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...
Now, of course, innovation is only the invention of new technologies. It’s not just that. It is also any breakthrough idea that transforms lives and reshapes our thinking. Like Muhammad Yunus’ belief that poor women armed with credit could become drivers o...
Press ReleaseNobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Charities Organization, Prince Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa inaugurated the Family Bank, a microfinance banklicensed by the Central Bank of Bahrain, at a ce...
GULF Daily News
MORE than 4,000 needy families are set to benefit from a micro finance programme within three years, officials have announced.
The Family Bank, which has come into existence after a pioneering initiative of the Social Development Ministry and Banglad...
