:Title: Yunus 1000 Bookclub - the top 20 stories :Author: chris macrae :Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:35:59 PST :Modified: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:24:21 PST :URL: http://www.ned.com/group/community-general/news/151/ 1 Micro can Make a Massive Difference but this is an exponential investment taking years to develop, and most rich peoples media give no voice let alone freedom of voice to grassroots up solutions .. raw:: html Future capitalism: This is a slightly different tack from my other Yunus threads. At the start of the year I paid for 1000 of Yunus' new book to form a 1000 network club- feedback keeps on flowing in but in its own time warps. Over time some stories seem to stand out more and more about what Yunus has done of the last 30 years as well as what he emans by saying his next 5 years could link together something even bigger than microcredit if everyone who Future-Capitalism-Could marry up global market leaders and grassroots' deepest organisations in focused socila business experiments had at least one true go . I will try in the next few weeks to make the top 20 of these clear. 1 Yunus Microcredit Certification Systems compound far more communal depth than any old microcredit system. His old friends and advisers are asking him to be more proactive in Grameen co-branding in microcredit sectors - eg Grameen America, Grameen Credit Agricole. This set of 3 videos provides one 10 minute report on this .. raw:: html
| Clinton Bangladesh fast growing nation because of Yunus/Grameen | TheGreenChildren (Yunus pop group) and friends are Growing microcredit in Guatemala | Whole Foods supermarkets is one of Grameen's latest social business partners, and expects to reach half a million with microcredit in under 3 years |