Nobel Peace Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus shows how the social business model can harness the entrepreneurial spirit to address global problems.
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Did Microlending Survive the Recession? Yes, Says Grameen Bank Founder
Complete Premium video at: fora.tv Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus says the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and its microcredit program remain robust despite the gloomy state of the global economy. Yunus credits the bank’s one-on-one relationship with the “real economy” for shielding it from the economic turbulence. “We don’t even know there’s a crisis going on,” he says. —– Microcredit pioneer and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus shows how he believes the social business model can harness the entrepreneurial spirit to address poverty, hunger and disease. Yunus shows how social business has gone from being a theory to an inspiring practice, adopted by leading corporations including BASF, Intel, Danone, Veolia and Adidas, as well as entrepreneurs and social activists worldwide. He demonstrates how social business transforms lives; offers practical guidance for those who want to create social businesses of their own; explains that public and corporate policies must adapt to make room for the social business model; and claims that social business holds the potential to redeem the failed promise of free-market enterprise. Social Entrepreneurship in America is a special series featuring leading innovators and pioneers utilizing entrepreneurial passion and rigor to solve societal problems. – Commonwealth Club of California Muhammad Yunus is founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank, established in Bangladesh in 1983. Dr. Yunus founded the bank with the objective of …
The PM and Muhammad Yunus – creating a world without poverty
21 April 2008. Gordon Brown met with Nobel Peace Prize Winner and founder of Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, to discuss the potential for microfinance and social business schemes in Africa. Microfinance is the innovative banking program that provides poor people–mainly women–with small loans they use to launch businesses and lift their families out of poverty.
Micro Financing Health Care in Bangladeshis
2007 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus on how to make health care affordable in Bangladeshis.
Muhammad Yunus on Grameen Bank (Q1)
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus describes the beginning and progress of Grameen Bank. Here Yunus is interviewed by Stephanie Kinnunen, founder of humanitarian magazine NEED, about how microcredit alleviates poverty. www.needmagazine.com
The Social Entrepreneurship Series (Sample)
Rooy Media LLC has created over fifty programs that educate people about important social issues. This video clip is a sample from The Social Entrepreneurship Series, a sixteen-part DVD series that provides unequaled opportunities to learn what it takes to create social change — from six remarkable “social entrepreneurs” whose visionary ideas and persistence have transformed tens of millions of lives. One of the six is Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Produced in association with Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. For more information, visit www.rooymedia.com.
Book TV: Muhammad Yunus "Creating a World Without Poverty"
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus talks about using micro-credit to help the poor around the world – including in the US – improve their lives. Mr. Yunus spoke at an event held at George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium.
cnn – microlending – grameen bank "third world country banking"
This is obviously about spreading the wealth. Check cashing places do this as well. Think about it. Grameen Bank en.wikipedia.org Revenue 6335566324 Taka (92.3 million USD) (2006) Operating income 5959675013 Taka (86.9 million USD) (2006) Net income 1398155030 Taka (20.3 million USD) (2006) Total assets 59383621728 Taka (2006) Employees 24703 (Oct 2007) Microlending in America 5:07 Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank which makes small loans, talks about helping the poor gradually come off welfare. www.latimes.com Hey US, welcome to the Third World
Authors@Google: Muhammad Yunus
In 2006, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank for their efforts to create economic and social development from below. “Lasting peace can not be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty. Micro-credit is one such means. Development from below also serves to advance democracy and human rights.” In his new book, Professor Yunus describes the role of business in promoting social reform and his vision for an innovative business model that would combine the power of free markets with a quest for a more humane, egalitarian world that could help alleviate world poverty, inequality, and other social problems. The Authors@Google program was happy to welcome Muhammad Yunus to speak at the Google NYC campus on January 10, 2008
Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus, gives a talk at UCSD about the microfinance revolution around the world, the Nobel Prize, and the launch of Grameen America, which will bring microcredit to the US Dr. Yunus’ lecture was underwritten by UCSD Extensions’ Helen Edison Lecture Series, IRPS at UCSD, the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at USD, and SDSU