"Global microfinance leaders met Wednesday in San Francisco to discuss a cutting-edge strategy to get the world's poorest borrowers to repay their loans: Keep them healthy." Read the full article.
IDEX can't agree more. It's refreshing to see the experts catching on to what we've known for years: microfinance is not a cure-all for poverty. The best anti-poverty organizations apply microfinance as just one tool in a multilayered approach. The real key is in funding organizations that empower the poorest people with leadership skills so they can access not just capital but also information, health care, education, land rights and food security. IDEX's role as a philanthropic organization is to find such organizations and help them grow.
If you would like to learn more about our approach to microfinance, please join Pete Stanga, IDEX’s Executive Director at UC Berkeley on Monday, November 3. Pete will be giving a brief lecture about IDEX and our approach to microcredit, followed by a question and answer session hosted by Paula Goldman.
The lecture will take place in Room 2060, Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley from on Nov 3, 5:30-7:3-pm. Visit our website for more details.
IDEX can't agree more. It's refreshing to see the experts catching on to what we've known for years: microfinance is not a cure-all for poverty. The best anti-poverty organizations apply microfinance as just one tool in a multilayered approach. The real key is in funding organizations that empower the poorest people with leadership skills so they can access not just capital but also information, health care, education, land rights and food security. IDEX's role as a philanthropic organization is to find such organizations and help them grow.
If you would like to learn more about our approach to microfinance, please join Pete Stanga, IDEX’s Executive Director at UC Berkeley on Monday, November 3. Pete will be giving a brief lecture about IDEX and our approach to microcredit, followed by a question and answer session hosted by Paula Goldman.
The lecture will take place in Room 2060, Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley from on Nov 3, 5:30-7:3-pm. Visit our website for more details.
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