Mission -every teenager from my generation on know what SOCIAL BUSINESS microcredit networks can do
A Good News Media
Join us in demanding Murdoch sponsors a
brainstrust on pro-youth media before London Olympics - Youtube A1
B 2010s Youths Most Productive Decade
Join
us in demanding pro-youth economists - Youtube B1
Join schools empowering student competitions on
community's most urgent needs and solutions
Norman Macrae Family
Foundation usa 301 881 1655- enjoys helping people develop content for 9 year olds up on social business system design
& Job Creation made famous by Bangaldeshi microcredits since 1976;
.
We Create What We Want. We wanted to go to the
moon, so we went there. We achieve
what we want to achieve. We accept
that poverty is part of human destiny. It’s not! We believe we can create
a poverty-free world. We need
to invent ways to change our perspective. We can reconfigure our world if we can
reconfigure our mindset. . Social
business will be a new kind of business, making a difference in the world. Human
beings are a wonderful creation embodied with limitless human qualities and capabilities. Entrepreneurs are not one-dimensional human beings, dedicated to maximizing profit. They are multi-dimensional: political, emotional,
social, spiritual, environmental. The desire to do great things for the world can
be a powerful driving force Young people dream about creating a perfect world of
their own. Social business will give them a challenge to make a difference by using
their creative talent. Let us
join hands to unleash our energy and creativity. Collectively,
we can create a poverty-free world.” Source : http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2006/yunus-lecture-en.html
Exciting 2011
everyone! from our family foundations association
rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv skype chrismacraedc washington DC 1-301 881 1655 with your most exciting goal for 2020 or collaboration netgen project
works
in progress : mailing new journal of joyful economics from dr yunus to 3000 leaders and lots of youth before yunus testifies
to congress (spring 2011) as genius microeconomist of global village decade, & in time to celebrate 40th birthday of Bangladesh
from 2011 corespondent registration is welcome at http://www.youthandyunus.com/ ; Thanks to all who sent good news from exciting event of 2010
Our family foundation is concerned with the net generation's most productive possibilities since 1976. , and an association of FF, that specilises in 4 types of investment aimed at renewing youth economics and
community building. Our 4 investment types:
SB100 by Muhammad Yunus (the pure Social Business model -greatest innovation in end poverty world & capable of mediating Global Grameen to be as central vision partner of Asia Pacific's Sustainability Open Sourcing Century 1976-2075 as Coke in
American's consumption century (1876-1975). The world's favourite barnd for century depends on going as far
as possible beyond zero-sum - Grameen's good fortune is to imprint a decade that can economically unite more youth
dreams than coke could begin to imagine let alone realsie. Since freedom as a new nation in early 1970s, Bangaldesh's
SB maps have developed into number 1 collaboration entrepreneur nation with over 100 million youth
and elders. Their priority with mobile tech is Job Creation solutions & transfering life critical social services
from being powered over by state to empowered by healthy community building society. http://www.youtube.com/safebanks Benchmarking quality and value multipliers around The SB model is pivotal to exciting 2010s be your focus: end
poverty, create jobs or innovate most uniquely purposeful organistional networks - data reference socialbusiness.tv
SB51-99
which are system designs also capable of sustaining the most purposfeul organisations and networks -data referwnce http://www.businessmodels.tv/
Small gifts to people whose passion (eg MY) may convert into SB51-100 and change what youth heroises - techincal reference universityofstars.tv and collaborationcafe.tv
Prizes or parties that may change education or media or economics - we use the Norman Macrae Foundation -or
any worldwide trusted microeconomist's surname of a citizen's youth has permission to do so.
EXPERIENCE LOG
SB100
.
18
meetings and 7 visits to Dhaka - our family made a small social business investment ($1000) in
the entrepreneurial organisation led by Mrs Begum, a co-founder of Dr Yunus whose tenacious modesty is such that she tells
me off when I call her the mother of mocrocredit- but who else is. Our investment purpose at Grameen Shikka scholarships
for secondary schoolong of girls. All of our family are delighted to see how the social business of scholarships
for girls now interfaces with such top 20 gols for 2010 as social business partnerships focused on end
nurseless villages and plant peer to peer apprenticeship & job centres run by and for youth. Anyone who thinks the
latter could only happen in Bangladesh really ought take a trip to Kenya's Jamii Bora, a system that Queen Sofia of Spain urges 50 s. hemisphere urban capitals with slums to test out now! help us map what other sbs can collaborative kenya can help change the world with
New York : Sing for Hope- Arts Peace Corps founded by Opera Singers (eg Monica Yunus) -purpose= most relevant way artists & world
citizens can mobilise after 9/11
Prizes, parties
London
Party : 16 Novemeber 2010, boardroom The Economist
Glasgow Party : Independence Day July 4 - 500 people share in yunus
7th decade birthday wishes with special thanks to the principal of Glasgow University (and apologies for absence from principal
of Glasgow Caledonian)
Yunus Entrepreneurial Revolution Projects entrusted to Auld Alliance of Scotland
and France
.Glasgow
Grameen Caledonian Nursing College - mission using free univesrity
model ensure no village of 2020 is without a nurse- celebrate first professor of te social business union of microhealth &
microcrredit
Grameen Glasgow University Project - sample 3000 leaders with journal of job creating economics
Grameen
Glasgow Uni Project - open source a new curriculum of economics that every person should have access to before they have an
account with an old debt-entrapment bank
Glasgow Caledonian project - dialogue what changes of law are needed so that
safe banking can network around Europe before the Euro collapses
.Projects in Paris France
DanoneCommunities.com Portal connecting 50000 youth entrepreneurs virtually and reunion of 3000 in paris annually- discuss most exciting subject
- how to fundraise for youth's 20 most exciting goals for 2020
Connect danone position in milk foods to micro-agriculture
projects of all kinds needed to feed world's children; use influence of france to change EU agriculture where this policy
has spun unintended hunger crises onto poorest peoples
HEC business school- celebrate first social busienss professor
of markets for the poor- interestingly HEC also situates Europe's leading brand professor whose mastermind subject is haute
couture markets
Involve royal familes across europe (eg luzembourg, spain, monaco) in fundraising for banks for the
poor through the institution Grameen Credit Agricole
Clean water for the world with Grameen Veolia
Ask President
Sarkozi how youth out of france can help him and everyone else join in 2010s most exciting decade
Grandad would chuckle at the extreme microeconomics irony of being
known after life as the unacknowledged giant; this is how dad explains such happiness to me
every christmas I grew
up through we had games party with family friends that ended with the pencil and paper game of consequences; we
replayed that on dad's 85th birthday party at the royal automobile club in Saint James
Optimistic Norman Macrae Met Joyous Muhammad Yunus NM said to MY MY said to NM
and they left me & youth generation with a big question - what family foundations to invest micro
amounts in so we all interconnect 2010s most exciting decade- come back to see my progress or lack - JOSB .. egrameen
Among several ways in which global economics has become irrational bordering on insanity, the devaluation of the productive impacts families compound
is obscene. There's barely an innovation that advanced the human that would exist without having been nurtured by family
as society's deepest microcultural force for good. If you agree- or just want to debate these sentiments - please get in touch. Chris.Macrae@yahoo.co.ukChrismacraedc.com (washington dc 301 881 1655 ) -Association of Family Foundations - skype
chrismacraedc
Why not support a yunus global assembly - macrae family proudly supports yunus glasgow-worldwide assemblies in any way we can 1 2
Norman Macrae Family Foundation usa 301 881 1655- enjoys
helping people develop content for 9 year olds up on social business system design & Job Creation made famous by Bangaldeshi microcredits since 1976;
.
We Create What We Want. We wanted to go to the
moon, so we went there. We achieve
what we want to achieve. We accept
that poverty is part of human destiny. It’s not! We believe we can create
a poverty-free world. We need
to invent ways to change our perspective. We can reconfigure our world if we can
reconfigure our mindset. . Social
business will be a new kind of business, making a difference in the world. Human
beings are a wonderful creation embodied with limitless human qualities and capabilities. Entrepreneurs are not one-dimensional human beings, dedicated to maximizing profit. They are multi-dimensional: political, emotional,
social, spiritual, environmental. The desire to do great things for the world can
be a powerful driving force Young people dream about creating a perfect world of
their own. Social business will give them a challenge to make a difference by using
their creative talent. Let us
join hands to unleash our energy and creativity. Collectively,
we can create a poverty-free world.” Source : http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2006/yunus-lecture-en.html
we also try to record history's conflicts from
the people's view before mass media deletes the inter-generation learning that peace could have mapped as we go from a nation state age to what ever 21st
Century will sustainably or unsustainably spin
Please ask your parents to contact my dad chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if your parents or sisters and brothers can help my mission. Simple way to help -
host a cafe debate
12 on why we 12 year-olds need is celebrations of change agents - thank you obama thank you for using your
IWM : yunus centre opened on
dr yunus 69th birthday; celebration of all his networks achievements to and
invitatations to survey goals for sustainainability's greatest games that can be played on gameboards of 12 Collaboration Partnering systems -each game's centre of gravitational governance is a MicroBanks of Social Business (invented 1983 by Bangladeshi
Law). 100 Congressmen agreed with Microcreditsummit's Sam Daley Harris that the premier league of MicroBanks started
2010s with teams : Grameen (Bangla), BRAC (Bangla), Jamii Bora (Kenya) yambassador -is also a yunus network emerging from a 69th birthday wish
0:27 YUQueenSofiaSpain IWM: Voted Favourite 21st C Place Leader my by teenager peers; has thrice
committed everything a monarch can to make microcreditsummit the greatest networking process of sustainability's world
0:31 YUasa IWM busy with prep for june29, 2009 yunusforum.net celebration of dr yunus 69th birthday and one-day Yes We Can youth dialogue
IWM: had argument with teachers today as to whether safebanks exist
in US; one day kids will mark teachers exam cards; til then better pretend my mindset has been brainwashed 0:30
IWM: hi gdad - oh lucky man - reading Indian economics corresspondence
course as a teenager while waiting to navigate RAF planes out of Dhaka; married daughter of Sir KK Bar of London barrister
who spent 25 years connecting round gandhi (from imprisoning him to writing up laws of India's Independence; The Economist's
founder of entrepreneurial revolution networks 1976 http://erworld.tv/ - so why didn't Mirpur publish his 2008 xmas present to Dr Y http://yunusforum.net/?p=80 in time for son of microcredit to connect
Collaboration Partners with Youth's Futures: I have 21 days left to discuss with my teachers
at our school 12 miles from the white house what should a pre-teen american know about how to ask questions copnnecting above-
whether or not you can help in the next 20 days please contact my dad at info @worldcitizen.tv if you have any future
ideas to free-the-knowhow of sustainable 12 year olds' futures of jobs: CP1 MICROSB Banks: Where to click
eg 1 to see -and then discuss- social business founded in poorest communities between 1976 and 2005 CP2 FOUNDATIONS
2.0: Apart from Nike, which other Foundations empower the girl effect; and apart from ending nurseless villages what girl jobs do networks who
value girl effect help co-create CP12 Collaboration ChangeWorldNets : How do netizens continue to share research started in london on 2006 on most trusted collaboration entrepreneurs and
the geatest human goals ever mediated CP11 DigiYouth Job Creation - if youth and cities do no priortise sustainable job
creation what is the point fo capitals? Why can't every city have a http://londoncreativelabs.com/ for school children to visit?
Economics has a black
hole which needs filling first in london and new york of a panel of say 10 women who get it; get that civilisation & youth
microentrepreneur discovery of self collapses if you devalue family and community too much;
alexis you can
use your ability as an essayist to go see which women in new york want to be interviewed on their subject - does wendy kopp
the founder of teach for america want to be? is there anyone still at the hunger project who gets it the way lynne twist did-
Do either of the novogratz’s at ted or acumen get it?
I
am sure that you two can start making a list then I can ask people like heather
booth and sam daley harris if they have one contact
january 09’ wsih to yunus at NY
sheraton towers to compile first 1000 social business web www.socialbusiness.tv & a lot of talk , yunus youth ambassador ... social business student clubs are absolutely needed 2010-11
primary
goals - something you would want to peer to peer network around town and to be compatible with new yunus book that clive is
publishing
assume you would form a bookclub of at least 20 peers if www.yunusbook.com gives you the book
will be up in new york on 20 january; meeting isn't essential to decide this but can meet if
you want to
BUILDING SOCIAL BUSINESS The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs MUHAMMAD
YUNUS WITH KARL WEBER
SUMMARY | EXTRAS The Nobel Peace Prize-winner shows how the
social business model can harness the entrepreneurial spirit to address poverty, hunger, and disease
Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and, with his Grameen
Bank, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, has developed a visionary new dimension for capitalism which he calls "social business."
By harnessing the energy of profit-making to the objective of fulfilling human needs, social business creates self-supporting,
viable commercial enterprises that generate economic growth even as they produce goods and services that make the world a
better place.
In
this book, Yunus shows how social business has gone from being a theory to an inspiring practice, adopted by leading corporations,
entrepreneurs, and social activists across Asia, South America, Europe and the US. He demonstrates how social business transforms
lives; offers practical guidance for those who want to create social businesses of their own; explains how public and corporate
policies must adapt to make room for the social business model; and shows why social business holds the potential to redeem
the failed promise of free-market enterprise.
www.isabellawm.com family foundation chris macrae 301 881 1655
301 881 1655
anyone Celebrating this event?
January 20, 2010 | 6:00 PM | 20 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
| New York NY 10001 RSVP
A new movement called philanthrocapitalism promises to save the world by applying a market-based perspective to various social
and economic challenges. How well can this approach solve the complex and nuanced goals of fundamental social transformation?
Some argue that philanthrocapitalism is a new and innovative way to breathe life and resources into the causes for which we
advocate. Others maintain that business-based solutions are based on an entirely different set of principles, and will never
inspire the collaborative spirit necessary for true change.
Michael Edwards is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos and author of the newly published Small
Change: Why Business Won't Save the World. Edwards is a writer and activist based in upstate New York. He is
currently a Senior Visiting Scholar at the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University, and is also affiliated
with the Brooks World Poverty Institute at Manchester University in the UK. From 1999 to 2008, he was the Director of the
Ford Foundation's Governance and Civil Society Program in New York. Prior to the Ford Foundation, Edwards worked at the World
Bank, Oxfam-GB, Save the Children-UK and other NGOs in Washington DC, London, Colombia, Zambia, Malawi, and India. His writings
have helped to shape a more critical appreciation of the global role of philanthropy and civil society, and to break down
barriers between researchers and activists across the world.
Matthew Bishop is New York Bureau Chief for The Economist, and previously served as its London-based
Business Editor. His 2008 book, Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World, is a positive analysis of the
role of private money in achieving social change. Bishop's new book, The Road from Ruin: How to Revive Capitalism
and Put America Back On Top, will be released this month. He is also the author of several Economist special
survey supplements, including "The Business of Giving," which looks at the industrial revolution taking place in
philanthropy, "Kings of Capitalism," an analysis of the private-equity industry, smong others. Before joining The
Economist, Bishop was on the faculty of London Business School. He was also on the Advisors Group of the United Nations
International Year of Microcredit 2005, and has been honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
This event will be webcast live at www.demos.org. Light refreshments will be served.
following
version 0 - for debate- 12 seat roundtable in systainabilut gamesboard collaboration partners
Sustainability Collaboration Partner (CP) Type 2010.1
Example
GG Alumni –system exp
1 Social
Business Microeconomics case Replicator
Grameen Bank – has about 50 microeconomic
franchises to replicate around the world in addition tothe famed microcredit banking for the poor. These
range from the most economic village model of solar energy to exciting applications of mobile
Grameen Staff
(though some are all of 1-12), Cure2Children
2 Global Corporate
Brands
Danone started the most extraordinary revolution in global branding by partnering Grameen
. This shows that world class brands can go way beyond the era of greenwashing - how many other corporate brand partners in
sustainability do you expect Grameen to make by the end of 2010.?Current registered list 6; current pilot list about 14.
Danone,
Veolia, BASF, Otto, Adidas
3 University Yunus Centres
About 7 Universities have so far joined forces with Yunus in contributing parts of the missing business curriculum of
freeing global markets to value sustainability and collaboratively empowering local community building. Europe leads the way with 3 – USA hopes to catch up with extraordinary California Centre opening end Feb 2010.
Hec,
AIT, CSUCI, Glasgow Caledonian, Berlin Free, Kyushu, Ryoko
4 DigiYouth
Job Creation Labs & Forums
Since 1984 economists have forecast that technology will be used in the
2010s to create or destroy a billion jobs and the way youth are empowered to co-create is pivotal. As yet only Dhaka youth get thismicroentreprenurial challenge
–at least that is what the head of the Nobel judges came to celebrate with 1000 youth there summer 2008. Can you help
the moderator of Dr Yunus 69th birthday party http://londoncreativelabs.com/conversations/and co-moderator of dvd 10000 http://ynus10000.commap where other youth & digital job creation labs are rising?
Youth Job
Creation: Londoncreativelabs, san germignano;
Digi: GrameenSolutions, scout24, SAP
5 Place Leaders – with governments
lagging in collaboration leadership around resolving climate crises, who are the leaders in your place who are standing up
for popular votes to return sustainability around the globe. Please note this issue is a huge one for true collaboration friends
of Dr Yunus because Bangladesh is most likely to be the first 100 million nation to be washed away if we twiddle our climate
clicking fingers too long with out coordinating action
Credit where credit is due –
the royals hunt of the sun across Europe is one of
the most encouraging place leadership networks for sustainability we have seen with Prince
Albert in Monaco
and Prince Charles in the UK networking funds and
prizes. Traditional microcredit royals expected to join in are Queen Sofia of Spain and Prince Guillaume in Luxembourg. Please send us news of your nation’s hall of sustainability fame leaders.
Duchy of luxembourg, mayor of milan by videocast, Governor of Caldas, Ministers for Albania
6 Social Business Funds Leaders
Three cheers for the geographical region of France leading the way on this with the first fund being one of Danone’s contributions , next 2 funds emerging around
the Grameen Credit Agricole partnership and Monaco
Islamic
Development Bank, IFAH investment fund, grameen credit agricole, grameen capital india
7 Social Business festivals timed to snap
with your capitals number 1 photo call of the 2010s.
Berlin trailed social business festivals
during its 20th fall of the wall celebrations in 2009; London is asked by Dr Yunus to be
the biggest SB festival of the early 2010s; cities are queuing up to form a collaborative millennium goal SC festival circle
in 2015 with Milan taking a lead
Fall of wall-grameencl, autostadt, Kyoto Forum
8 Global branded foundations that get social business dollars recycling is far more economic that one
time charitable spends
Nike Foundation is a lead example with their Girl Effect brand putting up $5mn in a partnership
connecting Grameen Nurse Institute with the worldwide race to end nurseless villages
Nike (not
present at Wolfsburg)
9 World Hero Stages Beyond Tigers –its a strange media world when 50 types of sporting sensations
can become world famous overnight but so few world cups exist for sustainability games heroines and heroes
As yet, Nobel is the only stage with world reach equal to any of the sporting world cups- what will be the second world
stage to join in?
Not present at Wolfsburg
10 Citizen hubs needed to quality control open source replication of
social business franchises and help traditional causes convert
http://Yunusforum.nethas been looking for citizen hubs to start this with monthly 100 meetings-
as yet sustainability capital clubs haven’t emerged the way social capital and internet clubs celebrated the start of
the 00’s
Yunusforum, worldtoilet, Menschen for Menschen
11 Collaborative Advantage of Nations- if Adam Smith was alive today, surely collaboration is the great network
economics age advantage and the way to go above zero-sum in the way most global professions haven’t yet understood
Bangladesh France and Germany seem to be the
lead countries in collaborative advantage of nations with India looking a serious contender- more reports needed!
As group with critical mass :delegates
from Bangladesh, France and Germany (includes BDI)
12 Trillion Dollar Audit value multiplication or communications partnering system integrity –
innovation advisers and partner scouts on freeing global market sectors ruled by systems that are too big to fail
As yet Dhaka is the capital en route to every
other sustainability capital – where will be the second capital that professions transform to value compound future
rising instead of crashing
Yunus, vivaldi partners, impact international, worldclassbrands,
alan mitchell, Karl Webber Literary, Alan Webber, grameen america
this latest boardgame goes alongside education change mail we are going to read through -collaboration the new innovation advantage of microeconomic networksYear by year since 2005 WCBN & I have had a go at worldwide brand decoding yunus mindset of how YES 12 collaboration partners CAN multiply valueeg 2006 Breakthrough - for first time in the world triangularisation
of a
nobel
world stages (2010s world's most famous heroes ain't tiger no more),
Grameen Micro Social Business System Bank- 33 years of microeconomics franchises that compound
10 times more economic local/community exponentials of sustainable growth
"Year by year since 2005" involves a hidden expert way because part of WCBN 1995
book on global brand partnerships is very unpopular involving forbidden questions - our practice of world class
brand system theory maps Your & Our minds as neural networks of identifiers that can be changed completely if
someone puts one slogan in yours that is not in mine and which is central to how you parse everything; I am not saying its a precisely right explanation (indeed I prefer not to present such
subliminal stuff directly because as a Cambridge MA in statistics I dont want to spend my life arguing with psychologists
as well as numbers men) - but in practice the busier peoples minds are the more it explains how their minds SET
and why they hate unlearning- and one of our great problems as videoed at Yunus RAC lunch is that uk and usa macroeconomists
would prefer to destroy sustainability of world than need to unlearn in front of masses). We
can survey whether that’s the case of all economist shareholders or not as we have been since I requested help to do
this at be the change 2005The case for freeing global markets
to transparently value sustainability and integrating as maths people do from details up not global standards downyunus puts it
like this (red text) in his speech to india parliament earlier this monthThe social business is a non-loss, non-dividend company dedicated entirely to achieving
a social goal. (If your head knows this system design works it
will never be the same again in how it manages or brands or action learn teamworks anything- the world's most purposeful
organisational systems can be designed, innovated and collaboration partnered this way) The wonderful promise of social business makes it all the more important that we re-define and broaden
our present economic framework. We need a new way of thinking about economics that is not prone to creating series of
crises; instead, it should be capable of ending the crises once for all. Now is the time for bold and creative thinking—and
we need to move fast, because the world is changing fast. The first piece of this new framework must be to accommodate
social business as an integral part of the economic structure.AND something I
realise about you sofia -like many of the greatest open space facilitators - is unless you feel the game's language
is as much you as anyone else (even yunus) you wont use compared with other stuff you are spinning (in other words I might
as well spend the next 5 weeks getting on with a book than assuming we will get a gameboard brochure that is yours as much
as anyone's in the world)actually one of my biggest problems is the labeling the CP12 and particularly the label that is most
you which I am provisionally calling CP11 DigiYouth Pervasive job creative culture
the sustainability games opportunityto choose cp11 in language that unites way yunus perceives this value multiplier,
the way you identify london creative labs, the way that tech wizards including tav can use technology for the poor as well and the worldwide to collaboratively create
a billion jobsthe big news of 2008 was the opening
of the nobel museum in dhaka which tav you and I saw - the first use of nobel name outside nordica and the fact that
the nobel judge spoke to 1000 bangladeshi youth congratulating them on being in on the epicentre of digiyouth culture -the
yellow nobel grameen leaflet Isabella and I have asked you and mostofa to curculate 100s of round londonthis is where all kazi and yunus stories on the majority of future jobs will have to be created microentrepreneurially
by youth not by an education system that says if you come top of some obscure set of historical exams that now cost 250000$
for harvard to administer to you and put you in permanent debt - there will be global-down top jobs waiting for you;
as kazi said even those in bangladesh that go to university find there are few jobs for them -or as yunus says
in his speech to indian parliament LISTEN TO YUNUS IN INDIA AGAIN ON DIGIYOUTH
CULTUREGrameen Bank encourages children of Grameen families to go to school. It offers education loans to them to
pursue higher education. There are more than 42,000 students who are currently pursuing their education in medical schools,
engineering schools, and universities financed by education loans from Grameen Bank. We encourage these young people to take a pledge that they will never enter job market to seek jobs from anybody.
They'll be job-givers, not job seekers. We explain to them that their mothers own a big bank, Grameen
Bank. It has plenty of money to finance any enterprise they wish to float—so why waste time looking for a job
working for someone else? Instead, be an employer, rather than an employee. Today, Grameen Bank is a nationwide bank
serving the poor in every single village of Bangladesh. It has 8 million borrowers, 97 per cent of whom are women. The bank is owned by the borrowers.
Nine of the thirteen members of the board of directors are elected by the borrowers as shareholders. Grameen Bank lends
out over $ 100 million a month in collateral-free loans averaging about $ 200. Poverty Belongs in Museums Every human being is born into this
world fully equipped not only to take care of himself or herself, but also to contribute to the well being of the world as
a whole. Some get the chance to explore their potential, but many others never get the chance to unwrap the wonderful gifts
they were born with. They die with those gifts unexplored, and the world remains deprived of their contribution. Grameen has given me
an unshakeable faith in the creativity of human beings and the firm belief that human beings are not born to suffer the misery
of hunger and poverty. We can create a poverty-free world if we collectively believe in it—a world in which the
only place you would be able to see poverty is in poverty museums. Some day, school children will be taken to visit these
poverty museums. They will be horrified to see the misery and indignity that some human beings had to go through. They
will blame their ancestors for tolerating this inhuman condition for so long Putting Today’s Powerful Technology to Work The world today is in possession
of amazingly powerful technology. That technology is growing very fast, becoming more powerful every day. Almost
all of this technology is owned and controlled by profit-making businesses. All they use this technology for is to make
more money, because that is the mandate given to them by their shareholders. Imagine what we can achieve if we use of
this same technology to solve the problems of the people!
Technology is a kind of vehicle. One can drive
it to any destination one wants. Since the present owners of technology want to travel to the peaks of profit-making,
technology takes them there. If somebody else decides to use the existing technology to end poverty, it will take the
owner in that direction. If another owner wants to use it to end diseases, technology will go there. The choice is ours.
Present theoretical framework does not give this choice. Inclusion of social business creates this choice.
One
more point to ponder – there will be no need to make an either/or choice. Using technology for one purpose doesn’t
make it less effective for serving a different purpose. Actually, it is the other way around. The more diverse use we
make of technology, the more powerful it gets. Using technology for solving social problems will not reduce its effectiveness
for money-making use, but rather enhance it.
The owners of social businesses can direct the power of technology
to solve our growing list of social and economic problems, and get quick results.Social business gives everybody the opportunity to participate in creating the kind of world that we all want
to see. Thanks to the concept of social business, citizens don't have to leave all problems in the hands of the government
and then spend their lives criticizing the government for failing to solve them. Now citizens have a completely new
space in which to mobilize their creativity and talent for solving the problem of our time. Seeing the effectiveness of social
business governments may decide to create their own social businesses or partner with citizen-run social businesses, and/or
incorporate the lessons from the social businesses to improve the effectiveness of their own programmes.
Governments
will have an important role to play in the promotion of social business. They will need to pass legislation to give
legal recognition to social business and create regulatory bodies to ensure that transparency, integrity, and honesty are
ensured in the social business sector. They can also provide tax incentives for investing in social businesses as well
as for social businesses themselves.During the current financial crisis,
the falsity of the old assumption became even more visible. While big conventional banks with all their collateral were collapsing,
microcredit programmes, which do not depend on collateral, continued to be as strong as ever. Will this demonstration
make the mainstream financial institutions change their minds ? Will they finally open their doors to the poor?
I am quite serious about this question. When a crisis is at its deepest, it can offer a huge opportunity.
When things fall apart, that creates the opportunity to redesign, recast, and rebuild. We should not miss this opportunity
to redesign our financial institutions. Let’s convert them into inclusive institutions. Nobody should be
refused access to financial services. Because these services are so vital for self-realization of people, I strongly
feel that credit should be given the status of a human right.The more time you spend among poor people, the more you become convinced that poverty
is not created by poor people. It is created by the system we have built, the institutions we have designed, the concepts
we have formulated. Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a person. And since it is external, it can
be removed.YunusForum Social Action Business
team slogan approved by yunus: impossible becomes possible when right
people time place action(sofia as first anchor woman of social business ) From micropublishing world citizen collaboration entrepreneur guides since summer2006 I think you and I know darn well that
youth epicentres of cp11 are around yunus (begum-islm), around you, lucknow, taddy blecher, new zealand, sanpatrigano, kenya's
jamii bora, some harrison owen alumni, Eva Vertes in medicine, hopefully CSUCI LA etc though I am not sureanyone
has mapped where the tech-youth epicentres (probably parts of china and bangalore)joyful
new decade to you & londoners players of sustainability boardgameschris macrae 301 881 1655isabellawm family foundation skype isabellawmEntire Education
in the world must be concerned with the affairs of the age - luckNOW footnote
on year by year since 2005 Year by year since 2005" involves a hidden expert way because part of
WCBN 1995 book on global brand partnerships is very unpopular involving forbidden questions - our practice
of world class brand system theory maps Your & Our minds as neural networks of identifiers that can be changed
completely if someone puts one slogan in yours that is not in mine and which is central to how you parse everything; I spent
23 years coming to this inconvenient mapmaking conclusion both building millions of hours of interview data on social
needs in 40 countries (particularly muslim women as our french-global company Novaction's main client was unilever
in south asia) using the first database software (MIT's express by urban and silk) and doing early trials of
how internet elearning does and doesnt work for something that pretentiously called itself the UK National Development project
in Computer Assisted Learning which in those days was epicentred in leeds but has moved to Glasgow (and discussing the 1984
future history scenario book of dad's and mine which contrary
to what yunus said in India’s parliament did predict the fall of the berlin wall within one quarter future accuracy
However more relevantly today it forecast that worldwide sustainability would be determined by whether the world aligned around
a cheerful noble prize winner in billion people tv reality shows connecting internet to search for billion of micro up jobs
– chapter 6 of book I gave you and tav, and yunus back in jan 08