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Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, founded a banking system 30 years ago to lend small amounts of money to the rural poor in Bangladeshi villages. Most of the low-interest microloans go to women, who use them to start their own profit-making enterprises, mainly in agriculture, crafts, or services.

Grameen Bank now has 2,422 branches, employs more than 20,000 people, and has loaned more than $6 billion since its founding. Borrowers own most of the equity in the bank. The company has been profitable in all but three years since it was founded.

Yunus imagined what would happen if a bank extended credit to those people who would never traditionally receive it. In the process, he created a system that empowered the poor by helping them become entrepreneurs.

Muhammad Yunus- 2006 Nobel Peace Prize

Muhammad Yunus delivered his Nobel Lecture, listen or read text, on 10 December 2006 at the Oslo City Hall, Norway. He was introduced by Professor Ole Danbolt Mjøs, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Professor Yunus begins his Nobel Lecture with a few words in Bangla.
Here is a link to the Grameen Group, they have done some amazing work in the past 3 decades by the grace of God.
Muhammad Yunus achieved his PH.D in economics in 1969 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and taught Economics at Middle Tennessee State University until 1972 before going back to his home in Bangladesh.
The FUND of America is honored to be missioned to help spread this concept in America. America's social entrepreneurs have the ability to relieve many of the burdens that seem to be difficult for our government to address. By doing so, the day may come soon when we have true statesmen leading our country, and true citizens leading our people, both through accountability.

The Safe Side...social entrepreneur

The Safe Side is dedicated to making kids safer. In addition to publishing programs for kids and parents, the Company donates 10% of gross proceeds from distribution to The National Center For Missing & Exploited Children.

A MESSAGE FROM JULIE
I'm a mom. I'm a former teacher. I'm an entrepreneur.

In 1997, based on what I wanted for my own child, I made a little video called Baby Einstein. And I will tell you that no one was more surprised than me that five years and 10 videos later, The Baby Einstein Company was a multi-million-dollar enterprise and I would go on to sell to The Walt Disney Company. And two years later, no one was more surprised than my husband when I said I wanted to start all over again with a new idea – and a new company. ....HERE IS HER WEBSITE AND MISSION

A Memorial to a True Social Entrepreneur

Rick Rescorla is a true Social Entrepreneur in the purest sense. A Medaled VietNam veteran, he chose to consistently persevere to train the employees of Morgan-Stanley/Dean-Witter in evacuations procedures that literally saved thousands of lives on 9/11 in the World Trade Center. Rick realized that after the bombing of WTC in 1993 there would be another attempt at destruction of the icon of America. He spent the next 8 years selflessly and consistently laying out and following a plan that led to many lives being saved. His wife has started a Foundation in his name, not only memorializing him, but also what he stood for. Rick sacrificed his own life so that others could live. Please take some time to read and understand his place in history as a Social Entrepreneur, and also "The Man Who Predicted 9/11" .

Now this is a Social Entrepreneur...

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) -- For 26 years, a man known only as Secret Santa has roamed the streets every December quietly giving people money. He started with $5 and $10 bills. As his fortune grew, so did the gifts. In recent years, Secret Santa has been handing out $100 bills, sometimes two or three at a time, to people in thrift stores, diners and parking lots. So far, he's anonymously given out about $1.3 million. It's been a long-held holiday mystery: Who is Secret Santa? But now, weak from chemotherapy and armed with a desire to pass on his belief in random kindness, Secret Santa has decided it's time to reveal his identity. He is Larry Stewart, a 58-year-old businessman from the Kansas City suburb of Lee's Summit, Missouri, who made his millions in cable television and long-distance telephone service.