jordanian women. On the way, I asked about his preference for providing wo...
 “In the midst of its environmental devastation, poverty and death rates in Bangladesh were among the highest in the world in the 1980s. Yet......
Dr. Muhammad Yunus, one of Asian University for Women’s earliest supporters, currently serves on AUW’s Bangladesh Board of Advisors. Having grown up in Bangladesh, witnessing poverty and powerlessness firsthand, he acutely understands the importance of AUW...
The Yunus challenge was launched in December 2006 in collaboration with the MIT International Development Initiative. Every year the Yunus Challenge focuses on a different problem faced by some of the poorest communities in the world in an effort to bring these problems...
