Mr. Phil Hogan T.D., Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, will launch an important new report from Clann Credo - the Social Investment Fund on the role of social finance in community regeneration and job creation.
Amersfoort 30 June 2011 – Rosalind Copisarow is taking the reigns as Oikocredit’s new managing director, officially assuming responsibilities from Tor G. Gull July 1st.
The VIIIth Terra Futura manifestation will take place in Florence, from the 20th to the 22nd of May; the following announcement has been communicated to us by our member, Banca Etica (in IT).
On May 5th, 2011, Dr. Emmanuelle Desmedt (The University of York, UK, and CERMi visiting fellow) will be presenting a research seminar titled "Subjectivities that matter. Harding’s standpoint theory explaining the gaps between female micro-borrowers’ experiences of self-employment and micro-finance employees’ perceptions of microfinance." at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
El Encuentro Latinoamericano de Economia Social y Solidaria, organizando el MIDES, se llevará a cabo el proximo 27 y 28 de abril en Uruguyay.
Los organisadores esperan contar con la participacion de experiencias de organizaciones de la sociedad civil, de la participacion de delegados de los gobiernos de los paises de la región latinoamericana, de los Ministerios de Desarrollo Social y de Agricultura, así como representantes de la academia en torno a estas tematicas.
It has been announced that at the MFC's 14th Annual Conference with the subject of "Reorienting Microfinance for Balanced Growth", which is to be held from May 18th to 20th in Prague (the Czech Republic), the keynote speech will be made by Alfred Hannig, Executive Director of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion. Among the over 300 confirmed participants, the following have also been announced: Milford Bateman, the author of the book: "Why does not Microfinance
Work", Prof. dr Adalbert Winkler, Frankfurt School of Finance and
