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Grameen Foundation Looking for The New Media/Marketing Officer

Britt Bravo — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:41:50 -0400

Justin Perkins of Care2, who is one of the co-organizers of Net Tuesdays in Washington DC, just sent a job announcement out to the group for a New Media/Marketing Officer at the Grameen Foundation.

Sounds like they are on a tight deadline, so if you are interested in applying, send your resume in by early next week:

Microeconomic Development and Social Enterprise in Ukraine: A “Marshall Plan” for Ukraine

Jeff Mowatt — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:24:06 -0400

Following up on a project proposal. The publication of a plan to offset the cost of major childcare reform with IT revenues in a full cost recovery program/

http://en.for-ua.com/analytics/2007/08/06/121201.html

MicroMentor 2.0 - Social capital for microentrepreneurs

ijeffjones — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:16:25 -0400

Electricity for developing countries

barefootpower — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:14:05 -0400

Barefoot Power is starting a project to help 1 million people gain access to clean, efficient electricity in developing countries. With the recent advent of white LED lighting, which requires less than 1 watt of power to produce useful light, the entry point to electricity has suddenly changed.

Kiva on FRONTLINE/World October 31st

Britt Bravo — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:35:01 -0500

When the idea of NetSquared was just beginning, one of the very first NetSquared Case Studies posted in November 2005 was of Kiva. Fast forward one year and Kiva has been covered everywhere from the BBC to NPR to the Daily Kos. Tomorrow, Tuesday, October 31st, they will be one of three stories on FRONTLINE World. You can also watch it via streaming video on the FRONTLINE World web site a few days after the broadcast. Here's a link to a brief preview of the show on Google video.

If you are not sure of your local PBS station, Click here to search for your local PBS station on the PBS website. Also note that your local station may list the program for that evening as "Burma: State of Fear" which is the headlining story.

Grameen Foundation USA

Paul Treadwell — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:07:49 -0500

Project Screenshot

Supporting organization

Grameen Bank

URL

www.gfusa.org/

Project Description

"Welcome to Grameen Foundation USA... a dynamic, nonprofit organization that uses microfinance and innovative technology to fight global poverty and bring opportunities to the world's poorest people."

This site introduces users to microfinance and one organization working to engage in social change through small scale loan, financial service and technology. It is effectively crafted to both introduce new visitors to the key concepts and works of the Grameeen Foundation and also allow return visitors to explore their projects in greater depth and take action by either contributing to the foundation or recieving email updates.

Te Grameen Foundation site uses feedburner (http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home) to enable users to subscribe to their rss feed. Syndication provides another pathway to interested users, outside of the traditional email messages. RSS can be an effective method...if you wish to capture tech savvy users. For many old fashioned email provides the safe secure and known method for recieving updates. This site, like many others, offers both options which makes sense online, given the varying degrees of technical sophistication surfers bring to a site.

The sites "get Involved" tab brings users to a page offering a numer of ways a visitor may interact with the Foundation.This includes donating, subscribing to email updates and a "Spread the Word" section which includes a link to a unique (to me) service called Word of Blog ( http://www.wordofblog.net/index.php) which lets you create a "badge" for your own web page which links users back to (in this case) the Grameen Foundation site.