Daily Archives: April 25, 2006

Lots of good will

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We must be living in good times. There are certainly big problems in the world but there seems to be lots of good will or more good will then I could ever remember seeing/ hearing/feeling. People of all ages seem to be kinder and more giving now than before. They would like to within their limits give either time or money for something they believe is right. How could the world benefit from all this good will.? A website where people could easily search by location, area, project and find what they could help either with time or money could be handy. At least the new innovative companies and foundations such Kiva and globalgiving are making it easier for people to loan or give directly to projects around the world.
Another entity that sounds interesting is micromentor but I have not looked it in depth.

Promoting Microfinance and MicroFranchising

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Microfinance or “financial services to the poor” is slowly but surely getting known to the public at large.
When I started promoting microfinance to the financial circles in Zurich back in 2002 it was quite difficult to get people excited about it. That lead to me to write the book Making Sense: Microfinance & Microfinance Investments which got published in 2004 followed by the German and Japanese language publications in 2005.
In February 2006 I attended to a Microfinance conference sponsored by ING in their headquarters in Amsterdam. The topic of this conference was the role of commercial banks in microfinance. Now many banks are getting active in this field. Microfinance is becoming mainstream. Since last year I started promoting MicroFranchising along microfinance and will continue to do so in the future entries.