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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 from 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM (PT)
Small Loans, Big Dreams
How Muhammad Yunus, Grameen, & Microfinance are Changing the World
Please join us Tuesday, September 16, 2008 for the next SVMN meeting where our speaker will be Alex Counts, President and CEO of Grameen Foundation:
Alex will discuss his new book Small Loans, Big Dreams which tells the story of microfinance through the eyes of borrowers, lenders, and leaders of microfinance. Alex will share his perspectives from the book as well as personal experiences from the early years of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, where he spent years working side by side with Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner & founder of Grameen.
Purchase the book in advance from the Grameen Foundation website and bring it to the meeting for Alex Counts to sign!
[Speaker Bio]
Alex Counts has more than two decades of experience in microfinance, starting as a Fulbright scholar at Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. In 1997, he founded Grameen
Foundation, a dynamic nonprofit that fights global poverty through its network of microfinance partners in 28 countries in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Through this network, Grameen Foundation has impacted the lives of an estimated 31 million of the world’s poor. Through its Strategic Services unit, the foundation is engaging the global microfinance
industry by championing innovations focused on capital investment in microfinance, poverty measurement, human resources, and technology.
Prior to establishing Grameen Foundation, Mr. Counts served as the legislative director of RESULTS and also worked as regional project manager for CARE-Bangladesh. While at Grameen Bank, he worked and studied under Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, and helped to establish the bank’s
flagship newsletter, Grameen Dialogue. Mr. Counts chairs the board of Project
Enterprise and serves on the boards of Fonkoze USA and the PLAN Fund. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the Katalysis Bootstrap Fund and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Grameen Dialogue. He serves on the board of Grameen-Jameel Pan Arab Microfinance Limited. Mr. Counts is the author of Small Loans, Big Dreams published by Wiley and Sons in March 2008, and Give Us Credit: How Muhammad Yunus' Micro-Lending Revolution is Empowering Women from Bangladesh to Chicago, published by Random House (New York) and Research Press
(New Delhi) in 1996. Mr. Counts earned a BA in economics from Cornell University.
The Silicon Valley Microfinance Network (SVMN) is a grassroots organization for people in the SF Bay Area and beyond interested in learning about microfinance, microcredit, and related finance and economic topics.
SVMN's mission is to connect, educate and engage people in the field of microfinance by creating a forum for innovation and collaboration that leverages the Bay Area's unique expertise, thereby reducing global poverty.
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