A select group of philanthropists, business leaders and government officials are attempting to fill a big gap in the humanitarian…
Today in Seattle, an organization called Global Partnerships celebrates two decades of helping people rise up out of poverty through…
Co-authored by Tom Murphy ——————————————————————————————————————————— Immediately after the 2010 quake, many Haitians were given tents as ‘temporary’ shelters. Three years…
It didn’t used to be controversial. But one way to say this is that nearly one thousand people turned out…
One of the best ways to fight poverty and inequity is to improve the lives of women and girls, largely…
Clay Holtzman, in his new blog Nonprofit Kingdom, notes that a year ago the Seattle microfinance firm Unitus closed its…
That, in a nutshell, was the question posed to a panel of microfinance experts at a Seattle forum earlier this…
The anti-poverty scheme known as microfinance is in crisis, or maybe several crises. The political sacking of Muhammad Yunus as…
Seattle is big on microfinance, but what is it? The short answer is that microfinance is a set of financial…
Microfinance saved Edelma Altamirano’s life. I had lunch on Sunday with Edelma Altamirano, who lives in León, Nicaragua, but is…