- Book Tips: 2 books I enjoyed reading in 2011
- sosense.org - where philanthropy meets entrepreneurship
- Barefoot Women Solar Engineers (Zanzibar)
- Thank you Professor Yunus
- Skoll Forum 2011
- Rebuild Japan! Social Entrepreneurship Fund launched
- Impact investments and social entrepreneurship: opportunities and awareness emerging in Japan
- Impact investments...going mainstream in 2011
- Book Tips: 3 awesome books I read in 2010
- The microcredit crisis in Andra Pradesh, India
- SOCAP 2010 Mainstreaming Impact Investments
- A great debate on microfinance at CGI
- Kiva.org extends it services and start (pilot) offering student microloans
- IDEO launches OpenIDEO an online platform where we can design, collaborate and create solutions and social good
- Turbulent month in the microfinance world: Death of BANEX and the successful IPO of SKS
- The Stanford Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship
- Reflections after 2010 Skoll World Forum
- Socential: a Swiss start-up launches marketplace for social entrepreneurship
- New interesting publications on microfinance
- Visit to Room to Read school in Laos
- Revisiting the impact of microfinance
- Book: Microfinance and Beyond: Introducing microfranchising and social businesses
- Room to Read selected as FT's Seasonal Appeal 2009-2010
- Kiva's growing pains
- Kiva loans surpass USD 100 million!
- What is Impact Investing?
- SOCAP 2009 at the intersection of money and meaning
- A MUST READ- The Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz
- Microfinance continues to grow despite the crisis
- Solar-aid, fighting climate change and global poverty
- Framework for a better future: lecture by Muhammad Yunus
- Follow-up visit to Luisa's bakery in Guatemala
- Skoll Forum 2009
- Muhammad Yunus memoir "Banker to the Poor" to be made into a movie!
- A visit to Barefoot College- Tilonia, India
- A great book to start 2009: Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman
- Impact of financial crisis on microfinance
- SKS Microfinance raises $75 million from private investors in the fourth round
- Safia Minney and People Tree
- SoCap2008 -Social capital markets conference
- Hapinoy Stores: a promising microfranchise (microventure) from the Philippines
- Citi and Ashoka's Changemaker launch a global competition "Seeking Financial Solutions for All"
- A hot dialogue/debate on "Philanthrocapitalism"
- Learning more about microfinance: training programs/field visits/conferences
- BlueOrchard and Morgan Stanley's BOLD2 elected as FT's "Sustainable Deal of the Year Award"
- Visit to Aravind Eye Hospital in Pondicherry, India
- New book: Kleiner Einsatz Grosse Wirkung (Beyond Microfinance: The Movement of Making the World a Better Place) by Naoko Felder
- 2008 Skoll Forum Highlights
- Goldman Sachs to invest in business/management education of 10,000 women
- Book:Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Yunus Muhammad
- Bill Gates Calls for "Creative Capitalism"
- Topics for 2008: Mobile Banking at the BOP
- Responsible investing & giving- Xmas project 2007
- UN, Google and Cisco launch a website to track Poverty Reduction
- MicroPlace, an ebay company launches a Microfinance Investment Website for the retail investor
- Nobel Peace Prize 2007-a tribute to Jeff Skoll's vision
- Intel launches ICT program for the poor in Bangladesh together with Grameen Solutions
- The Elders- a Group of World Leaders for Humanity
- Ecobank and Accion to launch Microfinance banks in 20 African Countries
- CGAP Note Analyzes Compartamos IPO
- The book "MicroFranchising"
- Japan Microfinance Symposium
- "The Next 4 Billion" BOP market report by WRI
- Sequoia Invests in SKS Microfinance
- Danone plans to launch a 100mnEuro microfinance fund
- Skoll World Forum 2007
- The Converging Worlds: Social and Business
- CGAP expands programs linking technology and microfinance
- Inspiring story-Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
- Davos World Economic Forum 2007
- Book Tip: The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
- Muhammad Yunus promotes social business enterprise
- OneRoof, an innovative for-profit social enterprise
- CGAP's Director defends and elaborates on commitment of the World Bank towards microfinance
- Global Microcredit Summit 2006
- Great Links
- Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Microfinance (Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank)
- CGI raises $7.3bn to make the world a better place
- Procredit Holding's significant capital increase: New private-sector investors
- Congratulations Kiva!
- Scojo: providing vision through entrepreneurship
- Empowering people
- BRAC launches a landmark securitization deal (BDT12.6bn, US$180mn)
- Warren Buffet gives over $30bn to the Gates Foundation
- International Symposium "Realizing Property Rights" and launch of the Swiss Human Rights Book
- Realizing Property Rights
- Microfinance workshop at KZO (Kantonsschule Zurcher Oberland)
- MicroFranchising: leveraging microfinance
- 85 Iraqi women participate in microfinance training (CGAP Newsflash)
- Lots of good will
- Promoting Microfinance and MicroFranchising
- Making the world a better place
- About Naoko